Abstract:
:The enzyme complex nitrogenase, which reduces N2 to NH+4, involves two redox proteins, both irreversibly damaged by O2 (ref. 1). Enzyme activity therefore requires anaerobic conditions, a source of reductant and a large amount of ATP (approximately 16 ATPs per N2). In both aerobic and facultative anaerobic N2-fixing bacteria, nitrogenase synthesis is regulated by O2 and NH+4, but in the aerobes there are also processes to protect the enzyme from O2 damage. The mechanisms of repression by O2 and NH+4 seem to be independent in the organisms so far examined. In the facultative anaerobe, Klebsiella pneumoniae, O2 was shown to repress nitrogenase synthesis in an NH+4-constitutive strain. The fusion of the Escherichia coli lacZ gene into each transcriptional unit of the nitrogen fixation (nif) gene cluster in K. pneumoniae has facilitated studies with O2, because expression from the various nif promoters results in an O2-stable product (beta-galactosidase). Notably, the nifHDK operon (the nitrogenase structural genes) was more sensitive to O2 repression than the nifLA operon (regulatory genes). The characterization of mutants, reported here, indicates the involvement of a nif-regulatory gene product in the mechanism of O2 control of nitrogenase synthesis.
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Naturejournal_title
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Hill S,Kennedy C,Kavanagh E,Goldberg RB,Hanau Rdoi
10.1038/290424a0subject
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1981-04-02 00:00:00pages
424-6issue
5805eissn
0028-0836issn
1476-4687journal_volume
290pub_type
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