RbfA

• Description: ribosome-binding factor A
  
  

Gene name	rbfA
Synonyms	ymxE, ylxO
Essential	no
Product	ribosome-binding factor A
Function	translation
MW, pI	13 kDa, 9.338
Gene length, protein length	351 bp, 117 aa
Immediate neighbours	ylxP, truB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16650

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: rbfA family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

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:

• UniProt: P32731

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ylxS-nusA-ylxR-ylxQ-infB-ylxP-rbfA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • RelA dependent downregulation (Class I) during stringent response PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Christine Eymann, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Michael Hecker
Bacillus subtilis functional genomics: global characterization of the stringent response by proteome and transcriptome analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(9);2500-20
[PubMed:11948165] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

K Shazand, J Tucker, M Grunberg-Manago, J C Rabinowitz, T Leighton
Similar organization of the nusA-infB operon in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli.
J Bacteriol: 1993, 175(10);2880-7
[PubMed:8491709] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)