PheA

• Description: prephenate dehydratase
  
  

Gene name	pheA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	prephenate dehydratase
Function	biosynthesis of phenylalanine
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Phe, Tyr, Trp
MW, pI	31 kDa, 5.886
Gene length, protein length	855 bp, 285 aa
Immediate neighbours	nadR, pheB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU27900

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Prephenate = phenylpyruvate + H₂O + CO₂ (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity: subject to feedback inhibtion by phenylalanine PubMed

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P21203

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 4.2.1.51

Expression and regulation

• Operon: pheB-pheA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information: subject to feedback inhibtion by phenylalanine PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: