EcoGene

GenePage for the purK gene of Escherichia coli K-12

Primary Gene Name: purK
EcoGene Accession Number: EG10796
K-12 Gene Accession Number: ECK0515
MG1655 Gene Identifier: b0522

APEX

Common Core

CommonCore-5

Gene Name Mnemonic: Purine

Alternate Gene Symbols: purE2

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

Pre-Run BlastP UniProt

Protein Sequence: ------------ MW: 39461.12------355 aa ------------ Pre-Run BlastP NR+Env

Genomic Address
Left End: 550750 ----------------- Counterclockwise ----------------- Right End: 551817
Left Inter Gene Info Minute or Centisome (%) = 11.87 Right Inter Gene Info

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Curator or user-submitted Comments:

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