TIGR00225

carboxy-terminal processing protease

NCBIfam entry
Member databaseNCBIfam (includes TIGRFAMs)
NCBIfam typefamily
Short nameprc

Description

Carboxy-terminal processing proteases (EC 3.4.21.102) have paralogs in some species, and different gene symbols in different lineages, such as prc in Escherichia coli K-12, ctpA, ctpB, and ctpC in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, and cptA and ctpB in Bacillus subtilis.

References

1. CtpB assembles a gated protease tunnel regulating cell-cell signaling during spore formation in Bacillus subtilis. Mastny M, Heuck A, Kurzbauer R, Heiduk A, Boisguerin P, Volkmer R, Ehrmann M, Rodrigues CD, Rudner DZ, Clausen T. Cell 155, 647-58, (2013). View articlePMID: 24243021

2. A second PDZ-containing serine protease contributes to activation of the sporulation transcription factor sigmaK in Bacillus subtilis. Pan Q, Losick R, Rudner DZ. J Bacteriol 185, 6051-6, (2003). View articlePMID: 14526016

3. Molecular cloning and characterization of the ctpA gene encoding a carboxyl-terminal processing protease. Analysis of a spontaneous photosystem II-deficient mutant strain of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Shestakov SV, Anbudurai PR, Stanbekova GE, Gadzhiev A, Lind LK, Pakrasi HB. J Biol Chem 269, 19354-9, (1994). PMID: 8034700

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