Evidence for a Regulatory Link of Nitrogen Fixation and Photosynthesis in Rhodobacter capsulatus via HvrA

AUTOR(ES)

Kern, Monika

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

A Rhodobacter capsulatus reporter strain, carrying a constitutively expressed nifA gene and a nifH-lacZ gene fusion, was used for random transposon Tn5 mutagenesis to search for genes required for the NtrC-independent ammonium repression of NifA activity. A mutation in hvrA, which is known to be involved in low-light activation of the photosynthetic apparatus, released both ammonium and oxygen control of nifH expression in this reporter strain, demonstrating a regulatory link of nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis via HvrA. In addition, a significant increase in bacteriochlorophyll a (BChla) content was found in cells under nitrogen-fixing conditions. HvrA was not involved in this up-regulation of BChla. Instead, the presence of active nitrogenase seemed to be sufficient for this process, since no increase in BChla content was observed in different nif mutants.

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