Site recA
- Name: recA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b2699 MG1655 locus tag lexB srf umuB zab - Mnemonic: Recombination
- Left End Point: 60.80
- Right End Point: 60.83
- Products:
RecA protein - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment lexA regulon NULL SOS-related NULL repair system gene NULL - Priority: 0
- External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank V00328 FlyBase FBgn0000100 FlyBase FBgn0011700 EcoGene.org EG10823 EcoliWiki recA - Comment:
- References:
- Little, J.W. 1979. Construction and characterization of a plasmid coding for a fragment of the Escherichia coli recA protein. Mol.Gen.Genet. 177:13-22
- Thomas, A., R.G. Lloyd 1980. Altered regulation of the recA gene in Escherichia coli strains carrying a recA-linked suppressor of lexA. Mol.Gen.Genet. 179:355-358
- Sancar, A., C. Stachelek, W. Konigsberg, W.D. Rupp 1980. Sequences of the recA gene and protein. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 77:2611-2615
- Brent, R., M. Ptashne 1981. Mechanism of action of the lexA gene product. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 78:4204-4208
- Horii, T., T. Ogawa, H. Ogawa 1981. Organization of the recA gene of Escherichia coli. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 77:313-317
- Little, J.W., D.W. Mount, C.R. Yanisch-Perron 1981. Purified lexA protein is a repressor of the recA and lexA genes. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 78:4199-4203
- Willis, D.K., B.E. Uhlin, K.S. Amini, A.J. Clark 1981. Physical mapping of the srl recA region of Escherichia coli: analysis of Tn10 generated insertions and deletions. Mol.Gen.Genet. 183:497-504
- Volkert, M.R., L.J. Margossian, A.J. Clark 1981. Evidence that rnmB is the operator of the Escherichia coli recA gene. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 78:1786-1790
- Kawashima, H., T. Horii, T. Ogawa, H. Ogawa 1984. Organization of the recA gene of Escherichia coli. Mol.Gen.Genet. 193:288-292
- Madiraju, M.V., A. Templin, A.J. Clark 1988. Properties of a mutant recA-encoded protein reveal a possible role for Escherichia coli recF-encoded protein in genetic recombination. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 85:6592-6596
- Dutreix, M., P.L. Moreau, A. Bailone, F. Galibert, J. Battista, G.C. Walker, R. Devoret 1989. New recA mutations that dissociate the various RecA protein activities in Escherichia coli provide evidence for an additional role for RecA protein in UV muta
- Clark, A.J. 1991. rec genes and homologous recombination proteins in Escherichia coli. Biochimie 73:523-532
- Alexseyev, A.A., I.V. Bakhlanova, E.N. Zaitsev, V.A. Lanzov 1996. Genetic characteristics of new recA mutants of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 178:2018-2024
- Shapiro, N., J.D. Keasling 1996. The recA gene and cadmium toxicity in Escherichia coli K12. Microbios 86:23-26
- Harmon, F.G., W.M. Rehrauer, S.C. Kowalczykowski 1996. Interaction of Escherichia coli RecA protein with LexA repressor. II. Inhibition of DNA strand exchange by the uncleavable LexA S119A repressor argues that recombination and SOS induction are compe
- Eggleston, A.K., S.C. West 1996. Exchanging partners: recombination in E. coli. Trends Genet. 12:20-26
- Chan, A., R. Nagel 1997. Involvement of recA and recF in the induced precise excision of Tn10 in Escherichia coli. Mutat.Res. 381:111-115
- Brendel, V., L. Brocchieri, S.J. Sandler, A.J. Clark, S. Karlin 1997. Evolutionary comparisons of RecA-like proteins across all major kingdoms of living organisms. J.Mol.Evol. 44:528-541
- Fijalkowska, I.J., R.L. Dunn, R.M. Schaaper 1997. Genetic requirements and mutational specificity of the Escherichia coli SOS mutator activity. J.Bacteriol. 179:7435-7445
- Yasuda, T., K. Morimatsu, T. Horii, T. Nagata, H. Ohmori 1998. Inhibition of Escherichia coli RecA coprotease activities by DinI. EMBO J. 17:3207-3216
- Konola, J.T., A. Guzzo, J.B. Gow, G.C. Walker, K.L. Knight 1998. Differential cleavage of LexA and UmuD mediated by recA Pro67 mutants: implications for common LexA and UmuD binding sites on RecA. J.Mol.Biol. 276:405-415
- Shcherbakova, O.G., V.A. Lanzov, H. Ogawa, M.V. Filatov 2000. Overexpression of bacterial RecA protein stimulates homologous recombination in somatic mammalian cells. Mutat.Res. 459:65-71