Rubrivivax gelatinosus acsF (previously orf358) codes for a conserved, putative binuclear-iron-cluster-containing protein involved in aerobic oxidative cyclization of Mg-protoporphyrin IX monomethylester.

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This study describes the characterization of orf358, an open reading frame of previously unidentified function, in the purple bacterium Rubrivivax gelatinosus. A strain in which orf358 was disrupted exhibited a phenotype similar to the wild type under photosynthesis or low-aeration respiratory growth conditions. In contrast, under highly aerated respiratory growth conditions, the wild type still produced...

Topics

• Aerobiosis
• Amino Acid Sequence
• Bacteria
• Bacterial Proteins
• Cloning, Molecular
• Conserved Sequence
• Genetic Complementation Test
• Iron
• Metalloproteins
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Oxidation-Reduction
• Oxygen Consumption
• Phenotype