CheY

• Description: two-component response regulator, modulation of flagellar switch bias
  
  

Gene name	cheY
Synonyms	cheB
Essential	no
Product	two-component response regulator
Function	modulation of flagellar switch bias
MW, pI	13 kDa, 4.746
Gene length, protein length	360 bp, 120 aa
Immediate neighbours	fliY, fliZ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16330

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

transcription factors and their control, motility and chemotaxis, phosphoproteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylated by CheA on an Asp residue

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: CheY-P-CheC, CheA-CheY

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P24072

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • flgB-flgC-fliE-fliF-fliG-fliH-fliI-fliJ-ylxF-fliK-ylxG-flgE-fliL-fliM-fliY-cheY-fliZ-fliP-fliQ-fliR-flhB-flhA-flhF-ylxH-cheB-cheA-cheW-cheC-cheD-sigD-swrB PubMed
  • ylxF-fliK-ylxG-flgE-fliL-fliM-fliY-cheY-fliZ-fliP-fliQ-fliR-flhB-flhA-flhF-ylxH-cheB-cheA-cheW-cheC-cheD-sigD-swrB PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • flgB: SigA PubMed, SigD PubMed
  • ylxF: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed under conditions that trigger sporulation (Spo0A) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Spo0A: transcription repression PubMed
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed
  • DegU (non-phosphorylated): transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: