SerS

• Description: seryl-tRNA-synthetase
  
  

Gene name	serS
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	seryl-tRNA-synthetase
Function	translation
MW, pI	48 kDa, 5.193
Gene length, protein length	1275 bp, 425 aa
Immediate neighbours	pdxT, trnSL-Ser1
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00130

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + L-serine + tRNA(Ser) = AMP + diphosphate + L-seryl-tRNA(Ser) (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: Type-1 seryl-tRNA synthetase subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P37464

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.1.1.11

Expression and regulation

• Operon: serS PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: induced in the presence of serine PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: antitermination by a trnD-Ser-dependent RNA switch PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Condon et al. (1996) Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase gene regulation in Bacillus subtilis.

Biochimie 78: 381-389. PubMed