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Site purA
- Name: purA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b4177 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Purine
- Left End Point: 94.89
- Right End Point: 94.92
- Products:
adenylosuccinate synthetase - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment auxotrophy-pur/pyr NULL pur regulon NULL - Priority: 1
- 8 Alleles of This Gene
purA206(Stable,TempR,ApR)::Mud purA44 purA45 purA46 purA54 purA727(del)::kan purA76(NOTinSC)::Tn5 purA791-YFP(::cat) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank J04199 EcoGene.org EG10790 EcoliWiki purA - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. 6-Methylpurine + hypoxanthine resistance.
- References:
- Benson, C.E., S.H. Love, C.N. Remy 1970. Inhibition of de novo purine biosynthesis and interconversion by 6-methyl purine in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 101:872-880
- Wolfe, S.A., J.M. Smith 1988. Nucleotide sequence and analysis of the purA gene encoding adenylosuccinate synthetase of Escherichia coli K12. J.Biol.Chem. 1988:19147-19153
- He, B., H. Zalkin 1994. Regulation of Escherichia coli purA by purine repressor, one component of a dual control mechanism. J.Bacteriol. 176:1009-1013