Site metE
- Name: metE
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3829 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Methionine
- Left End Point: 86.45
- Right End Point: 86.50
- Products:
tetrahydropteroyltriglutamate methyltransferase - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment auxotrophy-amino acid NULL - Priority: 1
- 11 Alleles of This Gene
metE101 metE163::Tn10 metE192 metE40 metE46 metE47 metE68 metE70 metE774(del)::kan metE90 metE94 - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10584 EcoliWiki metE - Comment:
- References:
- Alkhimova, R.A., A.S. Mironov, V.V. Sukhodolets 1981. Regulation of the activity of the uridine phosphorylase of Escherichia coli K-12. I. Mapping of mutations for the structural gene and determination of the direction of transcription. Soviet Genet.
- Aldea, M., V.F. Maples, S.R. Kushner 1988. Generation of a detailed physical and genetic map of the ilv-metE-udp region of the Escherichia coli chromosome. J.Mol.Biol. 200:427-438
- Old, I.G., M.G. Hunter, D.T.R. Wilson, S.M. Knight, C.A. Weatherston, R.E. Glass 1988. Cloning and characterization of the genes for the two homocysteine transmethylases of Escherichia coli. Mol.Gen.Genet. 211:78-87
- Maxon, M.E., B. Redfield, X.Y. Cai, R. Shoeman, K. Fujita, W. Fisher, Stauffer, H. Weissbach, N. Brot 1989. Regulation of methionine synthesis in Escherichia coli: effect of the MetR protein on the expression of the metE and metR genes. Proc.Natl.Acad.
- Daniels, D.L., G. Plunkett, V.D. Burland, F.R. Blattner 1992. Analysis of the Escherichia coli genome: DNA sequence of the region from 84.5 to 86.5 minutes. Science 257:771-778