PucE

• Description: xanthine dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	pucE
Synonyms	yurB
Essential	no
Product	xanthine dehydrogenase
Function	purine utilization
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: pucE
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine catabolism, 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)
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of nucleotides

This gene is a member of the following regulons

PucR regulon

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: 1JRO (from Rhodobacter capsulatus, 43% identity, 58% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: O32143

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: pucA-pucB-pucC-pucD-pucE PubMed

• Expression browser: pucE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PucR: transcription activaton PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: