Article
The involvement of the nif-associated ferredoxin-like genes fdxA and fdxN of Herbaspirillum seropedicae in nitrogen fixation.
Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) - 1 Feb 2010
Souza André L F, Invitti Adriana L, Rego Fabiane G M, Monteiro Rose A, Klassen Giseli, Souza Emanuel M, Chubatsu Leda S, Pedrosa Fábio O, Rigo Liu U
Abstract excerpt
The pathway of electron transport to nitrogenase in the endophytic beta-Proteobacterium Herbaspirillum seropedicae has not been characterized. We have generated mutants in two nif-associated genes encoding putative ferredoxins, fdxA and fdxN. The fdxA gene is part of the operon nifHDKENXorf1orf2fdxAnifQmodABC and is transcribed from the nifH promoter, as revealed by lacZ gene fusion. The fdxN gene is probably...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Ferredoxins
- Herbaspirillum
- Mutation
- Nitrogen Fixation
- Nitrogenase
- Phenotype
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Transcription, Genetic