Analysis of the Escherichia coli gntT and gntU genes and comparison of the products with their homologues.
The Escherichia coli gluconate permease genes, gntT ant gntU, were cloned and characterized. At least four homologues to GntT were found in E. coli by database searching. These proteins including GntT and GntU appear to have similar topological structures with 14 membrane-spanning segments, suggesting that they constitute a GntP family.
Yamada
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Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Japan. yamada@agr.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
Kawai
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Izu
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial / Q000502:physiology*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009876:Operon; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; C104633:gluconate permease, E coli