Site leuO
- Name: leuO
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0076 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Leucine
- Left End Point: 1.82
- Right End Point: 1.84
- Products:
Regulatory protein, LysR-like - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment regulatory gene LysR-like regulator involved in translational regulation of rpoS - Priority: 0
- 3 Alleles of This Gene
leuO3051::Tn10 leuO3093::Tn10kan leuO783(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10531 EcoliWiki leuO - Comment:
- affects expression of small regulatory DsrA-RNA to effect translational regulation of rpoS. also relieves bgl silencing.
- References:
- Shi, X., G. Bennett 1995. Effects of multicopy LeuO on the expression of the acid-inducible lysine decarboxylase gene in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 177:810-814
- Klauck, E., J. Bohringer, R. Hengge-Aronis 1997. The LysR-like regulator LeuO in Escherichia coli is involved in the translational regulation of rpoS by affecting the expression of the small regulatory DsrA-RNA. Mol.Microbiol. 25:559-569
- Ueguchi, C., T. Ohta, C. Seto, T. Suzuki, T. Mizuno 1998. The leuO gene product has a latent ability to relieve bgl silencing in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 180:190-193