Cloning and characterization of nnrR, whose product is required for the expression of proteins involved in nitric oxide metabolism in Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.3.
AUTOR(ES)
Tosques, I E
RESUMO
During denitrification, the production and consumption of nitric oxide (NO), an obligatory and freely diffusible intermediate, must be tightly regulated in order to prevent accumulation of this highly reactive nitrogen oxide. Sequencing upstream of norCB, the structural genes for NO reductase, in the denitrifying bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.3, we have identified a gene, designated nnrR, which encodes a protein that is a member of the cyclic AMP receptor family of transcriptional regulators. Insertional inactivation of nnrR prevents growth on nitrite, as well as the reduction of nitrite and NO, but has no effect on reduction of nitrate or photosynthetic growth. By using nirK-lacZ and norB-lacZ fusions, we have shown that NnrR is a positive transcriptional regulator of these genes. nnrR is expressed at a low constitutive level throughout the growth of R. sphaeroides 2.4.3. These results show that NnrR is not a global regulator but is instead a regulator of genes whose products are directly responsible for production and reduction of NO. Evidence is also presented suggesting that an NnrR homolog may be present in the nondenitrifying bacterium R. sphaeroides 2.4.1. The likely effector of NnrR activity, as determined on the basis of work detailed in this paper and other studies, is discussed.
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