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Nitrate reduction in Haloferax alexandrinus: the case of assimilatory nitrate reductase. Extremophiles 2017; 21:551-561. [DOI: 10.1007/s00792-017-0924-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2016] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Akhtar N, Karabika E, Kinghorn JR, Glass AD, Unkles SE, Rouch DA. High-affinity nitrate/nitrite transporters NrtA and NrtB of Aspergillus nidulans exhibit high specificity and different inhibitor sensitivity. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2015; 161:1435-46. [PMID: 25855763 PMCID: PMC4635503 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The NrtA and NrtB nitrate transporters are paralogous members of the major facilitator superfamily in Aspergillus nidulans. The availability of loss-of-function mutations allowed individual investigation of the specificity and inhibitor sensitivity of both NrtA and NrtB. In this study, growth response tests were carried out at a growth-limiting concentration of nitrate (1 mM) as the sole nitrogen source, in the presence of a number of potential nitrate analogues at various concentrations, to evaluate their effect on nitrate transport. Both chlorate and chlorite inhibited fungal growth, with chlorite exerting the greater inhibition. The main transporter of nitrate, NrtA, proved to be more sensitive to chlorate than the minor transporter, NrtB. Similarly, the cation caesium was shown to exert differential effects, strongly inhibiting the activity of NrtB, but not NrtA. In contrast, no inhibition of nitrate uptake by NrtA or NrtB transporters was observed in either growth tests or uptake assays in the presence of bicarbonate, formate, malonate or oxalate (sulphite could not be tested in uptake assays owing to its reaction with nitrate), indicating significant specificity of nitrate transport. Kinetic analyses of nitrate uptake revealed that both chlorate and chlorite inhibited NrtA competitively, while these same inhibitors inhibited NrtB in a non-competitive fashion. The caesium ion appeared to inhibit NrtA in a non-competitive fashion, while NrtB was inhibited uncompetitively. The results provide further evidence of the distinctly different characteristics as well as the high specificity of nitrate uptake by these two transporters.
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- Naureen Akhtar
- School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TH, UK
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- Biochemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece
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- School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TH, UK
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TH, UK
- Shiela E. Unkles
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- Biotechnology and Environmental Biology, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Correspondence Duncan A. Rouch
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Ringel P, Krausze J, van den Heuvel J, Curth U, Pierik AJ, Herzog S, Mendel RR, Kruse T. Biochemical characterization of molybdenum cofactor-free nitrate reductase from Neurospora crassa. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:14657-14671. [PMID: 23539622 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.457960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Nitrate reductase (NR) is a complex molybdenum cofactor (Moco)-dependent homodimeric metalloenzyme that is vitally important for autotrophic organism as it catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step of nitrate assimilation. Beside Moco, eukaryotic NR also binds FAD and heme as additional redox active cofactors, and these are involved in electron transfer from NAD(P)H to the enzyme molybdenum center where reduction of nitrate to nitrite takes place. We report the first biochemical characterization of a Moco-free eukaryotic NR from the fungus Neurospora crassa, documenting that Moco is necessary and sufficient to induce dimer formation. The molybdenum center of NR reconstituted in vitro from apo-NR and Moco showed an EPR spectrum identical to holo-NR. Analysis of mutants unable to bind heme or FAD revealed that insertion of Moco into NR occurs independent from the insertion of any other NR redox cofactor. Furthermore, we showed that at least in vitro the active site formation of NR is an autonomous process.
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- Phillip Ringel
- Department of Plant Biology, Braunschweig University of Technology, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Core Facility for Protein Spectroscopy, Institute of Cytobiology and Cytopathology, Phillips University, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Plant Biology, Braunschweig University of Technology, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Plant Biology, Braunschweig University of Technology, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
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- Department of Plant Biology, Braunschweig University of Technology, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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Karsh KL, Granger J, Kritee K, Sigman DM. Eukaryotic assimilatory nitrate reductase fractionates N and O isotopes with a ratio near unity. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2012; 46:5727-35. [PMID: 22534036 DOI: 10.1021/es204593q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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In order to (i) establish the biological systematics necessary to interpret nitrogen (N) and oxygen (O) isotope ratios of nitrate ((15)N/(14)N and (18)O/(16)O) in the environment and (ii) investigate the potential for isotopes to elucidate the mechanism of a key N cycle enzyme, we measured the nitrate N and O isotope effects ((15)ε and (18)ε) for nitrate reduction by two assimilatory eukaryotic nitrate reductase (eukNR) enzymes. The (15)ε for purified extracts of NADPH eukNR from the fungus Aspergillus niger and the (15)ε for NADH eukNR from cell homogenates of the marine diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii were indistinguishable, yielding a mean (15)ε for the enzyme of 26.6 ± 0.2‰. Both forms of eukNR imparted near equivalent fractionation on N and O isotopes. The increase in (18)O/(16)O versus the increase in (15)N/(14)N (relative to their natural abundances) was 0.96 ± 0.01 for NADPH eukNR and 1.09 ± 0.03 for NADH eukNR. These results are the first reliable measurements of the coupled N and O isotope effects for any form of eukNR. They support the prevailing view that intracellular reduction by eukNR is the dominant step in isotope fractionation during nitrate assimilation and that it drives the (18)ε:(15)ε ≈ 1 observed in phytoplankton cultures, suggesting that this O-to-N isotope signature will apply broadly in the environment. Our measured (15)ε and (18)ε may represent the intrinsic isotope effects for eukNR-mediated N-O bond rupture, a potential constraint on the nature of the enzyme's transition state.
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- Kristen L Karsh
- Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Guyot Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
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Zhang Z, Xia S, Leonard D, Jaffrezic-Renault N, Zhang J, Bessueille F, Goepfert Y, Wang X, Chen L, Zhu Z, Zhao J, Almeida MG, Silveira CM. A novel nitrite biosensor based on conductometric electrode modified with cytochrome c nitrite reductase composite membrane. Biosens Bioelectron 2009; 24:1574-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2008.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2008] [Revised: 08/05/2008] [Accepted: 08/06/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Lledó B, Martínez-Espinosa RM, Marhuenda-Egea FC, Bonete MJ. Respiratory nitrate reductase from haloarchaeon Haloferax mediterranei: biochemical and genetic analysis. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2004; 1674:50-9. [PMID: 15342113 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2004.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2004] [Revised: 05/19/2004] [Accepted: 05/19/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The Haloferax mediterranei nar operon has been sequenced and its regulation has been characterized at transcriptional level. The nar operon encodes seven open reading frames(ORFs) (ORF1 narB, narC, ORF4, narG, narH, ORF7 and narJ). ORF1, ORF4 and ORF7 are open reading frames with no assigned function, however the rest of them encoded different proteins. narB codes for a 219-amino-acid-residue iron Rieske protein. narC encodes a protein of 486 amino acid residues identified by databases searches as cytochrome-b (narC). The narG gene encodes a protein with 983 amino acid residues and is identified as a respiratory nitrate reductase catalytic subunit (narG). NarH protein has been identified as an electron transfer respiratory nitrate reductase subunit (narH). The last ORF encodes a chaperonin-like protein (narJ) of 242 amino acid residues. The respiratory nitrate reductase was purified 21-fold from H. mediterranei membranes. Based on SDS-PAGE and gel-filtration chromatography under native conditions, the enzyme complex consists of two subunits of 112 and 61 kDa. The optimum temperature for activity was 70 degrees C at 3.4 M NaCl and the stability did not show a direct dependence on salt concentration. Respiratory nitrate reductase showed maximum activity at pH 7.9 and pH 8.2 when assays were carried out at 40 and 60 degrees C, respectively. The absorption spectrum indicated that Nar contains Fe-S clusters. Reverse transcriptase (RT-PCR) shows that regulation of nar genes occurs at transcriptional level induced by oxygen-limiting conditions and the presence of nitrate.
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- B Lledó
- División de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alicante, Ap. 99, E-03080, Alicante, Spain
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Ferreyra NF, Solís VM. An amperometric nitrate reductase–phenosafranin electrode: kinetic aspects and analytical applications. Bioelectrochemistry 2004; 64:61-70. [PMID: 15219248 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2003.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2003] [Revised: 12/15/2003] [Accepted: 12/19/2003] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The enzyme-catalysed reduction of nitrate was studied utilising Aspergillus niger nitrate reductase (NR) and phenosafranin in solution as the enzyme regenerator, working at lower potentials than that of the more common methyl viologen mediator. Cyclic voltammograms when enzyme, phenosafranin and substrate were together put in evidence the enzyme-catalysed reduction of nitrate, although with a relatively slow kinetics. From slope values not dependent on mediator concentration, the apparent Michaelis-Menten constant was evaluated. Analytical parameters for the enzyme-modified electrode in the presence of phenosafranin for the determination of nitrate content in water were assessed, including a recovery assay for nitrate added to a river water sample. The stability of the electrode was checked.
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- Nancy F Ferreyra
- INFIQC, Departamento de Físico Química, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Pabellón Argentina, Ciudad Universitaria, Cordoba 5000, Argentina
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MartıÌnez-Espinosa RM, Marhuenda-Egea FC, Bonete MJ. Assimilatory nitrate reductase from the haloarchaeon Haloferax mediterranei: purification and characterisation. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2001.tb10914.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Hall N, Tomsett AB. Structure-function analysis of NADPH:nitrate reductase from Aspergillus nidulans: analysis of altered pyridine nucleotide specificity in vivo. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2000; 146 ( Pt 6):1399-1406. [PMID: 10846218 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-6-1399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Nitrate reductase (NaR) catalyses the reduction of nitrate to nitrite via a two-electron transfer. In fungi, the electron donor for NaR is NADPH whereas plants can have two enzymes, NADH:NaR and a bispecific NAD(P)H:NaR. PCR mutagenesis was employed to introduce mutations into the niaD gene of Aspergillus nidulans in order to identify residues involved in co-enzyme specificity. The niaD3000 mutation (NiaD T813D, K814Q) altered co-enzyme specificity: the new enzyme had high levels of NADH:NaR activity in vitro, whilst all NADPH-associated activity was lost. However, strains carrying this mutation did not grow on nitrate. Enzyme assays suggested that this was not due to inhibition of the mutant enzyme by NADPH. All revertants of the niaD3000 mutants had restored NADPH activity and lost NADH activity. Sequence analysis of these revertants showed that they all contained a single amino acid change at Asp-813, suggesting that this position is crucial to co-enzyme specificity. Further studies have shown that the mutant enzyme was not protected from deactivation by either co-factor in cell-free extracts (unlike the wild-type), and that induction of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase occurred independently of NADPH levels. These data highlight the importance of functional tests in vivo under physiological conditions.
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- Neil Hall
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Liverpool, Donnan Laboratories, Liverpool L69 7ZD, UK1
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Liverpool, Donnan Laboratories, Liverpool L69 7ZD, UK1
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AOUADJ R, ESSGAOURI A, BUTTON B. Étude de la stabilité et de quelques propriétés de la nitrate réductase du champignon ectomycorhizien. CRYPTOGAMIE MYCOL 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s0181-1584(00)01044-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Unkles SE, Heck IS, Appleyard MV, Kinghorn JR. Eukaryotic molybdopterin synthase. Biochemical and molecular studies of Aspergillus nidulans cnxG and cnxH mutants. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:19286-93. [PMID: 10383438 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.27.19286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We describe the primary structure of eukaryotic molybdopterin synthase small and large subunits and compare the sequences of the lower eukaryote, Aspergillus nidulans, and a higher eukaryote, Homo sapiens. Mutants in the A. nidulans cnxG (encoding small subunit) and cnxH (large subunit) genes have been analyzed at the biochemical and molecular level. Chlorate-sensitive mutants, all the result of amino acid substitutions, were shown to produce low levels of molybdopterin, and growth tests suggest that they have low levels of molybdoenzymes. In contrast, chlorate-resistant cnx strains have undetectable levels of molybdopterin, lack the ability to utilize nitrate or hypoxanthine as sole nitrogen sources, and are probably null mutations. Thus on the basis of chlorate toxicity, it is possible to distinguish between amino acid substitutions that permit a low level of molybdopterin production and those mutations that completely abolish molybdopterin synthesis, most likely reflecting molybdopterin synthase activity per se. Residues have been identified that are essential for function including the C-terminal Gly of the small subunit (CnxG), which is thought to be crucial for the sulfur transfer process during the formation of molybdopterin. Two independent alterations at residue Gly-148 in the large subunit, CnxH, result in temperature sensitivity suggesting that this residue resides in a region important for correct folding of the fungal protein. Many years ago it was proposed, from data showing that temperature-sensitive cnxH mutants had thermolabile nitrate reductase, that CnxH is an integral part of the molybdoenzyme nitrate reductase (MacDonald, D. W., and Cove, D. J. (1974) Eur. J. Biochem. 47, 107-110). Studies of temperature-sensitive cnxH mutants isolated in the course of this study do not support this hypothesis. Homologues of both molybdopterin synthase subunits are evident in diverse eukaryotic sources such as worm, rat, mouse, rice, and fruit fly as well as humans as discussed in this article. In contrast, molybdopterin synthase homologues are absent in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Precursor Z and molybdopterin are undetectable in this organism nor do there appear to be homologues of molybdoenzymes.
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- S E Unkles
- Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia.
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Bioelectrocatalysed reduction of nitrate utilizing polythiophene bipyridinium enzyme electrodes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0302-4598(92)80051-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In vitro stability and functional properties of nitrate reductase from the ascomycete Sphaerostilbe repens. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0953-7562(09)81317-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Assimilatory nitrate reductase from Chlorella. Effect of ionic strength and pH on catalytic activity. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66991-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Cooley R, Tomsett A. Determination of the subunit size of NADPH-nitrate reductase from Aspergillus nidulans. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(85)90153-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Brownlee AG, Arst HN. Nitrate uptake in Aspergillus nidulans and involvement of the third gene of the nitrate assimilation gene cluster. J Bacteriol 1983; 155:1138-46. [PMID: 6350263 PMCID: PMC217809 DOI: 10.1128/jb.155.3.1138-1146.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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In Aspergillus nidulans, chlorate strongly inhibited net nitrate uptake, a process separate and distinct from, but dependent upon, the nitrate reductase reaction. Uptake was inhibited by uncouplers, indicating that a proton gradient across the plasma membrane is required. Cyanide, azide, and N-ethylmaleimide were also potent inhibitors of uptake, but these compounds also inhibited nitrate reductase. The net uptake kinetics were problematic, presumably due to the presence of more than one uptake system and the dependence on nitrate reduction, but an apparent Km of 200 microM was estimated. In uptake assays, the crnA1 mutation reduced nitrate uptake severalfold in conidiospores and young mycelia but had no effect in older mycelia. Several growth tests also indicate that crnA1 reduces nitrate uptake. crnA expression was subject to control by the positive-acting regulatory gene areA, mediating nitrogen metabolite repression, but was not under the control of the positive-acting regulatory gene nirA, mediating nitrate induction.
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Preparation and properties of apoenzyme of nitrate reductases from wild-type and nit-3 mutant of Neurospora crassa. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(83)90334-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Zauner E, Dellweg H. Purification and properties of the assimilatory nitrate reductase from the yeast Hansenula anomala. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00499857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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MacDonald DW. A single mutation leads to loss of glutamine synthetase and relief of ammonium repression in Aspergillus. Curr Genet 1982; 6:203-8. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00390339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/1982] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Downey R, Wiehl P. De novo formation of the niaD gene directed protomer in the NADPH-nitrate reductase of Aspergillus nidulans. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1982; 108:1517-23. [PMID: 6817753 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(82)80079-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Steiner FX, Downey RJ. Isoelectric focusing and two-dimensional analysis of purified nitrate reductase from Aspergillus nidulans. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1982; 706:203-11. [PMID: 6751405 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(82)90488-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The assimilatory NADPH-nitrate oxidoreductase (EC 1.6.6.3) from Aspergillus nidulans was purified by means of affinity chromatography and analyzed by agarose isoelectric focusing and two-dimensional electrophoresis. NADPH-nitrate reductase activity was not activated by oxidation with potassium ferricyanide and was irreversibly inhibited by acrylamide. Electrophoresis of nitrate reductase in 7% polyacrylamide gels resulted in rapid loss of enzyme activity. Isoelectric focusing of purified enzyme in agarose gels resulted in the homogeneous band that exhibited NADPH-nitrate reductase, NADPH-cytochrome c reductase and reduced methyl viologen-nitrate reductase activities, which corresponded to an isoelectric point of 6.12 +/- 0.05 at 22 degrees C. Two-dimensional electrophoresis of focused nitrate reductase on SDS-polyacrylanide gel slabs yielded a single subunit of 54000 molecular weight. Acid treatment of the enzyme and subsequent isoelectric focusing resulted in a protein with a strongly acidic isoelectric point and reduced methyl viologen-nitrate reductase activity. It released another protein with a strongly basic isoelectric point which was inactive. It is postulated that the overall association of flavoprotein protomers with both heme and cytochrome b1 components confers a small net negative charge upon the native heteromultimer and accounts for its slightly acidic isoelectric point.
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Renosto F, Schmidt ND, Segel IH. Nitrate reductase from Penicillium chrysogenum: kinetic mechanism at sub-optimum pH. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1982; 107:12-8. [PMID: 6812574 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(82)91662-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Somers D, Kuo T, Kleinhofs A, Warner R. Barley nitrate reductase contains a functional cytochrome b557. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/0304-4211(82)90020-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Howard W, Solomonson L. Kinetic mechanism of assimilatory NADH:nitrate reductase from Chlorella. J Biol Chem 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)42955-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Renosto F, Ornitz D, Peterson D, Segel I. Nitrate reductase from Penicillium chrysogenum. Purification and kinetic mechanism. J Biol Chem 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)68889-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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de la Rosa MA, Diez J, Vega JM, Losada M. Purification and properties of assimilatory nitrate reductase [NAD(P)H] from Ankistrodesmus braunii. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1980; 106:249-56. [PMID: 7200426 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1980.tb06016.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Assimilatory nitrate reductase [NAD(P)H] (EC 1.6.6.2) from Ankistrodesmus braunii has been purified to homogeneity by a simple procedure that utilizes as the main step affinity chromatography on Blue-Sepharose. The best enzyme preparation has a specific activity of 61.25 units/mg protein. The enzyme has a sedimentation coefficient of 10.9 S by sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation, and a Stokes radius of 9.8 nm was estimated by gel filtration techniques. Its molecular weight is 460000, but only one single band of 58000 was detected after sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The native enzyme seems thus to be composed of eight subunits. The nitrate reductase absorption spectrum shows wavelengths maxima at 280 and 416 nm and a broad shoulder at 450 nm. Reduced enzyme shows maxima at 424 (Soret), 527 (beta) and 557 (alpha) nm, and a bleaching at 450 nm. The reduced extracted heme chromophore, in pyridine and KOH, shows absorption bands at 414, 522 and 552 nm. These properties indicate the presence of a b-type cytochrome and flavin as prosthetic groups of A. braunii nitrate reductase. A minimum of four molecules of heme has been calculated per molecule of the enzyme complex. Redox titration of the enzyme shows a midpoint potential for the heme of -73 mV at pH 7.0. In the presence of p-hydroxymercuribenzoate, which inhibits the NAD(P)H-dependent activities of the complex, the enzyme-bound heme can be reduced with dithionite, but not with NAD(P)H.
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Pan SS, Nason A. Purification and characterization of homogeneous assimilatory reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-nitrate reductase from Neurospora crassa. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1978; 523:297-313. [PMID: 26408 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2744(78)90033-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Neurospora crassa wild type STA4 NADPH-nitrate reductase (NADPH : nitrate oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.6.3) has been purified 5000-fold with an overall yield of 25--50%. The final purified enzyme contained 4 associated enzymatic activities: NADPH-nitrate reductase, FADH2-nitrate reductase, reduced methyl viologen-nitrate reductase and NADPH-cytochrome c reductase. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis yielded 1 major and 1 minor protein band and both bands exhibited NADPH-nitrate and reduced methyl viologen-nitrate reductase activities. SDS gel electrophoresis yielded 2 protein bands corresponding to molecular weights of 115 000 and 130 000. A single N-terminal amino acid (glutamic acid) was found and proteolytic mapping for the two separated subunits appeared similar. Purified NADPH-nitrate reductase contained 1 mol of molybdenum and 2 mol of cytochrome b557 per mol protein. Non-heme iron, zinc and copper were not detectable. It is proposed that the Neurospora assimilatory NADPH-nitrate reductase consists of 2 similar cytochrome b557-containing 4.5-S subunits linked together by one molybdenum cofactor. A revised electron flow scheme is presented. p-Hydroxymercuribenzoate inhibition was reversed by sulfhydryl reagents. Inhibitory pattern of p-hydroxymercuribenzoate and phenylglyoxal revealed accessible sulfhydryl and arginyl residue(s) as functional group(s) in the earlier part of electron transport chain as possibly the binding site of NADPH or FAD.
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Isolation and characterization of cell lines of Nicotiana tabacum lacking nitrate reductase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1978. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00266616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Rand KN, Arst HN. A mutation in Aspergillus nidulans which affects the regulation of nitrite reductase and is tightly linked to its structural gene. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1977; 155:67-75. [PMID: 337118 DOI: 10.1007/bf00268562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Guerrero MG, Gutierrez M. Purification and properties of the NAD(P)H:nitrate reductase of the yeast Rhodotorula glutinis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1977; 482:272-85. [PMID: 18182 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2744(77)90241-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The assimilatory nitrate reductase from the yeast Rhodotorula glutinus has been purified 740-fold, its different catalytic activities have been characterized and some inhibitors studied. The purified enzyme (150 units per mg protein) contains a cytochrome of the b-557 type. An S20,w of 7.9 S was found by the use of sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and a Stokes radius of 7.05 nm was determined by gel filtration. From these values, a molecular weight of 230 000 was estimated for the native enzyme. The purified preparation consisted of two electrophoretically distinguishable proteins, both of which exhibited nitrate reductase activity. The species with the higher electrophoretic mobility which represented the great majority of the total nitrate reductase gave a positive stain for heme and was shown to be composed of subunits with a molecular weight of about 118 000. Thus the molecule contains two subunits of the same size.
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Notton B, Fido R, Hewitt E. The presence of functional haem in a higher plant nitrate reductase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/0304-4211(77)90027-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cove DJ. Chlorate toxicity in Aspergillus nidulans. Studies of mutants altered in nitrate assimilation. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1976; 146:147-59. [PMID: 8697 DOI: 10.1007/bf00268083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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It had previously been held that chlorate is not itself toxic, but is rendered toxic as a result of nitrate reductase-catalysed conversion to chlorite. This however cannot be the explanation of chlorate toxicity in Aspergillus nidulans, even though nitrate reductase is known to have chlorate reductase activity. Among other evidence against the classical theory for the mechanism of chlorate toxicity, is the finding that not all mutants lacking nitrate reductase are clorate resistant. Both chlorate-sensitive and resistant mutants lacking nitrate reductase, also lack chlorate reductase. Data is presented which implicates not only nitrate reductase but also the product of the nirA gene, a positive regulator gene for nitrate assimilation, in the mediation of chlorate toxicity. Alternative mechanisms for chlorate toxicity are considered. It is unlikely that chlorate toxicity results from the involvement of nitrate reductase and the nirA gene product in the regulation either of nitrite reductase, or of the pentose phosphate pathway. Although low pH has an effect similar to chlorate, chorate is not likely to be toxic because it lowers the pH; low pH and chlorate may instead have similar effects. A possible explanation for chlorate toxicity is that it mimics nitrate in mediating, via nitrate reductase and the nirA gene product, a shut-down of nitrogen catabolism. As chlorate cannot act as a nitrogen source, nitrogen starvation ensues.
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Coddington A. Biochemical studies on the nit mutants of Neurospora crassa. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1976; 145:195-206. [PMID: 132603 DOI: 10.1007/bf00269594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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One allele at each of the five nit loci in Neurospora crassa together with the wild type strain have been compared on various nitrogen sources with regard to (i) their growth characteristics (ii) the level of nitrate reductase and its associated activities (reduced benzyl viologen nitrate reductase and cytochrome c reductase) (iii) the level of nitrate reductase and (iv) their ability to take up nitrite from the surrounding medium. Results are consistent with the hypothesis that nit-3 is the structural gene for nitrate reductase, nit-1 specifies in part of molybdenum containing moiety which is responsible for the nit-3 gene product dimerising to form nitrate reductase, nit-4 and nit-5 are regulator genes whose products are involved in the induction of both nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase and nit-2 codes for a generalised ammonium activated repressor protein. Studies on the induction of nitrate reductase (and its associated activities) and nitrite reductase in wild type, nit-1 and nit-3 in the presence of either nitrate or nitrite suggest that each enzyme may be regulated independently of the other and that nitrite could be true co-inducer of the assimilatory pathway. Nitrite uptake experiments with nit-2, nit-4 and nit-5 strains show that whereas nit-4 and nit-5 are freely permeable to this molecule, it is unable to enter the nit-2 mycelium.
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Guerrero MG, Vennesland B. Stereospecificity of hydrogen removal from pyridine nucleotide: the reactions catalyzed by nitrate reductase and by xanthine oxidase. FEBS Lett 1975; 51:284-6. [PMID: 235456 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(75)80908-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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