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Site malT
- Name: malT
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3418 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Maltose
- Left End Point: 76.54
- Right End Point: 76.60
- Products:
positive regulator of maltose genes - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment regulatory gene positive regulation of mal genes, in pres. of maltotriose - Priority: 1
- 9 Alleles of This Gene
malT1(LamR) malT101(Const) malT352(LamR) malT354(LamR) malT36(LamR) malT54::Tn10 malT56::Tn5 malT66(Am,LamR) malT752(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank M13585 NCBI/GenBank J01647 EcoGene.org EG10562 EcoliWiki malT - Comment:
- (part of what was {\it malA}. Used in studying {\it pgm} resistant to LAM. Ref. 233. Selectable phenotype. Loss: phage LAM resistance; 5-thiomaltose resistance?
- References:
- Hofnung, M., M. Schwartz, D. Hatfield 1971. Complementation studies in the maltose-A region of the Escherichia coli K12 genetic map. J.Mol.Biol. 61:681-694
- Hofnung, M., A. Jezierska, C. Braun-Breton 1976. lamB mutations in E. coli K-12: growth of lambda host range mutants and effect of nonsense suppressors. Mol.Gen.Genet. 145:207-213
- Debarbouille, M., M. Schwartz 1979. The use of gene fusions to study the expression of malT, the positive regulator gene of the maltose regulon. J.Mol.Biol. 132:521-534
- Ferenci, T. 1980. Methyl-a-maltoside and 5-thiomaltose: analogs transported by the Escherichia coli maltose transport system. J.Bacteriol. 144:7-11
- Raibaud, O., M. Schwartz 1980. Restriction map of the Escherichia coli malA region and identification of the malT product. J.Bacteriol. 143:761-771
- Debarbouille, M., M. Schwartz 1980. Mutants which make more malT product, the activator of the maltose regulon in Escherichia coli. Mol.Gen.Genet. 178:589-595
- Debarbouille, M., P. Cossart, O. Raibaud 1982. A DNA sequence containing the control sites for gene malT and for the malPG operon. Mol.Gen.Genet. 185:88-92
- Cole, S.T., O. Raibaud 1986. The nucleotide sequence of the malT gene encoding the positive regulator of the Escherichia coli maltose region. Gene 42:201-208
- Richet, E., O. Raibaud 1989. MalT, the regulatory protein of the Escherichia coli maltose system, is an ATP-dependent transcriptional activator. EMBO J. 8:981-987
- Dardonville, B., O. Raibaud 1990. Characterization of malT mutants that constitutively activate the maltose regulon of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 172:1846-1852
- Raibaud, O., D. Vidal-Ingigliardi, A. Kolb 1991. Genetic studies on the promoter of malT, the gene that encodes the activator of the Escherichia coli maltose regulon. Res.Microbiol. 142:937-942
- Danot, O., D. Vidal-Ingigliardi, O. Raibaud 1996. Two amino acid residues from the DNA-binding domain of MalT play a crucial role in transcriptional activation. J.Mol.Biol. 262:1-11
- Decker, K., J. Plumbridge, W. Boos 1998. Negative transcriptional regulation of a positive regulator: the expression of malT, encoding the transcriptional activator of the maltose regulon of Escherichia coli, is negatively controlled by Mlc. Mol.Microb