PucE

• Description: xanthine dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	pucE
Synonyms	yurB
Essential	no
Product	xanthine dehydrogenase
Function	purine utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	18 kDa, 6.127
Gene length, protein length	519 bp, 173 aa
Immediate neighbours	pucM, pucD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32470

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: O32143

• 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: