Site pst
- Name: pst
- Type: Operon
- Synonyms
nmpA - Mnemonic: phosphate-specific transport
- Left End Point: 84.16
- Right End Point: 84.26
- SubSites:
phoU pstB pstA pstC pstS - Direction: <
- Priority: 0
- 2 Alleles of This Gene
pst-32 pst-9 - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Loss: arsenate resistance; indicator plate.
- References:
- Willsky, G.R., R.L. Bennett, M. Malamy 1973. Inorganic phosphate transport in Escherichia coli: involvement of two genes which play a role in alkaline phosphatase regulation. J.Bacteriol. 113:529-539
- Sprague, G.F., R.M. Bell, J.E. Cronan 1975. A mutant of Escherichia coli auxotrophic for organic phosphates: evidence for two defects in inorganic phosphate transport. Mol.Gen.Genet. 143:71-77
- Tommassen, J., E.J.J. Lugtenberg 1980. Outer membrane protein e of Escherichia coli K-12 is co-regulated with alkaline phosphatase. J.Bacteriol. 143:151-157
- Wanner, B.L., P. Latterell 1980. Mutants affected in alkaline phosphatase expression: evidence for multiple positive regulators of the phosphate regulon in Escherichia coli. Genetics 96:353-366
- von Meyenburg, K., F.G. Hansen, E. Riise, H.E.N. Bergmans, M. Meijer, W. Messer 1980. The origin of replication, oriC, of the Escherichia coli chromosome: genes near oriC and construction of oriC deletion mutations. In B. Alberts, and C.F. Fox (ed),
- Zuckier, G., A. Torriani 1981. Genetic and physiological tests of three phosphate-specific transport mutants of Escherichia coli. (Erratum: 148:397, 1981). J.Bacteriol. 145:1249-1256
- Cox, G.B., H. Rosenberg, J.A. Downie, S. Silver 1981. Genetic analysis of mutants affected in the Pst inorganic phosphate transport system. J.Bacteriol. 148:1-9
- Steed, P.M., B.L. Wanner 1993. Use of the rep technique for allele replacement to construct mutants with deletions of the pstSCAB-phoU operon: evidence of a new role for the PhoU protein in the phosphate regulon. J.Bacteriol. 175:6797-6809