Site udp
- Name: udp
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3831 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: uridine phosphorylase
- Left End Point: 86.52
- Right End Point: 86.54
- Products:
uridine phosphorylase - Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 3 Alleles of This Gene
udp-1 udp-10 udp-776(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank X15689 EcoGene.org EG11045 EcoliWiki udp - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Loss: 5-fluorouracil + adenosine resistance. In upp-: 5-fluorouracil + adenosine resistance.
- References:
- Pritchard, R.H., S.I. Ahmad 1971. Fluorouracil and the isolation of mutants lacking uridine phosphorylase in E. coli: location of the gene. Mol.Gen.Genet. 111:84-88
- Pierard, A., N. Glansdorff, D. Gigot, M. Crabeel, P. Halleux, L. Thiry 1976. Repression of Escherichia coli carbamoylphosphate synthase: relationships with enzyme synthesis in the arginine and pyrimidine pathways. J.Bacteriol. 127:291-301
- Alkhimova, R.A., A.S. Mironov, V.V. Sukhodolets 1981. Regulation of the activity of the uridine phosphorylase of Escherichia coli K-12. I. Mapping of mutations for the structural gene and determination of the direction of transcription. Soviet Genet.
- 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
- Walton, L., C.A. Richards, L.P. Elwell 1989. Nucleotide sequence of the Escherichia coli uridine phosphorylase (udp) gene. Nucleic Acids Res. 17:6741
- 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
- Fonstein, M., T. Nikolskaya, D. Zaporojets, Y. Nikolsky, S.T. Kulakauskas, A. Mironov 1994. Tn10-mediated inversions fuse uridine phosphorylase (udp) and rRNA genes of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 176:2265-2271