Site lysS
- Name: lysS
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
asuD b2890 MG1655 locus tag herC - Mnemonic: Lysine
- Left End Point: 65.35
- Right End Point: 65.38
- Products:
lysyl tRNA synthetase, constitutive - Direction: <
- Priority: 1
- 2 Alleles of This Gene
lysS741(del)::kan lysS792-YFP(::cat) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10552 EcoliWiki lysS - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Thiosine resistance.
- References:
- Hirshfield, I.N., P.C. Zamecnik 1972. Thiosine-resistant mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 with growth medium-dependent lysyl-tRNA synthetase activity. I. Isolation and physiological characterization. Biochim.Biophys.Acta 259:330-343
- Charlier, J., R. Sanchez 1987. Lysyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli K-12. Chromatographic heterogeneity and the lysU-gene product. Biochem.J. 248:43-51
- Emmerich, R.V., I.N. Hirshfield 1987. Mapping of the constitutive lysyl-tRNA synthetase gene of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 169:5311-5313
- Kawakami, K., S. Naito, N. Inoue, Y. Nakamura, H. Ikeda, H. Uchida 1989. Isolation and characterization of herC, a mutation of Escherichia coli affecting maintenance of ColE1. Mol.Gen.Genet. 219:333-340
- Gampel, A., A. Tzagoloff 1989. Homology of aspartyl- and lysyl-tRNA synthetases. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 86:6023-6027
- Clark, R.L., F.C. Neidhardt 1990. Roles of the two lysyl-tRNA synthetases of Escherichia coli: analysis of nucleotide sequences and mutant behavior. J.Bacteriol. 172:3237-3243
- Gatti, D.L., A. Tzagoloff 1991. Structure and evolution of a group of related amino acyl-tRNA synthetases. J.Mol.Biol. 218:557-568
- Ito, K., K. Kawakami, Y. Nakamura 1993. Multiple control of Escherichia coli lysyl-tRNA synthetase expression involves a transcriptional repressor and a translational enhancer element. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 90:302-306