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Site tolB
- Name: tolB
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0740 MG1655 locus tag lky lkyA tol-3 - Mnemonic: Tolerance
- Left End Point: 16.75
- Right End Point: 16.78
- Products:
a periplasmic protein in TolB - Pal complex - Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 3 Alleles of This Gene
tolB2 tolB789(del)::kan tolB791-YFP(::cat) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank M28232 EcoGene.org EG11008 EcoliWiki tolB - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Bacteriocin tolerant. Azaleucine resistance (lky), colicin E resistance. (Now sensitive to bile salts)
- References:
- Foulds, J., E.L. Barrett 1973. Characterization of Escherichia coli mutants tolerant to bacteriocin JF246; two new classes of tolerant mutants. J.Bacteriol. 116:885-892
- Cardelli, J., J. Konisky 1974. Isolation and characterization of an Escherichia coli mutant tolerant to colicins Ia and Ib. J.Bacteriol. 119:379-385
- Davies, J.K., P.R. Reeves 1975. Genetics of resistance to colicins in Escherichia coli K-12: cross-resistance among colicins of group A. J.Bacteriol. 123:102-117
- Anderson, J.J., J.M. Wilson, D.L. Oxender 1979. Defective transport and other phenotypes of a periplastic "leaky" mutant of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 140:351-358
- Braun, V., J. Frenz, K. Hantke, H. Schaller 1980. Penetration of colicin M into cells of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 142:162-168
- Lazzaroni, J.C., R. Portalier 1981. Genetic and biochemical characterization of periplasmic-leaky mutants of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 145:1351-1358
- Sun, T.-P., R.E. Webster 1986. fii, a bacterial locus required for filamentous phage infection and its relation to colicin-tolerant tolA and tolB. J.Bacteriol. 165:107-115
- Lazzaroni, J.C., N. Fognini-Lefebvre, R. Portalier 1986. Cloning of the lkyB (tolB) gene of Escherichia coli K12 and characterization of its product. Mol.Gen.Genet. 204:285-288
- Fognini-Lefebvre, N., J.C. Lazzarone, R. Portalier 1987. tolA, tolB and excC, three cistrons involved in the control of pleiotropic release of periplasmic proteins by Escherichia coli K12. Mol.Gen.Genet. 209:391-395
- Sun, T.-P., R.E. Webster 1987. Nucleotide sequence of a gene cluster involved in entry of E colicins and single-stranded DNA of infecting filamentous bacteriophages into Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 169:2667-2674
- Levengood, S.K., R.E. Webster 1989. Nucleotide sequences of the tolA and tolB genes and localization of their products, components of a multistep translocation system in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 171:6600-6609
- Rigal, A., E. Bouveret, R. Lloubes, C. Lazdunski, H. Benedetti 1997. The TolB protein interacts with the porins of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 179:7274-7279
- Muller, M.M., R.E. Webster 1997. Characterization of the tol-pal and cyd region of Escherichia coli K-12: transcript analysis and identification of two new proteins encoded by the cyd operon. J.Bacteriol. 179:2077-2080
- Clavel, T., P. Germon, A. Vianney, R. Portalier, J.C. Lazzaroni 1998. TolB protein of Escherichia coli K-12 interacts with the outer membrane peptidoglycan-associated proteins Pal, Lpp and OmpA. Molecular Microbiology 29:359-367
- Ray, M.C., P. Germon, A. Vianney, R. Portalier, J.C. Lazzaroni 2000. Identification by genetic suppression of Escherichia coli TolB residues important for TolB-Pal interaction. J.Bacteriol. 182:821-824