YacF

• Description: putative tRNA-dihydrouridine synthase B
  
  

Gene name	yacF
Synonyms	dusB, dus1
Essential	no
Product	putative tRNA-dihydrouridine synthase B
Function	tRNA maturation
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Folate
MW, pI	36 kDa, 7.868
Gene length, protein length	999 bp, 333 aa
Immediate neighbours	yazB, lysS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00810

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: dus 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: 1VHN (from Thermotoga maritima, 35% identity, 54% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P37567

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: pabB-pabA-pabC-sul-folB-folK-yazB-yacF-lysS PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• 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: