RbgA

• Description: assembly of the 50S subunit of the ribosome
  
  

Gene name	rbgA
Synonyms	ylqF
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	GTPase
Function	assembly of the 50S subunit of the ribosome
MW, pI	31 kDa, 9.528
Gene length, protein length	846 bp, 282 aa
Immediate neighbours	rplS, rnhB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16050

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Binds and hydrolyzes GTP and readily exchanges GDP for GTP

• Protein family: MTG1 subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot) Era/Obg family

• Paralogous protein(s): Era, Obg, YphC, YsxC, RbgA, YqeH, ThdF, YyaF, YnbA

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 1PUJ

• Swiss prot entry: O31743

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Naotake Ogasawara, Nara, Japan

References

1. Morimoto T, Loh PC, Hirai T, Asai K, Kobayashi K, Moriya S, Ogasawara N (2002) Six GTP-binding proteins of the Era/Obg family are essential for cell growth in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology 148: 3539-3552. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed