Regulation of V‐nitrogenase genes in Anabaena variabilis by RNA processing and by dual repressors

Brenda S. Pratte; Ryan Sheridan; Jessie A. James; Teresa Thiel

doi:10.1111/mmi.12197

Regulation of V‐nitrogenase genes in Anabaena variabilis by RNA processing and by dual repressors

Brenda S. Pratte, Ryan Sheridan, Jessie A. James, Teresa Thiel

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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<div class="line" id="line-15"> A nabaena variabilis  &emsp14;ATCC 29413 fixes nitrogen in specialized cells called heterocysts using either a Mo &hyphen;nitrogenase or a V &hyphen;nitrogenase. V &hyphen;nitrogenase structural genes,  vnfDGK  , as well as  vnfEN  form an operon with  ava4025  , located upstream of  vnfDG  that is repressed by fixed nitrogen and by Mo . The  ava4025  &hyphen; vnfDGKEN  operon is under the control of a Mo &hyphen;repressible promoter located nearly 600 bp upstream of  ava4025  . Levels of  vnfDG  transcript were about 500&hyphen;fold higher than  ava4025  , the first gene of the operon. This may be the result of RNA processing at a site 87 bp upstream of  vnfDG  that was initially identified as the transcription start site. A strain with a deletion in the coding region of  ava4025  grew diazotrophically with Mo or with V . Two similar proteins, VnfR 1 and VnfR 2, whose genes are located some distance from the  ava4025  &hyphen; vnfDGKEN  operon, each repressed transcription from the  ava4025  &hyphen; vnfDGKEN  promoter and a mutant lacking both VnfR 1 and VnfR 2 made the V &hyphen;nitrogenase in the presence of Mo . Overexpression of the V &hyphen;nitrogenase in the double  vnfR1 vnfR2  mutant resulted in decreased activity of the Mo &hyphen;nitrogenase. VnfR 1 bound specifically,  in vitro  , to a region upstream of the  ava4025  promoter. </div>

Original language	American English
Journal	Molecular Microbiology
Volume	88
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.12197
State	Published - Jan 4 2013

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Regulation of V‐nitrogenase genes in Anabaena variabilis by RNA processing and by dual repressors

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