Site metF
- Name: metF
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3941 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Methionine
- Left End Point: 89.03
- Right End Point: 89.05
- Products:
5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment auxotrophy-amino acid NULL - Priority: 1
- 7 Alleles of This Gene
metF159(Am) metF178 metF24 metF27 metF63 metF64 metF728(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank V01502 EcoGene.org EG10585 EcoliWiki metF - Comment:
- References:
- Krueger, J.H., J.R. Johnson, R.C. Greene, M. Dresser 1981. Structural studies of lambda transducing bacteriophage carrying bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid from the metBJLF region of the Escherichia coli chromosome. J.Bacteriol. 147:612-621
- Greene, R.C., J.H. Krueger, J.R. Johnson 1982. Localization of the metJBLF gene cluster of Escherichia coli in LAMmet transducing phage. Mol.Gen.Genet. 187:401-404
- Zakin, M.M., R.C. Greene, A. Dautry-Varsat, N. Duchange, P. Ferrara, M.-C. Py, D. Margarita, G.N. Cohen 1982. Construction and physical mapping of plasmids containing the metJBLF gene cluster of Escherichia coli K12. Mol.Gen.Genet. 187:101-106
- Saint-Girons, I., N. Duchange, M.M. Zakin, I. Park, D. Margarita, P. Ferrara, G.N. Cohen 1983. Nucleotide sequence of metF, the E. coli structural gene for 5-10 methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase and of its control region. Nucleic Acids Res. 11:6723-
- Treat, M.L., M.L. Weaver, M.R. Emmett, J.R. Johnson 1984. Mutagenesis of the metJBLF gene cluster with transposon Tn5: localization of the metF transcription unit. Mol.Gen.Genet. 193:370-375
- Saint-Girons, I., N. Duchange, G.N. Cohen, M.M. Zakin 1984. Structure and autoregulation of the metJ regulatory gene in Escherichia coli. J.Biol.Chem. 259:14282-14285
- Kirby, T.W., B.R. Hindenach, R.C. Greene 1986. Regulation of in vivo transcription of the Escherichia coli K-12 metJBLF gene cluster. J.Bacteriol. 165:671-677