Site appA
- Name: appA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0980 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: acid (poly)phosphatase
- Left End Point: 22.41
- Right End Point: 22.44
- Products:
acid phosphatase, pH 2.5, exopolyphosphatase phytase P2 - Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
appA724(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank X05471 NCBI/GenBank M58708 EcoGene.org EG10049 EcoliWiki appA - Comment:
- highly homologous with agp
- References:
- Dassa, E., P.L. Boquet 1985. Identification of the gene appA for the acid phosphatase (pH optimum 2.5) of Escherichia coli. Mol.Gen.Genet. 200:68-73
- Boquet, P.L., C. Manoil, J.R. Beckwith 1987. Use of TnphoA to detect genes for exported proteins in Escherichia coli: identification of the plasmid-encoded gene for a periplasmic acid phosphatase. J.Bacteriol. 169:1663-1669
- Touati, E., A. Danchin 1987. The structure of the promoter and amino terminal region of the pH 2.5 acid phosphatase structural gene (appA) of E. coli: a negative control of transcription mediated by cyclic AMP. Biochimie 69:215-221
- Dassa, J., C. Marck, P.L. Boquet 1990. The complete nucleotide sequence of the Escherichia coli gene appA reveals significant homology between pH 2.5 acid phosphatase and glucose-1-phosphatase. J.Bacteriol. 172:5497-5500
- Greiner, R., U. Konietzny, K.D. Jany 1993. Purification and characterization of two phytases from Escherichia coli. Arch.Biochem.Biophys. 303:107-113