CsrA

• Description: similar to E. coli carbon storage regulator
  
  

Gene name	csrA
Synonyms	yviG
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	8 kDa, 6.09
Gene length, protein length	222 bp, 74 aa
Immediate neighbours	hag, fliW
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35370

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

RNA binding regulators

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: csrA family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: CsrA-RsmY (hypothetical)

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1T3O

• UniProt: P33911

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: csrA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP469 (spc), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:
  • pGP381 (N-terminal Strep-tag, purification from B. subtilis, for SPINE, in pGP380), available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP383, available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion: pGP461 (in pAC7), available in Stülke lab

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Paul Babitzke, Carol S Baker, Tony Romeo
Regulation of translation initiation by RNA binding proteins.
Annu Rev Microbiol: 2009, 63;27-44
[PubMed:19385727] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Original Publications

Helen Yakhnin, Pallavi Pandit, Tom J Petty, Carol S Baker, Tony Romeo, Paul Babitzke
CsrA of Bacillus subtilis regulates translation initiation of the gene encoding the flagellin protein (hag) by blocking ribosome binding.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 64(6);1605-20
[PubMed:17555441] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Prajna R Kulkarni, Xiaohui Cui, Joshua W Williams, Ann M Stevens, Rahul V Kulkarni
Prediction of CsrA-regulating small RNAs in bacteria and their experimental verification in Vibrio fischeri.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2006, 34(11);3361-9
[PubMed:16822857] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

B Soldo, V Lazarevic, C Mauël, D Karamata
Sequence of the 305 degrees-307 degrees region of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome.
Microbiology (Reading): 1996, 142 ( Pt 11);3079-88
[PubMed:8969505] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)