Site folP
- Name: folP
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3177 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Folate
- Left End Point: 71.60
- Right End Point: 71.62
- Products:
dihydropteroate synthase - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment auxotrophy-vitamin supplement muts with endprod. whose synth req. folate cofactors (Thy,Gly,Met,Pan,Ad or Gua) - Priority: 0
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
folP775(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank L12968 EcoGene.org EG50011 EcoliWiki folP - Comment:
- Isolated a ts mutant.
- References:
- Swedberg, G., S. Castensson, O. Skold 1979. Characterization of mutationally altered dihydropteroate synthase and its ability to form a sulfonamide-containing dihydrofolate analog. J.Bacteriol. 137:129-136
- Dallas, W.S., J.E. Gowen, P.H. Ray, M.J. Cox, I.K. Dev 1992. Cloning, sequencing, and enhanced expression of the dihydropteroate synthase gene of Escherichia coli MC4100. J.Bacteriol. 174:5961-5970
- Dallas, W.S., I.K. Dev, P.H. Ray 1993. The dihydropteroate synthase gene, folP, is near the leucine tRNA gene, leuU, on the Escherichia coli chromosome. J.Bacteriol. 175:7743-7744