UniProt functional annotation for P12281

UniProt code: P12281.

Organism: Escherichia coli (strain K12).
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia.
 
Function: Catalyzes the insertion of molybdate into adenylated molybdopterin with the concomitant release of AMP. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:15632135}.
 
Catalytic activity: Reaction=adenylyl-molybdopterin + H(+) + molybdate = AMP + H2O + Mo- molybdopterin; Xref=Rhea:RHEA:35047, ChEBI:CHEBI:15377, ChEBI:CHEBI:15378, ChEBI:CHEBI:36264, ChEBI:CHEBI:62727, ChEBI:CHEBI:71302, ChEBI:CHEBI:456215; EC=2.10.1.1;
Cofactor: Name=Mg(2+); Xref=ChEBI:CHEBI:18420; Evidence={ECO:0000269|PubMed:11428898}; Note=Binds 1 Mg(2+) ion per subunit. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:11428898};
Pathway: Cofactor biosynthesis; molybdopterin biosynthesis.
Subunit: Homodimer. Interacts with MobA, MogA and MobB in vivo. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:11428898, ECO:0000269|PubMed:11525167, ECO:0000269|PubMed:12372836}.
Similarity: Belongs to the MoeA family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.