PucA

• Description: xanthine dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	pucA
Synonyms	yurF
Essential	no
Product	xanthine dehydrogenase
Function	purine utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	36 kDa, 6.359
Gene length, protein length	990 bp, 330 aa
Immediate neighbours	pucB, pucG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32510

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Xanthine + NAD⁺ + H₂O = urate + NADH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family:

• 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: O32147

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the absence of purine nucleotides (inducer: allantoin) (PucR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • [PucR]]: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: