Chlorate resistant mutants of Pseudomonas stutzeri affected in respiratory and assimilatory nitrate utilization and expression of cytochrome cd1
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- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 91 (2) , 153-158
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-1097(92)90676-f
Abstract
Chlorate-resistant mutants were generated by random insertion of the transposon Tn5 into genomic DNA of Pseudomonas stutzeri ZoBell strain and selected for loss of nitrate respiration (Nar phenotype). The mutants were differentiated by restriction-fragment analysis, by assaying for nitrate assimilation and for molybdenum co-factor activity, and by the amount of respiratory nitrate reductase. Two mutants, lacking both nitrate respiration and nitrate assimilation, over-produced an inactive nitrate reductase but synthesized in the presence of nitrate only a reduced amount of respiratory nitrite reductase (cytochrome cd1). Expression of cytochrome cd1 in these mutants was specifically induced by nitrate, suggesting a sensor system for this substrate.Keywords
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