Site lipA
- Name: lipA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0628 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Lipoate
- Left End Point: 14.19
- Right End Point: 14.21
- Products:
lipoate synthase lipoyl synthase - Direction: <
- Priority: 0
- 4 Alleles of This Gene
lipA2 lipA767(del)::kan lipA791-YFP(::cat) lipA9 - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG11306 EcoliWiki lipA - Comment:
- References:
- Vanden Boom, TJ, KE Reed, JE Cronan 1991. Lipoic acid metabolism in Escherichia coli: isolation of null mutants defective in lipoic acid biosynthesis, molecular cloning and characterization of the E. coli lip locus, and identification of the lipoylated protein of the glycine cleavage system. J. Bacteriol. 173(20):6411-20.
- Hayden, M.A., I. Huang, D.E. Bussiere, G.W. Ashley 1992. The biosynthesis of lipoic acid. Cloning of lip, a lipoate biosynthetic locus of Escherichia coli. J.Biol.Chem. 267:9512-9515
- Hayden, M.A., I. Huang, G. Iliopoulos, M. Orozco, G.W. Ashley 1993. Biosynthesis of lipoic acid: characterization of the lipoic acid auxotrophs Escherichia coli W1485-lip2 and JRG33-lip9. Biochemistry 32:3778-3782
- Reed, K.E., J.E. Cronan 1993. Lipoic acid metabolism in Escherichia coli: sequencing and functional characterization of the lipA and lipB genes. J.Bacteriol. 175:1325-1336