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, tagA-tagB, tagDEF, tuaA-H)
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Folate
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

• Locus tag: BSU29110

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

phosphate metabolism, transcription factors and their control, sporulation proteins, general stress proteins (controlled by SigB), membrane proteins, phosphoproteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Genes controlled by PhoP

• Activation by PhoP: phoP-phoR PubMed, pstS-pstC-pstA-pstBA-pstBB PubMed

• 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: phosphorylation stimulates DNA-binding activity

• Interactions: PhoP-PhoP, PhoP-PhoR

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 1MVO (receiver domain)

• UniProt: P13792

• 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

Marion Hulett, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Homepage