PhoP

• Description: two-component response regulator, regulation of phosphate metabolism
  
  

Gene name	phoP
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	two-component response regulator
Function	regulation of phosphate metabolism (phoA, phoB, phoD, resABCDE, tagAB, tagDEF, tuaA-H)
MW, pI	27 kDa, 5.068
Gene length, protein length	720 bp, 240 aa
Immediate neighbours	phoR, mdh
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Genes controlled by PhoP

• Activation by PhoP: phoP-phoR

• Repression by PhoP:

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation by PhoR under conditions of phosphate limitation (stimulates DNA-binding activity)

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: PhoP-PhoP, PhoP-PhoR

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: phoP-phoR

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (4.3-fold) (CcpA) PubMed, induced by phosphate limitation (PhoP), carbon catabolite repression (CcpA)

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression, PhoP: transcription activation, CcpA: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed