Pps

• Description: similar to phosphoenolpyruvate synthase
  
  

Gene name	pps
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	similar to phosphoenolpyruvate synthase
Function	unknown
MW, pI	96 kDa, 5.292
Gene length, protein length	2598 bp, 866 aa
Immediate neighbours	yobB, xynA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

poorly characterized/ putative enzymes

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU18830

Expression

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): YvkC

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34309

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Additional information

The gene is annotated in KEGG and MetaCyc as phosphoenolpyruvate synthase EC 2.7.9.2. In Swiss-Prot the protein is described as “phosphoenolpyruvate synthase”. No literature/experimental evidence supporting the annotation is available. PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:
  • A ncRNA is predicted between pps and xynA PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Irnov Irnov, Cynthia M Sharma, Jörg Vogel, Wade C Winkler
Identification of regulatory RNAs in Bacillus subtilis.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2010, 38(19);6637-51
[PubMed:20525796] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Tzu-Lin Hsiao, Olga Revelles, Lifeng Chen, Uwe Sauer, Dennis Vitkup
Automatic policing of biochemical annotations using genomic correlations.
Nat Chem Biol: 2010, 6(1);34-40
[PubMed:19935659] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)