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PaperBLAST Hits for GFF2918 (89 a.a., MTEAKTSLKR...)

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Found 109 similar proteins in the literature:

BPSL3204 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Burkholderia pseudomallei K96243
65% identity, 94% coverage

bglu_1g02670 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Burkholderia glumae BGR1
62% identity, 94% coverage

BCAL0243 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315
WQ49_RS12315 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Burkholderia cenocepacia
62% identity, 94% coverage

Q5F5T6 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Neisseria gonorrhoeae (strain ATCC 700825 / FA 1090)
65% identity, 97% coverage

NMB0151 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Neisseria meningitidis MC58
NMA0120 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Neisseria meningitidis Z2491
65% identity, 97% coverage

A6UZJ7 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (strain PA7)
PA4254 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
PAK_00917 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAK
55% identity, 97% coverage

PP_0463 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Pseudomonas putida KT2440
PP0463 ribosomal protein S17 from Pseudomonas putida KT2440
53% identity, 97% coverage

8rwgp / Q9HWE4 8rwgp
57% identity, 87% coverage

STM3431 30S ribosomal subunit protein S17 from Salmonella typhimurium LT2
SPC_3500 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Paratyphi C strain RKS4594
SEN3259 30S ribosomal subunit protein S17 from Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Enteritidis str. P125109
SG4008 30S ribosomal subunit protein S17 from Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Gallinarum str. 287/91
54% identity, 89% coverage

NeaA / b3311 30S ribosomal subunit protein S17 from Escherichia coli K-12 substr. MG1655 (see 16 papers)
rpsQ / P0AG63 30S ribosomal subunit protein S17 from Escherichia coli (strain K12) (see 67 papers)
RS17_ECOLI / P0AG63 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17; 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Escherichia coli (strain K12) (see 13 papers)
rpsQ / RF|NP_417770 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Escherichia coli K12 (see 18 papers)
BC33_RS02945 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Escherichia coli ATCC 700728
NP_417770 30S ribosomal subunit protein S17 from Escherichia coli str. K-12 substr. MG1655
b3311 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Escherichia coli str. K-12 substr. MG1655
ECs4176 30S ribosomal subunit protein S17 from Escherichia coli O157:H7 str. Sakai
54% identity, 89% coverage

3j9zSQ / P0AG63 3j9zSQ (see paper)
54% identity, 89% coverage

VP0266 ribosomal protein S17 from Vibrio parahaemolyticus RIMD 2210633
52% identity, 93% coverage

A0KF30 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Aeromonas hydrophila subsp. hydrophila (strain ATCC 7966 / DSM 30187 / BCRC 13018 / CCUG 14551 / JCM 1027 / KCTC 2358 / NCIMB 9240 / NCTC 8049)
55% identity, 87% coverage

AbA118F_2932 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Acinetobacter baumannii
58% identity, 88% coverage

A1JS24 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:8 / biotype 1B (strain NCTC 13174 / 8081)
YPO0219 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Yersinia pestis CO92
YPTB3689 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis IP 32953
54% identity, 89% coverage

SG2269 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Sodalis glossinidius str. 'morsitans'
51% identity, 89% coverage

Q9RXJ3 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Deinococcus radiodurans (strain ATCC 13939 / DSM 20539 / JCM 16871 / CCUG 27074 / LMG 4051 / NBRC 15346 / NCIMB 9279 / VKM B-1422 / R1)
56% identity, 81% coverage

ACIAD3210 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Acinetobacter sp. ADP1
56% identity, 88% coverage

U1TYF4 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Pseudomonas simiae
52% identity, 96% coverage

HI0786 ribosomal protein S17 (rpS17) from Haemophilus influenzae Rd KW20
53% identity, 89% coverage

6v39q / B7IA30 6v39q (see paper)
57% identity, 87% coverage

Psyr_4539 Ribosomal protein S17 from Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a
51% identity, 100% coverage

VC2587 ribosomal protein S17 from Vibrio cholerae O1 biovar eltor str. N16961
52% identity, 89% coverage

RS17_THET8 / P0DOY7 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17; 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Thermus thermophilus (strain ATCC 27634 / DSM 579 / HB8) (see 2 papers)
55% identity, 76% coverage

5a9zBU / P0DOY7 of Thermous thermophilus ribosome bound to BipA-GDPCP (see paper)
55% identity, 77% coverage

B7C60_RS03575 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Vibrio fujianensis
51% identity, 89% coverage

Nwi_1373 Ribosomal protein S17 from Nitrobacter winogradskyi Nb-255
55% identity, 87% coverage

APL_1769 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae L20
55% identity, 87% coverage

bsl5391 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110
58% identity, 82% coverage

Q5GWU3 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (strain KACC10331 / KXO85)
54% identity, 88% coverage

SO0240 ribosomal protein S17 from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1
52% identity, 87% coverage

RS17_RHOPA / Q6N4U3 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17; 30S ribosomal protein S17; RRP-S17 from Rhodopseudomonas palustris (strain ATCC BAA-98 / CGA009) (see paper)
RPA3241 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009
B3QBX1 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Rhodopseudomonas palustris (strain TIE-1)
53% identity, 82% coverage

SP60_05285 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Candidatus Thioglobus autotrophicus
48% identity, 92% coverage

8crxQ / Q6A6N5 8crxQ (see paper)
49% identity, 94% coverage

PD0446 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Xylella fastidiosa Temecula1
51% identity, 87% coverage

bhn_I2065 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Butyrivibrio hungatei
46% identity, 90% coverage

BB562_12055 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Lactiplantibacillus pentosus
45% identity, 100% coverage

BAB1_1246 Ribosomal protein S17 from Brucella melitensis biovar Abortus 2308
57% identity, 79% coverage

TP0198 ribosomal protein S17 (rpsQ) from Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum str. Nichols
51% identity, 88% coverage

lp_1044 ribosomal protein S17 from Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1
45% identity, 100% coverage

8rd8QZ / A0A0M4U401 8rd8QZ (see paper)
50% identity, 83% coverage

RT0642 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Rickettsia typhi str. wilmington
54% identity, 83% coverage

T303_00580 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Streptococcus thermophilus ASCC 1275
47% identity, 91% coverage

BC0140 SSU ribosomal protein S17P from Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579
47% identity, 91% coverage

SMc01300 PROBABLE 30S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S17 from Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021
54% identity, 78% coverage

UYE_RS0128510 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Chlorogloeopsis fritschii PCC 9212
54% identity, 80% coverage

SA2038 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus N315
EKM74_RS05585 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Staphylococcus aureus
47% identity, 91% coverage

FTN_0248 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Francisella tularensis subsp. novicida U112
51% identity, 85% coverage

SAUSA300_2195 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus USA300_FPR3757
A6QJ83 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Staphylococcus aureus (strain Newman)
Q8NVB4 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Staphylococcus aureus (strain MW2)
SAOUHSC_02503 30S ribosomal protein S17, putative from Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus NCTC 8325
SACOL2230 ribosomal protein S17 from Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus COL
ACIV1F_002560, USA300HOU_RS12130 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Staphylococcus aureus
47% identity, 91% coverage

7bgdq / Q2FW15 Staphylococcus aureus 30s ribosomal subunit in presence of spermidine (body only)
47% identity, 91% coverage

SPV_0202 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Streptococcus pneumoniae
A8AZL6 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Streptococcus gordonii (strain Challis / ATCC 35105 / BCRC 15272 / CH1 / DL1 / V288)
SP_0218 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4
spr0198 30S Ribosomal protein S17 from Streptococcus pneumoniae R6
SPD_0202 ribosomal protein S17 from Streptococcus pneumoniae D39
SSA_0116 30S ribosomal protein S17, putative from Streptococcus sanguinis SK36
SGO_1976 30S ribosomal protein from Streptococcus gordonii str. Challis substr. CH1
46% identity, 91% coverage

RS17_BACSU / P12874 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17; 30S ribosomal protein S17; BS16 from Bacillus subtilis (strain 168) (see paper)
BSU01250 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis str. 168
49% identity, 85% coverage

3j9wAQ / P12874 3j9wAQ (see paper)
49% identity, 85% coverage

SERP1822 ribosomal protein S17 from Staphylococcus epidermidis RP62A
47% identity, 91% coverage

CBO3472 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Clostridium botulinum A str. ATCC 3502
45% identity, 90% coverage

FP1330 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Flavobacterium psychrophilum JIP02/86
43% identity, 94% coverage

BL1589 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Bifidobacterium longum NCC2705
Bbr_1632 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003
49% identity, 82% coverage

SRIM_018535 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Streptomyces rimosus subsp. rimosus ATCC 10970
44% identity, 90% coverage

SCO4711 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
45% identity, 89% coverage

IUJ47_RS04570 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Enterococcus faecalis
43% identity, 100% coverage

LSA1755 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Lactobacillus sakei subsp. sakei 23K
43% identity, 100% coverage

lmo2623 ribosomal protein S17 from Listeria monocytogenes EGD-e
Q71WF5 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b (strain F2365)
45% identity, 97% coverage

C9YW69 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Streptomyces scabiei (strain 87.22)
47% identity, 89% coverage

llmg_2374 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363
46% identity, 85% coverage

5myjAQ / A2RNP6 of 70S ribosome from Lactococcus lactis (see paper)
46% identity, 85% coverage

B0JHZ4 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Microcystis aeruginosa (strain NIES-843 / IAM M-2473)
55% identity, 73% coverage

MAB_3811c 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Mycobacterium abscessus ATCC 19977
42% identity, 81% coverage

ssl3437 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
55% identity, 73% coverage

B739_0975 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Riemerella anatipestifer RA-CH-1
42% identity, 90% coverage

AT1G49400 emb1129 (embryo defective 1129); structural constituent of ribosome from Arabidopsis thaliana
38% identity, 68% coverage

CD0081 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Clostridium difficile 630
47% identity, 83% coverage

MSMEG_1445, MSMEI_1409 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Mycolicibacterium smegmatis MC2 155
A0QSE0 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Mycolicibacterium smegmatis (strain ATCC 700084 / mc(2)155)
MSMEG_1445 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Mycobacterium smegmatis str. MC2 155
45% identity, 80% coverage

6dzi5 / A0QSE0 6dzi5 (see paper)
45% identity, 83% coverage

BCG_0760 putative 50S ribosomal protein S17 rpsQ from Mycobacterium bovis BCG str. Pasteur 1173P2
Rv0710 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv
45% identity, 57% coverage

MT0737 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis CDC1551
45% identity, 58% coverage

7mscq / P9WH51 70SIC in complex with MtbEttA at Pre_R0 state (see paper)
45% identity, 82% coverage

MAV_4462 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Mycobacterium avium 104
46% identity, 67% coverage

6xywBp / Q9XIA6 6xywBp (see paper)
39% identity, 87% coverage

6o8wq / A0A1B4XKS3 6o8wq (see paper)
48% identity, 82% coverage

HP1310 ribosomal protein S17 (rps17) from Helicobacter pylori 26695
P66449 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Helicobacter pylori (strain ATCC 700392 / 26695)
jhp1230 30S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S17 from Helicobacter pylori J99
51% identity, 78% coverage

cg0604 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032
44% identity, 93% coverage

8uu7q / A0A0U5ADR4 8uu7q (see paper)
52% identity, 78% coverage

YP_909193 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Bifidobacterium adolescentis ATCC 15703
45% identity, 82% coverage

RR17_ARATH / P16180 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17c; 30S ribosomal protein S17, chloroplastic; CS17 from Arabidopsis thaliana (Mouse-ear cress) (see paper)
rps17 / CAA77502.1 Plastid ribosomal protein CS17 from Arabidopsis thaliana (see 2 papers)
AT1G79850 RPS17 (RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S17); structural constituent of ribosome from Arabidopsis thaliana
42% identity, 52% coverage

PMM1549 30S Ribosomal protein S17 from Prochlorococcus marinus sp. MED4
43% identity, 85% coverage

8p6pP / Q50309 Mycoplasma pneumoniae small ribosomal subunit in chloramphenicol- treated cells (see paper)
45% identity, 92% coverage

8fmwQ / O51440 8fmwQ (see paper)
45% identity, 87% coverage

4v61AQ 4v61AQ (see paper)
42% identity, 88% coverage

LSEI_2494 Ribosomal protein S17 from Lactobacillus casei ATCC 334
40% identity, 97% coverage

P23404 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17c from Cyanophora paradoxa
41% identity, 80% coverage

B6TG30 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17c from Zea mays
43% identity, 58% coverage

LIC12864 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni str. Fiocruz L1-130
43% identity, 97% coverage

P47406 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17 from Mycoplasma genitalium (strain ATCC 33530 / DSM 19775 / NCTC 10195 / G37)
42% identity, 92% coverage

DIP0482 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Corynebacterium diphtheriae NCTC 13129
42% identity, 93% coverage

Q9ZST1 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17c from Oryza sativa subsp. japonica
43% identity, 51% coverage

P17092 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17c (Fragment) from Pisum sativum
40% identity, 52% coverage

APH_0289 ribosomal protein S17 from Anaplasma phagocytophilum HZ
47% identity, 79% coverage

RB7849 probable 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Pirellula sp. 1
43% identity, 69% coverage

B7FMT1 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17c from Medicago truncatula
41% identity, 46% coverage

RS17_THEKO / Q5JDH9 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17; 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Thermococcus kodakarensis (strain ATCC BAA-918 / JCM 12380 / KOD1) (Pyrococcus kodakaraensis (strain KOD1)) (see paper)
TK1532 SSU ribosomal protein S17P from Thermococcus kodakaraensis KOD1
45% identity, 68% coverage

6skfAs / Q5JDH9 6skfAs (see paper)
45% identity, 71% coverage

6tmfS / A0A218NZX3 Structure of an archaeal abce1-bound ribosomal post-splitting complex (see paper)
43% identity, 70% coverage

MHJ_0181 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae J
42% identity, 88% coverage

RS17_PYRFU / Q8U008 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17; 30S ribosomal protein S17 from Pyrococcus furiosus (strain ATCC 43587 / DSM 3638 / JCM 8422 / Vc1) (see paper)
5jb3R / Q8U008 Cryo-em structure of a full archaeal ribosomal translation initiation complex in the p-remote conformation (see paper)
44% identity, 68% coverage

RR17_SPIOL / P82137 Small ribosomal subunit protein uS17c; 30S ribosomal protein S17, chloroplastic from Spinacia oleracea (Spinach) (see 2 papers)
41% identity, 42% coverage

5mmjq / P82137 Structure of the small subunit of the chloroplast ribosome (see paper)
41% identity, 79% coverage

rrnAC1603 ribosomal protein S17p from Haloarcula marismortui ATCC 43049
40% identity, 66% coverage

TGME49_273060 ribosomal protein S17, putative from Toxoplasma gondii ME49
35% identity, 64% coverage

9fiaBL / A0A125YU95 9fiaBL (see paper)
33% identity, 72% coverage

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For advice on how to use these tools together, see Interactive tools for functional annotation of bacterial genomes.

Statistics

The PaperBLAST database links 793,807 different protein sequences to 1,259,118 scientific articles. Searches against EuropePMC were last performed on March 13 2025.

How It Works

PaperBLAST builds a database of protein sequences that are linked to scientific articles. These links come from automated text searches against the articles in EuropePMC and from manually-curated information from GeneRIF, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, BRENDA, CAZy (as made available by dbCAN), BioLiP, CharProtDB, MetaCyc, EcoCyc, TCDB, REBASE, the Fitness Browser, and a subset of the European Nucleotide Archive with the /experiment tag. Given this database and a protein sequence query, PaperBLAST uses protein-protein BLAST to find similar sequences with E < 0.001.

To build the database, we query EuropePMC with locus tags, with RefSeq protein identifiers, and with UniProt accessions. We obtain the locus tags from RefSeq or from MicrobesOnline. We use queries of the form "locus_tag AND genus_name" to try to ensure that the paper is actually discussing that gene. Because EuropePMC indexes most recent biomedical papers, even if they are not open access, some of the links may be to papers that you cannot read or that our computers cannot read. We query each of these identifiers that appears in the open access part of EuropePMC, as well as every locus tag that appears in the 500 most-referenced genomes, so that a gene may appear in the PaperBLAST results even though none of the papers that mention it are open access. We also incorporate text-mined links from EuropePMC that link open access articles to UniProt or RefSeq identifiers. (This yields some additional links because EuropePMC uses different heuristics for their text mining than we do.)

For every article that mentions a locus tag, a RefSeq protein identifier, or a UniProt accession, we try to select one or two snippets of text that refer to the protein. If we cannot get access to the full text, we try to select a snippet from the abstract, but unfortunately, unique identifiers such as locus tags are rarely provided in abstracts.

PaperBLAST also incorporates manually-curated protein functions:

Except for GeneRIF and ENA, the curated entries include a short curated description of the protein's function. For entries from BioLiP, the protein's function may not be known beyond binding to the ligand. Many of these entries also link to articles in PubMed.

For more information see the PaperBLAST paper (mSystems 2017) or the code. You can download PaperBLAST's database here.

Changes to PaperBLAST since the paper was written:

Many of these changes are described in Interactive tools for functional annotation of bacterial genomes.

Secrets

PaperBLAST cannot provide snippets for many of the papers that are published in non-open-access journals. This limitation applies even if the paper is marked as "free" on the publisher's web site and is available in PubmedCentral or EuropePMC. If a journal that you publish in is marked as "secret," please consider publishing elsewhere.

Omissions from the PaperBLAST Database

Many important articles are missing from PaperBLAST, either because the article's full text is not in EuropePMC (as for many older articles), or because the paper does not mention a protein identifier such as a locus tag, or because of PaperBLAST's heuristics. If you notice an article that characterizes a protein's function but is missing from PaperBLAST, please notify the curators at UniProt or add an entry to GeneRIF. Entries in either of these databases will eventually be incorporated into PaperBLAST. Note that to add an entry to UniProt, you will need to find the UniProt identifier for the protein. If the protein is not already in UniProt, you can ask them to create an entry. To add an entry to GeneRIF, you will need an NCBI Gene identifier, but unfortunately many prokaryotic proteins in RefSeq do not have corresponding Gene identifers.

References

PaperBLAST: Text-mining papers for information about homologs.
M. N. Price and A. P. Arkin (2017). mSystems, 10.1128/mSystems.00039-17.

Europe PMC in 2017.
M. Levchenko et al (2017). Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkx1005.

Gene indexing: characterization and analysis of NLM's GeneRIFs.
J. A. Mitchell et al (2003). AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2003:460-464.

UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase.
The UniProt Consortium (2016). Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkw1099.

BRENDA in 2017: new perspectives and new tools in BRENDA.
S. Placzek et al (2017). Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkw952.

The EcoCyc database: reflecting new knowledge about Escherichia coli K-12.
I. M. Keeseler et al (2016). Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkw1003.

The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes.
R. Caspi et al (2018). Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkx935.

CharProtDB: a database of experimentally characterized protein annotations.
R. Madupu et al (2012). Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkr1133.

The carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZy) in 2013.
V. Lombard et al (2014). Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkt1178.

The Transporter Classification Database (TCDB): recent advances
M. H. Saier, Jr. et al (2016). Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkv1103.

REBASE - a database for DNA restriction and modification: enzymes, genes and genomes.
R. J. Roberts et al (2015). Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gku1046.

Deep annotation of protein function across diverse bacteria from mutant phenotypes.
M. N. Price et al (2016). bioRxiv, 10.1101/072470.

by Morgan Price, Arkin group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory