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Site argR
- Name: argR
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3237 MG1655 locus tag xerA - Mnemonic: Arginine
- Left End Point: 72.91
- Right End Point: 72.92
- Products:
Arg repressor - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment autogenously regulated NULL arg regulon member NULL - Priority: 1
- 8 Alleles of This Gene
argR141([]) argR142 argR38 argR40 argR63 argR64 argR762(del)::kan argR84 - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank M17532 EcoGene.org EG10070 EcoliWiki argR - Comment:
- {\it Rarg}; regulatory gene, repressor of {\it arg} regulon. Selectable Pheno. argR^c, in proA-, B-: growth without proline to give argD, then arginine resistance;
- References:
- Maas, W.K. 1961. Repression of arginine formation. Cold Spr.Harb.Symp.Quant.Biol. 26:183-190
- Baumberg, S. 1970. Acetylhistidine as substrate for acetylornithinase: a new system for the selection of arginine regulation mutants in Escherichia coli. Mol.Gen.Genet. 106:162-173
- Pierard, A., N. Glansdorff, J. Yashphe 1972. Mutations affecting uridine monophosphate pyrophosphorylase or the argR gene in Escherichia coli. Mol.Gen.Genet. 118:235-245
- Leisinger, T., D. Haas, M.P. Hegarty 1972. Indospicine as an arginine antagonist in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Biochim.Biophys.Acta 262:214-219
- Kelker, N.E., W.K. Maas 1974. Selection for genetically respressible (Arg R+) strains of Escherichia coli K12 from genetically derepressed (Arg R-) mutants using acetylnorvaline. Mol.Gen.Genet. 131:131-136
- Berg, C.M., J.J. Rossi 1974. Proline excretion and indirect suppression in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. J.Bacteriol. 118:928-939
- Penninckx, M., D. Gigot 1979. Synthesis of a peptide form of N-delta-(phosphonoacetyl)-L-ornithine. Its antibacterial effect through the specific inhibition of Escherichia coli L-ornithine carbamoyltransferase. J.Biol.Chem. 254:6392-6395
- Eckhardt, T. 1980. Isolation of plasmids carrying the arginine repressor gene argR of Escherichia coli K12. Mol.Gen.Genet. 178:447-452
- Lim, D., J.D. Oppenheim, T. Eckhardt, W.K. Maas 1987. Nucleotide sequence of the argR gene of Escherichia coli K-12 and isolation of its product, the arginine repressor. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 84:6697-6701
- Stirling, C.J., G. Szatmari, G.J. Stewart, M.C. Smith, D.J. Sherratt 1988. The arginine repressor is essential for plasmid-stabilizing site-specific recombination at the ColE1 cer locus. EMBO J. 7:4389-4395
- Pogliano, J.A., J.R. Beckwith 1994. SecD and SecF facilitate protein export in Escherichia coli. EMBO J. 13:554-561