Rpe

• Description: ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase
  
  

Gene name	rpe
Synonyms	yloR
Essential	no
Product	ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase
Function	pentose phosphate pathway
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	23 kDa, 5.651
Gene length, protein length	651 bp, 217 aa
Immediate neighbours	cpgA, yloS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

carbon core metabolism

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15790

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: D-ribulose 5-phosphate = D-xylulose 5-phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: ribulose-phosphate 3-epimerase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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Database entries

• Structure: 1TQJ (from Synechocystis sp., 61% identity, 75% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: O34557

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 5.1.3.1

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: rpe PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

• FLAG-tag construct: GP1405 (spc, based on pGP1331), available in the Stülke lab

References

Eric L Wise, Julie Akana, John A Gerlt, Ivan Rayment
Structure of D-ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase from Synechocystis to 1.6 A resolution.
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr: 2004, 60(Pt 9);1687-90
[PubMed:15333955] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)