Site purF
- Name: purF
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
adeub b2312 MG1655 locus tag purC - Mnemonic: Purine
- Left End Point: 52.31
- Right End Point: 52.34
- Products:
amidophosphoribosyl transferase - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment auxotrophy-pur/pyr NULL - Priority: 1
- 5 Alleles of This Gene
purF1 purF59 purF723(del)::kan purF91::Tn10 purF92::Tn10 - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10794 EcoliWiki purF - Comment:
- References:
- Smith, J.M., J.S. Gots 1980. purF-lac fusion and direction of purF transcription in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 143:1156-1164
- Tso, J.Y., H. Zalkin, M. van Cleemput, C. Yanofsky, J.M. Smith 1982. Nucleotide sequence of Escherichia coli purF and deduced amino acid sequence of glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase. J.Biol.Chem. 257:3525-3531
- Makaroff, C.A., H. Zalkin 1985. Regulation of Escherichia coli purF: analysis of the control region of a pur regulon gene. J.Biol.Chem. 260:10378-10387
- Nonet, M.L., C.C. Marvel, D.R. Tolan 1987. The hisT-purF region of the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome. Identification of additional genes of the hisT and purF operons. J.Biol.Chem. 262:12209-12217
- Sampei, G., K. Mizobuchi 1988. Nucleotide sequence of the Escherichia coli purF gene encoding amidophosphoribosyltransferase for de novo purine nucleotide synthesis. Nucleic Acids Res. 16:8717-8717
- Rolfes, R.J., H. Zalkin 1988. Regulation of Escherichia coli purF. Mutations that define the promoter, operator and purine repressor gene. J.Biol.Chem. 263:19649-19652