RpmE

• Description: ribosomal protein
  
  

Gene name	rpmE
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	ribosomal protein L31
Function	translation
MW, pI	7 kDa, 9.157
Gene length, protein length	198 bp, 66 aa
Immediate neighbours	tdk, rho
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37070

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

translation, essential genes

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: Type A subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YtiA

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity: Zn(2+) PubMed

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q03223

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Additional information

Under conditions of zinc starvation, RpmE is replaced by its paralog YtiA, that does not require zinc PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: rpmE PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• 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: