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ORGANISM(S): Mycobacterium tuberculosis
SUBMITTER: G Rodriguez
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-70812 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Molecular microbiology 20151001 6
The pathogenic mycobacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes two members of the DtxR/MntR family of metalloregulators, IdeR and SirR. IdeR represses gene expression in response to ferrous iron, and we here demonstrate that SirR (Rv2788), although also annotated as an iron-dependent repressor, functions instead as a manganese-dependent transcriptional repressor and is therefore renamed MntR. MntR regulates transporters that promote manganese import and genes that respond to metal ion deficienc ...[more]