RplB

• Description: ribosomal protein
  
  

Gene name	rplB
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	ribosomal protein L2 (BL2)
Function	translation
MW, pI	30 kDa, 11.013
Gene length, protein length	831 bp, 277 aa
Immediate neighbours	rplW, rpsS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01190

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

translation, essential genes, universally conserved proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ribosomal protein L2P 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: 1RL2 (L2 RNA-binding domain, Geobacillus stearothermophilus)

• UniProt: P42919

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: rpsJ-rplC-rplD-rplW-rplB-rpsS-rplV-rpsC-rplP-rpmC-rpsQ-rplN-rplX-rplE-rpsN-rpsH-rplF-rplR-rpsE-rpmD-rplO PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • SigA two promoters, about 140bp and 200bp upstream of the start codon PubMed

• 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

Matthew A Lauber, William E Running, James P Reilly
B. subtilis ribosomal proteins: structural homology and post-translational modifications.
J Proteome Res: 2009, 8(9);4193-206
[PubMed:19653700] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Christine Eymann, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Michael Hecker
Bacillus subtilis functional genomics: global characterization of the stringent response by proteome and transcriptome analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(9);2500-20
[PubMed:11948165] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Nakagawa, T Nakashima, M Taniguchi, H Hosaka, M Kimura, I Tanaka
The three-dimensional structure of the RNA-binding domain of ribosomal protein L2; a protein at the peptidyl transferase center of the ribosome.
EMBO J: 1999, 18(6);1459-67
[PubMed:10075918] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

X Li, L Lindahl, Y Sha, J M Zengel
Analysis of the Bacillus subtilis S10 ribosomal protein gene cluster identifies two promoters that may be responsible for transcription of the entire 15-kilobase S10-spc-alpha cluster.
J Bacteriol: 1997, 179(22);7046-54
[PubMed:9371452] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J W Suh, S A Boylan, S H Oh, C W Price
Genetic and transcriptional organization of the Bacillus subtilis spc-alpha region.
Gene: 1996, 169(1);17-23
[PubMed:8635744] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)