PurA

• Description: adenylosuccinate synthetase
  
  

Gene name	purA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	adenylosuccinate synthetase
Function	purine biosynthesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Purine salvage, Purine synthesis, Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	47 kDa, 5.459
Gene length, protein length	1290 bp, 430 aa
Immediate neighbours	trnY-Lys, yycE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU40420

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of nucleotides

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: GTP + IMP + L-aspartate = GDP + phosphate + N(6)-(1,2-dicarboxyethyl)-AMP (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: adenylosuccinate synthetase 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: 1KJX (from Escherichia coli k12, 46% identity, 64% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P29726

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.3.4.4

Expression and regulation

• Operon: purA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: expression activated by glucose (4.9 fold) (CcpA) PubMed
  • repressed in the presence of purine nucleotides (PurR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PurR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Hans-Matti Blencke, Georg Homuth, Holger Ludwig, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Hecker, Jörg Stülke
Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways.
Metab Eng: 2003, 5(2);133-49
[PubMed:12850135] [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)

P Mäntsälä, H Zalkin
Cloning and sequence of Bacillus subtilis purA and guaA, involved in the conversion of IMP to AMP and GMP.
J Bacteriol: 1992, 174(6);1883-90
[PubMed:1312531] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H H Saxild, P Nygaard
Regulation of levels of purine biosynthetic enzymes in Bacillus subtilis: effects of changing purine nucleotide pools.
J Gen Microbiol: 1991, 137(10);2387-94
[PubMed:1722815] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)