Pgk

• Description: phosphoglycerate kinase, glycolytic/ gluconeogenic enzyme
  
  

Gene name	pgk
Synonyms
Essential	yes
Product	phosphoglycerate kinase
Function	enzyme in glycolysis/ gluconeogenesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	42,0 kDa, 4.77
Gene length, protein length	1182 bp, 394 amino acids
Immediate neighbours	gapA, tpi
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU33930

Phenotypes of a mutant

• Essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + 3-phospho-D-glycerate = ADP + 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: phosphoglycerate kinase family (according to Swiss-Prot)
• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: Two Substrate Reversible Michaelis-Menten PubMed

• Domains:
  • nucleotide binding domain (ATP) (350–353)
  • 2x substrate binding domain (21–23), (59–62)

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-183 AND Thr-299 PubMed, PubMed

• Cofactor(s): Mg2+ or Mn2+ PubMed

• Effectors of protein activity:
  • Inhibited by Co2+, NDP and NMP PubMed

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot), Cytoplasm (Homogeneous) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1PHP (Geobacillus stearothermophilus), Geobacillus stearothermophilus NCBI

• Swiss prot entry: P40924

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.7.2.3

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • cggR-gapA-pgk-tpiA-pgm-eno
  • pgk-tpiA-pgm-eno

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: expression activated by glucose (2.8 fold) PubMed
  • cggR: induced by sugar CggR PubMed
  • pgk: constitutive PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: transcription repression by CggR PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP699 (cat), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector: pGP1102 (N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844), pGP95 (N-terminal Strep-tag, in pGP172), pGP91 (N-terminal Strep-tag, for SPINE, expression in B. subtilis, in pGP380), available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion: pGP514 (in pAC6), a series of promoter deletion variants is also available in pAC6, available in Stülke lab

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Stülke lab

• Antibody: