Ferric Uptake Regulator (FUR) protein: properties and implications in cyanobacteria

Annals of Microbiology

Table 3 Mode of regulation of different Fur protein along with their targets

Fur homologues	Mode of regulation	Target	References
Escherichia coli Fur	Negative	All iron uptake systems	Pressler et al. 1988; Bagg and Neilands. 1987
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Fur	Negative	Many genes	Barton et al. 1996
Vibrio cholerae Fur	Negative	Various systems	Litwin et al. 1992
Vibrio anguillarum Fur	Negative	Fat and ang systems	Salinas et al. 1989
Vibrio anguillarum Fur	Positive	RNAα expression	Salinas et al. 1989
Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 (FurA)	Negative	All iron responsive genes	Hernandez et al. 2004a; Gonzalez et al. 2012
	Positive	Expression of α-furA mRNA	Hernandez et al. 2006b; Gonzalez et al. 2014
	Positive	Expression of several gene regulating various functions, for example psaK, amt4, hetC, patA, alr1278, asr1734 etc.	Hernandez et al. 2006b; Gonzalez et al. 2014

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