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The periplasmic dipeptide permease system transports 5-aminolevulinic acid in Escherichia coli.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 1993
Verkamp E, Backman V M, Björnsson J M, Söll D, Eggertsson G
Abstract excerpt
In a genetic screen designed to generate Escherichia coli strains completely devoid of the heme precursor 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), we isolated a class of mutants which were defective for exogenous ALA uptake. The mutations, designated alu (ALA uptake), mapped to the 80-min region of the E. coli chromosome. They were complemented by a recombinant plasmid containing the dpp operon, which encodes a dipeptide...
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