PucC

• Description: xanthine dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	pucC
Synonyms	yurD
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	29 kDa, 8.576
Gene length, protein length	831 bp, 277 aa
Immediate neighbours	pucD, pucB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32490

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of nucleotides

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: 1JRO (from Rhodobacter capsulatus, 39% identity, 55% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: O32145

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

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

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by purine nucleotides (effector: allantoin) (PucR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PucR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: