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. 1995 Jan;177(1):268–270. doi: 10.1128/jb.177.1.268-270.1995

Bordetella pertussis fur gene restores iron repressibility of siderophore and protein expression to deregulated Bordetella bronchiseptica mutants.

T J Brickman 1, S K Armstrong 1
PMCID: PMC176585  PMID: 7798143

Abstract

We report the isolation and preliminary phenotypic characterization of manganese-resistant Bordetella bronchiseptica mutants with respect to deregulation of siderophore and iron-regulated protein expression. The fur gene of Bordetella pertussis was cloned by genetic complementation of this deregulated phenotype and confirmed as fur by nucleotide sequence analysis.

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