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Site ompT
- Name: ompT
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0565 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: outer membrane protein
- Left End Point: 12.59
- Right End Point: 12.61
- Products:
protease VII - Direction: <
- Properties:
Property Comment encodes a protease cleaves T7 RNAP, Ada product, SecY, antimicrob.peptides - Priority: 1
- 3 Alleles of This Gene
ompT1000::kan ompT774(del)::kan ompT874(del)::FRT - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10673 EcoliWiki ompT - Comment:
- References:
- Rupprecht, K.R., A.W. Gordon, M.D. Lundrigan, R.C. Gayda, A. Markovitz, C.F. Earhart 1983. ompT: Escherichia coli K-12 structural gene for protein a (3b). J.Bacteriol. 153:1104-1106
- Gordon, A.W., R.C. Gayda, A. Markovitz 1984. Sequence of the regulatory region of ompT, the gene specifying major outer membrane protein a (3b) of Escherichia coli K-12: implications for regulation and processing. Mol.Gen.Genet. 193:414-421
- Sugimura, K., T. Nishihara 1988. Purification, characterization, and primary structure of Escherichia coli protease VII with specificity for paired basic residues: identity of protease VII and OmpT. J.Bacteriol. 170:5625-5632
- Grodberg, J., M.D. Lundigan, D.L. Toledo, W.F. Mangel, J.J. Dunn 1988. Complete nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence of the ompT gene of Escherichia coli K-12. Nucleic Acids Res. 16:1209
- Grodberg, J., J.J. Dunn 1988. ompT encodes the Escherichia coli outer membrane protease that cleaves T7 RNA polymerase during purification. J.Bacteriol. 170:1245-1253
- Henderson, T.A., P.M. Dombrosky, K.D. Young 1994. Artifactual processing of penicillin-binding proteins 7 and 1b by the OmpT protease of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 176:256-259
- Holmes, Z., U. Henning 1994. Location of the ompT gene relative to that of appY on the physical map of the Escherichia coli chromosome. Mol.Gen.Genet. 242:363-364
- McCarter, J.D., D. Stephens, K. Shoemaker, S. Rosenberg, J.F. Kirsch, G. Georgiou 2004. Substrate specificity of the Escherichia coli outer membrane protease OmpT. J.Bacteriol. 186:5919-5925