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Revision as of 00:13, 9 December 2010

  • Description: urease (alpha subunit)

Gene name ureC
Synonyms
Essential no
Product urease (alpha subunit)
Function utilization of urea as alternative nitrogen source
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways:
Purine catabolism, Ammonium/ glutamate
MW, pI 61 kDa, 5.091
Gene length, protein length 1707 bp, 569 aa
Immediate neighbours ywnA, ureB
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
UreC context.gif
This image was kindly provided by SubtiList







Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of nitrogen sources other than amino acids

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CodY regulon, GlnR regulon, PucR regulon, SigH regulon, TnrA regulon

The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU36640

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Urea + H2O = CO2 + 2 NH3 (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: urease 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:
  • KEGG entry: [3]

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation:
    • induced by nitrogen limitation (GlnR, TnrA) PubMed
    • induced in the presence of purine nucleotides (inducer: allantoin) (PucR) PubMed
    • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Virginie Molle, Yoshiko Nakaura, Robert P Shivers, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Richard Losick, Yasutaro Fujita, Abraham L Sonenshein
Additional targets of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY identified by chromatin immunoprecipitation and genome-wide transcript analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(6);1911-22
[PubMed:12618455] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jaclyn L Brandenburg, Lewis V Wray, Lars Beier, Hanne Jarmer, Hans H Saxild, Susan H Fisher
Roles of PucR, GlnR, and TnrA in regulating expression of the Bacillus subtilis ure P3 promoter.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(21);6060-4
[PubMed:12374841] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

L V Wray, A E Ferson, S H Fisher
Expression of the Bacillus subtilis ureABC operon is controlled by multiple regulatory factors including CodY, GlnR, TnrA, and Spo0H.
J Bacteriol: 1997, 179(17);5494-501
[PubMed:9287005] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)