GuaC

• Description: GMP reductase
  
  

Gene name	guaC
Synonyms	yumD
Essential	no
Product	GMP reductase
Function	purine salvage and interconversion
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine synthesis, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	35 kDa, 6.078
Gene length, protein length	978 bp, 326 aa
Immediate neighbours	yuzG, paiB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of nucleotides

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CodY regulon, PurR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32130

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Inosine 5'-phosphate + NH₃ + NADP⁺ = guanosine 5'-phosphate + NADPH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: GuaC type 2 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:

Database entries

• Structure: 1YPF (from Bacillus anthracis, 84% identity, 91% similarity)

• UniProt: O05269

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.7.1.7

Expression and regulation

• Operon: guaC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of purine nucleotides (PurR) PubMed
  • activated during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed
  • expression activated by glucose (3.3 fold) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription activation PubMed
  • PurR: transcription repression (molecular inducer: PRPP) PubMed

• Additional information:
  • the mRNA is substantially stabilized upon depletion of RNase Y (the half-life of the mRNA increases from 3 to 20 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Lehnik-Habrink M, Schaffer M, Mäder U, Diethmaier C, Herzberg C, Stülke J  
RNA processing in Bacillus subtilis: identification of targets of the essential RNase Y. 
Mol Microbiol. 2011 81(6): 1459-1473. 
PubMed:21815947