ThdF

• Description: GTP-binding protein, putative tRNA modification GTPase
  
  

Gene name	thdF
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	putative tRNA modification GTPase
Function	tRNA modification
MW, pI	50 kDa, 4.643
Gene length, protein length	1377 bp, 459 aa
Immediate neighbours	gidA, jag
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU41020

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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

• Protein family: MnmE 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:

• Swiss prot entry: P25811

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: thdF-gidA-rsmG-noc

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Naotake Ogasawara, Nara, Japan

References

Takuya Morimoto, Pek Chin Loh, Tomohiro Hirai, Kei Asai, Kazuo Kobayashi, Shigeki Moriya, Naotake Ogasawara
Six GTP-binding proteins of the Era/Obg family are essential for cell growth in Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2002, 148(Pt 11);3539-3552
[PubMed:12427945] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)