کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10870851 1074023 2014 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Role of Azotobacter vinelandii FdxN in FeMo-co biosynthesis
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک دانش گیاه شناسی
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Role of Azotobacter vinelandii FdxN in FeMo-co biosynthesis
چکیده انگلیسی
Biosynthesis of metal clusters for the nitrogenase component proteins NifH and NifDK involves electron donation events. Yet, electron donors specific to the biosynthetic pathways of the [4Fe-4S] cluster of NifH, or the P-cluster and the FeMo-co of NifDK, have not been identified. Here we show that an Azotobacter vinelandii mutant lacking fdxN was specifically impaired in FeMo-co biosynthesis. The ΔfdxN mutant produced 5-fold less NifB-co, an early FeMo-co biosynthetic intermediate, than wild type. As a consequence, it accumulated FeMo-co-deficient apo-NifDK and was impaired in NifDK activity. We conclude that FdxN plays a role in FeMo-co biosynthesis, presumably by donating electrons to support NifB-co synthesis by NifB. This is the first role in nitrogenase biosynthesis unequivocally assigned to any A. vinelandii ferredoxin.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: FEBS Letters - Volume 588, Issue 3, 31 January 2014, Pages 512-516
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