YbxF

• Description: similar to ribosomal protein L7AE family, associated with the ribosome during exponential growth, binds K-turns in RNA switches
  
  

Gene name	ybxF
Synonyms	ybaB
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: YbxF
MW, pI	8 kDa, 9.511
Gene length, protein length	246 bp, 82 aa
Immediate neighbours	rpoC, rpsL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

translation

This gene is a member of the following regulons

stringent response

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01090

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • binds K-turns in RNA switches as the occur in the L-box, the S-box and the T-box PubMed

• Protein family: ribosomal protein L7Ae 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: P46350

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• 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:

References

Additional publications: PubMed

Nathan J Baird, Jinwei Zhang, Tomoko Hamma, Adrian R Ferré-D'Amaré
YbxF and YlxQ are bacterial homologs of L7Ae and bind K-turns but not K-loops.
RNA: 2012, 18(4);759-70
[PubMed:22355167] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)