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BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS
卷 46, 期 -, 页码 983-1001出版社
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BST20170228
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- NERC [NE/F004249/1]
- NERC [NE/F004249/1] Funding Source: UKRI
All organisms must regulate the cellular uptake, efflux, and intracellular trafficking of essential elements, including d-block metal ions. In bacteria, such regulation is achieved by the action of metal-responsive transcriptional regulators. Among several families of zinc-responsive transcription factors, the 'zinc uptake regulator' Zur is the most widespread. Zur normally represses transcription in its zinc-bound form, in which DNA-binding affinity is enhanced allosterically. Experimental and bioinformatic searches for Zur-regulated genes have revealed that in many cases, Zur proteins govern zinc homeostasis in a much more profound way than merely through the expression of uptake systems. Zur regulons also comprise biosynthetic clusters for metallophore synthesis, ribosomal proteins, enzymes, and virulence factors. In recognition of the importance of zinc homeostasis at the host-pathogen interface, studying Zur regulons of pathogenic bacteria is a particularly active current research area.
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