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Journal of Bacteriology, December 1999, p. 7381-7384, Vol. 181, No. 23
Department of Microbiology, College of
Natural Sciences, and Research Center for Molecular Microbiology,
Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
Received 19 May 1999/Accepted 13 September 1999
In Streptomyces coelicolor, transcription of the
sodF genes, encoding Fe-containing superoxide dismutases,
is negatively regulated by nickel. Gel mobility shift assays with
sodF1 promoter fragments and cell extracts from the A3(2)
strain indicate the presence of a nickel-responsive DNA-binding
protein, most likely a transcriptional repressor. The boundary for the
Ni-responsive cis-acting region was identified both in
vitro and vivo. Ni does not regulate the level of the putative
repressor but only the binding competence of this protein.
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Negative Regulation of the Gene for Fe-Containing
Superoxide Dismutase by an Ni-Responsive Factor in
Streptomyces coelicolor


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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea. Phone: 82-2-880-6706. Fax: 82-2-888-4911. E-mail:
jhroe{at}plaza.snu.ac.kr.
Present address: Laboratory of Pathology, DCS, NCI, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Present address: Department of Molecular and Experimental
Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
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