Sco

• Description: accessory lipoprotein required for assembly of the Cu(A) center of cytochrome c oxidase caa3
  
  

Gene name	ypmQ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	oxidoreductase
Function	maturation of cytochrome C oxidase caa3
MW, pI	21 kDa, 4.81
Gene length, protein length	579 bp, 193 aa
Immediate neighbours	ypmR, ypmP
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU21750

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: electron transfer to the maturing oxidase CtaC PubMed

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): contains copper bound by two cysteines and a histidine residue PubMed

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: Sco-CtaC PubMed

• Localization: cell membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1XZO

• UniProt: P54178

• 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

Gnana S Siluvai, Mary Mayfield, Mark J Nilges, Serena Debeer George, Ninian J Blackburn
Anatomy of a red copper center: spectroscopic identification and reactivity of the copper centers of Bacillus subtilis Sco and its Cys-to-Ala variants.
J Am Chem Soc: 2010, 132(14);5215-26
[PubMed:20232870] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Gnana S Siluvai, Michiko M Nakano, Mary Mayfield, Mark J Nilges, Ninian J Blackburn
H135A controls the redox activity of the Sco copper center. Kinetic and spectroscopic studies of the His135Ala variant of Bacillus subtilis Sco.
Biochemistry: 2009, 48(51);12133-44
[PubMed:19921776] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

David E Davidson, Bruce C Hill
Stability of oxidized, reduced and copper bound forms of Bacillus subtilis Sco.
Biochim Biophys Acta: 2009, 1794(2);275-81
[PubMed:19027886] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Luisa Andruzzi, Michiko Nakano, Mark J Nilges, Ninian J Blackburn
Spectroscopic studies of metal binding and metal selectivity in Bacillus subtilis BSco, a Homologue of the Yeast Mitochondrial Protein Sco1p.
J Am Chem Soc: 2005, 127(47);16548-58
[PubMed:16305244] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jenny Bengtsson, Claes von Wachenfeldt, Lena Winstedt, Per Nygaard, Lars Hederstedt
CtaG is required for formation of active cytochrome c oxidase in Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2004, 150(Pt 2);415-425
[PubMed:14766920] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Diann Andrews, Jennifer Rattenbury, Vijay Anand, Neil R Mattatall, Bruce C Hill
Expression, purification, and characterization of BsSco, an accessory protein involved in the assembly of cytochrome c oxidase in Bacillus subtilis.
Protein Expr Purif: 2004, 33(1);57-65
[PubMed:14680962] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

N R Mattatall, J Jazairi, B C Hill
Characterization of YpmQ, an accessory protein required for the expression of cytochrome c oxidase in Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 2000, 275(37);28802-9
[PubMed:10837475] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Additional publications: PubMed