PyrP

• Description: uracil permease
  
  

Gene name	pyrP
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	uracil permease
Function	uracil transport in/out via proton symport
MW, pI	45 kDa, 9.504
Gene length, protein length	1302 bp, 434 aa
Immediate neighbours	pyrR, pyrB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15480

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: xanthine/uracil permease 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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P39766

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: pyrR-pyrP-pyrB-pyrC-pyrAA-pyrAB-pyrK-pyrD-pyrF-pyrE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced in the absence of uridine nucleotides (PyrR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PyrR: RNA switch, transcription termination/ antitermination (in the presence of uridine nucleotides: termination, in their absence: antitermination) PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed