PMID:6113591

Citation	McFarland, N, McCarter, L, Artz, S and Kustu, S (1981) Nitrogen regulatory locus "glnR" of enteric bacteria is composed of cistrons ntrB and ntrC: identification of their protein products. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 78:2135-9
Abstract	The nitrogen regulatory locus "glnR" of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium is composed of two cistrons, which we propose to call ntrB and ntrC (nitrogen regulation B and C). Frameshift mutations in ntrB and ntrC were isolated on a lambda phage that carries the E. coli ntrB and ntrC genes and the closely linked glnA gene, the structural gene encoding glutamine synthetase [L-glutamate:ammonia ligase (ADP-forming), EC 6.3.1.2]; mutations were selected as suppressors of glnF (which we propose to rename ntrA), a selection used previously to isolate glnR mutations. Phage DNA from one mutant (ntrB) failed to direct synthesis of a 36-kilodalton (kDal) protein whose synthesis was directed by DNA from the parent phage (ntrB+) in a coupled in vitro transcription/translation system. DNA from three other mutants (ntrC) failed to direct synthesis of a 54-kDal protein; DNA from two of these mutants instead directed synthesis of smaller proteins, 53 and 50 kDal, respectively. In all four cases, DNA from frameshift revertants directed synthesis of both the 36-kDal and 54-kDal proteins. These results suggested that ntrB and ntrC were separate genes which encoded 36-kDal and 54-kDal protein products, respectively. Frameshift mutations in ntrB and ntrC complemented each other with regard to regulation of glnA expression in vivo and growth on arginine as nitrogen source, another nitrogen-controlled phenotype; this confirmed that ntrB and ntrC are separate cistrons that encode diffusible products. The ntrB and ntrC genes were also defined in S. typhimurium. Studies of mutant strains provided information on the roles of the ntrB and ntrC products in activation and repression of glnA expression and raised the possibility that these products function as a protein complex in regulating expression of nitrogen-controlled genes.
Links	PubMed PMC319298
Keywords	Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Bacteriophage lambda; DNA, Recombinant; Escherichia coli/genetics; Gene Expression Regulation; Genes; Genes, Regulator; Genetic Complementation Test; Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/genetics; Mutation; Nitrogen/metabolism; Salmonella typhimurium/genetics
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Gene product	Qualifier	GO Term	Evidence Code	with/from	Aspect	Extension	Notes	Status
ECOLI:NTRB	involved_in	GO:0051171: regulation of nitrogen compound metabolic process	ECO:0000315: mutant phenotype evidence used in manual assertion		P		Seeded From UniProt	complete

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