Site fpr
- Name: fpr
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3924 MG1655 locus tag mvrA? 1996, 1998 maps - Mnemonic: ferredoxin reductase
- Left End Point: 88.62
- Right End Point: 88.64
- Products:
flavodoxin NADP+ reductase ferredoxin NADP+ reductase, anaerobic - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment methylviologen(paraquat)resist = mvr member of anaerobic ribonucleotide reductase system member of soxRS regulon - Priority: 1
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
fpr-783(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG11518 EcoliWiki fpr - Comment:
- see also mvrA, identified as gene conferring Resistance or sensitivity to methyl viologen in Morimyo ref. Sequencers found similarity with fpr except for 5 bp. mvrA now thought not to be fpr.
- References:
- Morimyo, M. 1988. Isolation and characterization of methyl viologen-sensitive mutants of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 170:2136-2142
- Truniger, V., W. Boos, G. Sweet 1992. Molecular analysis of the glpFKX regions of Escherichia coli and Shigella flexneri. J.Bacteriol. 174:6981-6991
- Bianchi, V., P. Reichard, R. Eliasson, E. Pontis, M. Krook, H. Jornvall, E. Haggard-Ljungquist 1993. Escherichia coli ferredoxin NADP+ reductase: activation of E. coli anaerobic ribonucleotide reduction, cloning of the gene (fpr), and overexpression of
- Rodriguez, R.E., A.R. Krapp, N. Carrillo 1998. The mvrA locus of Escherichia coli does not encode a ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase. Microbiology 144:2375-2376
- Griffith, K.L., R.E. Wolf 2001. Systematic mutagenesis of the DNA binding sites for SoxS in the Escherichia coli zwf and fpr promoters: identifying nucleotides required for DNA binding and transcription activation. Molecular Microbiology 40:1141-1154