FtsH

• Description: ATP-dependent metalloprotease
  
  

Gene name	ftsH
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	ATP-dependent metalloprotease
Function	cell division, sporulation initiation
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	70 kDa, 5.841
Gene length, protein length	1911 bp, 637 aa
Immediate neighbours	hprT, coaX
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00690

Phenotypes of a mutant

strongly reduced sporulation frequency

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: degrades Spo0E, resulting in reduced sporulation frequency in a ftsH mutant

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): YjoB

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1LV7 (from E. coli, 64% identity) PubMed

• UniProt: P37476

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ftsH PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: induced by heat shock (class III)

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: