PMID:11931550
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Hantke, K (2002) Members of the Fur protein family regulate iron and zinc transport in E. coli and characteristics of the Fur-regulated fhuF protein. J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 4:217-22 |
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| Abstract |
The regulator Fur represses with Fe2+ as cofactor iron uptake genes. The fhuF gene reacts very sensitive to minor changes of Fe2+ and Fur. It is assumed that FhuF helps in the mobilisation of iron out of the hydroxamate siderophores transported into the cell. Analysis of the protein revealed an unusual [2Fe-2S] cluster bound to a Cys-Cys-X10-Cys-X2-Cys motif in FhuF. suf genes responsible for the synthesis of the iron sulfur center were identified. The Zur protein shows 27% identity to the Fur protein of E. coli. It regulates as a repressor the high affinity uptake system znuACB. Only two additional Zur binding sites in the promoter region of genes with unknown function were found. Properties of Zur and Fur proteins from different bacteria are compared. |
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Amino Acid Sequence; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry; Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics; Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; Iron/metabolism; Iron-Binding Proteins; Molecular Sequence Data; Periplasmic Binding Proteins; Repressor Proteins/chemistry; Repressor Proteins/genetics; Repressor Proteins/metabolism; Zinc/metabolism |
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