YhzA

• Description: alternative ribosomal protein S14, can replace RpsN under conditions of zinc limitation
  
  

Gene name	yhzA
Synonyms	rpsNB
Essential	no
Product	alternative ribosomal protein S14
Function	translation
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yhzA
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: YhzA
MW, pI	10 kDa, 11.192
Gene length, protein length	267 bp, 89 aa
Immediate neighbours	ygaN, ygaO
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

translation

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Zur regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08880

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): RpsN

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31587

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: yhzA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced by zinc starvation (Zur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Zur: transcription repression in the presence of zinc PubMed

• Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Hideaki Nanamiya, Fujio Kawamura
Towards an elucidation of the roles of the ribosome during different growth phases in Bacillus subtilis.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem: 2010, 74(3);451-61
[PubMed:20208344] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Scott E Gabriel, John D Helmann
Contributions of Zur-controlled ribosomal proteins to growth under zinc starvation conditions.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(19);6116-22
[PubMed:19648245] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Yousuke Natori, Hideaki Nanamiya, Genki Akanuma, Saori Kosono, Toshiaki Kudo, Kozo Ochi, Fujio Kawamura
A fail-safe system for the ribosome under zinc-limiting conditions in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 63(1);294-307
[PubMed:17163968] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ekaterina M Panina, Andrey A Mironov, Mikhail S Gelfand
Comparative genomics of bacterial zinc regulons: enhanced ion transport, pathogenesis, and rearrangement of ribosomal proteins.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2003, 100(17);9912-7
[PubMed:12904577] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

G Hambraeus, C von Wachenfeldt, L Hederstedt
Genome-wide survey of mRNA half-lives in Bacillus subtilis identifies extremely stable mRNAs.
Mol Genet Genomics: 2003, 269(5);706-14
[PubMed:12884008] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)