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• Description: 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	gntZ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase
Function	gluconate utilization
MW, pI	51 kDa, 4.756
Gene length, protein length	1404 bp, 468 aa
Immediate neighbours	gntP, ahpC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU40080

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 6-phospho-D-gluconate + NADP⁺ = D-ribulose 5-phosphate + CO₂ + NADPH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase 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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P12013

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.1.1.44

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gntR-gntK-gntP-gntZ PubMed1 PubMed2

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by gluconate (GntR) PubMed
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • GntR: transcription repression PubMed
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Fujita Y, Fujita T, Miwa Y, Nihashi J, Aratani Y. (1986) Organization and transcription of the gluconate operon, gnt, of Bacillus subtilis. J Biol Chem. Oct 15;261(29): 13744-53. PubMed
2. Reizer A., Deutscher J., Saier M.H. Jr., Reizer J. (1991) Analysis of the gluconate (gnt) operon of Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Microbiol. 5: 1081-1089. PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed