PucA

• Description: xanthine dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	pucA
Synonyms	yurF
Essential	no
Product	xanthine dehydrogenase
Function	purine utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine salvage, Purine catabolism, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	36 kDa, 6.359
Gene length, protein length	990 bp, 330 aa
Immediate neighbours	pucB, pucG
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

utilization of nucleotides

This gene is a member of the following regulons

PucR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32510

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Xanthine + NAD⁺ + H₂O = urate + NADH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O32147

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: pucA-pucB-pucC-pucD-pucE PubMed

• Expression browser: pucA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced in the presence of purine nucleotides (effector: allantoin) (PucR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PucR: transcription activaton PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: