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Site sdiA

• Name: sdiA
• Type: Gene
  Synonyms

  b1916	MG1655 locus tag

  
  
• Mnemonic: suppress division inhibitors
• Left End Point: 42.98
• Right End Point: 43.00
  Products:

  FtsQAZ regulator protein

  
  
• Direction: <
• Properties:

  Property	Comment
  affects cell division/growth	NULL
  positive regulatory gene	enhances transcription from one of promoters upstream of ftsQAZ.

  
  
• Priority: 0
  2 Alleles of This Gene

  sdiA762(del)::kan

  sdiA791-YFP(::cat)

  
  
• External Database Links:

  Host Site	Page Links
  EcoGene.org	EG10935
  EcoliWiki	sdiA

  
  
• Comment:
  • suppresses inhibitory effect of the MinC/MinD division inhibitor
• References:
  • Wang, X.D., P.A. de Boer, L.I. Rothfield 1991. A factor that positively regulates cell division by activating transcription of the major cluster of essential cell division genes of Escherichia coli. EMBO J. 10:3363-3372
  
  
  • Garcia-Lara, J., L.H. Shang, L.I. Rothfield 1996. An extracellular factor regulates expression of sdiA, a transcriptional activator of cell division genes in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 178:2742-2748