UreC

• Description: urease (alpha subunit)
  
  

Gene name	ureC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	urease (alpha subunit)
Function	utilization of urea as alternative nitrogen source
MW, pI	61 kDa, 5.091
Gene length, protein length	1707 bp, 569 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywnA, ureB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU36640

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Urea + H₂O = CO₂ + 2 NH₃ (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: urease 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: P77837

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.5.1.5

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ureA-ureB-ureC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA, SigH PubMed

• Regulation: induced by nitrogen limitation (GlnR, TnrA) PubMed, repressed by CodY PubMed
  • expressed in the absence of good nitrogen sources (glutamine or ammonium) (TnrA) PubMed
  • induced in the presence of purine nucleotides (inducer: allantoin) (PucR) PubMed
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: GlnR: transcription repression PubMed, TnrA: transcription activation PubMed, CodY: transcription repression PubMed
  • TnrA: transcription activation PubMed
  • [PucR]]: transcription activation PubMed
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Virginie Molle, Yoshiko Nakaura, Robert P Shivers, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Richard Losick, Yasutaro Fujita, Abraham L Sonenshein
Additional targets of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY identified by chromatin immunoprecipitation and genome-wide transcript analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(6);1911-22
[PubMed:12618455] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jaclyn L Brandenburg, Lewis V Wray, Lars Beier, Hanne Jarmer, Hans H Saxild, Susan H Fisher
Roles of PucR, GlnR, and TnrA in regulating expression of the Bacillus subtilis ure P3 promoter.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(21);6060-4
[PubMed:12374841] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

L V Wray, A E Ferson, S H Fisher
Expression of the Bacillus subtilis ureABC operon is controlled by multiple regulatory factors including CodY, GlnR, TnrA, and Spo0H.
J Bacteriol: 1997, 179(17);5494-501
[PubMed:9287005] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)