GndA

• Description: NADP-dependent phosphogluconate dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	gndA
Synonyms	yqjI
Essential	no
Product	NADP-dependent phosphogluconate dehydrogenase
Function	pentose phosphate pathway
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	51 kDa, 5.076
Gene length, protein length	1407 bp, 469 aa
Immediate neighbours	zwf, polY1
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

carbon core metabolism, phosphoproteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU23860

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 6-phospho-D-gluconate + NADP⁺ = D-ribulose 5-phosphate + CO₂ + NADPH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: Reversible reaction PubMed

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on (Thr-15 OR Thr-17) PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 2W8Z (from Geobacillus stearothermophilus, 83% identity, 92% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P80859

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.1.1.44

Additional information

It contains a cysteine on the active site. The enzyme is a dimer. PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: polY1-gndA (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Nicola Zamboni, Eliane Fischer, Dietmar Laudert, Stéphane Aymerich, Hans-Peter Hohmann, Uwe Sauer
The Bacillus subtilis yqjI gene encodes the NADP+-dependent 6-P-gluconate dehydrogenase in the pentose phosphate pathway.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(14);4528-34
[PubMed:15231785] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Additional publications: PubMed