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1.
J Bacteriol ; 182(8): 2142-52, 2000 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10735856

RESUMO

We report attempts to analyze interactions between components of the pullulanase (Pul) secreton (type II secretion machinery) from Klebsiella oxytoca encoded by a multiple-copy-number plasmid in Escherichia coli. Three of the 15 Pul proteins (B, H, and N) were found to be dispensable for pullulanase secretion. The following evidence leads us to propose that PulE, PulL, and PulM form a subcomplex with which PulC and PulG interact. The integral cytoplasmic membrane protein PulL prevented proteolysis and/or aggregation of PulE and mediated its association with the cytoplasmic membrane. The cytoplasmic, N-terminal domain of PulL interacted directly with PulE, and both PulC and PulM were required to prevent proteolysis of PulL. PulM and PulL could be cross-linked as a heterodimer whose formation in a strain producing the secreton required PulG. However, PulL and PulM produced alone could also be cross-linked in a 52-kDa complex, indicating that the secreton exerts subtle effects on the interaction between PulE and PulL. Antibodies against PulM coimmunoprecipitated PulL, PulC, and PulE from detergent-solubilized cell extracts, confirming the existence of a complex containing these four proteins. Overproduction of PulG, which blocks secretion, drastically reduced the cellular levels of PulC, PulE, PulL, and PulM as well as PulD (secretin), which probably interacts with PulC. The Pul secreton components E, F, G, I, J, K, L, and M could all be replaced by the corresponding components of the Out secretons of Erwinia chrysanthemi and Erwinia carotovora, showing that they do not play a role in secretory protein recognition and secretion specificity.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Proteínas de Escherichia coli , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo , Klebsiella/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana Transportadoras , Reagentes de Ligações Cruzadas , Estabilidade Enzimática , Erwinia/genética , Erwinia/metabolismo , Escherichia coli/genética , Genes Bacterianos , Klebsiella/genética , Família Multigênica , Plasmídeos , Ligação Proteica , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo
2.
J Bacteriol ; 181(13): 4004-11, 1999 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10383968

RESUMO

The PulC component of the Klebsiella oxytoca pullulanase secretion machinery (the secreton) was found by subcellular fractionation to be associated with both the cytoplasmic (inner) and outer membranes. Association with the outer membrane was independent of other secreton components, including the outer membrane protein PulD (secretin). The association of PulC with the inner membrane is mediated by the signal anchor sequence located close to its N terminus. These results suggest that PulC forms a bridge between the two membranes that is disrupted when bacteria are broken open for fractionation. Neither the signal anchor sequence nor the cytoplasmic N-terminal region that precedes it was found to be required for PulC function, indicating that PulC does not undergo sequence-specific interactions with other cytoplasmic membrane proteins. Cross-linking of whole cells resulted in the formation of a ca. 110-kDa band that reacted with PulC-specific serum and whose detection depended on the presence of PulD. However, antibodies against PulD failed to react with this band, suggesting that it could be a homo-PulC trimer whose formation requires PulD. The data are discussed in terms of the possible role of PulC in energy transduction for exoprotein secretion.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/isolamento & purificação , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Membrana Celular/enzimologia , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo , Klebsiella/enzimologia , Proteínas de Membrana/isolamento & purificação , Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/genética , Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/metabolismo , Fracionamento Celular , Clonagem Molecular , Reagentes de Ligações Cruzadas , Klebsiella/genética , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Mutação , Ligação Proteica , Conformação Proteica , Sinais Direcionadores de Proteínas
3.
Gene ; 192(1): 13-9, 1997 Jun 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9224869

RESUMO

The main terminal branch (MTB) of the general secretory pathway is used by a wide variety of Gram- bacteria to transport exoproteins from the periplasm to the outside milieu. Recent work has led to the identification of the function of two of its 14 (or more) components: an enzyme with type-IV prepilin peptidase activity and a chaperone-like protein required for the insertion of another of the MTB components into the outer membrane. Despite these important discoveries, little tangible progress has been made towards identifying MTB components that determine secretion specificity (presumably by binding to cognate exoproteins) or which form the putative channel through which exoproteins are transported across the outer membrane. However, the idea that the single integral outer membrane component of the MTB could line the wall of this channel, and the intriguing possibility that other components of the MTB form a rudimentary type-IV pilus-like structure that might span the periplasm both deserve more careful examination. Although Escherichia coli K-12 does not normally secrete exoproteins, its chromosome contains an apparently complete set of genes coding for MTB components. At least two of these genes code for functional proteins, but the operon in which twelve of the genes are located does not appear to be expressed. We are currently searching for conditions which allow these genes to be expressed with the eventual aim of identifying the protein(s) that E. coli K-12 can secrete.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Endopeptidases , Bactérias Gram-Negativas/metabolismo , Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/química , Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/metabolismo , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Escherichia coli/química , Escherichia coli/genética , Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Genes Bacterianos , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo
4.
Gene ; 192(1): 45-50, 1997 Jun 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9224873

RESUMO

The PulE component of the pullulanase secretion pathway, a typical main terminal branch of the general secretory pathway, has a tetracysteine motif (4Cys) that is also present in almost all of the many PulE homologues, including those involved in type-IV piliation and conjugal DNA transfer. The 4Cys resembles a zinc-binding motif found in other proteins such as adenylate kinases, which may be pertinent in view of the fact that PulE has a consensus ATP-binding motif and since at least one PulE homologue has been reported to have kinase activity. In PulE, the Cys residues of this motif form scrambled intra- and intermolecular disulfide bonds when cells are disrupted. Replacement of one or more Cys of this motif by Ser reduces PulE function, but at least two adjacent Cys must be replaced to prevent intramolecular disulfide bond formation.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Cisteína/química , Proteínas de Escherichia coli , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo , Bactérias Gram-Negativas/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana Transportadoras , Trifosfato de Adenosina/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Western Blotting , Proteínas de Transporte/genética , Sequência Conservada , Dissulfetos/química , Dissulfetos/metabolismo , Escherichia coli/genética , Fímbrias Bacterianas/química , Teste de Complementação Genética , Bactérias Gram-Negativas/enzimologia , Bactérias Gram-Negativas/genética , Proteínas de Membrana/genética , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mutagênese Sítio-Dirigida , Ligação Proteica , Conformação Proteica
5.
Mol Microbiol ; 24(3): 457-64, 1997 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9179840

RESUMO

The energy requirement for the second step in pullulanase secretion by the general secretory pathway was studied in Escherichia coli. In order to uncouple the two steps in the secretion pathway (across the cytoplasmic and outer membranes, respectively) and to facilitate kinetic analysis of secretion, a variant form of pullulanase lacking its N-terminal fatty acid membrane anchor was used. The transport of the periplasmic secretion intermediate form of this protein across the outer membrane was not inhibited by concentrations of sodium arsenate in excess of those required to reduce ATP levels to < or = 10% of their normal value. Pullulanase secretion was inhibited by the protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl hydrazone at concentrations which were similar to those reported by others to be required to prevent solute uptake or the export and processing of preproteins across the cytoplasmic membrane, but which were in excess of those required to fully dissipate the proton-motive force and to reduce lactose uptake to a significant extent.


Assuntos
Escherichia coli/enzimologia , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo , Trifosfato de Adenosina/metabolismo , Transporte Biológico Ativo/efeitos dos fármacos , Carbonil Cianeto m-Clorofenil Hidrazona/farmacologia , Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Citoplasma/metabolismo , Metabolismo Energético , Escherichia coli/genética , Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/química , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/genética , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Desacopladores/farmacologia
6.
Folia Microbiol (Praha) ; 42(3): 184-92, 1997.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9246760

RESUMO

Pullulanase of Klebsiella oxytoca is one of a wide variety of extracellular proteins that are secreted by Gram-negative bacteria by the complex main terminal branch (MTB) of the general secretory pathway. The roles of some of the 14 components of the MTB are now becoming clear. In this review it is proposed that most of these proteins form a complex, the secretion, that spans the cell envelope to control the opening and closing of channel in the outer membrane. Progress toward the goal of testing this model is reviewed.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo , Bactérias Gram-Negativas/metabolismo , Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/metabolismo , Transporte Biológico Ativo , Genes Bacterianos , Klebsiella/enzimologia , Klebsiella/metabolismo , Modelos Biológicos
7.
Mol Microbiol ; 12(2): 287-99, 1994 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8057853

RESUMO

pulE, one of 14 genes specifically required for pullulanase secretion in Klebsiella oxytoca, codes for a putative nucleotide-binding protein. Subcellular fractionation indicated that the majority of PulE in Escherichia coli cells expressing all 14 secretion genes is mainly associated with the cytoplasmic membrane through both hydrophobic and non-hydrophobic interactions. Mutational analysis revealed that one of the two regions of PulE that are conserved in many nucleotide-binding proteins (Walker box A) is essential for pullulanase secretion. Likewise, mutations that removed aspartate residues from each of two regions immediately downstream from the Walker box A also reduced secretion. These aspartate-rich regions are highly conserved in all 16 known PulE homologues but not in any other nucleotide-binding proteins. Altogether, these results indicate that PulE might belong to a new family of nucleotide-binding proteins. The protein could not be cross-linked to the photoactivatable ATP analogue azido-ATP, however. Most pulE point or deletion mutations which prevented pullulanase secretion exhibited transdominance when expressed at high levels in cells producing wild-type PulE protein. Evidence presented suggests that PulE might be a homodimer.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Transporte/química , Proteínas de Escherichia coli , Proteínas de Membrana/química , Proteínas de Membrana Transportadoras , Conformação Proteica , Adenosina Trifosfatases/química , Trifosfato de Adenosina/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Sequência de Bases , Proteínas de Transporte/genética , Sequência Consenso , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo , Klebsiella/química , Klebsiella/genética , Proteínas de Membrana/genética , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mutagênese Sítio-Dirigida , Alinhamento de Sequência , Deleção de Sequência , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos
8.
Mol Microbiol ; 10(3): 665-74, 1993 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-7968543

RESUMO

It has been proposed that the four type IV pilin-like proteins that are required for extracellular protein secretion by the general secretory pathway (GSP) might assemble into a trans-periplasm complex resembling a type IV pilus. To test this idea, we examined the subcellular distribution and oligomeric state of PulG, one of the type IV pilin-like proteins required for pullulanase secretion in Klebsiella oxytoca. Fractionation of Escherichia coli cells carrying a single copy of each pul gene showed that PulG protein was located in two distinct envelope fractions corresponding to the outer and cytoplasmic membranes. The protein was partially released by treating the membranes with Triton X-100 + EDTA or at high pH, but not by Triton X-100 alone or by 8 M urea, 6 M guanidine hydrochloride or 1 M NaCl. Like type IV pilins, non-sedimentable PulG that had been released from the membranes at high pH could be sedimented by centrifugation when the pH was lowered. Treatment of whole cells, sphaeroplasts or isolated membranes with a cleavable cross-linking agent produced mainly PulG homodimers. Previous studies showed that both PulO, which cleaves and N-methylates the PulG precursor, and PulE, a putative ATP-binding protein, share extensive sequence identity with proteins known to be required for type IV pilus processing and assembly. However, mutations which disrupted either pulE or pulO, or indeed the complete absence of all other components of the pullulanase secretion apparatus, had little or no effect on any of the properties of PulG protein described above. We conclude that there is no evidence that PulG protein assembles into a stable multiprotein complex or that processing of the PulG precursor causes a detectable change in its subcellular distribution.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Proteínas de Escherichia coli , Klebsiella/fisiologia , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana Transportadoras , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Transporte Biológico , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Detergentes/farmacologia , Endopeptidases/metabolismo , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Klebsiella/efeitos dos fármacos , Klebsiella/genética , Substâncias Macromoleculares , Proteínas de Membrana/genética , Proteínas de Membrana/isolamento & purificação , Metilação , Complexos Multiproteicos , Precursores de Proteínas/genética , Precursores de Proteínas/metabolismo , Processamento de Proteína Pós-Traducional , Esferoplastos/efeitos dos fármacos , Esferoplastos/metabolismo , Frações Subcelulares/química
9.
Mol Microbiol ; 6(14): 1887-94, 1992 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1354833

RESUMO

The PulO protein required for extracellular secretion of pullulanase by Klebsiella oxytoca is known to be highly homologous to two type IV prepilin peptidases, namely XcpA(PilD) (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and TcpJ (Vibrio cholerae). The predicted prepilin peptidase activity of PulO was confirmed by showing that it could correctly process the product of the cloned pilE.1 type IV pilin structural gene from Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Escherichia coli. The P. aeruginosa prepilin peptidase and another putative prepilin peptidase, ComC from Bacillus subtilis, also processed prePilE. Subcellular fractionation showed that the pilE gene product that had been processed by PulO remained associated with the cytoplasmic membrane, as did the unprocessed precursor. PulO was also shown to process three of the four prePilE-PhoA hybrids tested. Southern hybridization experiments suggest that a pulO homologue is present in the N. gonorrhoeae chromosome.


Assuntos
Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/metabolismo , Endopeptidases/metabolismo , Escherichia coli/genética , Fímbrias Bacterianas/metabolismo , Genes Bacterianos/fisiologia , Precursores de Proteínas/metabolismo , Processamento de Proteína Pós-Traducional/genética , Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/genética , Endopeptidases/genética , Escherichia coli/química , Proteínas de Fímbrias , Fímbrias Bacterianas/enzimologia , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo , Cinética , Klebsiella/genética , Modelos Biológicos , Neisseria gonorrhoeae/genética , Hibridização de Ácido Nucleico , Precursores de Proteínas/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo
10.
Mol Microbiol ; 6(1): 95-105, 1992 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1738317

RESUMO

The previously uncharacterized third and fourth genes (pulE and pulF) of the pullulanase secretion gene operon of Klebsiella oxytoca strain UNF5023 are, respectively, predicted to encode a 55 kDa polypeptide with a putative nucleotide-binding site, and a highly hydrophobic 44 kDa polypeptide that probably spans the cytoplasmic membrane several times. Expression of pulE in minicells or under the control of a strong bacteriophage T7 promoter resulted in the production of a c. 58 kDa cytoplasmic protein. A representative PulE-beta-galactosidase hybrid protein created by Tnlac mutagenesis was also found mainly in the cytoplasm. These results are in line with the predicted absence from PulE of a region of sufficient hydrophobicity to function as a signal sequence. The PulF polypeptide could not be detected either in minicells or when the gene was transcribed from the T7 promoter, but the acquirement of three pulF-lacZ gene fusions that encoded hybrid proteins with relatively high levels of beta-galactosidase activity indicates that this gene can be transcribed and translated. Gene disruption experiments indicated that both pulE and pulF are required for pullulanase secretion in Escherichia coli K-12. Both proteins exhibit considerable homology throughout their entire lengths with other proteins involved in protein secretion, pilin assembly, conjugation and transformation competence in a variety of bacteria. In addition, PulE protein has consensus sequences found in a wide variety of nucleotide-binding proteins. This study completes the initial characterization of the pullulanase secretion gene operon, which comprises 13 genes that are all essential for the transport of pullulanase across the outer membrane.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Escherichia coli , Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Glicosídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana/genética , Proteínas de Membrana Transportadoras , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Sequência de Bases , Transporte Biológico , Citoplasma/metabolismo , DNA Bacteriano , Escherichia coli/genética , Óperon Lac , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Óperon , Mapeamento por Restrição , Alinhamento de Sequência
12.
Res Microbiol ; 142(1): 5-12, 1991 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2068380

RESUMO

This brief note reports the nucleotide sequences of the second nifH region of Methanobacterium ivanovii and of the two nifH regions of Methanosarcina barkeri 227. In the three cases, nifH is followed by two ORF (open reading frames) similar to ORF105 and ORF128 respectively, which were previously found downstream of Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus nifH. These two ORF are followed by nifD in M. ivanovii as well as in the first nifH region of M. barkeri 227. Both types of ORF exhibit a strong homology with the glnB gene.


Assuntos
Euryarchaeota/genética , Sequência de Bases , Southern Blotting , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Fixação de Nitrogênio/genética
13.
Mol Gen Genet ; 221(2): 273-9, 1990 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2196433

RESUMO

An integration vector for use in Methanococcus voltae was constructed, based on the Escherichia coli vector pUC18. It carries the structural gene for puromycin transacetylase from Streptomyces alboniger, which is flanked by expression signals of M. voltae structural genes and hisA gene sequences of this bacterium. Transformed M. voltae cells are puromycin resistant. Several types of integration of the vector into the chromosome were found. Only one case was due to nonhomologous recombination. The integrated sequences were stable under selective pressure but were slowly lost in some cases in the absence of the selective drug. The vector could be excised from M. voltae chromosomal DNA, recircularized and transformed back into E. coli.


Assuntos
Euryarchaeota/genética , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Vetores Genéticos , Southern Blotting , Clonagem Molecular , Resistência Microbiana a Medicamentos , Escherichia coli/genética , Euryarchaeota/efeitos dos fármacos , Genes Bacterianos , Marcadores Genéticos , Plasmídeos , Puromicina/farmacologia , Mapeamento por Restrição , Transformação Bacteriana
14.
Res Microbiol ; 140(6): 355-71, 1989.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2575777

RESUMO

The sequence of a 2,746-bp DNA fragment of Methanococcus voltae carrying the glnA gene for glutamine synthetase (GS), was established. A 1,338-bp open reading frame (ORF), encoding a 446-amino-acid polypeptide of 50,142 Da, was defined as glnA on the basis of its similarity to other glnA genes and on the ability of a DNA fragment carrying this ORF to complement an Escherichia coli Gln- mutant. No sequence homology was found between sequences flanking the M. volae glnA gene and other eubacterial glnA genes. In M. voltae, the gene was transcribed as a monocistronic unit and GS synthesis was partially repressed at high ammonia concentrations. At the amino acid sequence level, the highest similarity was found with GS of Bacillus subtilis and Clostridium acetobutylicum.


Assuntos
Euryarchaeota/enzimologia , Genes Bacterianos , Glutamato-Amônia Ligase/genética , Sequência de Bases , Mapeamento Cromossômico , Eubacterium/enzimologia , Glutamato-Amônia Ligase/metabolismo , Dados de Sequência Molecular
15.
Appl Environ Microbiol ; 54(3): 734-40, 1988 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-3132099

RESUMO

The sensitivity of the methanogenic archaebacterium Methanococcus voltae to 12 inhibitors was tested in liquid medium. Four compounds appeared to be inhibitors of growth. Their MICs were as follows: pseudomonic acid, 0.1 micrograms/ml (0.19 microM); puromycin, 2 micrograms/ml (3.6 microM); methionine sulfoximine, 30 micrograms/ml (170 microM); and fusidic acid, 100 micrograms/ml (170 microM). On solid medium, the MICs were similar and the frequency of spontaneous resistance was found to be 5 X 10(-5) (methionine sulfoximine), 10(-7) (pseudomonic acid), and less than 10(-7) (puromycin and fusidic acid). Pseudomonic acid was found to inhibit isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase activity as measured by the in vitro aminoacylation of M. voltae tRNA with L-[U-14C]isoleucine. Fusidic acid and puromycin were shown to inhibit poly(U)-dependent polyphenylalanine synthesis in S30 extracts. Acetylpuromycin was inhibitory at much higher concentrations both in vivo and in vitro for M. voltae. Thus, the pac gene of Streptomyces alboniger, which is responsible for acetylation of puromycin and which conferred resistance to puromycin when introduced in eubacteria and eucaryotes, is a potential selective marker in gene transfer experiments with M. voltae. The latter was recently shown to be transformable. The same would be true for the cat gene of Tn9, which encodes resistance to fusidic acid in eubacteria in addition to resistance to chloramphenicol.


Assuntos
Euryarchaeota/efeitos dos fármacos , Ácido Fusídico/farmacologia , Puromicina/farmacologia , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Meios de Cultura , Resistência Microbiana a Medicamentos/genética , Euryarchaeota/genética , Euryarchaeota/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Ácidos Graxos/farmacologia , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Genes Bacterianos , Metionina Sulfoximina/farmacologia , Mupirocina , Fatores R , Transfecção
16.
J Bacteriol ; 170(2): 946-53, 1988 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2828337

RESUMO

The action of novobiocin and coumermycin (two coumarins which interact with the gyrB subunit of eubacterial DNA gyrase) and ciprofloxacin (a fluoroquinolone which interacts with the gyrA subunit of DNA gyrase) was tested on several archaebacteria, including five methanogens, two halobacteria, and a thermoacidophile. Most strains were sensitive to doses of coumarins (0.02 to 10 micrograms/ml) which specifically inhibit DNA gyrase in eubacteria. Ciprofloxacin inhibited growth of the haloalkaliphilic strain Natronobacterium gregoryi and of the methanogen Methanosarcina barkeri. In addition, ciprofloxacin partly relieved the sensitivity to coumarins (and vice versa). Novobiocin inhibited DNA replication in Halobacterium halobium rapidly and specifically. Topological analysis has shown that the 1.7-kilobase plasmid from Halobacterium sp. strain GRB is negatively supercoiled; this plasmid was relaxed after novobiocin treatment. These results support the existence in archaebacteria of a coumarin and quinolone target related to eubacterial DNA gyrase.


Assuntos
Archaea/efeitos dos fármacos , Bactérias/efeitos dos fármacos , Ciprofloxacina/farmacologia , Cumarínicos/farmacologia , DNA Topoisomerases Tipo II/metabolismo , Aminocumarinas , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Archaea/enzimologia , Archaea/genética , Archaea/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Autorradiografia , Replicação do DNA/efeitos dos fármacos , Interações Medicamentosas , Eletroforese em Gel de Ágar , Euryarchaeota/efeitos dos fármacos , Euryarchaeota/enzimologia , Euryarchaeota/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Halobacterium/efeitos dos fármacos , Halobacterium/enzimologia , Halobacterium/genética , Halobacterium/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Novobiocina/farmacologia , Plasmídeos
17.
J Mol Evol ; 27(1): 65-76, 1988.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2838639

RESUMO

DNA fragments bearing sequence similarity to eubacterial nif H probes were cloned from two nitrogen-fixing archaebacteria, a thermophilic methanogen, Methanococcus (Mc.) thermolithotrophicus, and a mesophilic methanogen, Methanobacterium (Mb.) ivanovii. Regions carrying similarities with the probes were sequenced. They contained several open reading frames (ORF), separated by A + T-rich regions. The largest ORFs in both regions, an 876-bp sequence in Mc. thermolithotrophicus and a 789-bp sequence in Mb. ivanovii, were assumed to be ORFsnif H. They code for polypeptides of mol. wt. 32,025 and 28,347, respectively. Both ORFsnifH were preceded by potential ribosome binding sites and followed by potential hairpin structures and by oligo-T sequences, which may act as transcription termination signals. The codon usage was similar in both ORFsnifH and was analogous to that used in the Clostridium pasteurianum nifH gene, with a preference for codons ending with A or U. The ORFnifH deduced polypeptides contained 30% sequence matches with all eubacterial nifH products already sequenced. Four cysteine residues were found at the same position in all sequences, and regions surrounding the cysteine residues are highly conserved. Comparison of all pairs of methanogenic and eubacterial nifH sequences is in agreement with a distant phylogenetic position of archaebacteria and with a very ancient origin of nif genes. However, sequence similarity between Methanobacteriales and Methanococcales is low (around 50%) as compared to that found among eubacteria, suggesting a profound divergence between the two orders of methanogens. From comparison of amino acid sequences, C. pasteurianum groups with the other eubacteria, whereas comparison of nucleotide sequences seems to bring C. pasteurianum closer to methanogens. The latter result may be due to the high A + T content of both C. pasteurianum and methanogens ORFsnif H or may come from an ancient lateral transfer between Clostridium and methanogens.


Assuntos
Archaea/genética , Bactérias/genética , Evolução Biológica , Genes Bacterianos , Genes , Nitrogenase/genética , Oxirredutases , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Archaea/enzimologia , Sequência de Bases , Clonagem Molecular , Enzimas de Restrição do DNA , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Homologia de Sequência do Ácido Nucleico , Especificidade da Espécie
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