YlxQ

• Description: similar to ribosomal protein, L7AE family, binds K-turns in RNA switches
  
  

Gene name	ylxQ
Synonyms	ymxC
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	10 kDa, 10.166
Gene length, protein length	300 bp, 100 aa
Immediate neighbours	ylxR, infB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

translation

This gene is a member of the following regulons

stringent response

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16620

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • binds K-turns in RNA switches as the occur in the L-box, the S-box and the T-box PubMed

• Protein family: ribosomal protein L7Ae family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

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Database entries

• Structure:
  • 3V7Q
  • 3ON1 (from B. halodurans, 41% identity, 61% similarity)

• UniProt: P32729

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ylxS-nusA-ylxR-ylxQ-infB-ylxP-rbfA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Nathan J Baird, Jinwei Zhang, Tomoko Hamma, Adrian R Ferré-D'Amaré
YbxF and YlxQ are bacterial homologs of L7Ae and bind K-turns but not K-loops.
RNA: 2012, 18(4);759-70
[PubMed:22355167] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Christine Eymann, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Michael Hecker
Bacillus subtilis functional genomics: global characterization of the stringent response by proteome and transcriptome analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(9);2500-20
[PubMed:11948165] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

K Shazand, J Tucker, M Grunberg-Manago, J C Rabinowitz, T Leighton
Similar organization of the nusA-infB operon in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli.
J Bacteriol: 1993, 175(10);2880-7
[PubMed:8491709] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)