Site purK
- Name: purK
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0522 MG1655 locus tag purE2 - Mnemonic: Purine
- Left End Point: 11.87
- Right End Point: 11.90
- Products:
phosphoribosyl glycineamide formyltransferase - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment auxotrophy-pur/pyr NULL - Priority: 1
- 4 Alleles of This Gene
purK0 purK3200::Tn10kan purK735(del)::kan purK79::Tn10 - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank M19657 EcoGene.org EG10796 EcoliWiki purK - Comment:
- C02-fixing subunit
- References:
- Kamholz, J., J. Keyhani, J.S. Gots 1986. Molecular cloning and characterization of the purE operon of Escherichia coli. Gene 44:55-62
- Tiedeman, A., J. Keyhani, J. Kamholz, H.A. Daum III, J.S. Gots, J.M. Smith 1989. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the purEK operon encoding 5' phosphoribosyl-5-aminoimidazole carboxylase of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 171:205-212