HprT

• Description: hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	hprT
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase
Function	purine salvage and interconversion
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine salvage, Purine synthesis, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	20 kDa, 4.603
Gene length, protein length	540 bp, 180 aa
Immediate neighbours	tilS, ftsH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of nucleotides, cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, W, X, Y), essential genes

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigM regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00680

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: IMP + diphosphate = hypoxanthine + 5-phospho-alpha-D-ribose 1-diphosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: purine/pyrimidine phosphoribosyltransferase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 1J7J (from Salmonella typhimurium, 51% identity, 73% similarity)

• UniProt: P37472

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.4.2.8

Expression and regulation

• Operon: tilS-hprT-ftsH PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigM PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Warawan Eiamphungporn, John D Helmann
The Bacillus subtilis sigma(M) regulon and its contribution to cell envelope stress responses.
Mol Microbiol: 2008, 67(4);830-48
[PubMed:18179421] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)