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
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

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Phenotypes of a mutant

No swarming motility on B medium. PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Extended information on the protein

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• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-215 PubMed

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Database entries

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• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [3]

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Expression and regulation

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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

References

1. Macek et al. (2007) The serine/ threonine/ tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Cell. Proteomics 6: 697-707 PubMed
2. Kim, H. J., S. I. Kim, M. Ratnayake-Lecamwasam, K. Tachikawa, A. L. Sonenshein, and M. Strauch. (2003) Complex regulation of the Bacillus subtilis aconitase gene. J. Bacteriol. 185:1672-1680. PubMed
3. Hamze et al. (2009) Identification of genes required for different stages of dendritic swarming in Bacillus subtilis, with a novel role for phrC. Microbiology 155: 398-412. PubMed
4. Molle V, Nakura Y, Shivers RP, Yamaguchi H, Losick R, Fujita Y, Sonenshein AL: Additional targets of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY identified by chromatin immunoprecipitation and genome-wide transcript analysis. J Bacteriol 2003, 185:1911-1922. PubMed
5. Sonenshein AL: CodY, a global regulator of stationary phase and virulence in Gram-positive bacteria. Curr Opin Microbiol 2005, 8:203-207. PubMed
6. Ratnayake-Lecamwasam M, Serror P, Wong KW, Sonenshein AL: Bacillus subtilis CodY represses early-stationary-phase genes by sensing GTP levels. Genes Dev 2001, 15:1093-1103.PubMed
7. Shivers RP, Sonenshein AL: Activation of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY by direct interaction with branched-chain amino acids. Mol Microbiol 2004, 53:599-611. PubMed
8. Serror P, Sonenshein AL: Interaction of CodY, the novel Bacillus subtilis DNA-binding protein, with the dpp promoter region. Mol Microbiol 1996, 20:843-852. PubMed
9. Joseph P, Ratnayake-Lecamwasam M, Sonenshein AL: A region of Bacillus subtilis CodY protein required for interaction with DNA. J Bacteriol 2005, 187:4127-4139. PubMed
10. Shivers RP, Sonenshein AL: Bacillus subtilis ilvB operon: an intersection of global regulons. Mol Microbiol 2005, 56:1549-1559. PubMed
11. Tojo S, Satomura T, Morisaki K, Deutscher J, Hirooka K, Fujita Y: 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, 56:1560-1573. PubMed
12. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed