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ORGANISM(S): Streptococcus pneumoniae D39
SUBMITTER: Sulman Shafeeq
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-30414 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Shafeeq Sulman S Yesilkaya Hasan H Kloosterman Tomas G TG Narayanan Geetha G Wandel Michal M Andrew Peter W PW Kuipers Oscar P OP Morrissey Julie A JA
Molecular microbiology 20110719 5
High levels of copper are toxic and therefore bacteria must limit free intracellular levels to prevent cellular damage. In this study, we show that a number of pneumococcal genes are differentially regulated by copper, including an operon encoding a CopY regulator, a protein of unknown function (CupA) and a P1-type ATPase, CopA, which is conserved in all sequenced Streptococcus pneumoniae strains. Transcriptional analysis demonstrated that the cop operon is induced by copper in vitro, repressed ...[more]