Site trpB
- Name: trpB
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b1261 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: tryptophan
- Left End Point: 28.35
- Right End Point: 28.38
- Products:
tryptophan synthase subunit B - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment auxotrophy-amino acid NULL - Priority: 1
- 7 Alleles of This Gene
trpB0 trpB114::Tn10 trpB202 trpB769(del)::kan trpB9579(Oc) trpB9601(Am) trpB9676(Oc) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG11025 EcoliWiki trpB - Comment:
- Subu. of A2-B2 dimer. Sel. phen.for operon: deleted with tonB; del. with opp. Const.: 5-methyltryptophan, 6-fluorotryptophan resist.
- References:
- Hiraga, S. 1969. Operator mutants of the tryptophan operon in Escherichia coli. J.Mol.Biol. 39:159-179
- Gottesman, S., J.R. Beckwith 1969. Directed transposition of the arabinose operon: a technique for the isolation of special transducing bacteriophages for any Escherichia coli gene. J.Mol.Biol. 44:117-127
- Mattern, I.E., J. Pittard 1971. Regulation of tyrosine biosynthesis in Escherichia coli K-12: isolation and characterization of operator mutants. J.Bacteriol. 107:8-15
- Enger-Valk, B., H. Heyneker, R.A. Oosterbaan, P.H. Pouwels 1980. Construction of new cloning vehicles with genes of the tryptophan operon of Escherichia coli as genetic markers. Gene 9:69-85
- Crawford, I.P., B. Nichols, C. Yanofsky 1980. Nucleotide sequence of the trpB gene in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. J.Mol.Biol. 142:489-502
- Yanofsky, C., T. Platt, I.P. Crawford, B. Nichols, G.E. Christie, H. Horowitz, M. VanCleemput, A.M. Wu 1981. The complete nucleotide sequence of the tryptophan operon of E. coli. Nucleic Acids Res. 9:6647-6668
- Pogliano, J.A., J.R. Beckwith 1994. SecD and SecF facilitate protein export in Escherichia coli. EMBO J. 13:554-561