PhoR

• Description: two-component sensor kinase, regulation of phosphate metabolism
  
  

Gene name	phoR
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	two-component sensor kinase
Function	regulation of phosphate metabolism
MW, pI	64 kDa, 5.957
Gene length, protein length	1737 bp, 579 aa
Immediate neighbours	polA, phoP
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29100

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: autophosphorylation, phosphorylation of PhoP

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains: two transmembrane segments, C-terminal histidine phosphotransferase domain

• Modification: autophosphorylation on a His residue

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: PhoP-PhoR

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 3CWF (extracellular PAS domain) PubMed

• UniProt: P23545

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: phoP-phoR PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed, SigB PubMed, SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • carbon catabolite repression (CcpA) PubMed
  • expressed under conditions of phosphate limitation (PhoP) PubMed
  • expressed in post-exponential phase (ScoC) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed
  • PhoP: transcription activation PubMed
  • ScoC: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

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