Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and regulation of the Bacillus subtilis nadB gene and a nifS-like gene, both of which are essential for NAD biosynthesis.
AUTOR(ES)
Sun, D
RESUMO
A number of Bacillus subtilis genes involved in NAD biosynthesis have been cloned and sequenced. One of the genes encodes a polypeptide homologous to Escherichia coli L-aspartate oxidase, and its mutation resulted in a nicotinic acid (Nic)-dependent phenotype; this gene was termed nadB. A second open reading frame (orf2) was found downstream of nadB, and an insertional plasmid separating orf2 and nadB also gave a Nic-dependent phenotype. This result suggests that orf2 may also be involved in NAD biosynthesis and that nadB and orf2 are in the same operon. Upstream of nadB was a third gene, transcribed in the opposite direction to that of nadB-orf2. The amino acid sequence derived from the third gene was quite similar to those derived from nifS genes of various nitrogen-fixing bacteria; therefore, the third gene was termed nifS. As with nadB and orf2, mutations in nifS also resulted in a Nic-dependent phenotype. The promoter regions of nadB and nifS overlapped each other and both contained -10 and -35 sequences which resemble those of E sigma A-type promoters. Transcription from both the nifS and nadB promoters, as well as expression of a nadB-lacZ fusion, was repressed by Nic. However, nadB transcription and nadB-lacZ expression were decreased, at most, only slightly by a deletion in nifS. The possible role of the nifS gene product in NAD biosynthesis is discussed.
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