Regulation of expression of nif and hut operons in Klebsiella pneumoniae by glnA linked genes of Escherichia coli |
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Authors: | Rakesh Tuli Ramkumar K Iyer and Joseph Thomas |
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Institution: | (1) Biology and Agriculture Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, 400 085 Bombay, India |
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Abstract: | Summary Recombinant DNA plasmids containing inserts from the glnA region of Escherichia coli were used to study the expression of gln, hut, and nif operons in a regulation defective mutant (Gln–Hut–Nif–) of Klebsiella pneumoniae, KP5060. Genes adjacent to the C-terminal end of glnA on the E. coli chromosome were able to derepress hut and nif operons in K. pneumoniae in the absence of glnA product. However, complete derepression of nif operons required inclusion of the segment adjacent to the N-terminal end of the glnA region of the E. coli chromosome along with the C-terminal end segment. In the absence of functional glnA, such a fully derepressed strain expressed nif and hut constitutively indicating a role for the catalytic activity of glutamine synthetase in repression of the genes under nitrogen control. |
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