ThiD

• Description: 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine and 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine pyrophosphate kinase
  
  

Gene name	thiD
Synonyms	yjbV
Essential	no
Product	4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine pyrophosphate kinase
Function	biosynthesis of thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP)
MW, pI	28 kDa, 5.709
Gene length, protein length	813 bp, 271 aa
Immediate neighbours	thiF, fabI
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11710

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): PdxK

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31620

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: tenA-tenI-thiO-thiS-thiG-thiF-thiD PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed by thiamine (Thi-box) 16356850 PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Thi-box: RNA switch 16356850 PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Joo-Heon Park, Kristin Burns, Cynthia Kinsland, Tadhg P Begley
Characterization of two kinases involved in thiamine pyrophosphate and pyridoxal phosphate biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis: 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2methylpyrimidine kinase and pyridoxal kinase.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(5);1571-3
[PubMed:14973012] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)