M. Yamada et al., ANALYSIS OF THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI GNTT AND GNTU GENES AND COMPARISON OF THE PRODUCTS WITH THEIR HOMOLOGS, Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 60(9), 1996, pp. 1548-1550
The Escherichia call gluconate permease genes, gntT ant gntU, were clo
ned 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-spannin
g segments, suggesting that they constitute a GntP family.