In vitro studies demonstrated that the Bacilus subtilis subtilisin gene (aprE) could be transcribed by RNA polymerase holoenzyme reconstituted from core and eA factor obtained from vegetative cells. Upstream deletions (from -45) reduced the amount of transcription from the promoter. A deletion downstream of the promoter that overlapped a putative downstream minor promoter did not affect transcr...

The mechanism of intra-protein communication and allosteric coupling is key to understanding the structure-property relationship of protein function. For subtilisin Carlsberg, the Ca²+-binding loop is distal to substrate-binding and active sites, yet the serine protease function depends on Ca²+ binding. The atomic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of apo and Ca²+-bound subtilisin show similar...

Unlike trypsin-like serine proteases having only one conspicuous binding pocket in the active site, subtilisin BPN' has two such pockets, the S1 and S4 pockets, which accommodate the P1 and P4 residues of ligands (after Schechter and Berger notation) respectively. Using computer graphics, the geometrical nature of the two pockets was carefully examined and strategies for site-directed mutagenes...

The catalytic domain of glucoamylases G1 and G2 from Aspergillus niger is produced in vitro in high yield by limited proteolysis using either subtilisin Novo or subtilisin Carlsberg. Purification by affinity chromatography on an acarbose-Sepharose column followed by ion-exchange chromatography on HiLoad Q-Sepharose leads to separation of a number of structurally closely related forms of domain....

The cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) from Escherichia coli regulates the expression of a large number of genes. In this work, CRP has been overexpressed, purified and digested by subtilisin and chymotrypsin. The fragments S-CRP (digested by subtilisin) and CH-CRP (digested by chymotrypsin) have been purified and crystallized. Crystals of S-CRP diffracted to 2.0 A resolution and belonged to spa...

In search of plant genes expressed during early interactions between Casuarina glauca and Frankia, we have isolated and characterized a C. glauca gene that has strong homology to subtilisin-like protease gene families of several plants including the actinorhizal nodulin gene ag12 of another actinorhizal plant, Alnus glutinosa. Based on the expression pattern of cg12 in the course of nodule deve...

Fibrinolytic therapy progressed by the evolution of different strategies that helped in enhancing its efficacy and specificity. The use microbial fibrinolytic enzymes is leading to a promising direction for treatment cardiovascular diseases. Subtilisin, member subtilases enzyme abundantly found Bacillus species. isolation subtilisin gene (quaking homolog) from subtilis was attempted present wor...