Identification of Fur regulated genes in the bacterial fish pathogen Photobacterium damselae ssp. piscicida using the Fur titration assay.
Biometals, 2004/12;17(6):725-33.
Osorio CR[1], Lemos ML, Braun V
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Abstract
Bacteria have developed a series of iron-scavenging and transport systems. The expression of many of the iron utilization genes is tightly regulated by the Fe2+ loaded Fur repressor protein. In this study, the Fur titration assay (FURTA) was used to screen for DNA fragments from a genomic DNA library of Photobacterium damselae ssp. piscicida containing potential Fe2+ Fur binding sites or iron binding-proteins which withdraw iron from Fur. One of the clones encoded a tonB gene and adjacent a functionally related exbB gene. An additional and complete tonB exbB exbD gene cluster was identified and sequenced. A gene homologous to the ferritin gene was found whose FURTA-positive phenotype may be explained by its iron-binding ability. Genes encoding a putative complete iron-regulated outer membrane transport protein and a pseudogene of a transport protein were found. The FURTA assay also revealed iron regulation of the AraC type transcriptional regulation.
MeSH terms
Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Bacterial Proteins; Base Sequence; Binding Sites; Biological Transport; DNA; Ferritins; Fishes; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; Gene Library; Iron; Lac Operon; Models, Biological; Models, Genetic; Molecular Sequence Data; Multigene Family; Open Reading Frames; Phenotype; Photobacterium; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Repressor Proteins; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Transcription, Genetic
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