PucF

• Description: allantoate amidohydrolase
  
  

Gene name	pucF
Synonyms	yurH
Essential	no
Product	allantoate amidohydrolase
Function	purine utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine catabolism, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	45 kDa, 5.364
Gene length, protein length	1236 bp, 412 aa
Immediate neighbours	pucG, yurI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32530

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of nucleotides

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: peptidase M20 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: 2IMO (from Escherichia coli k12, 47% identity, 63% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: O32149

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: pucF-pucG PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced in the presence of purine nucleotides (inducer: allantoin) (PucR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PucR: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: