PucI

• Description: allantoin permease
  
  

Gene name	pucI
Synonyms	ywoE
Essential	no
Product	allantoin permease
Function	purine utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine catabolism, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	53 kDa, 7.882
Gene length, protein length	1470 bp, 490 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywoF, ywoD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU36470

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

transporters/ other, utilization of nucleotides, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: purine-cytosine 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)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P94575

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: pucI PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced in the presence of purine nucleotides (inducer: allantoin) (PucR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PucR: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: