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Site malQ

• Name: malQ
• Type: Gene
  Synonyms

  b3416	MG1655 locus tag

  
  
• Mnemonic: Maltose
• Left End Point: 76.43
• Right End Point: 76.47
  Products:

  amylomaltase

  
  
• Direction: <
• Priority: 1
  4 Alleles of This Gene

  malQ25

  malQ63(Am)

  malQ750(del)::kan

  malQ793-YFP(::cat)

  
  
• External Database Links:

  Host Site	Page Links
  NCBI/GenBank	M32793
  NCBI/GenBank	J01647
  EcoGene.org	EG10561
  EcoliWiki	malQ

  
  
• Comment:
  • (part of what was {\it malA}. Selectable phenotype. Increase, regulatory mutation, in malT-: growth on maltose. Loss: deleted with malT.
• References:
  • Schwartz, M. 1966. Location of the maltose A and B loci on the genetic map of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 92:1083-1089
  
  
  • Hofnung, M., M. Schwartz 1971. Mutations allowing growth on maltose of Escherichia coli K12 strains with a deleted malT gene. Mol.Gen.Genet. 112:117-132
  
  
  • Hofnung, M., M. Schwartz, D. Hatfield 1971. Complementation studies in the maltose-A region of the Escherichia coli K12 genetic map. J.Mol.Biol. 61:681-694
  
  
  • Hofnung, M., A. Jezierska, C. Braun-Breton 1976. lamB mutations in E. coli K-12: growth of lambda host range mutants and effect of nonsense suppressors. Mol.Gen.Genet. 145:207-213
  
  
  • Pugsley, A.P., C. Dubreuil 1988. Molecular characterization of malQ, the structural gene for the Escherichia coli enzyme amylomaltase. Mol.Microbiol. 2:473-479