Era

• Description: GTP-binding protein
  
  

Gene name	era
Synonyms	bex, yqfH
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	GTP-binding protein
Function
MW, pI	33 kDa, 8.376
Gene length, protein length	903 bp, 301 aa
Immediate neighbours	recO, cdd
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Binds and hydrolyzes GTP and readily exchanges GDP for GTP

• Protein family: Era/Obg family

• Paralogous protein(s): Era, Obg, YphC, YsxC, RbgA, YqeH, ThdF, YyaF, YnbA

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P42182

• KEGG entry: BSU25290

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector: pGP93 (N-terminal Strep-tag, purification from B. subtilis, for SPINE, in pGP380), available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Naotake Ogasawara, Nara, Japan

References

1. Morimoto T, Loh PC, Hirai T, Asai K, Kobayashi K, Moriya S, Ogasawara N (2002) Six GTP-binding proteins of the Era/Obg family are essential for cell growth in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology 148: 3539-3552. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed