NupG

• Description: purine nucleoside transporter
  
  

Gene name	nupG
Synonyms	yxjA
Essential	no
Product	purine nucleoside transporter
Function	purine uptake
MW, pI	43 kDa, 7.757
Gene length, protein length	1191 bp, 397 aa
Immediate neighbours	yxjB, yxiT
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

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Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Extended information on the protein

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• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P42312

• KEGG entry: BSU39020

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Expression and regulation

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• Regulation: expression activated by glucose (4.3 fold) PubMed, repressed by hypoxanthine and guanine, PurR-independent PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: riboswitch PubMed

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Biological materials

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References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149 PubMed
2. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
3. Johansen et al. (2003) Definition of a second Bacillus subtilis pur regulon comprising the pur and xpt-pbuX operons plus pbuG, nupG (yxjA), and pbuE (ydhL). J. Bacteriol. 185: 5200-5209. PubMed
4. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed