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Site mel
- Name: mel
- Type: Operon
- Mnemonic: Melibiose
- Left End Point: 93.54
- Right End Point: 93.60
- SubSites:
melA melB - Direction: >
- Priority: 0
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
mel-1 - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Regulatory, in lacI: growth on raffinose. Regulatory, loss of catabolite repression: growth on melibiose + a-methylglucoside.
- References:
- Lester, B., D.M. Bonner 1957. Genetic control of raffinose utilization in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 73:544-552
- Keen, J., J. Williams, S.J. Busby 1996. Location of essential sequence elements at the Escherichia coli melAB promoter. Biochem.J. 318:443-449