Site degQ
- Name: degQ
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3234 MG1655 locus tag hhoA Bass, ref. below - Mnemonic: degradative protease
- Left End Point: 72.82
- Right End Point: 72.85
- Products:
a serine protease, periplasmic, endoprotease - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment encodes a protease serine protease, periplasmic endoprotease - Priority: 0
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
degQ760(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG12612 EcoliWiki degQ - Comment:
- May function as endoprotease to degrade transiently denatured proteins in the periplasm that result from heat shock or SOS, etc. or prior to folding.
- References:
- Bass, S. 1994. GenBank and Pers.Comm. U1566:0-0
- Kolmar, H., P.R. Waller, R.T. Sauer 1996. The DegP and DegQ periplasmic endoproteases of Escherichia coli: specificity for cleavage sites and substrate conformation. J.Bacteriol. 178:5925-5929
- Bass, S., Q. Gu, A. Christen 1996. Multicopy suppressors of prc mutant Escherichia coli include two HtrA (DegP) protease homologs (HhoAB), DksA, and a truncated RlpA. J.Bacteriol. 178:1154-1161
- Waller, P.R.H., R.T. Sauer 1996. Characterization of degQ and degS, Escherichia coli genes encoding homologs of the DegP protease. J.Bacteriol. 178:1146-1153