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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 107, 期 5, 页码 2235-2240出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910055107
关键词
FAD; nitrogen fixation; signal transduction
资金
- National Science Foundation [MCB-0622277, MCB-0919819]
- National Institutes of Health [GM072285]
- Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the DOE Office of Science
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0919819] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Chemoreceptors provide sensory specificity and sensitivity that enable motile bacteria to seek optimal positions for growth and metabolism in gradients of various physicochemical cues. Despite the abundance of chemoreceptors, little is known regarding the sensory specificity and the exact contribution of individual chemoreceptors to the lifestyle of bacteria. Azospirillum brasilense are motile bacteria that can fix atmospheric nitrogen under microaerophilic conditions. Here, we characterized a chemoreceptor in this organism, named AerC, which functions as a redox sensor that enables the cells to seek microaerophilic conditions that support optimum nitrogen fixation. AerC is a representative of a widespread class of soluble chemoreceptors that monitor changes in the redox status of the electron transport system via the FAD cofactor associated with its PAS domains. In A. brasilense, AerC clusters at the cell poles. Its cellular localization and contribution to the behavioral response correlate with its expression pattern and with changes in the overall cellular FAD content under nitrogen-fixing conditions. AerC-mediated energy taxis in A. brasilense prevails under conditions of nitrogen fixation, illustrating a strategy by which cells optimize chemosensing to signaling cues that directly affect current metabolic activities and thus revealing a mechanism by which chemotaxis is coordinated with dynamic changes in cell physiology.
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