EngA

• Description: GTPase essential for ribosome 50S subunit assembly
  
  

Gene name	yphC
Synonyms	engA
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	GTPase
Function	ribosome assembly
MW, pI	48 kDa, 5.248
Gene length, protein length	1308 bp, 436 aa
Immediate neighbours	gpsA, seaA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22840

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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

• Protein family: EngA subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot) Era/Obg family

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

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: 2HJG (complex with GDP)

• UniProt: P50743

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:
  • for expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP846, available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Naotake Ogasawara, Nara, Japan

References

Reviews

Robert A Britton
Role of GTPases in bacterial ribosome assembly.
Annu Rev Microbiol: 2009, 63;155-76
[PubMed:19575570] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)