Oguiza J A, Tao X, Marcos A T, Martín J F, Murphy J R
Area of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of León, Spain.
J Bacteriol. 1995 Jan;177(2):465-7. doi: 10.1128/jb.177.2.465-467.1995.
A homolog of the Corynebacterium diphtheriae dtxR gene was isolated from Brevibacterium lactofermentum. The product of the B. lactofermentum dtxR gene was immunoreactive with polyclonal anti-DtxR antibodies and functioned as an iron-activated repressor capable of regulating the expression of beta-galactosidase from a diphtheria tox promoter/operator transcriptional fusion in recombinant Escherichia coli. The extents of induction by increasing concentrations of the chelator 2,2'-dipyridyl were identical in cells expressing DtxR from either C. diphtheriae or B. lactofermentum.
从乳酸发酵短杆菌中分离出了与白喉棒状杆菌dtxR基因同源的基因。乳酸发酵短杆菌dtxR基因的产物与多克隆抗DtxR抗体发生免疫反应,并作为一种铁激活阻遏物发挥作用,能够调节重组大肠杆菌中来自白喉毒素启动子/操纵子转录融合体的β-半乳糖苷酶的表达。在表达来自白喉棒状杆菌或乳酸发酵短杆菌的DtxR的细胞中,随着螯合剂2,2'-联吡啶浓度的增加,诱导程度是相同的。