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The obligate aerobe Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) synthesizes three active respiratory nitrate reductases
Marco Fischer,
Jesse Alderson,
Geertje Van Keulen,
Janet White,
R. Gary Sawers,
Geertje Van Keulen 
Microbiology, Volume: 156, Issue: 10, Pages: 3166 - 3179
Swansea University Author:
Geertje Van Keulen
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DOI (Published version): 10.1099/mic.0.042572-0
Abstract
Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) synthesizes three membrane-associated respiratory nitrate reductases (Nars). During aerobic growth in liquid medium the bacterium was able to reduce 50 mM nitrate stoichiometrically to nitrite. Construction and analysis of a mutant in which all three narGHJI operons wer...
| Published in: | Microbiology |
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| ISSN: | 1350-0872 1465-2080 |
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Microbiology
2010
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa9995 |
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Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) synthesizes three membrane-associated respiratory nitrate reductases (Nars). During aerobic growth in liquid medium the bacterium was able to reduce 50 mM nitrate stoichiometrically to nitrite. Construction and analysis of a mutant in which all three narGHJI operons were deleted showed that it failed to reduce nitrate. Deletion of the gene encoding MoaA, which catalyses the first step in molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis, also prevented nitrate reduction, consistent with the Nars being molybdoenzymes. In contrast to the triple narGHJI mutant, the moaA mutant was also unable to use nitrate as sole nitrogen source, which indicates that the assimilatory nitrate reductases in S. coelicolor are also molybdenum-dependent. Analysis of S. coelicolor growth on solid medium demonstrated that Nar activity is present in both spores and mycelium (hypha). Development of a survival assay with the nitrate analogue chlorate revealed that wild-type S. coelicolor spores and mycelium were sensitive to chlorate after anaerobic incubation, independent of the presence of nitrate, while both the moaA and triple nar mutants were chlorate-resistant. Complementation of the triple nar mutant with the individual narGHJI operons delivered on cosmids revealed that each operon encoded an enzyme that was synthesized and active in nitrate or chlorate reduction. The data obtained from these studies allow a tentative assignment of Nar1 activity to spores, Nar2 to spores and mycelium, and Nar3 exclusively to mycelium. |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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