Site rho
- Name: rho
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3783 MG1655 locus tag nitA nusD psuA rnsC sun tsu - Mnemonic: rho
- Left End Point: 85.45
- Right End Point: 85.47
- Products:
transcription termination factor Rho - Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 6 Alleles of This Gene
rho-112(Am) rho-4(Am) rho-6 rho-702(ts) rho-734(del)::kan rho-791-YFP(::cat) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank J01673 EcoGene.org EG10845 EcoliWiki rho - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Phage T4 res., phage LAM sus N7 nin-5 res. in a P2 lysogen. In gal- carrying an F' gal with a polar IS2 insertion in the gal leader; growth on galactose. Bicyclomycin interact.
- References:
- Das, A., D.L. Court, S. Adhya 1976. Isolation and characterization of conditional lethal mutants of Escherichia coli defective in transcription termination factor rho. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 73:1959-1963
- Inoko, H., K. Shigesada, M. Imai 1977. Isolation and characterization of conditional-lethal rho mutants of Escherichia coli. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 74:1162-1166
- Stitt, B.L., H. Revel, I. Lielausis, W.B. Wood 1980. Role of the host cell in bacteriophage T4 development. II. Characterization of host mutants that have pleiotropic effects on T4 growth. J.Virology 35:775-789
- Uzan, M., R. Favre, E. Gallay, L. Caro 1981. Genetical and structural analysis of a group of lambda ilv and lambda rho transducing phages. Mol.Gen.Genet. 182:462-470
- Tessman, I., J.S. Fassler, D.C. Bennett 1982. Relative map location of the rep and rho genes of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 151:1637-1640
- Brown, S., B. Albrechtsen, S. Pedersen, P. Klemm 1982. Localization and regulation of the structural gene for transcription-termination factor rho of Escherichia coli. J.Mol.Biol. 162:283-298
- Pinkham, J.L., T. Platt 1983. The nucleotide sequence of the rho gene of E. coli K-12. Nucleic Acids Res. 11:3531-3545
- Baylor, N.W., A.L. Williams, N. Cofie 1983. Molecular characteristics of ilvC specialized transducing phages of Escherichia coli K-12. Mol.Gen.Genet. 191:347-352
- Calhoun, D.H., L. Traub, J.W. Wallen, J.E. Gray, S.K. Guterman 1984. Location of the rho gene and characterization of lambda ilv-gal derivatives of lambda ilv-rho bacteriophage. Mol.Gen.Genet. 193:205-209
- Lim, C.J., B.L. Haller, J.A. Fuchs 1985. Thioredoxin is the bacterial protein encoded by fip that is required for filamentous bacteriophage f1 assembly. J.Bacteriol. 161:799-802
- Matsumoto, Y., K. Shigesada, M. Imai 1986. Autogenous regulation of the gene for transcription termination factor Rho in Escherichia coli: localization and function of its attenuators. J.Bacteriol. 166:945-958
- Aldea, M., V.F. Maples, S.R. Kushner 1988. Generation of a detailed physical and genetic map of the ilv-metE-udp region of the Escherichia coli chromosome. J.Mol.Biol. 200:427-438
- Storts, D.R.X., A. Markovitz 1991. A novel rho promoter::Tn10 mutation suppresses an ftsQ1(Ts) missense mutation in an essential Escherichia coli cell division gene by a mechanism not involving polarity suppression. J.Bacteriol. 173:655-663
- Daniels, D.L., G. Plunkett, V.D. Burland, F.R. Blattner 1992. Analysis of the Escherichia coli genome: DNA sequence of the region from 84.5 to 86.5 minutes. Science 257:771-778
- Miwa, Y., T. Horiguchi, K. Shigesada 1995. Structural and functional dissections of transcription termination factor rho by random mutagenesis. J.Mol.Biol. 254:815-837
- Richardson, L.V., J.P. Richardson 1996. Rho-dependent termination of transcription is governed primarily by the upstream Rho utilization (rut) sequences of a terminator. J.Biol.Chem. 271:21597-21603
- Magyar, A., X. Zhang, H. Kohn, W.R. Widger 1996. The antibiotic bicyclomycin affects the secondary RNA binding site of Escherichia coli transcription termination factor Rho. J.Biol.Chem. 271:25369-25374
- Martinez, A., T. Opperman, J.P. Richardson 1996. Mutational analysis and secondary structure model of the RNP1-like sequence motif of transcription termination factor Rho. J.Mol.Biol. 257:895-908
- Nakano, H., S. Goto, T. Nakayashiki, H. Inokuchi 2001. Temperature-sensitive mutations in various genes of Escherichia coli K12 can be suppressed by the ssrA gene for 10Sa RNA (tmRNA). Molecular Genetics & Genomics: MGG 265:615-621