UniProt functional annotation for P0A7L3

UniProt code: P0A7L3.

Organism: Escherichia coli (strain K12).
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia.
 
Function: One of the primary rRNA binding proteins, it binds close to the 5'-end of the 23S rRNA. It is important during the early stages of 50S assembly. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:3298242}.
 
Subunit: Part of the 50S ribosomal subunit (PubMed:381019, PubMed:10094780, PubMed:12809609, PubMed:16272117, PubMed:25310980, PubMed:24844575, PubMed:27934701, PubMed:27906160, PubMed:27906161). Contacts L21 (PubMed:2665813). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10094780, ECO:0000269|PubMed:12809609, ECO:0000269|PubMed:16272117, ECO:0000269|PubMed:24844575, ECO:0000269|PubMed:25310980, ECO:0000269|PubMed:2665813, ECO:0000269|PubMed:27906160, ECO:0000269|PubMed:27906161, ECO:0000269|PubMed:27934701, ECO:0000269|PubMed:381019}.
Mass spectrometry: Mass=13366.9; Method=MALDI; Evidence={ECO:0000269|PubMed:10094780};
Similarity: Belongs to the bacterial ribosomal protein bL20 family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.