SufU

• Description: iron-sulfur cluster scaffold protein, receives iron from SufS, synthesis of Fe-S clusters
  
  

Gene name	sufU
Synonyms	yurV, iscU
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	iron-sulfur cluster scaffold protein
Function	synthesis of iron-sulfur clusters
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: sufU
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: SufU
MW, pI	16 kDa, 4.713
Gene length, protein length	441 bp, 147 aa
Immediate neighbours	sufB, sufS
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

iron metabolism, essential genes

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32680

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: nifU family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactors: zinc PubMed

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • (Fra)2-SufU, requires iron PubMed
  • SufS-SufU PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 2AZH

• UniProt: O32163

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sufC-sufD-sufS-sufU-sufB PubMed

• Expression browser: sufU PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: