Site queA
- Name: queA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0405 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: queuosine/queuine
- Left End Point: 9.15
- Right End Point: 9.17
- Products:
S-adenosylmethionine:tRNA ribosyltransferase isomerase - Direction: >
- Priority: 0
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
queA769(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank M37702 EcoGene.org EG10812 EcoliWiki queA - Comment:
- References:
- Reuter, K., R. Slany, F. Ullrich, H. Kersten 1991. Structure and organization of Escherichia coli genes involved in biosynthesis of the deazaguanine derivative queuine, a nutrient factor for eukaryotes. J.Bacteriol. 173:2256-2264
- Lucht, J.M., W. Boos, E. Bremer 1992. Alignment of genes from the 9-minute region (araJ to tsx) of the Escherichia coli K-12 linkage map to the physical map. J.Bacteriol. 174:1709-1710
- Slany, R., M. Bosl, P.F. Crain, H. Kersten 1993. A new function of S-adenosylmethionine: the ribosyl moiety of AdoMet is the precursor of the cyclopentenediol moiety of the tRNA wobble base queuine. Biochemistry 32:7811-7817