Apt

• Description: adenine phosphoribosyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	apt
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	adenine phosphoribosyltransferase
Function	purine salvage and interconversion
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine salvage, Purine synthesis, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	18 kDa, 4.701
Gene length, protein length	510 bp, 170 aa
Immediate neighbours	relA, yrvE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU27610

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: AMP + diphosphate = adenine + 5-phospho-alpha-D-ribose 1-diphosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: purine/pyrimidine phosphoribosyltransferase family (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:

• UniProt: O34443

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.4.2.7

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

H H Saxild, P Nygaard
Genetic and physiological characterization of Bacillus subtilis mutants resistant to purine analogs.
J Bacteriol: 1987, 169(7);2977-83
[PubMed:3110131] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)