Site fecA
- Name: fecA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b4291 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Ferric citrate
- Left End Point: 97.26
- Right End Point: 97.31
- Products:
citrate-dependent iron transport, outer membrane receptor - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment transport gene NULL - Priority: 1
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
fecA758(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10286 EcoliWiki fecA - Comment:
- originally mapped near minute 8, cotransducing with argF. Rudd places fec ABCDEIR here.
- References:
- Wagegg, W., V. Braun 1981. Ferric citrate transport in Escherichia coli requires outer membrane receptor protein FecA. J.Bacteriol. 145:156-163
- Hussein, S., K. Hantke, V. Braun 1981. Citrate-dependent iron transport system in Escherichia coli. Eur.J.Biochem. 117:431-437
- Zimmermann, L., K. Hantke, V. Braun 1984. Exogenous induction of the iron dicitrate transport system of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 159:271-277
- Pressler, U., H. Staudenmaier, L. Zimmermann, V. Braun 1988. Genetics of the iron dicitrate transport system of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 170:2716-2724
- Van Hove, B., H. Staudenmaier, V. Braun 1990. Novel two-component transmembrane transcription control: regulation of iron dicitrate transport in Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 172:6749-6758
- Veitinger, S., V. Braun 1992. Localization of the entire fec region at 97.3 minutes on the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome. J.Bacteriol. 174:3838-3839
- Enz, S., V. Braun, J.H. Crosa 1995. Transcription of the region encoding the ferric dicitrate-transport system in Escherichia coli: similarity between promoters for fecA and for extracytoplasmic function sigma factors. Gene 163:13-0
- Angerer, A., S. Enz, M. Ochs, V. Braun 1995. Transcriptional regulation of ferric citrate transport in Escherichia coli K-12. Fecl belongs to a new subfamily of sigma 70-type factors that respond to extracytoplasmic stimuli. Mol.Microbiol. 18:163-174