Site pitA
- Name: pitA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3493 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Pi transport
- Left End Point: 78.36
- Right End Point: 78.39
- Products:
low-affinity Pi transport - Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 3 Alleles of This Gene
pitA1 pitA10 pitA749(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG12230 EcoliWiki pitA - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Loss: arsenate resistance.
- References:
- Bennett, R.L., M. Malamy 1970. Arsenate resistant mutants of Escherichia coli and phosphate transport. Biochem.Biophys.Res.Commun. 40:469-503
- 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
- Elvin, C.M., C.M. Hardy, H. Rosenberg 1985. P_i exchange mediated by the GlpT-dependent sn-glycerol-3-phosphate transport system in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 161:1054-1058
- Elvin, C.M., N.E. Dixon, H. Rosenberg 1986. Molecular cloning of the phosphate (inorganic) transport (pit) gene of Escherichia coli K-12: identification of the pit+ gene product and physical mapping of the pit-gor region. Mol.Gen.Genet. 204:477-484
- Hoffer, S.M., P. Schoondermark, H.W. van Veen, J. Tommassen 2001. Activation by gene amplification of pitB, encoding a third phosphate transporter of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 183:4659-4663