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Site recO

• Name: recO
• Type: Gene
  Synonyms

  b2565	MG1655 locus tag

  
  
• Mnemonic: Recombination
• Left End Point: 58.19
• Right End Point: 58.21
• Direction: <
• Properties:

  Property	Comment
  encodes NA-binding protein	NULL
  repair system gene	NULL

  
  
• Priority: 1
  2 Alleles of This Gene

  recO737(del)::kan

  recO797-YFP(::cat)

  
  
• External Database Links:

  Host Site	Page Links
  NCBI/GenBank	M27251
  EcoGene.org	EG10832
  EcoliWiki	recO

  
  
• Comment:
  • Conjugational recombination and DNA repair. Functionally similar to RecA wrt strand assimilation and enhanced UV survival.
• References:
  • Kolodner, R.D., R.A. Fishel, M. Howard 1985. Genetic recombination of bacterial plasmid DNA: effect of recF pathway mutations on plasmid recombination in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 163:1060-1066
  
  
  • Luisi-DeLuca, C. 1995. Homologous pairing of single-stranded DNA and superhelical double-stranded DNA catalyzed by RecO protein from Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 177:566-572
  
  
  • Liu, Y.H., A.J. Cheng, T.C. Wang 1998. Involvement of recF, recO, and recR genes in UV-radiation mutagenesis of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 180:1766-1770