PurC

• Description: phosphoribosylaminoimidazole succinocarboxamide synthase
  
  

Gene name	purC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	phosphoribosylaminoimidazole succinocarboxamide synthase
Function	purine biosynthesis
MW, pI	27 kDa, 4.875
Gene length, protein length	723 bp, 241 aa
Immediate neighbours	purB, purS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + 5-amino-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole-4-carboxylate + L-aspartate = ADP + phosphate + (S)-2-(5-amino-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole-4-carboxamido)succinate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: SAICAR synthetase 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:

• Swiss prot entry: P12046

• KEGG entry: BSU06450

• E.C. number: 6.3.2.6

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• 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

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