NprE

• Description: extracellular neutral protease B
  
  

Gene name	nprE
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	extracellular neutral protease B
Function	degradation of proteins
MW, pI	56 kDa, 7.481
Gene length, protein length	1563 bp, 521 aa
Immediate neighbours	yktD, ylaA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Similar, but not identical, to that of thermolysin (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: peptidase M4 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): NprB

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

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

Database entries

• Structure: 1NPC (of Bacillus cereus)

• Swiss prot entry: P68736

• KEGG entry: BSU14700

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Voigt et al. (2009) Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 16: 53-68 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed