Rpe

• Description: ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase
  
  

Gene name	rpe
Synonyms	yloR
Essential	no
Product	ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase
Function	pentose phosphate pathway
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	23 kDa, 5.651
Gene length, protein length	651 bp, 217 aa
Immediate neighbours	cpgA, yloS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

carbon core metabolism

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15790

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: D-ribulose 5-phosphate = D-xylulose 5-phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: ribulose-phosphate 3-epimerase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

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• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1TQJ (from Synechocystis sp., 61% identity, 75% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: O34557

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 5.1.3.1

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

• FLAG-tag construct: GP1405 (spc, based on pGP1331), available in the Stülke lab