Dra

• Description: deoxyribose-phosphate aldolase
  
  

Gene name	dra
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	deoxyribose-phosphate aldolase
Function	utilization of nucleotides as carbon source
MW, pI	22 kDa, 4.926
Gene length, protein length	633 bp, 211 aa
Immediate neighbours	nupC, deoR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39420

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 2-deoxy-D-ribose 5-phosphate = D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate + acetaldehyde (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: DeoC type 1 subfamily (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: P39121

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 4.1.2.4

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA)

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: