Site purH
- Name: purH
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b4006 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Purine
- Left End Point: 90.61
- Right End Point: 90.64
- Products:
phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide formyltransferase AICAR transformylase IMP cyclohydrolase - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment auxotrophy-pur/pyr NULL encodes bifunctional protein last two steps in IMP biosynthesis - Priority: 1
- 3 Alleles of This Gene
purH47 purH57 purH777(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10795 EcoliWiki purH - Comment:
- References:
- Aiba, H., K. Mizobuchi 1989. Nucleotide sequence analysis of genes purH and purD involved in the de novo purine nucleotide biosynthesis of Escherichia coli. J.Biol.Chem. 264:21239-21246
- Masters, M 1990. Location of purine genes on the physical map of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 172(3):1173-.
- Flannigan, K.A., S.H. Hennigan, H.H. Vogelbacker, J.S. Gots, J.M. Smith 1990. Purine biosynthesis in Escherichia coli K12: structure and DNA sequence studies of the purHD locus. Mol.Microbiol. 4:381-392
- Peterson, J.W., A.K. Chopra, R. Prasad 1991. Fine mapping of the rrnE, purHD, and hydGH operons on the Escherichia coli chromosome. J.Bacteriol. 173:3274-3275