YrvO

• Description: cysteine desulfurase
  
  

Gene name	yrvO
Synonyms	nifS
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	cysteine desulfurase
Function	unknown
MW, pI	41 kDa, 5.463
Gene length, protein length	1137 bp, 379 aa
Immediate neighbours	trmU, cymR
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

essential genes, poorly characterized/ putative enzymes

This gene is a member of the following regulons

stringent response

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU27510

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): NifS, NifZ, SufS, YcbU

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1EG5 (from Thermotoga maritima, 37% identity, 54% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: O34599

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cymR-yrvO-trmU PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA 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

Soon-Yong Choi, Dindo Reyes, Montira Leelakriangsak, Peter Zuber
The global regulator Spx functions in the control of organosulfur metabolism in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(16);5741-51
[PubMed:16885442] [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)

J T Kaiser, T Clausen, G P Bourenkow, H D Bartunik, S Steinbacher, R Huber
Crystal structure of a NifS-like protein from Thermotoga maritima: implications for iron sulphur cluster assembly.
J Mol Biol: 2000, 297(2);451-64
[PubMed:10715213] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)