WapA

• Description: cell wall-associated protein precursor
  
  

Gene name	wapA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	cell wall-associated protein precursor
Function	unknown
MW, pI	258 kDa, 6.131
Gene length, protein length	7002 bp, 2334 aa
Immediate neighbours	yxxG, yxxF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39230

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall/ other

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains: cell wall binding domain as retention signal

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: extracellular (signal peptide), cell wall binding domain as retention signal, major constituent of the secretome PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q07833

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: wapA-yxxG PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed at high salt concentration (DegU-P) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • DegU-P: transcription repression PubMed
  • activated by YvrHb PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: