CodY

• Description: regulation of a large regulon in response to branched-chain amino acid limitation
  
  

Gene name	codY
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional pleiotropic repressor
Function	regulation of a large regulon in response to branched-chain amino acid limitation to the presence of branched-chain amino acids
MW, pI	28 kDa, 4.75
Gene length, protein length	777 bp, 259 aa
Immediate neighbours	clpY, flgB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16170

Phenotypes of a mutant

No swarming motility on B medium. PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: codY family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains: contains a GAF domain (ligand binding domain)

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-215 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2B0L (C-terminal DNA-binding domain), 2GX5 (N-terminal Gaf domain)

• Swiss prot entry: P39779

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Linc Sonenshein, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA Homepage

Tony Wilkinson, York University, U.K. homepage

Oscar Kuipers, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Homepage

References

Vladimir M Levdikov, Elena Blagova, Vicki L Colledge, Andrey A Lebedev, David C Williamson, Abraham L Sonenshein, Anthony J Wilkinson
Structural rearrangement accompanying ligand binding in the GAF domain of CodY from Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2009, 390(5);1007-18
[PubMed:19500589] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Kassem Hamze, Daria Julkowska, Sabine Autret, Krzysztof Hinc, Krzysztofa Nagorska, Agnieszka Sekowska, I Barry Holland, Simone J Séror
Identification of genes required for different stages of dendritic swarming in Bacillus subtilis, with a novel role for phrC.
Microbiology (Reading): 2009, 155(Pt 2);398-412
[PubMed:19202088] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Boris Macek, Ivan Mijakovic, Jesper V Olsen, Florian Gnad, Chanchal Kumar, Peter R Jensen, Matthias Mann
The serine/threonine/tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Cell Proteomics: 2007, 6(4);697-707
[PubMed:17218307] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Pascale Joseph, Manoja Ratnayake-Lecamwasam, Abraham L Sonenshein
A region of Bacillus subtilis CodY protein required for interaction with DNA.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(12);4127-39
[PubMed:15937175] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Shigeo Tojo, Takenori Satomura, Kaori Morisaki, Josef Deutscher, Kazutake Hirooka, Yasutaro Fujita
Elaborate transcription regulation of the Bacillus subtilis ilv-leu operon involved in the biosynthesis of branched-chain amino acids through global regulators of CcpA, CodY and TnrA.
Mol Microbiol: 2005, 56(6);1560-73
[PubMed:15916606] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Robert P Shivers, Abraham L Sonenshein
Bacillus subtilis ilvB operon: an intersection of global regulons.
Mol Microbiol: 2005, 56(6);1549-59
[PubMed:15916605] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Abraham L Sonenshein
CodY, a global regulator of stationary phase and virulence in Gram-positive bacteria.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2005, 8(2);203-7
[PubMed:15802253] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Robert P Shivers, Abraham L Sonenshein
Activation of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY by direct interaction with branched-chain amino acids.
Mol Microbiol: 2004, 53(2);599-611
[PubMed:15228537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Virginie Molle, Yoshiko Nakaura, Robert P Shivers, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Richard Losick, Yasutaro Fujita, Abraham L Sonenshein
Additional targets of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY identified by chromatin immunoprecipitation and genome-wide transcript analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(6);1911-22
[PubMed:12618455] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hyun-Jin Kim, Sam-In Kim, Manoja Ratnayake-Lecamwasam, Kiyoshi Tachikawa, Abraham L Sonenshein, Mark Strauch
Complex regulation of the Bacillus subtilis aconitase gene.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(5);1672-80
[PubMed:12591885] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Ratnayake-Lecamwasam, P Serror, K W Wong, A L Sonenshein
Bacillus subtilis CodY represses early-stationary-phase genes by sensing GTP levels.
Genes Dev: 2001, 15(9);1093-103
[PubMed:11331605] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Serror, A L Sonenshein
Interaction of CodY, a novel Bacillus subtilis DNA-binding protein, with the dpp promoter region.
Mol Microbiol: 1996, 20(4);843-52
[PubMed:8793880] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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