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ArticleEnvironmental microbiology2018

The role of conserved proteins DrpA and DrpB in nitrate respiration of Thermus thermophilus.

Zahra Chahlafi, Laura Alvarez, Felipe Cava, José Berenguer

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Article in Environmental microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zahra ChahlafiCentro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, 28049, Spain.
Laura AlvarezDepartment of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 87, Sweden.
Felipe CavaDepartment of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 87, Sweden.
José BerenguerCentro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, 28049, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9689-6272
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · ESUmeå University · SE

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Fundación Ramón ArecesH2020 European Research Council 685474Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness BIO2016-77031-R
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In many Thermus thermophilus strains, nitrate respiration is encoded in mobile genetic regions, along with regulatory circuits that modulate its expression based on anoxia and nitrate presence. The oxygen-responsive system has been identified as the product of the dnrST (dnr) operon located immediately upstream of the nar operon (narCGHJIKT), which encodes the nitrate reductase (NR) and nitrate/nitrite transporters. In contrast, the nature of the nitrate sensory system is not known. Here, we analyse the putative nitrate-sensing role of the bicistronic drp operon (drpAB) present downstream of the nar operon in most denitrifying Thermus spp. Expression of drp was found to depend on the master regulator DnrT, whereas the absence of DrpA or DrpB increased the expression of both DnrS and DnrT and, concomitantly, of the NR. Absence of both proteins made expression from the dnr and nar operons independent of nitrate. Polyclonal antisera allowed us to identify DrpA as a periplasmic protein and DrpB as a membrane protein, with capacity to bind to the cytoplasmic membrane. Here, we propose a role for DrpA/DrpB as nitrate sensors during denitrification.

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Anion Transport ProteinsBacterial ProteinsDenitrificationGene Expression Regulation, BacterialNitrate ReductaseNitrate ReductasesNitratesNitrate TransportersNitritesOperonOxygenPeriplasmThermus thermophilusAnion Transport ProteinsBacterial ProteinsNitrate ReductaseNitrate ReductasesNitratesNitrate TransportersNitritesOxygen

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