PbuX

• Description: xanthine transport in/out via proton symport
  
  

Gene name	pbuX
Synonyms	ypaQ
Essential	no
Product	xanthine permease
Function	xanthine uptake
MW, pI	46 kDa, 8.793
Gene length, protein length	1314 bp, 438 aa
Immediate neighbours	bcsA, xpt
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:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

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• Interactions:

• Localization: membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P42086

• KEGG entry: BSU22060

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: xpt-pbuX PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of adenine or adenosine (PurR) PubMed
  • induced in the absence of guanine (G-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • G-box: transcription termination/ antitermination (riboswitch) PubMed1 PubMed2
  • PurR: transcription repression (molecular inducer: PRPP) PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed