PrkC

• Description: protein kinase C
  
  

Gene name	prkC
Synonyms	yloP
Essential	no
Product	protein kinase
Function	germination in response to muropeptides
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	71 kDa, 4.833
Gene length, protein length	1944 bp, 648 aa
Immediate neighbours	prpC, cpgA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15770

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + a protein = ADP + a phosphoprotein (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: protein kinase domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Proteins phosphorylated by PrkC

CpgA, EF-Tu, YezB PubMed, EF-G PubMed

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Thr-290 PubMed, autophosphorylation on multiple threonine residues PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity: activated by muropeptides PubMed

• Interactions:

• Localization: inner spore membrane PubMed, membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34507

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: prpC-prkC-cpgA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP576 (spc), OMG302 (aphA3), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:
  • for expression/ purification from B. subtilis with N-terminal Strep-tag, for SPINE, in pGP380: pGP832, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression/ purification of the kinase domain from B. subtilis with N-terminal Strep-tag, for SPINE, in pGP380: pGP849, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP1001, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal Strep-tag, in pGP172: pGP825, available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion: pGP829 (in pAC7), available in Stülke lab

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: