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Site aidB

• Name: aidB
• Type: Gene
  Synonyms

  b4187	MG1655 locus tag

  
  
• Mnemonic: alkylating agent induced
• Left End Point: 95.10
• Right End Point: 95.13
• Direction: >
• Priority: 1
  2 Alleles of This Gene

  aidB737(del)::kan

  aidB791-YFP(::cat)

  
  
• External Database Links:

  Host Site	Page Links
  NCBI/GenBank	L20915
  EcoGene.org	EG11811
  EcoliWiki	aidB

  
  
• Comment:
  • Induced by alkylating agents.
• References:
  • Volkert, M.R., D.C. Nguyen, K.C. Beard 1986. Escherichia coli gene induction by alkylation treatment. Genetics 112:11-26
  
  
  • Volkert, M.R., L.I. Hajec, Z. Matijasevic, F.C. Fang, R. Prince 1994. Induction of the Escherichia coli aidB gene under oxygen-limiting conditions requires a functional rpoS (katF) gene. J.Bacteriol. 176:7638-7645
  
  
  • Landini, P., L.I. Hajec, M.R. Volkert 1994. Structure and transcriptional regulation of the Escherichia coli adaptive response gene aidB. J.Bacteriol. 176:6583-6589
  
  
  • Landini, P., L.I. Hajec, L.H. Nguyen, R.R. Burgess, M.R. Volkert 1996. The leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp) acts as a specific repressor for sigma s-dependent transcription of the Escherichia coli aidB gene. Mol.Microbiol. 20:947-955
  
  
  • Lacour, S., A. Kolb, A.J. Boris Zehnder, P. Landini 2002. Mechanism of specific recognition of the aidB promoter by sigma(S)-RNA polymerase. Biochem.Biophys.Res.Commun. 292:922-930