Site nirB
- Name: nirB
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3365 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Nitrite reductase
- Left End Point: 75.26
- Right End Point: 75.32
- Products:
nitrite reductase (NAD(P)H) subunit NAD(P)H-nitrite oxidoreductase apoprotein subunit - Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
nirB773(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank X14202 EcoGene.org EG10653 EcoliWiki nirB - Comment:
- References:
- Jackson, G.S., A. Cornish-Bowden, J.A. Cole 1981. Prosthetic groups of the NADH-dependent nitrite reductase from Escherichia coli K12. Biochem.J. 193:861-867
- MacDonald, H., N.R. Pope, J.A. Cole 1985. Isolation, characterization and complementation analysis of nirB mutants of Escherichia coli deficient only in NADH-dependent nitrite reductase activity. J.Gen.Microbiol. 131:2771-2782
- MacDonald, H., J.A. Cole 1985. Molecular cloning and functional analysis of the cysG and nirB genes of Escherichia coli K12, two closely-linked genes required for NADH-dependent nitrite reductase activity. Mol.Gen.Genet. 200:328-334
- Jayaraman, P.S., T.C. Peakman, S.J. Busby, R.V. Quincy, J.A. Cole 1987. Location and sequence of the promoter of the gene for the NADH-dependent nitrite reductase of Escherichia coli and its regulation by oxygen, the Fnr protein and nitrite. J.Mol.Biol
- Peakman, T.C., J. Crouzet, J.-F. Mayaux, S.J. Busby, S. Mohan, N. Harborne, J.C. Wootton, R. Nicolson, J.A. Cole 1990. Nucleotide sequence, organisation and structural analysis of the products of genes in the nirB-cysG region of the Escherichia coli K-
- Harborne, N., L. Griffiths, S.J. Busby, J.A. Cole 1992. Transcriptional control, translation and function of the products of the five open reading frames of the Escherichia coli nir operon. Mol.Microbiol. 6:2805-2813
- Wu, H., K.L. Tyson, J.A. Cole, S.J. Busby 1998. Regulation of transcription initiation at the Escherichia coli nir operon promoter: a new mechanism to account for co-dependence on two transcription factors. Mol.Microbiol. 27:493-505