The iron dependent regulatory protein IdeR (DtxR) of Rhodococcus equi.

This paper reports the presence of an ideR gene, which encodes an iron-dependent regulatory protein, in Rhodococcus erythropolis and in the intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi. The ideR gene of the latter encoded a protein of 230 amino acids with a molecular mass of 25619. The alpha-helices forming the helix-turn-helix motif of the R. equi protein were identical to those of the DtxR protein of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which is an IdeR homologue. This indicates that the two proteins bind to the same DNA binding site. This was confirmed following expression of IdeR in Escherichia coli, which showed that the IdeR protein could repress transcription of the tox promoter of C. diphtheriae in an iron dependent manner. An open reading frame specifying a 283-amino acid polypeptide similar to galE encoding UDP-galactose 4-epimerase was present downstream of the ideR gene.

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