Site uspA
- Name: uspA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b3495 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: universal stress protein
- Left End Point: 78.41
- Right End Point: 78.42
- Products:
UspA, universal stress protein - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment regulatory gene NULL stress response NULL global regulation NULL - Priority: 0
- 2 Alleles of This Gene
uspA1::kan uspA751(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank X67639 EcoGene.org EG11390 EcoliWiki uspA - Comment:
- May modul.&reorg.flow of C in central metab.paths dur'g growth arrest.diauxic on cert.substr;lags on fresh med.;excretes acetate;maybe no AcCoAsynase&isocitLyase& mal synth.'til glu or glucon.gone
- References:
- Nystrom, T., F.C. Neidhardt 1992. Cloning, mapping, and nucleotide sequencing of a gene encoding a universal stress protein in Escherichia coli. Mol.Microbiol. 6:3187-3198
- Nystrom, T., F.C. Neidhardt 1993. Isolation and properties of a mutant of Escherichia coli with an insertional activation of the uspA gene, which encodes a universal stress protein. J.Bacteriol. 175:3949-3956
- Diez, A.A., A. Farewell, U. Nannmark, T. Nystrom 1997. A mutation in the ftsK gene of Escherichia coli affects cell-cell separation, stationary-phase survival, stress adaptation, and expression of the gene encoding the stress protein UspA. J.Bacteriol.
- Freestone, P., T. Nystrom, M. Trinei, V. Norris 1997. The universal stress protein, UspA, of Escherichia coli is phosphorylated in response to stasis. J.Mol.Biol. 274:318-324
- Gustavsson, N., A. Diez, T. Nystrom 2002. The universal stress protein paralogues of Escherichia coli are co-ordinately regulated and co-operate in the defence against DNA damage. Mol.Microbiol. 43:107-117