PMID:8253682
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Saffarini, DA and Nealson, KH (1993) Sequence and genetic characterization of etrA, an fnr analog that regulates anaerobic respiration in Shewanella putrefaciens MR-1. J. Bacteriol. 175:7938-44 |
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| Abstract |
An electron transport regulatory gene, etrA, has been isolated and characterized from the obligate respiratory bacterium Shewanella putrefaciens MR-1. The deduced amino acid sequence of etrA (EtrA) shows a high degree of identity to both the Fnr of Escherichia coli (73.6%) and the analogous protein (ANR) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (50.8%). The four active cysteine residues of Fnr are conserved in EtrA, and the amino acid sequence of the DNA-binding domains of the two proteins are identical. Further, S. putrefaciens etrA is able to complement an fnr mutant of E. coli. In contrast to fnr, there is no recognizable Fnr box upstream of the etrA sequence. Gene replacement etrA mutants of MR-1 were deficient in growth on nitrite, thiosulfate, sulfite, trimethylamine-N-oxide, dimethyl sulfoxide, Fe(III), and fumarate, suggesting that EtrA is involved in the regulation of the corresponding reductase genes. However, the mutants were all positive for reduction of and growth on nitrate and Mn(IV), indicating that EtrA is not involved in the regulation of these two systems. Southern blots of S. putrefaciens DNA with use of etrA as a probe revealed the expected etrA bands and a second set of hybridization signals whose genetic and functional properties remain to be determined. |
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Amino Acid Sequence; Anaerobiosis; Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Base Sequence; Blotting, Southern; DNA Primers; DNA, Bacterial/isolation & purification; DNA, Bacterial/metabolism; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli Proteins; Genes, Bacterial; Genes, Regulator; Genomic Library; Gram-Negative Bacteria/genetics; Gram-Negative Bacteria/metabolism; Iron-Sulfur Proteins; Molecular Sequence Data; Open Reading Frames; Oxygen Consumption; Restriction Mapping; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Transcription Factors/genetics |
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