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
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: ylxQ
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)
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

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:

• Domains:

• Modification:

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• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:
  • 3V7Q PubMed

• UniProt: P32729

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

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

• Expression browser: ylxQ 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

Additional publications: PubMed

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)