Sandbox

• Description: cell wall-associated protein precursor
  
  

Gene name	wprA
Synonyms	yisM
Essential	no
Product	cell wall-associated protein precursor
Function	unknown
MW, pI	96 kDa, 9.58
Gene length, protein length	2682 bp, 894 aa
Immediate neighbours	yisL, yisN
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10770

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: peptidase S8 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: secreted (according to Swiss-Prot), extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed, membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P54423

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: wprA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism: activated by YvrHb PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Voigt et al. (2009) Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 16: 53-68 PubMed
2. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
3. Serizawa M, Kodama K, Yamamoto H, Kobayashi K, Ogasawara N, Sekiguchi J. (2005) Functional analysis of the YvrGHb two-component system of Bacillus subtilis: identification of the regulated genes by DNA microarray and northern blot analyses. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 69: 2155-2169. PubMed
4. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed