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Site narI

• Name: narI
• Type: Gene
  Synonyms

  b1227	MG1655 locus tag
  chlI

  
  
• Mnemonic: nitrate reductase, nitrate regulation
• Left End Point: 27.70
• Right End Point: 27.72
  Products:

  cytochrome bNR component of major nitrate reductase complex

  
  
• Direction: >
• Properties:

  Property	Comment
  encodes membrane protein	NULL

  
  
• Priority: 1
  1 Alleles of This Gene

  narI738(del)::kan

  
  
• External Database Links:

  Host Site	Page Links
  EcoGene.org	EG10640
  EcoliWiki	narI

  
  
• Comment:
  • Under control of FNR (anaerobic) and NarL/NarX system.
• References:
  • Orth, V., M. Chippaux, M.C. Pascal 1980. A mutant defective in electron transfer to nitrate in Escherichia coli K12. J.Gen.Microbiol. 117:257-262
  
  
  • Chippaux, M., V. Bonnefoy-Orth, J. Ratouchniak, M.C. Pascal 1981. Operon fusions in the nitrate reductase operon and study of the control gene nirR in Escherichia coli. Mol.Gen.Genet. 182:477-479
  
  
  • Bonnefoy-Orth, V., M. Lepelletier, M.C. Pascal, M. Chippaux 1981. Nitrate reductase and cytochrome b (nitrate reductase) structural genes as parts of the nitrate reductase operon. Mol.Gen.Genet. 181:535-540
  
  
  • Stewart, V.J., C.H. MacGregor 1982. Nitrate reductase in Escherichia coli K-12: involvement of chlC, chlE, and chlG loci. J.Bacteriol. 151:788-799
  
  
  • Hackett, N.R., P.D. Bragg 1983. Membrane cytochromes of Escherichia coli mutants. J.Bacteriol. 154:719-727
  
  
  • Rondeaux, S.S., P.-Y. Hsu, J.A. DeMoss 1984. Construction in vitro of a cloned nar operon from Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 159:159-166
  
  
  • Sodergren, E.J., J.A. DeMoss 1988. narI region of the Escherichia coli nitrate reductase (nar) operon contains two genes. J.Bacteriol. 170:1721-1729
  
  
  • Sodergren, E.J., P.Y. Hsu, J.A. DeMoss 1988. Roles of the narJ and narI gene products in the expression of nitrate reductase in Escherichia coli. J.Biol.Chem. 263:16156-16162
  
  
  • Leonardo, MR, DP Clark 1991. Locations of genes in the nar-adhE region of the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome. J. Bacteriol. 173(5):1574-5.
  
  
  • Rothery, R.A., A. Magalon, G. Giordano, B. Guigliarelli, F. Blasco, J.H. Weiner 1998. The molybdenum cofactor of Escherichia coli nitrate reductase A (NarGHI).Effect of a mobAB mutation and interactions with [Fe-S] clusters. J.Biol.Chem. 273:7462-7469