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Site mreB
- Name: mreB
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3251 MG1655 locus tag envB mon rodY - Mnemonic: murein cluster e
- Left End Point: 73.24
- Right End Point: 73.26
- Products:
cell cycle protein MreB - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment affects cell division/growth determines division vs. elongation mecillinam resistant NULL - Priority: 0
- 2 Alleles of This Gene
mreB11 mreB791-YFP(::cat) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10608 EcoliWiki mreB - Comment:
- also called envB. cell shape and sensitivity to antibiotics. Selectable phenotype. Mecillinam resistance. resembles eukaryo.actin and forms filaments
- References:
- Westling-Haggstrom, B., S. Normark 1975. Genetic and physiological analysis of an envB spherelike mutant of Escherichia coli K-12 and characterization of its transductants. J.Bacteriol. 123:75-82
- Long, W.S., C.L. Slayman, K.B. Low 1978. Production of giant cells of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 133:995-1007
- Iwaya, M., C.W. Jones, J. Khorana, J.L. Strominger 1978. Mapping of the mecillinam-resistant, round morphological mutants of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 133:196-202
- Wachi, M., M. Doi, S. Tamaki, W. Park, S. Nakajima-Iijima, M. Matsuhashi 1987. Mutant isolation and molecular cloning of mre genes, which determine cell shape, sensitivity to mecillinam, and amount of penicillin-binding proteins in Escherichia coli. J.
- Doi, M., M. Wachi, F. Ishino, S. Tomioka, M. Ito, Y. Sakagami, A. Suzuki, M. Matsuhashi 1988. Determinations of the DNA sequence of the mreB gene and of the gene products of the mre region that function in formation of the rod shape of Escherichia coli
- Wachi, M., M. Matsuhashi 1989. Negative control of cell division by mreB, a gene that functions in determining the rod shape of Escherichia coli cells. J.Bacteriol. 171:3123-3127
- Bork, P., C. Sander, A. Valencia 1992. An ATPase domain common to prokaryotic cell cycle proteins, sugar kinases, actin, and hsp70 heat shock proteins. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 89:7290-7294