Site tar
- Name: tar
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b1886 MG1655 locus tag cheM - Mnemonic: taxis regulation
- Left End Point: 42.44
- Right End Point: 42.48
- Products:
chemotactic signal transducer protein methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein II aspartate receptor,Tar - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment chemotactic_membr.recept.gene NULL flagellar regulon member chemotactic membrane receptor gene - Priority: 1
- 2 Alleles of This Gene
tar-739(del)::kan tar-791-YFP(::cat) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10988 EcoliWiki tar - Comment:
- References:
- Wang, E.A., D.E. Koshland 1980. Receptor structure in the bacterial sensing system. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 77:7157-7161
- Boyd, A., A. Krikos, M. Simon 1981. Sensory transducers of E. coli are encoded by homologous genes. Cell 26:333-343
- Wang, E.A., K.L. Mowry, D.O. Clegg, D.E. Koshland 1982. Tandem duplication and multiple functions of a receptor gene in bacterial chemotaxis. (Erratum: 257:8555, 1982). J.Biol.Chem. 257:4673-4676
- Slocum, M.K., J.S. Parkinson 1983. Genetics of methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins in Escherichia coli: organization of the tar region. J.Bacteriol. 155:565-577
- Krikos, A., N. Mutoh, A. Boyd, M.I. Simon 1983. Sensory transducers of E. coli are composed of discrete structural and functional domains. Cell 33:615-622
- Slocum, MK, JS Parkinson 1985. Genetics of methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins in Escherichia coli: null phenotypes of the tar and tap genes. J. Bacteriol. 163(2):586-94.
- Khan, S., J.L. Spudich, J.A. McCray, D.R. Trentham 1995. Chemotactic signal integration in bacteria. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 92:9757-9761
- Burkart, M., A. Toguchi, R.M. Harshey 1998. The chemotaxis system, but not chemotaxis, is essential for swarming motility in Escherichia coli. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 95:2568-2573
- Okumura, H., S. Nishiyama, A. Sasaki, M. Homma, I. Kawagishi 1998. Chemotactic adaptation is altered by changes in the carboxy-terminal sequence conserved among the major methyl-accepting chemoreceptors. J.Bacteriol. 180:1862-1868