A thermophilic nitrate reductase is responsible for the strain specific anaerobic growth of Thermus thermophilus HB8

V. Bonnefoy, J.A. DeMoss, Nitrate reductases in Escherichia coli, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 66 (1994) 47–56. S.J. Ferguson, Denitrification and its control, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 66 (1994) 89–110. Berks, 1995, Sequence analysis of subunits of the membrane bound nitrate reductase from a denitrifying bacterium: the integral membrane subunit provides a prototype for the dihaem electron-carrying arm of a redox loop, Mol. Microbiol., 15, 319, 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.tb02246.x Blasco, 1990, Nitrate reductases of Escherichia coli: Sequence of the second nitrate reductase and comparison with that encoded by the narGHJI operon, Mol. Gen. Genet., 222, 104, 10.1007/BF00283030 Hoffmann, 1995, The anaerobic life of Bacillus subtilis: Cloning of the genes encoding the respiratory nitrate reductase system, FEMS Microbiol. Lett., 131, 219, 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1995.tb07780.x Philippot, 1997, Purification of the dissimilative nitrate reductase of Pseudomonas fluorescens and the cloning and sequencing of its corresponding genes, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1350, 272, 10.1016/S0167-4781(97)00007-9 Grove, 1996, Escherichia coli K-12 genes essential for the synthesis of c-type cytochromes and a third nitrate reductase located in the periplasm, Mol. Microbiol., 19, 467, 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.383914.x Berks, 1995, The napEDABC gene cluster encoding the periplasmic nitrate reductase system of Thiosphaera pantotropha, Biochem. J., 309, 983, 10.1042/bj3090983 Warnecke-Eberz, 1993, Three nitrate reductase activities in Alcaligenes eutrophus, Arch. Microbiol., 159, 405, 10.1007/BF00288585 Carter, 1995, Isolation and characterisation of a strain of Pseudomonas putida that can express a periplasmic nitrate reductase, Arch. Microbiol., 163, 159, 10.1007/BF00305348 McEwan, 1987, The periplasmic nitrate reductase of Rhodobacter capsulatus; purification, characterization and distinction from a single reductase for trimethylamine-N-oxide, dimethylsulphoxide and chlorate, Arch. Microbiol., 147, 340, 10.1007/BF00406130 T.D. Brock, The genus Thermus, in: M.P. Starrs (Ed.), Thermophilic Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures, Springer, New York, Heidelberg, Berlin, 1978, pp. 72–91. Fernández-Herrero, 1997, Surface proteins and a novel transcription factor regulate the expression of the S-layer gene in Thermus thermophilus HB8, Mol. Microbiol., 24, 61, 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3191683.x Lasa, 1992, Insertional mutagenesis in the extreme thermophilic eubacteria Thermus thermophilus, Mol. Microbiol., 11, 1555, 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1992.tb00877.x L.A. Fernández-Herrero, Caracterización de genes implicados en la regulación y la sı́ntesis de la envoltura celular de T. thermophilus HB8, Ph.D. Thesis, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 1995. Degryse, 1978, A comparative analysis of extreme thermophilic bacteria belonging to the genus Thermus, Arch. Microbiol., 117, 189, 10.1007/BF00402307 Fernández-Herrero, 1995, Horizontal transference of S-layer genes within Thermus thermophilus, J. Bacteriol., 177, 5460, 10.1128/jb.177.19.5460-5466.1995 J. Sambrook, E. Fritsch, T. Maniatis, Molecular cloning, A laboratory manual, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, 1989. M. Gilman, Preparation of bacterial RNA, in: F.M. Ausubel, R. Brent, R.E. Kingston, D.D. Moore, J.G. Seidman, J.A. Smith, K. Struhl (Eds.), Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, Greene Publishing Associates, New York, 1987. Fernández-Herrero, 1995, GlmS of Thermus thermophilus HB8: An essential gene for cell wall synthesis identified immediately upstream the S-layer gene, Mol. Microbiol., 17, 1, 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.mmi_17010001.x Hebert, 1973, Determination of the Optimal Ammonium Sulfate Concentration for the Fractionation of Rabbit, Sheep, Horse, and Goat Antisera, Appl. Microbiol., 25, 26, 10.1128/AEM.25.1.26-36.1973 F.D. Snell, C.T. Snell, Colorimetric Methods of Analysis, Van Nostrand, New York, 1949. Blasco, 1989, Nitrate reductase of Escherichia coli: Completion of the nucleotide sequence of the nar operon and reassessment of the role of the α and β subunits in iron binding and electron transfer, Mol. Gen. Genet., 218, 249, 10.1007/BF00331275 Berks, 1995, Enzymes and associated electron transport systems that catalyse the respiratory reduction of nitrogen oxides and oxyanions, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1232, 97, 10.1016/0005-2728(95)00092-5 Blasco, 1992, Involvement of the narJ and narW gene product in the formation of active nitrate reductase in Escherichia coli, Mol. Microbiol., 6, 221, 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1992.tb02003.x Rost, 1995, Prediction of helical transmembrane segments at 95% accuracy, Protein Sci., 4, 521, 10.1002/pro.5560040318 Bergquist, 1987, Genetics and potential biotechnological applications of thermophilic and extremely thermophilic microorganisms, Biotechnol. Genet. Eng. Rev., 5, 199, 10.1080/02648725.1987.10647838 Jaenicke, 1990, Proteins under extreme physical conditions, FEBS Lett., 268, 344, 10.1016/0014-5793(90)81283-T Blasco, 1992, Formation of active heterologous nitrate reductases between nitrate reductases A and Z of Escherichia coli, Mol. Microbiol., 6, 209, 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1992.tb02002.x Jones, 1977, Sites and specificity of the reaction of bipyridylium compounds with anaerobic respiratory enzymes of Escherichia coli, Biochem. J., 164, 199, 10.1042/bj1640199 Woese, 1987, Bacterial evolution, Microbiol. Rev., 51, 221, 10.1128/MR.51.2.221-271.1987