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MICROBIOLOGY-SGM
Volume 161, Issue -, Pages 2184-2191Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000160
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- Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science [DE-FG02-08ER15976]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-08ER15976] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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In many organisms there is a balance between carbon and nitrogen metabolism. These observations extend to the nitrogen-fixing, nonsulfur purple bacteria, which have the classic family of P(II) regulators that coordinate signals of carbon and nitrogen status to regulate nitrogen metabolism. Curiously, these organisms also possess a reverse mechanism to regulate carbon metabolism based on cellular nitrogen status. In this work, studies in Rhodobacter sphaeroides firmly established that the activity of the enzyme that catalyses nitrogen fixation, nitrogenase, induces a signal that leads to repression of genes encoding enzymes of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) CO2 fixation pathway. Additionally, genetic and metabolomic experiments revealed that NADH-activated phosphoribulokinase is an intermediate in the signalling pathway. Thus, nitrogenase activity appears to be linked to cbb gene repression through phosphoribulokinase.
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