PurD

• Description: phosphoribosylglycinamide synthetase
  
  

Gene name	purD
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	phosphoribosylglycinamide synthetase
Function	purine biosynthesis
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: purD
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: purD
MW, pI	45 kDa, 4.604
Gene length, protein length	1266 bp, 422 aa
Immediate neighbours	purH, yezC
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of nucleotides, most abundant proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

G-box, PurR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06530

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU06530

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + 5-phospho-D-ribosylamine + glycine = ADP + phosphate + N(1)-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)glycinamide (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: ATP-grasp domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactors:

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU06530

• Structure: 2XCL

• UniProt: P12039

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.3.4.13

Expression and regulation

• Operon: purE-purK-purB-purC-purS-purQ-purL-purF-purM-purN-purH-purD PubMed

• Expression browser: purD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of purine nucleotides (PurR) PubMed
  • repressed in the presence of adenine or adenosine(PurR) PubMed
  • repressed in the presence of guanine(G-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PurR: transcription repression PubMed
  • PurR: transcription repression (molecular inducer: PRPP) PubMed
  • G-box: transcription termination/ antitermination (riboswitch) PubMed1 PubMed2

• Additional information:
  • belongs to the 100 most abundant proteins PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Christine Eymann, Annette Dreisbach, Dirk Albrecht, Jörg Bernhardt, Dörte Becher, Sandy Gentner, Le Thi Tam, Knut Büttner, Gerrit Buurman, Christian Scharf, Simone Venz, Uwe Völker, Michael Hecker
A comprehensive proteome map of growing Bacillus subtilis cells.
Proteomics: 2004, 4(10);2849-76
[PubMed:15378759] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Lars Engholm Johansen, Per Nygaard, Catharina Lassen, Yvonne Agersø, Hans H Saxild
Definition of a second Bacillus subtilis pur regulon comprising the pur and xpt-pbuX operons plus pbuG, nupG (yxjA), and pbuE (ydhL).
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(17);5200-9
[PubMed:12923093] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Weng, P L Nagy, H Zalkin
Identification of the Bacillus subtilis pur operon repressor.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 1995, 92(16);7455-9
[PubMed:7638212] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

D J Ebbole, H Zalkin
Cloning and characterization of a 12-gene cluster from Bacillus subtilis encoding nine enzymes for de novo purine nucleotide synthesis.
J Biol Chem: 1987, 262(17);8274-87
[PubMed:3036807] [WorldCat.org] (P p)