Site rfaH
- Name: rfaH
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3842 MG1655 locus tag sfrB pre-1990 map - Mnemonic: Rough
- Left End Point: 86.69
- Right End Point: 86.70
- Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment regulatory gene NULL - Priority: 1
- 3 Alleles of This Gene
rfaH564::Tn5 rfaH565 rfaH783(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10839 EcoliWiki rfaH - Comment:
- lipopolysaccharide core biosynthesis; positive
- References:
- Beutin, L., P.A. Manning, M. Achtman, N. Willets 1981. sfrA and sfrB products of Escherichia coli K-12 are transcriptional control factors. J.Bacteriol. 145:840-844
- Creeger, E.S., T. Schulte, L.I. Rothfield 1984. Regulation of membrane glycosyltransferases by the sfrB and rfaH genes of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. J.Biol.Chem. 259:3064-3069
- Rehemtulla, A., S.K. Kadam, K.E. Sanderson 1986. Cloning and analaysis of the sfrB (sex factor repression) gene of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 166:651-657
- Bailey, M.J., V. Koronakis, T. Schmoll, C. Hughes 1992. Escherichia coli HlyT protein, a transcriptional activator of haemolysin synthesis and secretion is encoded by the rfaH (sfrB) locus required for expression of sex factor and lipopolysaccharide ge
- Missiakas, D., C. Georgopoulos, S. Raina 1992. The Escherichia coli rfaH gene, mutational analysis, cloning, sequencing, and trnascriptional regulation: a positive transcriptional regulatory gene for htrM and htrL genes. GenBank submission M9488:1
- Schnaitman, CA, JD Klena 1993. Genetics of lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in enteric bacteria. Microbiol. Rev. 57(3):655-82.
- Bailey, M.J., C. Hughes, V. Koronakis 1997. RfaH and the ops element, components of a novel system controlling bacterial transcription elongation. Mol.Microbiol. 26:845-851