Deletion of a fur-like gene affects iron homeostasis and magnetosome formation in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4192-4204

  Uebe, René ^a   Voigt, Birgit ^b   Schweder, Thomas ^b   Albrecht, Dirk ^b   Katzmann, Emanuel ^a   Lang, Claus ^a   Böttger, Lars ^c   Matzanke, Berthold ^c   Schüler, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IRON; MAGNETITE; RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IRON UPTAKE REGULATION PROTEIN, BACTERIA; IRON-UPTAKE REGULATION PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PROTEOME; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BIOMINERALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUR GENE; GENE DELETION; HOMEOSTASIS; IRON TRANSPORT; MAGNETOSOME; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM GRYPHISWALDENSE; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; TITRIMETRY; WILD TYPE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOSOL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM GRYPHISWALDENSE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOSOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HOMEOSTASIS; IRON; MAGNETOSOMES; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955979901     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00319-10     Document Type: Article

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