Site tolA
- Name: tolA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0739 MG1655 locus tag cim excC lky tol-2 - Mnemonic: Tolerance
- Left End Point: 16.72
- Right End Point: 16.75
- Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 2 Alleles of This Gene
tolA1 tolA788(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank M16489 NCBI/GenBank M28232 EcoGene.org EG11007 EcoliWiki tolA - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Bacteriocin tolerant.
- References:
- Foulds, J., E.L. Barrett 1973. Characterization of Escherichia coli mutants tolerant to bacteriocin JF246; two new classes of tolerant mutants. J.Bacteriol. 116:885-892
- Cardelli, J., J. Konisky 1974. Isolation and characterization of an Escherichia coli mutant tolerant to colicins Ia and Ib. J.Bacteriol. 119:379-385
- Davies, J.K., P.R. Reeves 1975. Genetics of resistance to colicins in Escherichia coli K-12: cross-resistance among colicins of group A. J.Bacteriol. 123:102-117
- Braun, V., J. Frenz, K. Hantke, H. Schaller 1980. Penetration of colicin M into cells of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 142:162-168
- Sun, T.-P., R.E. Webster 1986. fii, a bacterial locus required for filamentous phage infection and its relation to colicin-tolerant tolA and tolB. J.Bacteriol. 165:107-115
- Fognini-Lefebvre, N., J.C. Lazzarone, R. Portalier 1987. tolA, tolB and excC, three cistrons involved in the control of pleiotropic release of periplasmic proteins by Escherichia coli K12. Mol.Gen.Genet. 209:391-395
- Sun, T.-P., R.E. Webster 1987. Nucleotide sequence of a gene cluster involved in entry of E colicins and single-stranded DNA of infecting filamentous bacteriophages into Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 169:2667-2674
- Levengood, S.K., R.E. Webster 1989. Nucleotide sequences of the tolA and tolB genes and localization of their products, components of a multistep translocation system in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 171:6600-6609
- Levengood, S.K., W.F. Beyer, R.E. Webster 1991. TolA: a membrane protein involved in colicin uptake contains an extended helical region. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 88:5939-5943
- Webster, R.E. 1991. The tol gene products and the import of macromolecules into Escherichia coli. Mol.Microbiol. 5:1005-1011
- Thomas, J.A., M.A. Valvano 1993. Role of tol genes in cloacin DF13 susceptibility of Escherichia coli K-12 strains expressing the cloacin DF13-aerobactin receptor IutA. J.Bacteriol. 175:548-552
- Braun, V., C. Herrmann 1993. Evolutionary relationship of uptake systems for biopolymers in Escherichia coli: cross-complementation between the TonB-ExbB-ExbD and the TolA-TolQ-TolR proteins. Mol.Microbiol. 8:261-268
- Derouiche, R., M. Gavioli, H. Benedetti, A. Prilipov, C. Lazdunski, R. Lloubes 1996. TolA central domain interacts with Escherichia coli porins. EMBO J. 15:6408-6415
- Muller, M.M., R.E. Webster 1997. Characterization of the tol-pal and cyd region of Escherichia coli K-12: transcript analysis and identification of two new proteins encoded by the cyd operon. J.Bacteriol. 179:2077-2080
- Liu, Y.H., A.J. Cheng, T.C. Wang 1998. Involvement of recF, recO, and recR genes in UV-radiation mutagenesis of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 180:1766-1770
- Germon, P., M.C. Ray, A. Vianney, J.C. Lazzaroni 2001. Energy-dependent conformational change in the TolA protein of Escherichia coli involves its N-terminal domain, TolQ, and TolR. J.Bacteriol. 183:4110-4114