FolD

• Description: methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase (NADP)
  
  

Gene name	folD
Synonyms	yqiA
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase (NADP)
Function	formylation of Met-tRNA(fMet)
MW, pI	30 kDa, 5.6
Gene length, protein length	849 bp, 283 aa
Immediate neighbours	yqiB, nusB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU24310

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

translation, essential genes

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate + NADP⁺ = 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate + NADPH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase/cyclohydrolase 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54382

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.5.1.5

Expression and regulation

• Operon: nusB-folD PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of purine nucleotides (PurR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PurR: transcription repression (molecular inducer: PRPP) PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: