PurH
- Description: phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxamide formyltransferase
Gene name | purH |
Synonyms | purJ |
Essential | no |
Product | phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxamide formyltransferase and inosine-monophosphate cyclohydrolase |
Function | purine biosynthesis |
MW, pI | 55 kDa, 5.133 |
Gene length, protein length | 1536 bp, 512 aa |
Immediate neighbours | purN, purD |
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009) | |
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Contents
The gene
Basic information
- Locus tag: BSU06520
Phenotypes of a mutant
Database entries
- DBTBS entry: [1]
- SubtiList entry: [2]
Additional information
The protein
Basic information/ Evolution
- Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 10-formyltetrahydrofolate + 5-amino-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole-4-carboxamide = tetrahydrofolate + 5-formamido-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole-4-carboxamide (according to Swiss-Prot)
- Protein family: purH 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: P12048
- KEGG entry: [3]
- E.C. number: 2.1.2.3
Additional information
Expression and regulation
- Regulation:
- Regulatory mechanism:
- Additional information:
Biological materials
- Mutant:
- Expression vector:
- lacZ fusion:
- GFP fusion:
- two-hybrid system:
- Antibody:
Labs working on this gene/protein
Your additional remarks
References
Lars Engholm Johansen, Per Nygaard, Catharina Lassen, Yvonne Agersø, Hans H Saxild
Definition of a second Bacillus subtilis pur regulon comprising the pur and xpt-pbuX operons plus pbuG, nupG (yxjA), and pbuE (ydhL).
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(17);5200-9
[PubMed:12923093]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
(P p)
M Weng, P L Nagy, H Zalkin
Identification of the Bacillus subtilis pur operon repressor.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 1995, 92(16);7455-9
[PubMed:7638212]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
(P p)
D J Ebbole, H Zalkin
Cloning and characterization of a 12-gene cluster from Bacillus subtilis encoding nine enzymes for de novo purine nucleotide synthesis.
J Biol Chem: 1987, 262(17);8274-87
[PubMed:3036807]
[WorldCat.org]
(P p)