Site dapC
- Name: dapC
- Type: Renamed or Defunct Genes
- Synonyms
argD Ledwidge and Blanchard, 1999 - Mnemonic: Diaminopimelate
- Left End Point: 3.95
- Right End Point: 3.97
- Products:
succinyl-diaminopimelate aminotransferase - Direction: <
- Priority: 1
- Comment:
- A {\it dapD} mutation in AT997 was originally incorrectly characterized as {\it dapC}, corrected in 1984 to {\it dapD} and in 1999 Ledwidge and Blanchard demonstrated that DapC activity = ArgD.
- References:
- Bukhari, A.I., A.L. Taylor 1971. Genetic analysis of diaminopimelic acid- and lysine-requiring mutants of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 105:844-854
- Garcia, G.M., M. Federici, S.G. Rhee, M.A. Berberich 1980. Glutamine synthetase cascade: enrichment of uridylytransferase in Escherichia coli carrying hybrid ColE1 plasmids. Arch.Biochem. 203:181-189
- Ledwidge, R., J.S. Blanchard 1999. The dual biosynthetic capability of N-acetylornithine aminotransferase in arginine and lysine biosynthesis. Biochemistry 38:3019-3024