title: CodY is required for nutritional repression of Bacillus subtilis genetic competence.
abstract: The acquisition of genetic competence by Bacillus subtilis is repressed when the growth medium contains Casamino Acids. This repression was shown to be exerted at the level of expression from the promoters of the competence-regulatory genes srfA and comK and was relieved in strains carrying a null mutation in the codY gene. DNase I footprinting experiments showed that purified CodY binds directly to the srfA and comK promoter regions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Serror
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Sonenshein
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism; D018983:DNA Footprinting; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010453:Peptide Synthases / Q000235:genetics; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D011485:Protein Binding; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C017721:casamino acids; C087449:comK protein, Bacillus subtilis; D004247:DNA; D010453:Peptide Synthases; C069542:surfactin synthetase