PMID:8407793
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Kammler, M, Schön, C and Hantke, K (1993) Characterization of the ferrous iron uptake system of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 175:6212-9 |
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| Abstract |
Escherichia coli has an iron(II) transport system (feo) which may make an important contribution to the iron supply of the cell under anaerobic conditions. Cloning and sequencing of the iron(II) transport genes revealed an open reading frame (feoA) possibly coding for a small protein with 75 amino acids and a membrane protein with 773 amino acids (feoB). The upstream region of feoAB contained a binding site for the regulatory protein Fur, which acts with iron(II) as a corepressor in all known iron transport systems of E. coli. In addition, a Fnr binding site was identified in the promoter region. The FeoB protein had an apparent molecular mass of 70 kDa in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and was localized in the cytoplasmic membrane. The sequence revealed regions of homology to ATPases, which indicates that ferrous iron uptake may be ATP driven. FeoA or FeoB mutants could be complemented by clones with the feoA or feoB gene, respectively. |
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Adenosine Triphosphatases/genetics; Aerobiosis; Amino Acid Sequence; Anaerobiosis; Animals; Base Sequence; Binding Sites; Biological Transport/genetics; Cattle; Chromosomes, Bacterial; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli/growth & development; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Genes, Bacterial; Genotype; Iron/metabolism; Kinetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Open Reading Frames; Phenotype; Plasmids; Restriction Mapping; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid |
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