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Site ugpB

• Name: ugpB
• Type: Gene
  Synonyms

  b3453	MG1655 locus tag
  psiB
  psiC

  
  
• Mnemonic: uptake glycerol phosphate
• Left End Point: 77.35
• Right End Point: 77.38
  Products:

  periplasmic binding protein of sn-glycerol-3-phosphate transport system

  
  
• Direction: <
• Properties:

  Property	Comment
  member of	ABC (ATP binding cassette) family

  
  
• Priority: 1
  2 Alleles of This Gene

  ugpB783(del)::kan

  ugpB791-YFP(::cat)

  
  
• External Database Links:

  Host Site	Page Links
  EcoGene.org	EG11047
  EcoliWiki	ugpB

  
  
• Comment:
  • Selec. phenotype. Loss: fluorohydroxyacetone phosphate res. In glpT-: dihydroxybutylphosphonate res. Const., in glpT-: growth on sn-glycerol 3-phosphate.
• References:
  • Mildener, B., T.P. Fondy, R. Engel, B.E. Tropp 1981. Effects of halo analogs of glycerol 3-phosphate and dihydroxy-acetone phosphate upon Escherichia coli. Antimicrob.Agents Chemother. 19:678-681
  
  
  • Schweizer, H.P., T. Grussenmeyer, W. Boos 1982. Mapping of two ugp genes coding for the pho regulon-dependent sn-glycerol-3-phosphate transport system of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 150:1164-1171
  
  
  • Schweizer, H.P., W. Boos 1983. Cloning of the ugp region containing the structural genes for the pho regulon-dependent sn-glycerol-3-phosphate transport system of Escherichia coli. Mol.Gen.Genet. 192:177-186
  
  
  • Schweizer, H.P., W. Boos 1984. Characterization of the ugp region containing the genes for the phoB dependent sn-glycerol-3-phosphate transport system of Escherichia coli. Mol.Gen.Genet. 197:161-168
  
  
  • Overduin, P., W. Boos, J. Tommassen 1988. Nucleotide sequence of the upg genes of Escherichia coli K-12: homology to the maltose system. Mol.Microbiol. 2:767-775
  
  
  • Kasahara, M., K. Makino, M. Amemura, A. Nakata, H. Shinagawa 1991. Dual regulation of the ugp operon by phosphate and carbon starvation at two interspaced promoters. J.Bacteriol. 173:549-558
  
  
  • Su, T.-Z., H.P. Schweizer, D.L. Oxender 1991. Carbon-starvation induction of the ugp operon, encoding the binding protein-dependent sn-glycerol-3-phosphate transport system in Escherichia coli. Mol.Gen.Genet. 230:28-32