Site appY
- Name: appY
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0564 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: acid (poly)phosphatase
- Left End Point: 12.57
- Right End Point: 12.58
- Products:
M5 polypeptide - Direction: >
- Properties:
Property Comment encodes NA-binding protein probably regulatory gene NULL - Priority: 0
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
appY773(del)::kan - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links EcoGene.org EG10050 EcoliWiki appY - Comment:
- Is this a third global regulator of energy metabolism genes? Controls hydrogenase 1 (hya) and appA operons. Induced by PO4 starvation and by stat-phase.
- References:
- Kemp, E.H., N.P. Minton, N.H. Mann 1987. Complete nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence of the M5 polypeptide gene of Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res. 15:3924
- Atlung, T., A. Nielsen, F.G. Hansen 1989. Isolation, characterization, and nucleotide sequence of appY, a regulatory gene for growth-phase-dependent gene expression in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 171:1683-1691
- Atlung, T., L. Brondsted 1994. Role of the transcriptional activator AppY in regulation of the cyx appA operon of Escherichia coli by anaerobiosis, phosphate starvation, and growth phase. J.Bacteriol. 176:5414-5422
- Holmes, Z., U. Henning 1994. Location of the ompT gene relative to that of appY on the physical map of the Escherichia coli chromosome. Mol.Gen.Genet. 242:363-364
- Atlung, T., S. Sund, K. Olesen, L. Brondsted 1996. The histone-like protein H-NS acts as a transcriptional repressor for expression of the anaerobic and growth phase activator AppY of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 178:3418-3425
- Brondsted, L., T. Atlung 1996. Effect of growth conditions on expression of the acid phosphatase (cyx-appA) operon and the appY gene, which encodes a transcriptional activator of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 178:1556-1564