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Site dsrA

• Name: dsrA
• Type: Gene
  Synonyms

  b1954	MG1655 locus tag

  
  
• Mnemonic: Down-stream region
• Left End Point: 43.61
• Right End Point: 43.61
  Products:

  small untranslated RNA regulating RpoS

  
  
• Direction: <
• Properties:

  Property	Comment
  for small regulatory RNA	NULL

  
  
• Priority: 0
  2 Alleles of This Gene

  dsrA1::cat

  dsrA5(del)

  
  
• External Database Links:

  Host Site	Page Links
  EcoGene.org	EG31118
  EcoliWiki	dsrA

  
  
• Comment:
  • positively regulates promoters sensitive to negative regulation by HNS.
• References:
  • Sledjeski, D.D., A. Gupta, S. Gottesman 1996. The small RNA, DsrA, is essential for the low temperature expression of RpoS during exponential growth in Escherichia coli. EMBO J. 15:3993-4000
  
  
  • Klauck, E., J. Bohringer, R. Hengge-Aronis 1997. The LysR-like regulator LeuO in Escherichia coli is involved in the translational regulation of rpoS by affecting the expression of the small regulatory DsrA-RNA. Mol.Microbiol. 25:559-569