Site glgB
- Name: glgB
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3432 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Glycogen
- Left End Point: 76.93
- Right End Point: 76.98
- Products:
1,4-alpha-glucan branching enzyme - Direction: <
- Priority: 1
- 2 Alleles of This Gene
glgB2 glgB765(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank M13751 EcoGene.org EG10378 EcoliWiki glgB - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Loss: indicator plate.
- References:
- Latil-Damotte, M., C. Lares 1977. Relative order of glg mutations affecting glycogen biosynthesis in Escherichia coli K12. Mol.Gen.Genet. 150:325-329
- Salmond, G.P.C., J. Lutkenhaus, W.D. Donachie 1980. Identification of new genes in a cell envelope-cell division gene cluster of Escherichia coli: cell envelope gene murG. J.Bacteriol. 144:438-440
- Baecker, P.A., J. Greenberg, J. Preiss 1986. Biosynthesis of bacterial glycogen: primary structure of Escherichia coli 1,4-a-D-glucan-6-a-D-(1,4-a-D-glucano)-transferase as deduced from the nucleotide sequence of the glgB gene. J.Biol.Chem. 261:8738-87
- Romeo, T., A. Kumar, J. Preiss 1988. Analysis of the Escherichia coli glycogen gene cluster suggests that catabolic enzymes are encoded among the biosynthetic genes. Gene 70:363-376
- Romeo, T., J. Moore, J. Smith 1991. A simple method for cloning genes involved in glucan biosynthesis: isolation of structural and regulatory genes for glycogen synthesis in Escherichia coli. Gene 108:23-29