PupG

• Description: purine nucleoside phosphorylase
  
  

Gene name	pupG
Synonyms	punA, pnp, yqkO
Essential	no
Product	purine nucleoside phosphorylase
Function	purine salvage and interconversion
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine salvage, Nucleoside catabolism, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	28 kDa, 4.86
Gene length, protein length	813 bp, 271 aa
Immediate neighbours	dacF, drm
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU23490

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Purine nucleoside + phosphate = purine + alpha-D-ribose 1-phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot) RNA(n+1) + phosphate = RNA(n) + a nucleoside diphosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: PNP/MTAP phosphorylase family (according to Swiss-Prot) polyribonucleotide nucleotidyltransferase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-28 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: secreted (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P46354

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.4.2.1 2.7.7.8]

Expression and regulation

• Operon: drm-pupG PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced in the presence of nucleosides (deoxyribose 5-phosphate and ribose 5-phosphate act as molecular inducers) PubMed
  • subject to repression by glucose PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Boris Macek, Ivan Mijakovic, Jesper V Olsen, Florian Gnad, Chanchal Kumar, Peter R Jensen, Matthias Mann
The serine/threonine/tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Cell Proteomics: 2007, 6(4);697-707
[PubMed:17218307] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

R Schuch, A Garibian, H H Saxild, P J Piggot, P Nygaard
Nucleosides as a carbon source in Bacillus subtilis: characterization of the drm-pupG operon.
Microbiology (Reading): 1999, 145 ( Pt 10);2957-66
[PubMed:10537218] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)