Site ndk
- Name: ndk
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b2518 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Nucleoside diphosphate kinase
- Left End Point: 56.96
- Right End Point: 56.97
- Products:
nucleoside diphosphate kinase NDP kinase - Direction: <
- Priority: 0
- 2 Alleles of This Gene
ndk-764(del)::kan ndk-791-YFP(::cat) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10650 EcoliWiki ndk - Comment:
- controls cellular conc. of NTP's. Mutants have mutator phenotype.
- References:
- Hama, H., N. Almaula, C.G. Lerner, S. Inouye, M. Inouye 1991. Nucleoside diphosphate kinase from Escherichia coli: its overproduction and sequence comparison with eukaryotic enzymes. Gene 105:31-36
- Hama, H., C.G. Lerner, S. Inouye, M. Inouye 1991. Location of the gene (ndk) for nucleoside diphosphate kinase on the physical map of the Escherichia coli chromosome. J.Bacteriol. 173:3276
- Shankar, S., D. Schlictman, A.M. Chakrabarty 1995. Regulation of nucleoside diphosphate kinase and an alternative kinase in Escherichia coli: role of the sspA and rnk genes in nucleoside triphosphate formation. Mol.Microbiol. 17:935-943
- Lu, Q., X. Zhang, N. Almaula, C.K. Mathews, M. Inouye 1995. The gene for nucleoside diphosphate kinase functions as a mutator gene in Escherichia coli. J.Mol.Biol. 254:337-341
- Lu, Q., M. Inouye 1996. Adenylate kinase complements nucleoside diphosphate kinase deficiency in nucleotide metabolism. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 93:5720-5725