title: Isolation, characterization, and nucleotide sequence of appY, a regulatory gene for growth-phase-dependent gene expression in Escherichia coli.
abstract: A plasmid carrying a regulator gene, designated appY, was found in the screening of an Escherichia coli gene library for clones overproducing AppA, an acid phosphatase which is induced as a culture approaches the stationary phase. In cells containing multicopy plasmids carrying the appY gene, the expression of the chromosomal appY gene was stimulated 10- to 40-fold in the stationary phase and more than 100-fold during exponential growth. The appA plasmid also changed the rate of synthesis of more than 30 other proteins in a growth-phase-dependent way. The appY gene was mapped to 13 min on the E. coli genetic map. The position of the appY gene on the 4.9-kilobase HindIII fragment of the original clone was located by Tn5 mutagenesis and deletion analysis, and the nucleotide sequence of a 1.9-kilobase region containing the gene was determined. The appY gene product was identified as a weakly expressed 243-amino-acid polypeptide which contains a stretch of 20 amino acids showing very good similarity to the conserved DNA-binding domain of repressors and transcriptional activators.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Atlung
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.forename: F G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Hansen
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005809:Genes, Regulator; D005838:Genotype; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids; D015183:Restriction Mapping
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins