Site radA
- Name: radA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b4389 MG1655 locus tag sms Neuwald et al (sensitivity to MMS) - Mnemonic: radiation
- Left End Point: 99.66
- Right End Point: 99.69
- Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 3 Alleles of This Gene
radA100 radA106 radA785(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG11296 EcoliWiki radA - Comment:
- Sensitivity to
and UV radiation and.. Same as sms, sensitivity to MMS, cotranscribed with serB, but apparently unrelated to serB. Seq.simil. with Lon,RecA,ATP-dependent proteases.
- Sensitivity to
- References:
- Diver, W.P., N.J. Sargentini, K.C. Smith 1982. A mutation (radA100) in Escherichia coli that selectively sensitizes cells grown in rich medium to x- or u.v.-radiation, or methyl methanesulphonate. Int.J.Radiat.Biol. 42:339-346
- Neuwald, A.F., D.E. Berg, G.V. Stauffer 1992. Mutational analysis of the Escherichia coli serB promoter region reveals transcriptional linkage to a downstream gene. Gene 120:1-9
- Song, Y., N.J. Sargentini 1996. Escherichia coli DNA repair genes radA and sms are the same gene. J.Bacteriol. 178:5045-5048