Site fepA
- Name: fepA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0584 MG1655 locus tag cbr cbt Pugsley and Reeve - Mnemonic: ferrienterobactin permease
- Left End Point: 13.14
- Right End Point: 13.19
- Products:
outer membrane comp. ferribactin transport system - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment encodes membrane protein outer membrane component - Priority: 1
- 2 Alleles of This Gene
fepA721(del)::kan fepA9 - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank M13748 EcoGene.org EG10293 EcoliWiki fepA - Comment:
- feuB; receptor for ferric enterobactin; also colicin B,D tolerance
- References:
- Pugsley, A.P., P.R. Reeves 1976. Iron uptake in colicin B-resistant mutants of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 126:1052-1062
- Wookey, P., H. Rosenberg 1978. Involvement of inner and outer membrane components in the transport of iron and in colicin B action in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 133:661-666
- Pierce, J.R., C.L. Pickett, C.F. Earhart 1983. Two fep genes are required for ferrienterochelin uptake in Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 155:330-336
- Coderre, P., C.F. Earhart 1984. Characterization of a plasmid carrying the Escherichia coli K-12 entD, fepA, fes and entF genes. FEMS Microbiol.Lett. 25:111-116
- Fleming, T.P., M.S. Nahlik, J.B. Neilands, M.A. McIntosh 1985. Physical and genetic characterization of cloned enterobactin genomic sequences from Escherichia coli K-12. Gene 34:47-54
- Lundrigan, M.D., R.J. Kadner 1986. Nucleotide sequence of the gene for the ferrienterochelin receptor fepA in Escherichia coli: homology among outer membrane receptors which interact with TonB. J.Biol.Chem. 261:10797-10801
- Ozenberger, B.A., M.S. Nahlik, M.A. McIntosh 1987. Genetic organization of multiple fep genes encoding ferric enterobactin transport functions in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 169:3638-3646
- Pettis, G.S., R.J. Brickman, M.A. McIntosh 1988. Transcriptional mapping and nucleotide sequence of the Escherichia coli fepA-fes enterobaactin region. Identification of a unique iron-regulated bidirectional promoter. J.Biol.Chem. 263:18857-18863
- Shea, C.M., M.A. McIntosh 1991. Nucleotide sequence and genetic organization of the ferric enterobactin transport system: homology to other periplasmic binding protein-dependent systems in Escherichia coli. Mol.Microbiol. 5:1415-28
- Hunt, M.D., G.S. Pettis, M.A. McIntosh 1994. Promoter and operator determinants for Fur-mediated iron regulation in the bidirectional fepA-fes control region of the Escherichia coli enterobactin gene system. J.Bacteriol. 176:3944-3955
- Neilands, J.B. 1995. Siderophores: structure and function of microbial iron transport compounds. J.Biol.Chem. 270:26723-26726