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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 193, Issue 17, Pages 4477-4486Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05099-11
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- NASA Astrobiology Institute [NNA08C-N85A]
- NASA [NNX09AM87G]
- NSF [MCB-071770]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/J/00000016] Funding Source: researchfish
- NASA [111772, NNX09AM87G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Most biological nitrogen (N-2) fixation results from the activity of a molybdenum-dependent nitrogenase, a complex iron-sulfur enzyme found associated with a diversity of bacteria and some methanogenic archaea. Azotobacter vinelandii, an obligate aerobe, fixes nitrogen via the oxygen-sensitive Mo nitrogenase but is also able to fix nitrogen through the activities of genetically distinct alternative forms of nitrogenase designated the Vnf and Anf systems when Mo is limiting. The Vnf system appears to replace Mo with V, and the Anf system is thought to contain Fe as the only transition metal within the respective active site metallocofactors. Prior genetic analyses suggest that a number of nif-encoded components are involved in the Vnf and Anf systems. Genome-wide transcription profiling of A. vinelandii cultured under nitrogen-fixing conditions under various metal amendments (e.g., Mo or V) revealed the discrete complement of genes associated with each nitrogenase system and the extent of cross talk between the systems. In addition, changes in transcript levels of genes not directly involved in N-2 fixation provided insight into the integration of central metabolic processes and the oxygen-sensitive process of N-2 fixation in this obligate aerobe. The results underscored significant differences between Mo-dependentand Mo-independent diazotrophic growth that highlight the significant advantages of diazotrophic growth in the presence of Mo.
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