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Query: EC:1.7.1.1 (nitrate reductase)
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Since the F(1) hybrid (B14 x Oh43) had been shown to have a higher (heterotic) level of nitrate reductase activity than either inbred parent (B14 or Oh43), studies were undertaken to determine the mode of inheritance. Standard methods for determining Mendelian inheritance were used to study segregation for level of nitrate reductase activity of individual plants. The genetic material used was the inbreds B14 and Oh43, F(1), F(1) backcrossed to both parents, F(2), F(3), and F(4) generations of the cross B14 x Oh43. The plant material was grown in the field and in growth chambers. It was shown that the maize inbreds B14 and Oh43 differ at two loci that control the level of nitrate reductase activity. Each inbred is homozygous for a dominant or partially dominant allele at one locus and homozygous recessive at a second locus. The locus at which B14 carries a dominant allele carries the recessive allele in Oh43. Oh43 has both a higher in vivo rate of synthesis of nitrate reductase and higher in vivo and in vitro loss of enzyme activity (decay) than B14. Thus, the rates of both enzyme synthesis and decay are factors governing the level of nitrate reductase activity in corn. The data suggest that the heterotic level of nitrate reductase activity in the F(1) hybrid is the result of inheritance of qualities that gives it "intermediate" rates of enzyme synthesis and decay.
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PMID:Inheritance of nitrate reductase activity in Zea mays L. 525 4

Nitrate reductase (NR) catalyzes NAD (P) H dependent reduction of nitrate to nitrite. Transformation systems have been established in several species of green algae by nitrate reductase gene functional complementation. In this report, an endogenous NR cDNA (3.4 kb) and a genomic fragment (14.6 kb) containing the NR gene (DvNIA1) were isolated from the D. viridis cDNA and genomic libraries respectively. Southern blot and Northern blot analyses showed that this gene exists as a single copy in D. viridis and is induced by nitrate. To obtain a NR defective mutant as a recipient strain, D. viridis cells were treated with a chemical mutagen and then cultured on a chlorate-containing plate to enrich chlorate tolerant mutants. Southern analysis showed that one isolate, B14, had a deletion in the DvNIA1 gene region. Using electroporation conditions determined in this laboratory, plasmid pDVNR containing the intact DvNIA1 gene has been electroporated into the defective mutant B14. Strains retaining a nitrate assimilation phenotype were obtained from nitrate plates after spreading the electroporated cells. In some individual strains, transcription of the introduced gene was detected. NR activity in these strains was slightly higher than that in the defective B14 cell, but excretion of nitrite into culture media was almost as high as that of the wild-type cell. Possible episomal presence of the introduced DNA in D. viridis is discussed.
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PMID:Functional complementation of a nitrate reductase defective mutant of a green alga Dunaliella viridis by introducing the nitrate reductase gene. 1679 81