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Abstract

Bacterial extracellular proteases play an important role in cell survival and cell–cell communication. A high-molecular-mass minor extracellular protease (Vpr) from a feather-degrading bacterium, DCUW, has been reported by our laboratory. In the present study, we cloned and expressed Vpr in . Complete nucleotide sequencing of this gene predicted that the protease is a member of the serine protease family, and domain analysis revealed that the protease consists of an N-terminal signal sequence for secretion, a subtilisin_N sequence that is a signature for N-terminal processing, a catalytic S_8 peptidase domain, and finally a long C-terminal protease-associated (PA) region containing nine intrinsically disordered subdomains. Four truncated constructs of the Vpr protease were cloned and expressed in . We found that the catalytic domain (amino acid residues 172–583) is sufficient for protease activity. Maturation of the Vpr protease needed both N-terminal and C-terminal processing. We have demonstrated that the oligomerization property is associated with the C-terminal protease-associated domain and also shown that the substrate-binding specificity to raw feather resides in this domain.

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