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The narJ gene product is required for biogenesis of respiratory nitrate reductase in Escherichia coli.

Abstract：

:Respiratory nitrate reductase purified from the cell membrane of Escherichia coli is composed of three subunits, alpha, beta, and gamma, which are encoded, respectively, by the narG, narH, and narI genes of the narGHJI operon. The product of the narJ gene was deduced previously to be a highly charged, acidic protein which was not found to be associated with any of the purified preparations of the enzyme and which, in studies with putative narJ mutants, did not appear to be absolutely required for formation of the membrane-bound enzyme. To test this latter hypothesis, the narJ gene was disrupted in a plasmid which contained the complete narGHJI operon, and the operon was expressed in a narG::Tn10 insertion mutant. The chromosomal copy of the narJ gene of a wild-type strain was also replaced by the disrupted narJ gene. In both cases, when nar operon expression was induced, the alpha and beta subunits accumulated in a form which expressed only very low activity with either reduced methyl viologen (MVH) or formate as electron donors, although an alpha-beta complex separated from the gamma subunit is known to catalyze full MVH-linked activity but not the formate-linked activity associated with the membrane-bound complex. The low-activity forms of the alpha and beta subunits also accumulated in the absence of the NarJ protein when the gamma subunit (NarI) was provided from a multicopy plasmid, indicating that NarJ is essential for the formation of the active, membrane-bound complex. When both NarJ and NarI were provided from a plasmid in the narJ mutant, fully active, membrane-bound activity was formed. When NarJ only was provided from a plasmid in the narJ mutant, a cytosolic form of the alpha and beta subunits, which expressed significantly increased levels of the MVH-dependent activity, accumulated, and the alpha subunit appeared to be protected from the proteolytic clipping which occurred in the absence of NarJ. We conclude that NarJ is indispensible for the biogenesis of membrane-bound nitrate reductase and is involved either in the maturation of a soluble, active alpha-beta complex or in facilitating the interaction of the complex with the membrane-bound gamma subunit.

journal_name

J Bacteriol

journal_title

Journal of bacteriology

authors

Dubourdieu M,DeMoss JA

doi

10.1128/jb.174.3.867-872.1992

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-02-01 00:00:00

pages

867-72

issue

eissn

0021-9193

issn

1098-5530

journal_volume

174

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The narJ gene product is required for biogenesis of respiratory nitrate reductase in Escherichia coli.