The universally conserved prokaryotic GTPases

N Verstraeten, M Fauvart, W Versées… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Members of the large superclass of P-loop GTPases share a core domain with a conserved
three-dimensional structure. In eukaryotes, these proteins are implicated in various crucial …

Vibrio harveyi: A brief survey of general characteristics and recent epidemiological traits associated with climate change

I Montánchez, VR Kaberdin - Marine environmental research, 2020 - Elsevier
Here we briefly review the major characteristics of the emerging pathogen Vibrio harveyi
and discuss survival strategies and adaptation mechanisms underlying the capacity of this …

Sinorhizobium meliloti metabolism in the root nodule: A proteomic perspective

MA Djordjevic - Proteomics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The proteome of the model symbiotic bacterium, Sinorhizobium meliloti was examined to
determine the enzymatic reactions and cell processes that occur when S. meliloti occupies …

Comprehensive in silico analyses of fifty-one uncharacterized proteins from Vibrio cholerae

S Basu Mallick, S Das, A Venkatasubramanian… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Due to the rise of multidrug-resistant strains of Vibrio cholerae and the recent cholera
outbreaks in African and Asian nations, it is imperative to identify novel therapeutic targets …

Bacterial Obg proteins: GTPases at the nexus of protein and DNA synthesis

C Kint, N Verstraeten, J Hofkens… - Critical reviews in …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Obg proteins (also known as ObgE, YhbZ and CgtA) are conserved P-loop GTPases,
essential for growth in bacteria. Like other GTPases, Obg proteins cycle between a GTP …

A bacterial G protein-mediated response to replication arrest

JJ Foti, J Schienda, VA Sutera, ST Lovett - Molecular cell, 2005 - cell.com
To define factors in E. coli promoting survival to replication fork stress, we isolated insertion
mutants sensitive to replication inhibitors. One insertion caused partial loss of the universally …

YbiB: a novel interactor of the GTPase ObgE

B Deckers, S Vercauteren, V De Kock… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Obg is a widely conserved and essential GTPase in bacteria, which plays a central role in a
large range of important cellular processes, such as ribosome biogenesis, DNA replication …

Characterization of the Bacillus subtilis GTPase YloQ and its role in ribosome function

TL Campbell, DM Daigle, ED Brown - Biochemical Journal, 2005 - portlandpress.com
We present an analysis of the cellular phenotype and biochemical activity of a conserved
bacterial GTPase of unknown function (YloQ and YjeQ in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia …

GTPases involved in bacterial ribosome maturation

S Goto, A Muto, H Himeno - The journal of biochemistry, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The ribosome is an RNA-and protein-based macromolecule having multiple functional
domains to facilitate protein synthesis, and it is synthesized through multiple steps including …

[PDF][PDF] The Obg subfamily of bacterial GTP-binding proteins: essential proteins of largely unknown functions that are evolutionarily conserved from bacteria to humans.

A Czyz, G Wegrzyn - Acta Biochimica Polonica, 2005 - frontierspartnerships.org
Members of the Obg subfamily of small GTP-binding proteins (called Obg, CgtA, ObgE or
YhbZ in different bacterial species) have been found in various prokaryotic and eukaryotic …