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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-6-9
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
The Azospirillum brasilense draT gene, encoding dinitrogenase reductase ATP-ribosyltransferase, and draG gene, encoding dinitrogenase reductase activating glycohydrolase, were cloned and sequenced. Two genes were contiguous on the A. brasilense chromosome and showed extensive similarity to the same genes from Rhodospirillum rubrum. Analysis of mutations introduced into the dra region on the A. brasilense chromosome showed that mutants affected in draT were incapable of regulating nitrogenase activity in response to ammonium. In contrast, a mutant with an insertion in draG was still capable of ADP-ribosylating dinitrogenase reductase in response to ammonium but was no longer able to recover activity after ammonium depletion. Plasmid-borne draTG genes from A. brasilense were introduced into dra mutants of R. rubrum and restored these mutants to an apparently wild-type phenotype. It is particularly interesting that dra mutants of R. rubrum containing draTG of A. brasilense can respond to darkness and light, since A. brasilense is a nonphotosynthetic bacterium and its dra system does not normally possess that regulatory response. The nifH gene of A. brasilense, encoding dinitrogenase reductase (the substrate of dinitrogenase reductase ADP-ribosyltransferase and dinitrogenase reductase-activating glycohydrolase), is located 1.9 kb from the start of draT and is divergently transcribed. Two insertion mutations in the region between draT and nifH showed no significant effect on nitrogenase activity or its regulation.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0021-9193
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
174
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3364-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1577701-ADP Ribose Transferases, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Azospirillum brasilense, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Conjugation, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Genes, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Glycoside Hydrolases, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Mutagenesis, Insertional, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-N-Glycosyl Hydrolases, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Nitrogen Fixation, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Photic Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Restriction Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Rhodospirillum rubrum, pubmed-meshheading:1577701-Transcription, Genetic
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Cloning, sequencing, mutagenesis, and functional characterization of draT and draG genes from Azospirillum brasilense.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't