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Site mtlA
- Name: mtlA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3599 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Mannitol
- Left End Point: 81.26
- Right End Point: 81.30
- Products:
mannitol-specific enzyme II of phosphotransferase system - Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 3 Alleles of This Gene
mtlA2 mtlA782(del)::kan mtlA9 - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank V01503 EcoGene.org EG10615 EcoliWiki mtlA - Comment:
- Selectable phenotype. Loss: D-arabinitol resitance. Strains deficient in mtlA are unable to use mannitol as a carbon source.
- References:
- Lee, L.G., G.R. Jacobson, M.H. Saier 1981. Plasmid-directed synthesis of enzymes required for D-mannitol transport and utilization in Escherichia coli. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 78:7336-7340
- Lee, C.A., M.H. Saier 1983. Mannitol-specific enzyme II of the bacterial phosphotransferase system. III. The nucleotide sequence of the permease gene. J.Biol.Chem. 258:10761-10767
- Postma, P.W., J.W. Lengeler 1985. Phosphoenolpyruvate:carbohydrate phosphotransferase system of bacteria. Microbiol.Rev. 49:232-269
- Lee, C.A., M.J. Fournier, J.R. Beckwith 1985. Escherichia coli 6S RNA is not essential for growth or protein secretion. J.Bacteriol. 161:1156-1161
- Davis, T., M. Yamada, M. Elgort, M.H. Saier 1988. Nucleotide sequence of the mannitol (mtl) operon in Escherichia coli. Mol.Microbiol. 2:405-412
- Jiang, W., L.F. Wu, J. Tomich, M.H. Saier, W.G. Niehaus 1990. Corrected sequence of the mannitol (mtl) operon in Escherichia coli. Mol.Microbiol. 4:2003-2006
- Ramseier, T.M., M.H. Saier 1995. cAMP-cAMP receptor protein complex: five binding sites in the control region of the Escherichia coli mannitol operon. Microbiology 141:1901-0