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MICROBIOLOGY-SGM
卷 146, 期 -, 页码 3099-3107出版社
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-12-3099
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P. marinus subsp pastoris; Prochlorales; nitrogen metabolism; biochemical characterization; ure genes
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The urease from the picoplanktonic oceanic Prochlorococcus marinus sp. strain PCC 9511 was purified 900-fold to a specific activity of 94.6 mu mol urea min(-1) (mg protein)(-1) by heat treatment and liquid chromatography methods. The enzyme, with a molecular mass of 168 kDa as determined by gel filtration, is the smallest urease known to date. Three different subunits with apparent molecular masses of 11 kDa (gamma or UreA; predicted molecular mass 11 kDa), 13 kDa (beta or UreB; predicted molecular mass 12 kDa) and 63 kDa (alpha or UreC; predicted molecular mass 62 kDa) were detected in the native enzyme, suggesting a quaternary structure of (alpha beta gamma)(2). The K-m of the purified enzyme was determined as being 0.23 mM urea. The urease activity was inhibited by HgCl2, acetohydroxamic acid and EDTA but neither by boric acid nor by L-methionine-DL-sulfoximine. Degenerate primers were designed to amplify a conserved region of the ureC gene. The amplification product was then used as a probe to clone a 5.7 kbp fragment of the P. marinus sp. strain PCC 9511 genome. The nucleotide sequence of this DNA fragment revealed two divergently orientated gene clusters, ureDABC and ureEFG, encoding the urease subunits, UreA, UreB and UreC, and the urease accessory molecules UreD, UreE, UreF and UreC. A putative NtcA-binding site was found upstream from ureEFC, indicating that this gene cluster might be under nitrogen control.
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