Lyons EM, Thiel T. Characterization of nifB, nifS, and nifU genes in the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis: NifB is required for the vanadium-dependent nitrogenase.
J Bacteriol 1995;
177:1570-5. [PMID:
7883714 PMCID:
PMC176774 DOI:
10.1128/jb.177.6.1570-1575.1995]
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Abstract
Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 is a heterotrophic, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium containing both a Mo-dependent nitrogenase encoded by the nif genes and V-dependent nitrogenase encoded by the vnf genes. The nifB, nifS, and nifU genes of A. variabilis were cloned, mapped, and partially sequenced. The fdxN gene was between nifB and nifS. Growth and acetylene reduction assays using wild-type and mutant strains indicated that the nifB product (NifB) was required for nitrogen fixation not only by the enzyme encoded by the nif genes but also by the enzyme encoded by the vnf genes. Neither NifS nor NifU was essential for nitrogen fixation in A. variabilis.
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