HutU

• Description: urocanase
  
  

Gene name	hutU
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	urocanase
Function	histidine utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: His
MW, pI	60 kDa, 5.664
Gene length, protein length	1656 bp, 552 aa
Immediate neighbours	hutH, hutI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39360

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 3-(5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-3H-imidazol-4-yl)propanoate = urocanate + H₂O (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: urocanase 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: 2FKN

• UniProt: P25503

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 4.2.1.49

Expression and regulation

• Operon: hutP-hutH-hutU-hutI-hutG-hutM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: