   2.1.1.170 | physiological function |
RsmG is an S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent methyltransferase responsible for the synthesis of m7G527 in the 530 loop of bacterial 16S rRNA. This loop is universally conserved, plays a key role in ribosomal accuracy, and is a target for streptomycin binding, mechanisms controlling RsmG expression and activity, overview. Gene rsmG as part of a bicistronic operon also has its own promoter, which appears, in actively growing cells, as a control device to offset both the relatively low stability of RsmG and inhibition of the operon promoter. Critical importance of some residues located in the active site of Escherichia coli RsmG for the m7G modification process, the residues play a role in rRNA binding and catalysis |
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