GuaB

• Description: IMP dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	guaB
Synonyms	guaA
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	IMP dehydrogenase
Function	biosynthesis of GMP
MW, pI	52 kDa, 6.168
Gene length, protein length	1464 bp, 488 aa
Immediate neighbours	yaaC, dacA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00090

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Inosine 5'-phosphate + NAD⁺ + H₂O = xanthosine 5'-phosphate + NADH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: IMPDH/GMPR family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylated (STY) PubMed, S-cysteinlyation after diamide stress (Cys-308) PubMed, PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P21879

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.1.1.205

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • activated during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Christine Eymann, Dörte Becher, Jörg Bernhardt, Katrin Gronau, Anja Klutzny, Michael Hecker
Dynamics of protein phosphorylation on Ser/Thr/Tyr in Bacillus subtilis.
Proteomics: 2007, 7(19);3509-26
[PubMed:17726680] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Falko Hochgräfe, Jörg Mostertz, Dierk-Christoph Pöther, Dörte Becher, John D Helmann, Michael Hecker
S-cysteinylation is a general mechanism for thiol protection of Bacillus subtilis proteins after oxidative stress.
J Biol Chem: 2007, 282(36);25981-5
[PubMed:17611193] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

1. Eymann et al. (2007) Dynamics of protein phosphorylation on Ser/Thr/Tyr in Bacillus subtilis. Proteomics 7: 3509-3526. PubMed
2. Eymann et al. (2007) Dynamics of protein phosphorylation on Ser/Thr/Tyr in Bacillus subtilis. Proteomics 7: 3509-3526. PubMed
3. Hochgräfe et al. (2007) S-cysteinylation is a general mechanism for thiol protection of Bacillus subtilis proteins after oxidative stress. J. Biol. Chem. 282: 25981-25985. PubMed