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Site fecD
- Name: fecD
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b4288 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Ferric citrate
- Left End Point: 97.19
- Right End Point: 97.21
- Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment transport gene NULL - Priority: 1
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
fecD755(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank M26397 EcoGene.org EG10289 EcoliWiki fecD - Comment:
- Citrate-dependent iron transport; membrane-bound. Originally mapped near minute 8, cotransducing with argF. Rudd places them here.
- References:
- Pressler, U., H. Staudenmaier, L. Zimmermann, V. Braun 1988. Genetics of the iron dicitrate transport system of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 170:2716-2724
- Staudenmaier, H., B. Van Hove, Z. Yaraghi, V. Braun 1989. Nucleotide sequences of the fecBCDE genes and locations of the proteins suggest a periplasmic-binding-protein-dependent transport mechanism for iron(III) dicitrate in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteri
- Van Hove, B., H. Staudenmaier, V. Braun 1990. Novel two-component transmembrane transcription control: regulation of iron dicitrate transport in Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 172:6749-6758
- Veitinger, S., V. Braun 1992. Localization of the entire fec region at 97.3 minutes on the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome. J.Bacteriol. 174:3838-3839
- Enz, S., V. Braun, J.H. Crosa 1995. Transcription of the region encoding the ferric dicitrate-transport system in Escherichia coli: similarity between promoters for fecA and for extracytoplasmic function sigma factors. Gene 163:13-0