NusG

• Description: transcription antitermination and pausing factor
  
  

Gene name	nusG
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	transcription antitermination and pausing factor
Function	transcription
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: nusG
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: NusG
MW, pI	19 kDa, 5.252
Gene length, protein length	531 bp, 177 aa
Immediate neighbours	secE, rplK
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

transcription

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01010

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: KOW domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • Rho-NusG (C-terminal domain) (based on data for E. coli) PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q06795

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: nusG PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • strongly repressed in response to glucose starvation in M9 medium PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Additional publications: PubMed

Alexander V Yakhnin, Paul Babitzke
Mechanism of NusG-stimulated pausing, hairpin-dependent pause site selection and intrinsic termination at overlapping pause and termination sites in the Bacillus subtilis trp leader.
Mol Microbiol: 2010, 76(3);690-705
[PubMed:20384694] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Alexander V Yakhnin, Helen Yakhnin, Paul Babitzke
Function of the Bacillus subtilis transcription elongation factor NusG in hairpin-dependent RNA polymerase pausing in the trp leader.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2008, 105(42);16131-6
[PubMed:18852477] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Geoff P Doherty, Donna H Meredith, Peter J Lewis
Subcellular partitioning of transcription factors in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(11);4101-10
[PubMed:16707701] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

C J Ingham, P A Furneaux
Mutations in the ss subunit of the Bacillus subtilis RNA polymerase that confer both rifampicin resistance and hypersensitivity to NusG.
Microbiology (Reading): 2000, 146 Pt 12;3041-3049
[PubMed:11101662] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

C J Ingham, J Dennis, P A Furneaux
Autogenous regulation of transcription termination factor Rho and the requirement for Nus factors in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 1999, 31(2);651-63
[PubMed:10027981] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)