PurL

• Description: phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase
  
  

Gene name	purL
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase
Function	purine biosynthesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine synthesis, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	80 kDa, 4.554
Gene length, protein length	2226 bp, 742 aa
Immediate neighbours	purQ, purF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of nucleotides, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

G-box, PurR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06480

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + N(2)-formyl-N(1)-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)glycinamide + L-glutamine + H₂O = ADP + phosphate + 2-(formamido)-N(1)-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)acetamidine + L-glutamate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: FGAMS family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: PurS-PurQ-PurL PubMed

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot), membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 3D54 (from Thermotoga maritima, 39% identity, 58% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P12042

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.3.5.3

Additional information

• subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: purE-purK-purB-purC-purS-purQ-purL-purF-purM-purN-purH-purD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • [PurR]]: transcription repression PubMed
  • PurR: transcription repression (molecular inducer: PRPP) PubMed
  • G-box: transcription termination/ antitermination (riboswitch) PubMed1 PubMed2

• Additional information: subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Yanfei Xia, Shanshan Xie, Xin Ma, Huijun Wu, Xuan Wang, Xuewen Gao
The purL gene of Bacillus subtilis is associated with nematicidal activity.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2011, 322(2);99-107
[PubMed:21671997] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Aaron A Hoskins, Ruchi Anand, Steven E Ealick, JoAnne Stubbe
The formylglycinamide ribonucleotide amidotransferase complex from Bacillus subtilis: metabolite-mediated complex formation.
Biochemistry: 2004, 43(32);10314-27
[PubMed:15301530] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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)