EcoGene

GenePage for the purE gene of Escherichia coli K-12

Primary Gene Name: purE
EcoGene Accession Number: EG10793
K-12 Gene Accession Number: ECK0516
MG1655 Gene Identifier: b0523

APEX

Common Core

CommonCore-5

Predicted Regulons McCue 2002

Gene Name Mnemonic: Purine

Alternate Gene Symbols: ade(f), ade3, Pur2

Description:
N5-carboxyaminoimidazole ribonucleotide (N-CAIR) mutase; purine synthesis

Pre-Run BlastP UniProt

Protein Sequence: ------------ MW: 17780.32------169 aa ------------ Pre-Run BlastP NR+Env

Genomic Address
Left End: 551814 ----------------- Counterclockwise ----------------- Right End: 552323
Left Inter Gene Info Minute or Centisome (%) = 11.89 Right Inter Gene Info

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Curator or user-submitted Comments:

PurE was previously thought to be the catalytic subunit of phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase, with ATPase subunit PurK (Tiedeman, 1989). PurE is a separate N-CAIR mutase (Mueller, 1994; Meyer, 1999).