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:
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• 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

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed