Site malK
- Name: malK
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b4035 MG1655 locus tag malB - Mnemonic: Maltose
- Left End Point: 91.49
- Right End Point: 91.51
- Products:
malFGK inner membrane complex subu. maltose transport complex subu., ATP-consuming - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment encodes membrane protein NULL transport gene NULL - Priority: 1
- 5 Alleles of This Gene
malK27 malK58::Tn5 malK62(Am) malK731(del)::kan malK791-YFP(::cat) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10558 EcoliWiki malK - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Loss: 5-thiomaltose resistance. Regulatory, loss of catabolite repression: growth on maltose + a-methylgucloside. Loss: phage LAM resistance.
- References:
- Thirion, J.P., M. Hofnung 1972. On some genetic aspects of phage lambda resistance in E. coli K12. Genetics 71:207-216
- 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
- Colonna, B., M. Hofnung 1981. rho mutations restore lamB expression in E. coli K12 strains with an inactive malB region. Mol.Gen.Genet. 184:479-483
- Bedouelle, H., M. Hofnung 1982. A DNA sequence containing the control regions of the malEFG and malK-lamB operons in Escherichia coli K12. Mol.Gen.Genet. 185:82-87
- Gilson, E., H. Nikaido, M. Hofnung 1982. Sequence of the malK gene in E. coli K12. Nucleic Acids Res. 10:7449-7458
- Bedouelle, H., U. Schmeissner, M. Hofnung, L. Rosenberg 1982. Promoters of the malEFG and malK-lamB operons in Escherichia coli K12. J.Mol.Biol. 161:519-531
- Bedouelle, H. 1983. Mutations in the promoter regions of the malEFG and malK-lamB operons of Escherichia coli K12. J.Mol.Biol. 170:861-882
- Ohsumi, M., T. Sekiya, S. Nishimura, M. Ohki 1983. Nucleotide sequence of the regulatory region of malB operons in E. coli. J.Biochem.(Tokyo) 94:243-247
- Hekstra, D., J. Tommassen 1993. Functional exchangeability of the ABC proteins of the periplasmic binding protein-dependent transport systems Ugp and Mal of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 175:6546-6552