Site malB
- Name: malB
- Type: Cluster
- Mnemonic: Maltose
- Left End Point: 91.32
- Right End Point: 91.49
- Direction: <
- Priority: 0
- Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Loss: 5-thiomaltose resistance. Regulatory, loss of catabolite repression: growth on maltose + a-methylglucoside. part of Mal regulon of 10 genes
- References:
- Hofnung, M., M. Schwartz, D. Hatfield 1971. Complementation studies in the maltose-A region of the Escherichia coli K12 genetic map. J.Mol.Biol. 61:681-694
- Hofnung, M., A. Jezierska, C. Braun-Breton 1976. lamB mutations in E. coli K-12: growth of lambda host range mutants and effect of nonsense suppressors. Mol.Gen.Genet. 145:207-213
- Saier, M.H., H. Straud, L.S. Massman, J.J. Judice, M.J. Newman, B.U. Feucht 1978. Permease-specific mutations in Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli that release the glycerol, maltose, melibiose, and lactose transport systems from regulation by
- Ferenci, T. 1980. Methyl-a-maltoside and 5-thiomaltose: analogs transported by the Escherichia coli maltose transport system. J.Bacteriol. 144:7-11
- Davidson, A.L., H. Nikaido 1990. Overproduction, solubilization and reconstitution of the maltose transport system from Escherichia coli. J.Biol.Chem. 265:4254-4260