Cca

• Description: tRNA nucleotidyltransferase, maturation of the single-copy tRNACys, which lacks an encoded CCA 3' end
  
  

Gene name	cca
Synonyms	papS, ypjI
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	tRNA nucleotidyltransferase
Function	tRNA modification
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: cca
MW, pI	45 kDa, 8.041
Gene length, protein length	1191 bp, 397 aa
Immediate neighbours	birA, bshA
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, essential genes

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22450

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + tRNA(n) = diphosphate + tRNA(n+1) (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: the protein is similar to the E. coli poly(A) polymerase

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

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Database entries

• Structure: 1MIV (Geobacillus stearothermophilus 44% identity)

• UniProt: P42977

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.7.7.25

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ypjD-dapB-mgsA-bshB1-bshA-cca-birA PubMed

• Expression browser: cca PubMed

• Sigma factor:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

Operon and expression

Ahmed Gaballa, Gerald L Newton, Haike Antelmann, Derek Parsonage, Heather Upton, Mamta Rawat, Al Claiborne, Robert C Fahey, John D Helmann
Biosynthesis and functions of bacillithiol, a major low-molecular-weight thiol in Bacilli.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2010, 107(14);6482-6
[PubMed:20308541] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)