QueC

• Description: synthesis of the modified ribonucleotide queuosine
  
  

Gene name	queC
Synonyms	ykvJ
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	tRNA modification
MW, pI	24 kDa, 5.147
Gene length, protein length	657 bp, 219 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykvI, queD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

translation

This gene is a member of the following regulons

preQ1 riboswitch

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13720

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

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

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 3BL5

• UniProt: O31675

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: queC-queD-queE-queF PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of queuosine (preQ1 riboswitch) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • preQ1 riboswitch: transcriptional antitermination in the absence of queuosine PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Additional publications: PubMed

Reid M McCarty, Arpád Somogyi, Guangxin Lin, Neil E Jacobsen, Vahe Bandarian
The deazapurine biosynthetic pathway revealed: in vitro enzymatic synthesis of PreQ(0) from guanosine 5'-triphosphate in four steps.
Biochemistry: 2009, 48(18);3847-52
[PubMed:19354300] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Mijeong Kang, Robert Peterson, Juli Feigon
Structural Insights into riboswitch control of the biosynthesis of queuosine, a modified nucleotide found in the anticodon of tRNA.
Mol Cell: 2009, 33(6);784-90
[PubMed:19285444] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Nenad Cicmil, Raven H Huang
Crystal structure of QueC from Bacillus subtilis: an enzyme involved in preQ1 biosynthesis.
Proteins: 2008, 72(3);1084-8
[PubMed:18491386] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Adam Roth, Wade C Winkler, Elizabeth E Regulski, Bobby W K Lee, Jinsoo Lim, Inbal Jona, Jeffrey E Barrick, Ankita Ritwik, Jane N Kim, Rüdiger Welz, Dirk Iwata-Reuyl, Ronald R Breaker
A riboswitch selective for the queuosine precursor preQ1 contains an unusually small aptamer domain.
Nat Struct Mol Biol: 2007, 14(4);308-17
[PubMed:17384645] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

John S Reader, David Metzgar, Paul Schimmel, Valérie de Crécy-Lagard
Identification of four genes necessary for biosynthesis of the modified nucleoside queuosine.
J Biol Chem: 2004, 279(8);6280-5
[PubMed:14660578] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)