Site murF
- Name: murF
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0086 MG1655 locus tag mra - Mnemonic: Murein
- Left End Point: 2.04
- Right End Point: 2.07
- Products:
D-alanyl:D-alanine adding enzyme - Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 2 Alleles of This Gene
murF2 murF794-YFP(::cat) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank X15432 EcoGene.org EG10622 EcoliWiki murF - Comment:
- References:
- Jung, H.K., F. Ishino, M. Matsuhashi 1989. Inhibition of growth of ftsQ, ftsA, and ftsZ mutant cells of Escherichia coli by amplification of a chromosomal region encompassing closely aligned cell division and cell growth genes. J.Bacteriol. 171:6379-63
- Mengin-Lecreulx, D., C. Parquet, L.R. Desviat, J. Pla, B. Flouret, J.A. Ayala 1989. Organization of the murE-murG region of Escherichia coli: identification of the murD gene encoding the D-glutamic-acid-adding enzyme. J.Bacteriol. 171:6126-6134
- Parquet, C., B. Flouret, D. Mengin-Lecreulx, J. van Heijenoort 1989. Nucleotide sequence of the murF gene encoding the UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide synthetase of Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res. 17:5379-5379
- Anderson, M.S., S.S. Eveland, H.R. Onishi, D. Pompliano 1996. Kinetic mechanism of the Escherichia coli UDPMurNAc-tripeptide D-alanyl-D-alanine-adding enzyme: use of a glutathione S-transferase fusion. Biochemistry 35:16264-16269
- Eveland, S.S., D. Pompliano, M.S. Anderson 1997. Conditionally lethal Escherichia coli murein mutants contain point defects that map to regions conserved among murein and folyl poly-gamma-glutamate ligases: identification of a ligase superfamily. Bioch