Abstract:
:The genes encoding the two isoenzymes of methyl coenzyme M reductase (MRI and MRII) in Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum delta H have been cloned and sequenced. The MRI-encoding mcr operon (mcrBDCGA) has been located immediately upstream from the mtr operon (mtrEDCBA) that encodes N5-methyltetrahydromethanopterin:coenzyme M methyltransferase, the enzyme that catalyzes the step preceding the MR-catalyzed reaction in methanogenesis. The MRII-encoding mrt operon (mrtBDGA) has been located between the operon that encodes the methyl viologen-reducing hydrogenase and an open reading frame (designated pyrC) predicted to encode dihydroorotase. Surprisingly, the mrt operon has been found to contain only four genes (mrtBDGA), lacking the equivalent of the mcrC gene that is present in all mcr operons. A protocol that isolates transcripts intact from M. thermoautotrophicum delta H cells has been developed and used, with primer extension and Northern (RNA) blot procedures, to identify the sites of transcription initiation upstream of the mcr, mrt, and mtr operons and to determine the relative numbers of these transcripts in cells at different growth stages. Transcription of the mrt operon was found to occur only at early times in batch cultures and was then replaced by transcription of the mcr operon. Transcripts of the mtr operon were detectable at all times; however, at early times, all mtr transcripts were initiated at the mtr promoter, whereas at later times, during mcr transcription, approximately 3% of mcr transcripts were extended to generate mcr plus mtr transcripts that constituted approximately 20% of all mtr transcripts present.
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J Bacterioljournal_title
Journal of bacteriologyauthors
Pihl TD,Sharma S,Reeve JNdoi
10.1128/jb.176.20.6384-6391.1994subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1994-10-01 00:00:00pages
6384-91issue
20eissn
0021-9193issn
1098-5530journal_volume
176pub_type
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