The mannitol operon repressor MtlR belongs to a new class of transcription regulators in bacteria.
Tan, K., Clancy, S., Borovilos, M., Zhou, M., Horer, S., Moy, S., Volkart, L.L., Sassoon, J., Baumann, U., Joachimiak, A.(2009) J Biol Chem 284: 36670-36679
- PubMed: 19840941 
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M109.062679
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3BRJ, 3C8G - PubMed Abstract: 
Many bacteria express phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase systems (PTS). The mannitol-specific PTS catalyze the uptake and phosphorylation of d-mannitol. The uptake system comprises several genes encoded in the single operon. The expression of the mannitol operon is regulated by a proposed transcriptional factor, mannitol operon repressor (MtlR) that was first studied in Escherichia coli ...