PhoD

• Description: phosphodiesterase/alkaline phosphatase
  
  

Gene name	phoD
Synonyms	ycbS
Essential	no
Product	phosphodiesterase/alkaline phosphatase
Function	aquisition of phosphate upon phosphoate starvation
MW, pI	62 kDa, 8.394
Gene length, protein length	1668 bp, 556 aa
Immediate neighbours	ycbR, tatAD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

phosphate metabolism

This gene is a member of the following regulons

PhoP regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU02620

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: A phosphate monoester + H₂O = an alcohol + phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: TatAD-PhoD PubMed

• Localization: extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed, secreted by the TatAD-TatCD complex PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P42251

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.1.3.1

Expression and regulation

• Operon: phoD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed under conditions of phosphate limitation (PhoP) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PhoP: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Oscar Kuipers, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Homepage

References

Anja N J A Ridder, Esther J de Jong, Jan D H Jongbloed, Oscar P Kuipers
Subcellular localization of TatAd of Bacillus subtilis depends on the presence of TatCd or TatCy.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(13);4410-8
[PubMed:19395490] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Robyn T Eijlander, Magdalena A Kolbusz, Erwin M Berendsen, Oscar P Kuipers
Effects of altered TatC proteins on protein secretion efficiency via the twin-arginine translocation pathway of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2009, 155(Pt 6);1776-1785
[PubMed:19383693] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Thijs R H M Kouwen, René van der Ploeg, Haike Antelmann, Michael Hecker, Georg Homuth, Ulrike Mäder, Jan Maarten van Dijl
Overflow of a hyper-produced secretory protein from the Bacillus Sec pathway into the Tat pathway for protein secretion as revealed by proteogenomics.
Proteomics: 2009, 9(4);1018-32
[PubMed:19180538] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Birgit Voigt, Haike Antelmann, Dirk Albrecht, Armin Ehrenreich, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Stefan Evers, Gerhard Gottschalk, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Thomas Schweder, Michael Hecker
Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol: 2009, 16(1-2);53-68
[PubMed:18957862] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ovidiu I Pop, Martin Westermann, Rudolf Volkmer-Engert, Daniela Schulz, Cornelius Lemke, Sandra Schreiber, Roman Gerlach, Reinhard Wetzker, Jörg P Müller
Sequence-specific binding of prePhoD to soluble TatAd indicates protein-mediated targeting of the Tat export in Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 2003, 278(40);38428-36
[PubMed:12867413] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jan D H Jongbloed, Haike Antelmann, Michael Hecker, Reindert Nijland, Sierd Bron, Ulla Airaksinen, Frens Pries, Wim J Quax, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Peter G Braun
Selective contribution of the twin-arginine translocation pathway to protein secretion in Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 2002, 277(46);44068-78
[PubMed:12218047] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H Antelmann, C Scharf, M Hecker
Phosphate starvation-inducible proteins of Bacillus subtilis: proteomics and transcriptional analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2000, 182(16);4478-90
[PubMed:10913081] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J P Müller, M Wagner
Localisation of the cell wall-associated phosphodiesterase PhoD of Bacillus subtilis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 1999, 180(2);287-96
[PubMed:10556724] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Eder, W Liu, F M Hulett
Mutational analysis of the phoD promoter in Bacillus subtilis: implications for PhoP binding and promoter activation of Pho regulon promoters.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(7);2017-25
[PubMed:10094677] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Eder, L Shi, K Jensen, K Yamane, F M Hulett
A Bacillus subtilis secreted phosphodiesterase/alkaline phosphatase is the product of a Pho regulon gene, phoD.
Microbiology (Reading): 1996, 142 ( Pt 8);2041-7
[PubMed:8760916] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)