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)
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: phoP
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: PhoP
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: phoP
MW, pI	27 kDa, 5.068
Gene length, protein length	720 bp, 240 aa
Immediate neighbours	phoR, mdh
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

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

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CcpA regulon, PhoP regulon, SigB regulon, SigE regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29110

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU29110

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

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

• BsubCyc: BSU29110

• Structure: 1MVO (receiver domain)

• UniProt: P13792

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: phoP-phoR PubMed

• Expression browser: phoP 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:
  • number of protein molecules per cell (minimal medium with glucose and ammonium): 90 PubMed
  • number of protein molecules per cell (complex medium with amino acids, without glucose): 706 PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • 1A966 ( phoP::tet), PubMed, available at BGSC

• 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

References

Regulation of phoP-phoR expression

Bindiya Kaushal, Salbi Paul, F Marion Hulett
Direct regulation of Bacillus subtilis phoPR transcription by transition state regulator ScoC.
J Bacteriol: 2010, 192(12);3103-13
[PubMed:20382764] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ankita Puri-Taneja, Salbi Paul, Yinghua Chen, F Marion Hulett
CcpA causes repression of the phoPR promoter through a novel transcription start site, P(A6).
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(4);1266-78
[PubMed:16452408] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Salbi Paul, Stephanie Birkey, Wei Liu, F Marion Hulett
Autoinduction of Bacillus subtilis phoPR operon transcription results from enhanced transcription from EsigmaA- and EsigmaE-responsive promoters by phosphorylated PhoP.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(13);4262-75
[PubMed:15205429] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Zoltán Prágai, Nicholas E E Allenby, Nicola O'Connor, Sarah Dubrac, Georges Rapoport, Tarek Msadek, Colin R Harwood
Transcriptional regulation of the phoPR operon in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(4);1182-90
[PubMed:14762014] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hans-Matti Blencke, Georg Homuth, Holger Ludwig, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Hecker, Jörg Stülke
Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways.
Metab Eng: 2003, 5(2);133-49
[PubMed:12850135] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Targets of PhoR

Additional publications: PubMed