AprE

• Description: major extracellular alkaline protease
  
  

Gene name	aprE
Synonyms	sprE
Essential	no
Product	extracellular alkaline serine protease (subtilisin E))
Function	protein degradation
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: aprE
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: AprE
MW, pI	39 kDa, 9.342
Gene length, protein length	1143 bp, 381 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhfN, yhfO
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of nitrogen sources other than amino acids

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AbrB regulon, ScoC regulon, SinR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10300

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Hydrolysis of proteins with broad specificity for peptide bonds, and a preference for a large uncharged residue in P1 (according to Swiss-Prot)

• 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:
  • AprE-PaiA PubMed

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

Database entries

• Structure: 1SBC

• UniProt: P04189

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: aprE (according to DBTBS)

• Expression browser: aprE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by SinR PubMed
  • repressed during exponential growth (ScoC, AbrB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SinR: transcription repression PubMed
  • ScoC: transcription repression PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information: the mRNA is extremely stable (more than 25 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

• Additional information: The pAPNC213 vector published by Morimoto et al. (2002) is an insertion plasmid for IPTG inducible constructs that can be integrated into the chromosomal aprE locus by replacing the aprE open reading frame via double homologous recombination. PubMed

References

Reviews

Massimiliano Marvasi, Pieter T Visscher, Lilliam Casillas Martinez
Exopolymeric substances (EPS) from Bacillus subtilis: polymers and genes encoding their synthesis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2010, 313(1);1-9
[PubMed:20735481] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)