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Torrez Lamberti MF, Ballesteros MF, López FE, Pescaretti MDLM, Delgado MA. RcsB-dependent effects on nar operon regulation during the aerobic growth of Salmonella Typhimurium. Biochimie 2019; 167:152-161. [PMID: 31563538 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2019.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 09/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The intracellular pathogen Salmonella is an important cause of human foodborne diseases worldwide. Salmonella takes advantage of the phosphorelay regulatory systems to survive in the hostile environment of the host's gastrointestinal tract. It has been reported that the nitrate reductase Z (NR-Z), encoded by the narUZYV operon, is required during Salmonella transition to anaerobic environments and is constitutively produced at low levels, but little is known about the regulatory mechanism involved in the operon gene expression. In this work, we found that the RcsCDB system is activated by high concentrations of specific sugars as a carbon source. In this activation state, the RcsCDB system participates in the negative control of narUZYWV expression. This control strategy occurs during exponential growth when the carbon source is high, allowing for normal aerobic respiration. The RcsCDB system's participation in aerobic respiration is necessary to ensure efficient metabolism and optimal energy consumption when the bacteria are growing exponentially.
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- Mónica F Torrez Lamberti
- Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (INSIBIO), CONICET-UNT, And Instituto de Química Biológica "Dr. Bernabé Bloj", Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia, UNT. Chacabuco 461, T4000ILI, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
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- Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (INSIBIO), CONICET-UNT, And Instituto de Química Biológica "Dr. Bernabé Bloj", Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia, UNT. Chacabuco 461, T4000ILI, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
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- Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (INSIBIO), CONICET-UNT, And Instituto de Química Biológica "Dr. Bernabé Bloj", Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia, UNT. Chacabuco 461, T4000ILI, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina; Universidad Nacional de Chilecito (UNdeC), 9 de Julio 22, F5360CKB, Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina
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- Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (INSIBIO), CONICET-UNT, And Instituto de Química Biológica "Dr. Bernabé Bloj", Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia, UNT. Chacabuco 461, T4000ILI, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
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- Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (INSIBIO), CONICET-UNT, And Instituto de Química Biológica "Dr. Bernabé Bloj", Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia, UNT. Chacabuco 461, T4000ILI, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
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The prokaryotic Mo/W-bisPGD enzymes family: a catalytic workhorse in bioenergetic. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2013; 1827:1048-85. [PMID: 23376630 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2012] [Revised: 01/21/2013] [Accepted: 01/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Over the past two decades, prominent importance of molybdenum-containing enzymes in prokaryotes has been put forward by studies originating from different fields. Proteomic or bioinformatic studies underpinned that the list of molybdenum-containing enzymes is far from being complete with to date, more than fifty different enzymes involved in the biogeochemical nitrogen, carbon and sulfur cycles. In particular, the vast majority of prokaryotic molybdenum-containing enzymes belong to the so-called dimethylsulfoxide reductase family. Despite its extraordinary diversity, this family is characterized by the presence of a Mo/W-bis(pyranopterin guanosine dinucleotide) cofactor at the active site. This review highlights what has been learned about the properties of the catalytic site, the modular variation of the structural organization of these enzymes, and their interplay with the isoprenoid quinones. In the last part, this review provides an integrated view of how these enzymes contribute to the bioenergetics of prokaryotes. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Metals in Bioenergetics and Biomimetics Systems.
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Clegg SJ, Jia W, Cole JA. Role of the Escherichia coli nitrate transport protein, NarU, in survival during severe nutrient starvation and slow growth. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2006; 152:2091-2100. [PMID: 16804183 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28688-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Escherichia coli K-12 strains expressing either NarU or NarK as the only nitrate transport protein are both able to support nitrate-dependent anaerobic growth. The narK gene is highly expressed during anaerobic growth in the presence of nitrate, consistent with a role for NarK in nitrate transport coupled to nitrate reduction by the most active nitrate reductase encoded by the adjacent narGHJI operon. The physiological role of NarU is unknown. Reverse transcriptase PCR experiments established that, unlike the monocistronic narK gene, narU is co-transcribed with narZ as the first gene of a five-gene narUZYWV operon. The narK and narU genes were fused in-frame to a myc tag: the encoded fusion proteins complemented the nitrate-dependent growth defect of chromosomal narK and narU mutations. A commercial anti-Myc antibody was used to detect NarK and NarU in membrane fractions. During anaerobic growth in the presence of nitrate, the quantity of NarU-Myc accumulated during exponential growth was far less than that of NarK-Myc, but NarU was more abundant than NarK in stationary-phase cultures in the absence of nitrate. Although the concentration of NarU-Myc increased considerably during the post-exponential phase of growth, NarK-Myc was still more abundant than NarU-Myc in stationary-phase bacteria in the presence of nitrate. In chemostat competition experiments, a strain expressing only narU had a selective advantage relative to a strain expressing only narK during nutrient starvation or very slow growth, but NarK(+) bacteria had a much greater selective advantage during rapid growth. The data suggest that NarU confers a selective advantage during severe nutrient starvation or slow growth, conditions similar to those encountered in vivo.
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- Stephanie J Clegg
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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Sharma V, Noriega CE, Rowe JJ. Involvement of NarK1 and NarK2 proteins in transport of nitrate and nitrite in the denitrifying bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 72:695-701. [PMID: 16391109 PMCID: PMC1352271 DOI: 10.1128/aem.72.1.695-701.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Two transmembrane proteins were tentatively classified as NarK1 and NarK2 in the Pseudomonas genome project and hypothesized to play an important physiological role in nitrate/nitrite transport in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The narK1 and narK2 genes are located in a cluster along with the structural genes for the nitrate reductase complex. Our studies indicate that the transcription of all these genes is initiated from a single promoter and that the gene complex narK1K2GHJI constitutes an operon. Utilizing an isogenic narK1 mutant, a narK2 mutant, and a narK1K2 double mutant, we explored their effect on growth under denitrifying conditions. While the DeltanarK1::Gm mutant was only slightly affected in its ability to grow under denitrification conditions, both the DeltanarK2::Gm and DeltanarK1K2::Gm mutants were found to be severely restricted in nitrate-dependent, anaerobic growth. All three strains demonstrated wild-type levels of nitrate reductase activity. Nitrate uptake by whole-cell suspensions demonstrated both the DeltanarK2::Gm and DeltanarK1K2::Gm mutants to have very low yet different nitrate uptake rates, while the DeltanarK1::Gm mutant exhibited wild-type levels of nitrate uptake. Finally, Escherichia coli narK rescued both the DeltanarK2::Gm and DeltanarK1K2::Gm mutants with respect to anaerobic respiratory growth. Our results indicate that only the NarK2 protein is required as a nitrate/nitrite transporter by Pseudomonas aeruginosa under denitrifying conditions.
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- Vandana Sharma
- Department of Biology, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-2320, USA
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Two polytopic membrane proteins, NarK and NarU, are involved in nitrate and nitrite uptake and nitrite extrusion by Escherichia coli. A third polytopic membrane protein, NirC, functions only in nitrite transport. During exponential growth, the quantity of NarU in membrane fractions was <0.01% of the quantity of NarK. During the stationary phase of growth, the ratio of NarU to NarK increased to 0.1%. However, in the exponential phase of growth, the strain expressing only NarK transports and reduces nitrate and nitrite at a rate only slightly higher than that of the strain expressing only NarU, indicating that, in a NarK+ strain, the rate of nitrate reduction is not limited by the rate of nitrate transport. By measuring nitrate and nitrite transport abilities of strains expressing only narK or expressing both narK and nirC, we hypothesized that NarK might function as a primary nitrate–nitrite antiporter. After nitrate is imported by NarK and reduced to nitrite, some nitrite is expelled from the cell and then reimported for reduction to ammonia. Two highly conserved positively charged residues, Arg-87 and Arg-303 of NarU, were shown by site-directed mutagenesis to play a key role in anion transport. This result indicates that NarU might form a single channel for nitrate and nitrite transport.
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- W Jia
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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Clegg S, Yu F, Griffiths L, Cole JA. The roles of the polytopic membrane proteins NarK, NarU and NirC in Escherichia coli K-12: two nitrate and three nitrite transporters. Mol Microbiol 2002; 44:143-55. [PMID: 11967075 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02858.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Two polytopic membrane proteins, NarK and NarU, are assumed to transport nitrite out of the Escherichia coli cytoplasm, but how nitrate enters enteric bacteria is unknown. We report the construction and use of four isogenic strains that lack nitrate reductase Z and the periplasmic nitrate reductase, but express all combinations of narK and narU. The active site of the only functional nitrate reductase, nitrate reductase A, is located in the cytoplasm, so nitrate reduction by these four strains is totally dependent upon a mechanism for importing nitrate. These strains were exploited to determine the roles of NarK and NarU in both nitrate and nitrite transport. Single mutants that lack either NarK or NarU were competent for nitrate-dependent anaerobic growth on a non-fermentable carbon source, glycerol. They transported and reduced nitrate almost as rapidly as the parental strain. In contrast, the narK-narU double mutant was defective in nitrate-dependent growth unless nitrate transport was facilitated by the nitrate ionophore, reduced benzyl viologen (BV). It was also unable to catalyse nitrate reduction in the presence of physiological electron donors. Synthesis of active nitrate reductase A and the cytoplasmic, NADH-dependent nitrite reductase were unaffected by the narK and narU mutations. The rate of nitrite reduction catalysed by the cytoplasmic, NADH-dependent nitrite reductase by the double mutant was almost as rapid as that of the NarK+-NarU+ strain, indicating that there is a mechanism for nitrite uptake by E. coli that is in-dependent of either NarK or NarU. The nir operon encodes a soluble, cytoplasmic nitrite reductase that catalyses NADH-dependent reduction of nitrite to ammonia. One additional component that contributes to nitrite uptake was shown to be NirC, the hydrophobic product of the third gene of the nir operon, which is predicted to be a polytopic membrane protein with six membrane-spanning helices. Deletion of both NarK and NirC decreased nitrite uptake and reduction to a basal rate that was fully restored by a single chromosomal copy of either narK or nirC. A multicopy plasmid encoding NarU complemented a narK mutation for nitrite excretion, but not for nitrite uptake. We conclude that, in contrast to NirC, which transports only nitrite, NarK and NarU provide alternative mechanisms for both nitrate and nitrite transport. However, NarU might selectively promote nitrite ex-cretion, not nitrite uptake.
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- Stephanie Clegg
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Philippot L, Højberg O. Dissimilatory nitrate reductases in bacteria. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1446:1-23. [PMID: 10395915 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(99)00072-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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- L Philippot
- INRA CMSE, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Sols, 17 rue Sully, 21034, Dijon Cedex, France.
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This map is an update of the edition 9 map by Berlyn et al. (M. K. B. Berlyn, K. B. Low, and K. E. Rudd, p. 1715-1902, in F. C. Neidhardt et al., ed., Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 1996). It uses coordinates established by the completed sequence, expressed as 100 minutes for the entire circular map, and adds new genes discovered and established since 1996 and eliminates those shown to correspond to other known genes. The latter are included as synonyms. An alphabetical list of genes showing map location, synonyms, the protein or RNA product of the gene, phenotypes of mutants, and reference citations is provided. In addition to genes known to correspond to gene sequences, other genes, often older, that are described by phenotype and older mapping techniques and that have not been correlated with sequences are included.
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- M K Berlyn
- Department of Biology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8104, USA.
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