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Site focA

• Name: focA
• Type: Gene
  Synonyms

  b0904	MG1655 locus tag

  
  
• Mnemonic: formate channel
• Left End Point: 20.54
• Right End Point: 20.56
  Products:

  formate channel protein

  
  
• Direction: <
• Properties:

  Property	Comment
  encodes membrane protein	NULL

  
  
• Priority: 0
  1 Alleles of This Gene

  focA728(del)::kan

  
  
• External Database Links:

  Host Site	Page Links
  EcoGene.org	EG11258
  EcoliWiki	focA

  
  
• Comment:
• References:
  • Suppmann, B., G. Sawers 1994. Isolation and characterization of hypophosphite-resistant mutants of Escherichia coli: identification of the FocA protein, encoded by the pfl operon, as a putative formate transporter. Mol.Microbiol. 11:965-982
  
  
  • Kaiser, M., G. Sawers 1997. Overlapping promoters modulate Fnr- and ArcA-dependent anaerobic transcriptional activation of the focApfl operon in Escherichia coli. Microbiology 143:775-783