GuaC

• Description: GMP reductase
  
  

Gene name	guaC
Synonyms	yumD
Essential	no
Product	GMP reductase
Function	purine salvage and interconversion
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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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:

• Swiss prot entry: O05269

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.7.1.7

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • expression activated by glucose (3.3 fold) PubMed
  • repressed in the presence of adenine or adenosine(PurR) PubMed

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

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

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. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed