GuaA

• Description: GMP synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing)
  
  

Gene name	guaA
Synonyms	guaB
Essential	no
Product	GMP synthetase (glutamine-hydrolysing)
Function	biosynthesis of GMP
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine synthesis, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	57 kDa, 4.747
Gene length, protein length	1539 bp, 513 aa
Immediate neighbours	yebA, pbuG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06360

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + xanthosine 5'-phosphate + L-glutamine + H₂O = AMP + diphosphate + GMP + L-glutamate (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:

• UniProt: P29727

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.3.5.2

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

H H Saxild, P Nygaard
Regulation of levels of purine biosynthetic enzymes in Bacillus subtilis: effects of changing purine nucleotide pools.
J Gen Microbiol: 1991, 137(10);2387-94
[PubMed:1722815] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)