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. 1983 Dec;156(3):1171-7.
doi: 10.1128/jb.156.3.1171-1177.1983.

Regulation of enterobactin iron transport in Escherichia coli: characterization of ent::Mu d(Apr lac) operon fusions

T P Fleming, M S Nahlik, M A McIntosh

Regulation of enterobactin iron transport in Escherichia coli: characterization of ent::Mu d(Apr lac) operon fusions

T P Fleming et al. J Bacteriol. 1983 Dec.

Abstract

The vector Mu d(Apr lac) was utilized to construct operon fusions in the Escherichia coli enterobactin (ent) biosynthetic and transport genes. Enzyme assays indicated a 5- to 15-fold increase in the expression of beta-galactosidase when the fusion strains were grown under iron-deficient conditions. The polarity effects seen by Mu d insertions into entA, entC, and entE were consistent with a single operon, entA(CGB)E. The direction of transcription from iron-regulated promoters was determined by directional transfer of selected genetic markers after the insertion of F'ts114 lac+. Regulatory mutants were isolated in the fusion strains by the selection for constitutive expression of beta-galactosidase and the iron-regulated outer membrane proteins.

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