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1.
Maria M. Dobao Manuel Martínez-Luque Francisco Castillo 《Archives of microbiology》1993,160(6):471-476
Spheroplasts from Rhodobacter capsulatus E1F1 cells grown in nitrate maintained nitrate uptake and nitrate reductase activity only when they were illuminated under anaerobiosis in the presence of the periplasmic fraction and nitrate. The effects on nitrate uptake and nitrate reductase activity of spheroplasts were observed at low concentrations of periplasmic protein (about 50 x ml-1). Periplasm from nitrate-grown cells was also required for nitrate reductase activity in spheroplasts isolated from ammonia-grown or diazotrophic cells which initially lacked this enzymatic activity. Both the maintenance of nitrate reductase in spheroplasts from nitrate-grown cells and the appearance of the activity in spheroplasts from diazotrophic cells were dependent on de novo protein synthesis. A periplasmic, 45-kDa protein which maintained the activity of nitrate reductase in spheroplasts was partially purified by gel filtration chromatography of periplasm obtained from nitrate-grown cells.Abbreviations NR
nitrate reductase
- CCCP
carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone
- CAM
chloramphenicol 相似文献
2.
Anna L. Ballard Alastair G. McEwan David J. Richardson J. Baz Jackson Stuart J. Ferguson 《Archives of microbiology》1990,154(3):301-303
Rhodobacter capsulatus strain BK5 possesses a membrane bound respiratory nitrate reductase rather than the periplasmic enzyme found in other strains. The enzyme in strain BK5 is shown to be both functionally and structurally related to the nitrate reductase of Paracoccus denitrificans and Escherichia coli.Abbreviation TMAO
trimethylamine-N-oxide 相似文献
3.
The ammonium uptake system of Rhodobacter capsulatus B100 was examined using the ammonium analog methylammonium. This analog was not transported when cells were grown aerobically on ammonium. When cultured on glutamate as a nitrogen source, or when nitrogen-starved, cells would take up methylammonium. Therefore, in cells grown under nitrogen-limiting conditions, a second system of ammonium uptake (or a modified form of the first) is present which is distinguished by its capacity for transporting the analog in addition to ammonium. The methylammonium uptake system exhibited saturation kinetics with a K
m of 22 M and a V
max of about 3 nmol per min · mg protein. Ammonium completely inhibited analog transport with a K
i in the range of 1 M. Once inside the cell methylammonium was rapidly converted to -N-methylglutamine; however, a small concentration gradient of methylammonium could still be observed. Kinetic parameters reflect the effects of assimilation.The methylammonium uptake system was temperature and pH dependent, and inhibition studies indicated that energy was required for the system to be operative. A glutamine auxotroph (G29) lacking the structural gene for glutanime synthetase did not accumulate the analog, even when nitrogen starved. The Nif- mutant J61, which is unable to express nitrogenase structural genes, also did not transport methylammonium, regardless of the nitrogen source for growth. However, the mutant exhibited wild-type ammonium uptake and glutamine synthetase activity. These data suggest that transport of ammonium is required for growth on limited nitrogen and is under the control of the Ntr system in R. capsulatus.Abbreviations CCCP
carbonyl cyanide-m-chlorophenyl hydrazone
- CHES
cyclohexylaminoethanesulfonic acid
- DMSO
dimethyl sulfoxide
- GMAD
-N-methylglutamine
- GS
glutamine synthetase
- MES
2-(N-morpholino) ethanesulfonic acid
- MSX
methionine-Dl-sulfoximine
- pCMB
p-chloromercuribenzoate
- Tricine
N-tris(hydroxymethyl)methylglycine 相似文献
4.
Nitrogen assimilation in Rhodobacter capsulatus has been shown to proceed via the coupled action of glutamine synthetase (GS) and glutamate synthase (GOGAT) with no measurable glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) present. We have recently isolated a novel class of mutants of R. capsulatus strain B100 that lacks a detectable GOGAT activity but is able to grow at wild type rates under nitrogen-fixing conditions. While NH
4
+
-supported growth in the mutants was normal under anaerobic/photosynthetic conditions, the growth rate was decreased under aerobic conditions. Ammonium and methylammonium uptake experiments indicated that there was a clear difference in the ammonium assimilatory capabilities in these mutants under aerobic versus anaerobic growth. Regulation of expression of a nifH : : lacZ fusion in these mutants was not impaired. The possible existence of alternative ammonium assimilatory pathways is discussed. 相似文献
5.
A. G. McEwan H. G. Wetzstein O. Meyer J. B. Jackson S. J. Ferguson 《Archives of microbiology》1987,147(4):340-345
The periplasmic dissimilatory nitrate reductase from Rhodobacter capsulatus N22DNAR+ has been purified. It comprises a single type of polypeptide chain with subunit molecular weight 90,000 and does not contain heme. Chlorate is not an alternative substrate. A molybdenum cofactor, of the pterin type found in both nitrate reductases and molybdoenzymes from various sources, is present in nitrate reductase from R. capsulatus at an approximate stoichiometry of 1 molecule per polypeptide chain. This is the first report of the occurrence of the cofactor in a periplasmic enzyme. Trimethylamine-N-oxide reductase activity was fractionated by ion exchange chromatography of periplasmic proteins. The fractionated material was active towards dimethylsulphoxide, chlorate and methionine sulphoxide, but not nitrate. A catalytic polypeptide of molecular weight 46,000 was identified by staining for trimethylamine-N-oxide reductase activity after polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate. The same polypeptide also stained for dimethylsulphoxide reductase activity which indicates that trimethylamine-N-oxide and dimethylsulphoxide share a common reductase.Abbreviations DMSO
dimethylsulphoxide
- LDS
lithium dodecyl sulphate
- MVH
reduced methylviologen
- PAGE
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- SDS
sodium dodecyl sulphate
- TMAO
trimethylamine-N-oxide 相似文献
6.
High levels of aconitase and fumarase activities were found in Rhodobacter capsulatus E1F1 cells cultured with nitrate as the sole nitrogen source either under light-anaerobic or dark-aerobic conditions. Both activities were strongly and reversibly inhibited in vitro by nitrite or nitric oxide, whereas nitrate or hydroxylamine showed a lower effect. Other enzymes of the tricarboxylic acids cycle such as malate dehydrogenase or isocitrate dehydrogenase were not affected by these nitrogen compounds. When growing on nitrate in the dark R. capsulatus E1F1 cells accumulated nitrite intracellularly, so that an in vivo inhibition of aconitase and fumarase could account for the strong inhibition of growth observed in the presence of nitrite under dark-aerobic conditions.Abbreviations ACO
aconitase
- FUM
fumarase
- MDH
malate dehydrogenase
- ICDH
isocitrate dehydrogenase
- TCA
tricarboxylic acid 相似文献
7.
The characteristics of malate transport into aerobically grown cells of the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus were determined. A single transport system was distinguished kinetically which displayed a Kt value of 2.9 ± 1.2 μM and Vmax of 43 ± 6 nmol · min-1 · mg-1 protein. Competition experiments indicated that the metabolically related C4-dicarboxylates succinate and fumarate are also
transported by this system. Malate uptake was sensitive to osmotic shock and evidence from the binding of radiolabelled malate
and succinate to periplasmic protein fractions indicated that transport is mediated by a dicarboxylate binding protein. The
activity of the transport system was studied as a function of external and internal pH and it was found that a marked activation
of uptake occurred at intracellular pH values greater than 7. The use of a high affinity binding protein dependent system
to transport a major carbon and energy source suggests that Rhodobacter capsulatus would be capable of obtaining growth sustaining quantities of C4-dicarboxylates even if these were present at very low concentrations
in the environment. 相似文献
8.
Export of porin to the outer membrane of the phototrophic purple bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus was studied with the use of the uncoupler of the electron transport chain, carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP). The agent reversibly blocked the transport of porin across the cytoplasmic membrane. By means of radioactive labeling and immunoprecipitation, porin was found to occur in two forms: (i) the exported form that was extractable from the outer membrane without disrupting the cells, and (ii) a pre-form with a slightly higher apparent molecular mass which accumulated in the cells during the block of the export process. Proteolysis studies revealed that the preform was highly sensitive to added proteases, whereas the exported form was resistant.Abbreviations CCCP
carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone
- DMSO
dimethylsulfoxide
- EDTA
ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid
- OMP
outer membrane porin; pre-OMP, form of outer membrane porin before export
- PAGE
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- PMSF
phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride
- SDS
sodium dodecyl sulfate 相似文献
9.
10.
E. Bräutigam F. Fiedler D. Woitzik H. T. Flammann J. Weckesser 《Archives of microbiology》1988,150(6):567-573
The capsule polysaccharide-protein-peptidoglycan complex (insoluble in boiling sodium dodecyl sulfate and hot phenol-water) from cell envelopes of Rhodobacter capsulatus St. Louis was characterized. Hydrofluoric, hydrochloric acid or alkaline hydrolysis solubilized the polysaccharide moiety, whereas the protein-peptidoglycan moiety remained insoluble. On treatment of the protein-peptidoglycan moiety with lysozyme, the protein with peptidoglycan-residues bound was solubilized. It showed a single, broad peptide band (M
r=about 17,000) on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel-electrophoresis. The same protein was obtained by lysozyme digestion (without preceding hydrofluoric or hydrochloric acid treatment) of the protein-peptidoglycan complex of the phage-resistant mutant Rhodobacter capsulatus St. Louis RC1-, in which the capsule polysaccharide is present in a free form. A protein-peptidoglycan complex was isolated also from the capsulefree Rhodobacter capsulatus 37b4. Covalent binding between the protein and peptidoglycan moieties is likely for all three strains as is the lipoprotein nature of the protein moiety. The polysaccharide moiety of the complete complex from the wild-type Rhodobacter capsulatus St. Louis was at least partly removable from the complex in the presence of high salt concentrations or ethylene diamine tetraacetate. A specific amino acid pattern (with Ser, Gly, Glu, and Ala dominating) remained constantly associated with the capsule polysaccharide moiety independent of the separation procedure.Abbreviations A2pm
diaminopimelic acid
- Cetavlon
cetyltrimethyl-ammonium bromide
- EDTA
ethylene-diaminetetraacetate, disodium salt
- HF
hydrofluoric acid
- HPLC
high-performance liquid chromatography
- PAGL
polyacrylamide gel-electrophoresis
- SDS
sodium dodecyl sulfate
- TCA
trichloroacetic acid 相似文献
11.
Membranes from the facultative photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus can be fused by sonication in vitro to form hybrid membranes, some of which are vesicles. The organization of the redox complexes involved in alternative-oxidase dependent electron transport of R. capsulatus can be studied by testing for in vitro complementation of this activity lacking in membranes from genetic mutants. The results obtained in complementation tests between well characterized mutants support current models of organization of electron transport components in R. capsulatus and confirm the in situ existence of independent functional entities such as NADH-dehydrogenase, reaction center, bacteriochlorophyll light-harvesting complexes and alternative-oxidase (cyt. o). The demonstration that artefactual mixing between different membrane entities may only be induced by treatments such as ultrasonic irradiation promoting intervesicular recombination has been taken as evidence that photorespiratory processes truly reflect an in vivo situation. 相似文献
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13.
Francisco Romero Antonio López-Ruiz Jean-Pierre Verbelen José Manuel Roldán 《Archives of microbiology》1988,149(4):330-334
Intracellular localization of glutamine synthetase has been studied by immunochemical techniques with cryosections and London Resin sections of Rhodobacter capsulatus E1F1 and Rhodopseudomonas acidophila. For immunostaining, sections were sequentially incubated with monospecific anti-glutamine synthetase antibodies (R. capsulatus) and gold labelled goat anti-rabbit antibodies. Gold label was present in the cytoplasm but not in the cell walls. The antigen is not associated with the cell membrane or with photosynthetic vesicle whether these are round and randomly distributed (R. capsulatus) or flattened and organized in well defined stacks (R. acidophila). Our results also indicate that glutamine synthetase is absent from the central, nucleoid part of the cell. The enzyme is present in dense cytoplasmic patches, which appear to be RNA-ribosome-containing areas.Abbreviations GS
glutamine synthetase
- LR
London Resin White 相似文献
14.
Solís C Celis H Romero I Isaac-Olivé K Andrade E Eslava-Rosas F Monroy-Rosales JH Cuevas-Moreno R 《Journal of microbiological methods》2011,84(2):272-277
Inorganic pyrophosphatases are divided in two families, which differ both in structure and mechanism. All of them incorporate in its structure divalent metal cations. In 2003, it was reported for the first time that Rhodobacter capsulatus cytoplasmic pyrophosphatase belongs to family II. It is expected then, that this enzyme contains metal elements in its structure; however, this characterization has not been carried out yet. A fine application of accelerators is the use of proton beams to induce X-ray emission (PIXE) for analyzing the composition of biological macromolecules. The purpose of this work is to complement R. capsulatus cytoplasmic pyrophosphatase characterization by determining the presence of metal elements in its structure. Three different strategies were used: PAGE-PIXE, PAGE-Digestion-PIXE, and Dialysis-PIXE and when metals were found the metal/enzyme ratio was calculated. Only Cobalt was found to be associated to the enzyme chemical structure in a ratio 3 Co/enzyme. 相似文献
15.
Porin of the outer membrane of Rhodobacter capsulatus St. Louis (ATCC 23782) was isolated and reconstituted into lipid bilayer membranes. The porin was obtained either by the sodium dodecyl sulfate treatment of cell envelopes (SDS-porin) or by saline extraction of whole cells (NaCl-porin). Nanomolar concentrations of both porin preparations resulted in a strong conductance increase of the lipid bilayer membranes by many orders of magnitude. At small protein concentrations the conductance increased in a stepwise fashion, the average single channel conductance being about 0.35 nS in 0.1 M KCl for SDS-porin and NaCl-porin as well. The single channel conductance was a linear function of the specific conductance of the aqueous phase. The results were consistent with the assumption that the porin formed large water-filled transmembrane channels in the membrane. From the average value of the single channel conductance in 0.1 M KCl an effective channel diameter of about 1.5 nm was estimated for both types of porins.Abbreviations EDTA
ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid
- SDS
sodium dodecyl sulfate 相似文献
16.
In order to distinguish between the regulatory effects of oxygen tension and light intensity on cytochrome c oxidase protein and enzymatic activity cells of Rhodobacter capsulatus were shifted from phototrophic (anaerobic, light) growth to aerobic-light, aerobic-dark and to anaerobic-dark conditions, respectively. During shift-experiments the formation of oxidase protein and regulation of oxidase activity was followed by immunological and enzymatic means. The results support the idea, that the formation of oxidase protein is regulated by oxygen tension and light intensity changes, whereas the regulation of oxidase activity seems only to be correlated to the oxygen tension. A DNA sequence involved in the oxygen-dependent regulation of cytochrome oxidase could be identified in the regulation-deficient oxidase mutant H41 of R. capsulatus. Immunological investigations of cytochrome c
2 from mutant H41 demonstrated at the same time the participation of the c
2-polypeptide in the regulation of cytochrome c oxidase.Abbreviations Bchl
bacteriochlorophyll
- CIE
crossed immuno-electrophoresis
- DMSO
dimethyl sulfoxide 相似文献
17.
Two conserved non-canonical histidines are essential for activity of the cbb
3-type oxidase in Rhodobacter capsulatus 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Cytochrome cbb
3 oxidase, a member of the heme–copper oxidase superfamily, catalyses the reduction of oxygen to water and generates a proton
gradient. Cytochrome c oxidases are characterized by a catalytic subunit (subunit I) containing two hemes and one copper ion ligated by six invariant
histidine residues, which are diagnostic of heme–copper oxidases in all type of the heme–copper oxidase superfamily. Alignments
of the amino acid sequences of subunit I (FixN or CcoN) of the cbb
3-type oxidases show that catalytic subunit also contains six non-canonical histidine residues that are conserved in all CcoN
subunits of the cbb
3 oxidase, but not the catalytic subunits of other members of heme–copper oxidases superfamily. The function of these six CcoN-specific
conserved histidines of cbb
3-type oxidase in R. capsulatus is unknown. To analyze the contribution of the two invariant histidines of CcoN, H300 and H394, in activity and assembly
of the Rhodobacter capsulatus
cbb
3-type oxidase, they were substituted for valine and alanine, respectively by site-directed mutagenesis. H300V and H394A mutations
were analyzed with respect to their activity and assembly. It was found that H394A mutation led to a defect in the assembly
of both CcoP and CcoO in the membrane, which results in almost complete loss of activity and that although the H300V mutant
is normally assembled in the membrane and retain their stability, its catalytic activity is significantly reduced when compared
with wild-type oxidase. 相似文献
18.
G. F. King D. J. Richardson J. B. Jackson S. J. Ferguson 《Archives of microbiology》1987,149(1):47-51
Nuclear magnetic resonance is established as a sensitive and specific method for following the reduction of dimethylsulphoxide and trimethylamine-N-oxide by bacteria. Using this method it has been shown that cells of Rhodobacter capsulatus reduce both dimethylsulphoxide and trimethylamine-N-oxide at linear rates at all concentrations of these acceptors that can be conveniently detected during a continuous assay. The rate of reduction of trimethylamine-N-oxide was eightfold higher than the rate of dimethylsulphoxide reduction. An upper limit of approximately 0.1 mM may be placed upon the apparent K
m value for each acceptor, but the value for dimethylsulphoxide is deduced to be lower than that for trimethylamine-N-oxide on the basis of the strong inhibitory effect of the former on the reduction of the latter. Reduction of trimethylamine-N-oxide by Rb. capsulatus was inhibited by illumination and by oxygen, but only the former effect was relieved following dissipation of the proton electrochemical gradient across the cytoplasmic membrane. Rotenone inhibited the reduction of trimethylamine-N-oxide whereas myxothiazol did not, consistent with a pathway of electrons to the reductase from NADH dehydrogenase that does not involve the cytochrome bc
1complex.Abbreviations DMS
dimethyl sulphide
- DMSO
dimethyl sulphoxide
- DSS
3-(trimethylsilyl)-1-propane-sulphonic acid
- FCCP
carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone
- TMA
trimethylamine
- TMAO
trimethylamine-N-oxide 相似文献
19.
Nitrogen fixation as well as structural and functional properties of the photosynthetic apparatus were studied with phototrophically grown chemostat cultures of Rhodobacter capsulatus strain 37b4. Illumination was varied between 3,000 and 30,000 lx at a constant dilution rate of D=0.075 h-1. Steady state parameters of growth revealed two forms of limitation, i.e. energy limitation in the range of 3,000 to about 10,000 lx and nitrogen limitation at higher illuminations. Over the entire range of illumination, the specific bacteriochlorophyll content and the amount of total bacteriochlorophyll per photochemical reaction center remained essentially constant. Photophosphorylation activity remained constant up to 20,000 lx but was slightly increased at 30,000 lx. Hydrogen evolution and acetylene reduction activities of cellular nitrogenase were assayed under saturating light conditions with samples taken from cultures growing under steady state conditions. In spite of the apparent constancy of the composition and activity of the photosynthetic apparatus under energy limitation, maximal specific acetylene reduction and hydrogen evolution activities increased by factors of 3 and 8, respectively, when illumination of the culture was raised from 3,000 to about 15,000 lx. Above 15,000 lx, both activities of nitrogenase approached constancy.We, therefore, conclude that neither under energy limitation nor under nitrogen limitation the function of nitrogenase depended on the photosynthetic activities. Moreover, it is suggested that light did not influence nitrogenase activity under conditions of nitrogen limitation, while under conditions of energy limitation light seemed to influence nitrogenase activities indirectly via glutamate consumption of the cells. 相似文献
20.
Augusto F. Garcia Werner Mäntele Nasser Gad'on Monier H. Tadros Gerhart Drews 《Archives of microbiology》1991,155(3):205-209
Cells of Rhodobacter capsulatus wild-type strains (37b4, B 10) and mutant strains, lacking lightharvesting (LH) complex II (B800–850) and defective in formation of LH I (B870) complex [U 43 (pTXB 87), U43 (pTXA6-10)] were grown photosynthetically at high and low light intensities in a turbidostate. The mutant strain U43 (pTXA6-10), lacking any LH system, was able to grow at high and low light intensities with doubling times of 4.6 and 9.8 h, respectively. In this mutant the concentration of photochemical reaction centers (RC) per cell and per membrane protein was several times higher than in wild type cells, but the bacteriochlorophyll content, the size of the photosynthetic unit and the rate of photophosphorylation were lower than in wild type cells. Reversible bleaching of reaction center and photophosphorylation were measured under different excitation light intensities. The charge recombination in the RC between the primary donor and QB was very slow in the mutant strains. Two membrane fractions differing in absorption spectra and light saturation behaviour of reversible bleaching and photophosphorylation were isolated from the mutant strains. The experimental data indicate that photosynthetic units of different composition and/or organization are present in the mutant cells.Abbreviations DSM
Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen, Braunschweig 相似文献