Drm

• Description: phosphopentomutase
  
  

Gene name	drm
Synonyms	yqkN
Essential	no
Product	phosphopentomutase
Function	utilization of deoxyribose
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Nucleoside catabolism, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	43 kDa, 4.974
Gene length, protein length	1182 bp, 394 aa
Immediate neighbours	pupG, ripX
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU23500

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Alpha-D-ribose 1-phosphate = D-ribose 5-phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: phosphopentomutase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on (Thr-87 OR Thr-89) PubMed, PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P46353

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 5.4.2.7

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: