PrfA

• Description: peptide chain release factor 1
  
  

Gene name	prfA
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	peptide chain release factor 1
Function	translation
MW, pI	40 kDa, 4.824
Gene length, protein length	1068 bp, 356 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywkE, ywkD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37010

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: prokaryotic/mitochondrial release factor 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P45872

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Daniel J Rigden, Peter Setlow, Barbara Setlow, Irina Bagyan, Richard A Stein, Mark J Jedrzejas
PrfA protein of Bacillus species: prediction and demonstration of endonuclease activity on DNA.
Protein Sci: 2002, 11(10);2370-81
[PubMed:12237459] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)