Sul

• Description: dihydropteroate synthase
  
  

Gene name	sul
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	dihydropteroate synthase
Function	biosynthesis of folate
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: sul
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Folate
MW, pI	30 kDa, 5.363
Gene length, protein length	855 bp, 285 aa
Immediate neighbours	pabC, folB
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis of cofactors

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00770

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: (2-amino-4-hydroxy-7,8-dihydropteridin-6-yl)methyl diphosphate + 4-aminobenzoate = diphosphate + dihydropteroate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: pterin-binding domain (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: 1AJZ (from Escherichia coli, 43% identity, 61% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P28822

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.5.1.15

Expression and regulation

• Operon: pabB-pabA-pabC-sul-folB-folK-yazB-yacF-lysS PubMed

• Expression browser: sul PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: