PbuX

• Description: xanthine transport in/out via proton symport
  
  

Gene name	pbuX
Synonyms	ypaQ
Essential	no
Product	xanthine permease
Function	xanthine uptake
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine salvage, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	46 kDa, 8.793
Gene length, protein length	1314 bp, 438 aa
Immediate neighbours	bcsA, xpt
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22060

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

transporters/ other, biosynthesis/ acquisition of nucleotides, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P42086

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: xpt-pbuX PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of adenine or adenosine (PurR) PubMed
  • induced in the absence of guanine (G-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • G-box: transcription termination/ antitermination (riboswitch) PubMed
  • PurR: transcription repression (molecular inducer: PRPP) PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: