TufA

• Description: elongation factor Tu
  
  

Gene name	tufA
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	elongation factor Tu
Function	translation
MW, pI	43 kDa, 4.723
Gene length, protein length	1188 bp, 396 aa
Immediate neighbours	fusA, ybaC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01130

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: EF-Tu/EF-1A subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylated on Thr-384 by PrkC, dephosphorylated by PrpC PubMed, PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: MreB-TufA PubMed

• Localization: EF-Tu localizes in a helical pattern underneath the cell membrane and colocalizes with MreB PubMed, membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P33166

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • RelA dependent downregulation (Class I) during stringent response PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:
  • for expression/ purification from B. subtilis with N-terminal Strep-tag, for SPINE, in pGP380: pGP839, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression/ purification from E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP847, available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: