TsaC

• Description: biosynthesis of the hypermodified base threonylcarbamoyladenosine (t(6)A)
  
  

Gene name	ywlC
Synonyms	ipc-29d
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	tRNA modification
MW, pI	36 kDa, 5.82
Gene length, protein length	1038 bp, 346 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywlD, ywlB
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

DnaA regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU36950

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: biosynthesis of the hypermodified base threonylcarbamoyladenosine (t(6)A), a universal modification found at position 37 of ANN decoding tRNAs, which imparts a unique structure to the anticodon loop enhancing its binding to ribosomes in vitro (shown for the corresponding E. coli protein YrdC) PubMed

• Protein family: SUA5 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:

Database entries

• Structure: 1HRU (the homolog from E. coli) PubMed

• UniProt: P39153

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • DnaA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Basma El Yacoubi, Benjamin Lyons, Yulien Cruz, Robert Reddy, Brian Nordin, Fabio Agnelli, James R Williamson, Paul Schimmel, Manal A Swairjo, Valérie de Crécy-Lagard
The universal YrdC/Sua5 family is required for the formation of threonylcarbamoyladenosine in tRNA.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2009, 37(9);2894-909
[PubMed:19287007] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Shu Ishikawa, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Mika Yoshimura, Hajime Okumura, Eunha Cho, Yoshikazu Kawai, Ken Kurokawa, Taku Oshima, Naotake Ogasawara
Distribution of stable DnaA-binding sites on the Bacillus subtilis genome detected using a modified ChIP-chip method.
DNA Res: 2007, 14(4);155-68
[PubMed:17932079] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Alison Hunt, Joy P Rawlins, Helena B Thomaides, Jeff Errington
Functional analysis of 11 putative essential genes in Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2006, 152(Pt 10);2895-2907
[PubMed:17005971] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)