UniProt functional annotation for P50743

UniProt code: P50743.

Organism: Bacillus subtilis (strain 168).
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Firmicutes; Bacilli; Bacillales; Bacillaceae; Bacillus.
 
Function: GTPase that plays an essential role in the late steps of ribosome biogenesis. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:16997968}.
 
Subunit: Cofractionates with the 70S ribosome; association is stabilized by the non-hydrolyzable GTP analog GMPPNP, and inhibited by GTP or GDP.
Disruption phenotype: Essential for growth, it cannot be disrupted. Depletion experiments show that cells become longer and abnormally curved, with nucleoid condensation. Cells have many fewer 70S ribosomes; the large ribosomal subunit is 45S and is missing proteins L16, L27, L36 and interacts with 2 large non-ribosomal proteins. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12427945}.
Miscellaneous: Estimated to be present at 7000 copies per cell.
Similarity: Belongs to the TRAFAC class TrmE-Era-EngA-EngB-Septin-like GTPase superfamily. EngA (Der) GTPase family. {ECO:0000305}.
Sequence caution: Sequence=U32164; Type=Frameshift; Evidence={ECO:0000305};

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.