YraA

• Description: general stress protein, degradation of damaged thiol-containing proteins
  
  

Gene name	yraA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	cysteine proteinase
Function	degradation of damaged thiol-containing proteins
MW, pI	18 kDa, 4.729
Gene length, protein length	507 bp, 169 aa
Immediate neighbours	adhA, sacC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

proteolysis, general stress proteins (controlled by SigB), resistance against oxidative and electrophile stress

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AdhR regulon, SigB regulon, SigM regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU27020

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: peptidase C56 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YfkM

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O06006

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • adhA-yraA PubMed
  • yraA

• Sigma factor:
  • yraA: SigB PubMed, SigM PubMed

• Regulation:
  • adhA: induced in the presence of the toxic carbonyls methylglyoxal and formaldehyde (AdhR) PubMed
  • yraA: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • AdhR: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: