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Query: EC:1.7.1.2 (nitrate reductase)
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A fragment comprising 1 kb of the 5' region and the 81 first nucleotides of the coding region of the tomato nitrate reductase nia gene was placed in translational fusion with the lacZ reporter gene. This construct was introduced in budding and in fission yeast using a derivative of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae/Schizosaccharomyces pombe autonomously replicating vector pUZL. Beta-galactosidase activity was detected in S. pombe but not in S. cerevisiae. Primer extension experiments show that in fission yeast transcripts are initiated at the same starting point as in tomato, indicating for the first time that a plant promoter can be correctly recognized in fission yeast.
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PMID:The tomato nia gene promoter functions in fission yeast but not in budding yeast. 139 84

An operon including two new genes (nasS and nasT) has been defined, cloned and sequenced. The deduced NASS protein is homologous to NRTA from Synechococcus sp. and to NASF from Klebsiella pneumoniae, two proteins involved in nitrate uptake. The predicted NAST polypeptide is homologous to the regulator proteins of the two-component regulatory systems. NASS plays a negative regulatory role in the synthesis of the nitrate and nitrite reductase. NAST is required for the expression of the nitrite-nitrate reductase operon (nasAB). Expression of the nasST operon is not under the control of the NTR system and is not regulated by the nitrogen source. A Phi(nasA-lacZ) fusion has been used to analyse expression of the nasAB operon in three different genetic backgrounds with altered nitrate reductase activity. Beta-galactosidase activity in two of them was independent of nitrate but in a mutant unable to reduce nitrate, nas-4, it was normally induced by nitrate.
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PMID:nasST, two genes involved in the induction of the assimilatory nitrite-nitrate reductase operon (nasAB) of Azotobacter vinelandii. 874 40