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PMID:2643516
| Citation |
Paul, W and Merrick, M (1989) The roles of the nifW, nifZ and nifM genes of Klebsiella pneumoniae in nitrogenase biosynthesis. Eur. J. Biochem. 178:675-82 |
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| Abstract |
Active Fe protein of nitrogenase was synthesised in a non-nitrogen fixing organism when Escherichia coli was transformed with a plasmid encoding only two nif-specific genes, nifH and nifM of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Hence proteins NifH and NifM are sufficient to produce active Fe protein in E. coli. K. pneumoniae strains carrying chromosomal nifW- and nifZ- mutations were constructed and shown to be significant C2H2-reducing activity and to grow on N-free plates. Nevertheless, derepressing cultures of the mutant strains had reduced levels of MoFe protein activity, and consequently significantly lower levels of nitrogenase activity, than the nif+ parent strain. NifW and NifZ therefore appear to be involved in the formation or accumulation of active MoFe protein, but are not essential for nitrogen fixation in K. pneumoniae under the conditions tested. |
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| Keywords |
Enzyme Repression; Escherichia coli/genetics; Genes; Genes, Bacterial; Genotype; Kinetics; Klebsiella pneumoniae/enzymology; Klebsiella pneumoniae/genetics; Nitrogen Fixation/genetics; Nitrogenase/biosynthesis; Nitrogenase/genetics; Phenotype; Plasmids; Restriction Mapping; Transcription, Genetic |
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Significance
Annotations
| Gene product | Qualifier | GO Term | Evidence Code | with/from | Aspect | Extension | Notes | Status |
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| GO:0016163: nitrogenase activity |
ECO:0000315: |
F |
Figure 4 |
complete | ||||
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enables |
GO:0016163: nitrogenase activity |
ECO:0000315: mutant phenotype evidence used in manual assertion |
F |
Seeded From UniProt |
complete | |||
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