YhzA

• Description: alternative ribosomal protein S14, can replace RpsN under conditions of zinc limitation
  
  

Gene name	yhzA
Synonyms	rpsNB
Essential	no
Product	alternative ribosomal protein S14
Function	translation
MW, pI	10 kDa, 11.192
Gene length, protein length	267 bp, 89 aa
Immediate neighbours	ygaN, ygaO
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08880

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): RpsN

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced by zinc starvation (Zur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Zur: transcription repression in the presence of zinc PubMed

• Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Yousuke Natori, Hideaki Nanamiya, Genki Akanuma, Saori Kosono, Toshiaki Kudo, Kozo Ochi, Fujio Kawamura
A fail-safe system for the ribosome under zinc-limiting conditions in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 63(1);294-307
[PubMed:17163968] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ekaterina M Panina, Andrey A Mironov, Mikhail S Gelfand
Comparative genomics of bacterial zinc regulons: enhanced ion transport, pathogenesis, and rearrangement of ribosomal proteins.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2003, 100(17);9912-7
[PubMed:12904577] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

G Hambraeus, C von Wachenfeldt, L Hederstedt
Genome-wide survey of mRNA half-lives in Bacillus subtilis identifies extremely stable mRNAs.
Mol Genet Genomics: 2003, 269(5);706-14
[PubMed:12884008] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)