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Site phnB

• Name: phnB
• Type: Renamed or Defunct Genes
• Mnemonic: phosphonate
• Left End Point: 93.13
• Right End Point: 93.14
• Direction: <
• Properties:

  Property	Comment
  pho regulon	NULL

  
  
• Priority: 0
  1 Alleles of This Gene

  phnB732(del)::kan

  
  
• Comment:
• References:
  • Chen, C.M., Q.Z. Ye, Z.M. Zhu, B.L. Wanner, C.T. Walsh 1990. Molecular biology of carbon-phosphorus bond cleavage. Cloning and sequencing of the phn (psiD) genes involved in alkylphosphonate uptake and C-P lyase activity in Escherichia coli B. J.Biol.C
  
  
  • Makino, K., S.K. Kim, H. Shinagawa, M. Amemura, A. Nakata 1991. Molecular analysis of the cryptic and functional phn operons for phosphonate use in Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 173:2665-2612
  
  
  • Metcalf, W.W., B.L. Wanner 1991. Involvement of the Escherichia coli phn (psiD) gene cluster in assimilation of phosphorus in the form of phosphonates, phosphite, Pi esters, and Pi. J.Bacteriol. 173:587-600
  
  
  • Wanner, B.L., W.W. Metcalf 1992. Molecular genetic studies of a 10.9-kb operon in Escherichia coli for phosphonate uptake and biodegradation. FEMS Microbiol.Lett. 79:133-139
  
  
  • Metcalf, W.W., B.L. Wanner 1993. Mutational analysis of an Escherichia coli fourteen-gene operon for phosphonate degradation, using TnphoA' elements. J.Bacteriol. 175:3430-3442