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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 271, Issue 2, Pages 281-288Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00726.x
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NrpR; Methanococcus maripaludis; Euryarchaeota; nitrogen regulation; transcriptional regulation
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM55255] Funding Source: Medline
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NrpR is a transcriptional repressor of nitrogen assimilation genes that was recently discovered and characterized in the methanogenic archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis. NrpR homologues are widely distributed in Euryarchaeota and present in a few bacterial species. They exist in three different domain configurations: a single ORF encoding one NrpR domain following an N-terminal helix-turn-helix (HTH); a single ORF encoding two NrpR domains fused in tandem following an N-terminal HTH; and two separate ORFs, one with a single domain following an N-terminal HTH and one with a single domain without a HTH. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the NrpR family forms five distinct groups: the single domain HTH type, the two domains of the double domain HTH type and the two separately encoded domains. To determine the function of diverse NrpR homologues, representative genes in were expressed an Methanococcus maripaludis nrpR deletion mutant. Homologues from species that possess a single gene restored regulated repression, regardless of domain structure. In the case of Methanosarcina acetivorans that contains two genes, both were required. The results show that distantly related NrpR homologues that are present in widely dispersed phyla regulate the expression of nitrogen assimilation genes in a similar fashion.
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