Three nitrate reductase activities in Alcaligenes eutrophus

Archiv für Mikrobiologie - 1993
Ute Warnecke-Eberz1, Bärbel Friedrich1
1Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie und Mikrobiologie der Freien Universität Berlin, Berlin 33, Germany

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Three nitrate reductase activities were detected in Alcaligenes eutrophus strain H16 by physiological and mutant analysis. The first (NAS) was subject to repression by ammonia and not affected by oxygen indicating a nitrate assimilatory function. The second (NAR) membrane-bound activity was only formed in the absence of oxygen and was insensitive to ammonia repression indicating a nitrate respiratory function. The third (NAP) activity of potential respiratory function occurred in the soluble fraction of cells grown to the stationary phase of growth. In contrast to NAR and NAS, expression of NAP did not require nitrate for induction and was independent of the rpoN gene product. Genes for the three reductases map at different loci. NAR and NAS are chromosomally encoded whereas NAP is a megaplasmid-borne activity in A. eutrophus.

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