Site trkA
- Name: trkA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3290 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: transport K+
- Left End Point: 74.02
- Right End Point: 74.05
- Products:
potassium transport membrane protein subunit - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment encodes membrane protein periphery of inner side of cytopl. memb. transport gene K+ - Priority: 1
- 4 Alleles of This Gene
trkA133 trkA401 trkA405 trkA726(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG11019 EcoliWiki trkA - Comment:
- component of major constitutive K+ transport system
- References:
- Epstein, W., B.S. Kim 1971. Potassium transport loci in Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 108:639-644
- Meek, D.W., R.S. Hayward 1984. Nucleotide sequence of the rpoA-rplQ DNA of Escherichia coli: a second regulatory binding site for protein S4?. Nucleic Acids Res. 12:5813-5821
- Hamann, A., D. Bossemeyer, E.P. Bakker 1987. Physical mapping of the K+ transport trkA gene of Escherichia coli and overproduction of the TrkA protein. J.Bacteriol. 169:3138-3145
- Bossemeyer, D., A. Borchard, D.C. Dosch, G.L. Helmer, W. Epstein, I.R. Booth, E.P. Bakker 1989. K+-transport protein TrkA of Escherichia coli is a peripheral membrane protein that requires other trk gene products for attachment to the cytoplasmic membr
- Epstein, W., E. Buurman, D. McLaggan, J. Naprstek 1993. Multiple mechanisms, roles and controls of K+ transport in Escherichia coli. Biochem.Soc.Trans. 21:1006-1010
- Schlosser, A., A. Hamann, D. Bossemeyer, H. Schneider, E.P. Bakker 1993. NAD+ binding to the Escherichia coli K(+)-uptake protein TrkA and sequence similarity between TrkA and domains of a family of dehydrogenases suggest a role for NAD+ in bacterial t