PurA

• Description: adenylosuccinate synthetase
  
  

Gene name	purA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	adenylosuccinate synthetase
Function	purine biosynthesis
MW, pI	47 kDa, 5.459
Gene length, protein length	1290 bp, 430 aa
Immediate neighbours	trnY-Lys, yycE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: adenylosuccinate synthetase 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:

• Swiss prot entry: P29726

• KEGG entry: BSU40420

• E.C. number: 6.3.4.4

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: expression activated by glucose (4.9 fold) (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed