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Gene Report : purU
PEC Original Annotations
Essentiality
     Class non-essential
     References (PMID)
Escherichia coli and Salmonella, Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Edition. ASM Press. 1996
Neidhart, F.C.
     Deletion OCR68 (D)  
Related gene (W3110 PEC)
     Gene Search Search MG1655 PEC by gene name:  purU
Related strains
     Strains Search Search strains by gene name:  purU   Search strains by all related name:  purU b1232 ECK1227 JW1220 tgs ychI

General information  (Go to Linear View:)
 Gene Name purU  
 Alternative name b1232,ECK1227,JW1220,tgs,ychI  
 Location, Length 1,287,005 - 1,287,847 (  -  ) ;   27.74 min ; 843 (bp) ,   280 (aa) Go to Linear View
 Product formyltetrahydrofolate hydrolase  
 Operon Name purU  
 Note formyltetrahydrofolate deformylase; for purT-dependent FGAR synthesis; GO_component: GO:0005737 - cytoplasm; GO_process: GO:0009152 - purine ribonucleotide biosynthetic process  
 Function enzyme; Purine ribonucleotide biosynthesis  
 Gene Ontology GO:0005515 ; protein binding ( purU )
GO:0006164 ; purine nucleotide biosynthetic process ( purU )
GO:0006189 ; 'de novo' IMP biosynthetic process ( purU )
GO:0006730 ; one-carbon compound metabolic process ( purU )
GO:0008152 ; metabolic process ( purU )
GO:0008864 ; formyltetrahydrofolate deformylase activity ( purU )
GO:0009058 ; biosynthetic process ( purU )
GO:0016597 ; amino acid binding ( purU )
GO:0016742 ; hydroxymethyl-, formyl- and related transferase activity ( purU )
GO:0016787 ; hydrolase activity ( purU )
 PID 1787483  
 EC number
  (KEGG Pathway)
 
3.5.1.10  
Verified Protein Starts (data compiled from literature and appropriate citations are available from EcoGene)
     EcoGene purU ( EG11819 )  
    Number of removed 0 aa cleaved  
SWISS-PROT  ( Show details [ 3 more] )
  botton Entry name(Acc.no) PTGA_ECOLI ( P08837 ; Q47703 )
    -  Protein name PTS system, glucose-specific IIA component  
    -  Synonyms EIIA-Glc, Glucose- permease IIA component, Phosphotransferase enzyme II, A component, EC 2.7.1.69, EIII-Glc  
    -  Gene name OrderedLocusNames=b2417, c2952, SF2472, S2618;  

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View Location
   1275.0  –  1300.0 (KBP)

Homology Analysis
BLAST
    Bacteria
         GTOP purU (  homologous genes of other bacterias  )  
    PDB     (database updated : 2007.02.20 )
         PSI-BLAST Chain B, Human Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase Domain At Ph 8.5  
    SWISS-PROT     (database updated : 2007.02.20 )
         BLAST Formyltetrahydrofolate deformylase  
         PSI-BLAST Formyltetrahydrofolate deformylase
    nr     (database updated : 2007.02.20 )
         BLAST formyltetrahydrofolate deformylase [Escherichia coli K12]  
Pfam 28.0   (database updated : 2015-05 )
    Pfam
PROSITE
    PROSITE ASN_GLYCOSYLATION    PKC_PHOSPHO_SITE    CK2_PHOSPHO_SITE    MYRISTYL    AMIDATION     

Other Cross-Reference
    COG COG0788F 
    EcoCyc purU 

MMBR References
J Bacteriol. 1995;177:1292-1298
Formyltetrahydrofolate hydrolase, a regulatory enzyme that functions to balance pools of tetrahydrofolate and one-carbon tetrahydrofolate adducts in Escherichia coli.
Nagy, P. L., A. Marolewski, S. J. Benkovic, and H. Zalkin.
J Bacteriol. 1993;175:7066-7073
purU, a source of formate for purT-dependent phosphoribosyl-N-formylglycinamide synthesis.
Nagy, P. L., G. M. McCorkle, and H. Zalkin.
J Biol Chem. 1997;272:15106-15112
Comparative enzymatic properties of GapB-encoded erythrose-4-phosphate dehydrogenase of Escherichia coli and phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase.
Boschi-Muller, S., S. Azzi, D. Pollastro, C. Corbler, and G. Branlant.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1991;19:5863-5870
A novel RNA product of the tyrT operon of Escherichia coli.
Bosl, M., and H. Kersten.
J Bacteriol. 1994;176:221-231
Organization and functions of genes in the upstream region of tyrT of Escherichia coli: phenotypes of mutants with partial deletion of a new gene (tgs).
Bosl, M., and H. Kersten.

Sequences
Amino acid
FASTA format
0001 MHSLQRKVLR TICPDQKGLI ARITNICYKH ELNIVQNNEF VDHRTGRFFM RTELEGIFND STLLADLDSA 
0071 LPEGSVRELN PAGRRRIVIL VTKEAHCLGD LLMKANYGGL DVEIAAVIGN HDTLRSLVER FDIPFELVSH 
0141 EGLTRNEHDQ KMADAIDAYQ PDYVVLAKYM RVLTPEFVAR FPNKIINIHH SFLPAFIGAR PYHQAYERGV 
0211 KIIGATAHYV NDNLDEGPII MQDVIHVDHT YTAEDMMRAG RDVEKNVLSR ALYKVLAQRV FVYGNRTIIL 

Nucleotide
FASTA format

View sequence out neighbor 100bp
-100                                             ccctgccctt gtggttcagg taaaaaattt 
-070 aaaaagtgct gcggccaata atggttgacg gtacggttta gcaaacactc tcaacaaggt ttttccagca 
0001 atgcattcac tccaacgtaa agttctgcgt actatttgtc cggaccaaaa aggtctgatc gcacgtatta 
0071 ccaatatttg ctacaagcac gagttaaata tcgtacagaa caatgaattt gttgatcacc gtaccgggcg 
0141 cttttttatg cgcacggaac tggaagggat ttttaatgat tccaccctgc tggcggatct cgatagcgca 
0211 ttgccagaag gctccgtgcg tgagctgaat cctgccggtc gtcgccggat agtgattctg gtcactaaag 
0281 aagcgcattg ccttggcgat ttgttgatga aagccaatta cggcggcctg gatgtcgaaa tcgcggcagt 
0351 tattggtaac cacgatactt tacgttctct ggttgagcgt tttgatattc cgtttgagct ggtaagccat 
0421 gaagggttaa cccgcaacga gcacgatcaa aagatggcgg atgccattga tgcttatcaa cctgactacg 
0491 tggtgctggc gaagtatatg cgggtattaa cgccggaatt tgtggcacgc ttcccgaata agatcatcaa 
0561 tattcaccat tcattcctgc cagcgtttat tggcgcacgt ccttatcacc aggcctatga acgtggtgtg 
0631 aagattattg gcgcaaccgc tcactatgtg aatgacaatc tggacgaagg cccaatcatc atgcaggacg 
0701 ttattcatgt cgatcatacc tacacagctg aagatatgat gcgcgcaggt cgtgacgtcg agaaaaacgt 
0771 cttaagtcgt gcactataca aagtactggc acagcgcgtc tttgtttacg gtaatcgaac gattattctt 
0841 taatcgccag caaaaataac tggttacctt taatccgtta cggatgaaaa ttacgcaacc agttcatttt 
0911 tctcaacgta acactttaca gcggcgcgtc att