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Query: EC:1.7.1.2 (nitrate reductase)
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Insertion of nitrate reductase into the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membrane was examined by following the fate of pulse-labeled enzyme in both the membrane and cytoplasm during various times after the addition of an unlabeled chase. The polypeptide composition of this labeled enzyme was determined by autoradiography of immunoprecipitated material after separation on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. The data presented here indicate that immediately after appropriate insertion of the enzyme into the membrane, a post-translational event occurs which converts the cytoplasmically synthesized form of subunit B (B') to the form found in the completely assembled enzyme (B). B' is distinguished from B by its more rapid electrophoretic mobility. B' was found in the cytoplasm of all strains tested, in the membrane of strains with defects in enzyme insertion (hemA and chlE), and as a transient component in the membrane of wild-type cells.
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PMID:New mechanism for post-translational processing during assembly of a cytoplasmic membrane protein? 702 18

An experimental system has been devised for induction of nitrate reductase in suspensions of wild type Paracoccus denitrificans incubated with limited aeration in the presence of azide, nitrate or nitrite. Azide promoted maximum synthesis of enzyme, accompanied by formation of excess b-type cytochrome; the level of enzyme attained with nitrate was less and c-type cytochrome predominated in the membrane. The nitrate reductase was solubilized with deoxycholate from membranes of azide-induced cells and was identified as a major polypeptide Mr = 150,000 by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Mutants strains lacking nitrate reductase activity were isolated on the basis of resistance to chlorate and mutant M-1 was examined in detail. When incubated in the cell suspension system M-1 formed a membrance protein Mr = 150,000 similar to that attributed to nitrate reductase in the wild type. Maximum formation of the protein by M-1 occurred without inducer and it was accompanied by synthesis of excess b-type cytochrome. The observations with wild type and M-1 indicate that nitrate reductase protein and b-type cytochrome are co-regulated and that the active enzyme has a role in regulating its own synthesis.
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PMID:Induction of nitrate reductase and membrane cytochromes in wild type and chlorate-resistant Paracoccus denitrificans. 719 81

Assimilatory nitrate reductase [NAD(P)H] (EC 1.6.6.2) from Ankistrodesmus braunii has been purified to homogeneity by a simple procedure that utilizes as the main step affinity chromatography on Blue-Sepharose. The best enzyme preparation has a specific activity of 61.25 units/mg protein. The enzyme has a sedimentation coefficient of 10.9 S by sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation, and a Stokes radius of 9.8 nm was estimated by gel filtration techniques. Its molecular weight is 460000, but only one single band of 58000 was detected after sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The native enzyme seems thus to be composed of eight subunits. The nitrate reductase absorption spectrum shows wavelengths maxima at 280 and 416 nm and a broad shoulder at 450 nm. Reduced enzyme shows maxima at 424 (Soret), 527 (beta) and 557 (alpha) nm, and a bleaching at 450 nm. The reduced extracted heme chromophore, in pyridine and KOH, shows absorption bands at 414, 522 and 552 nm. These properties indicate the presence of a b-type cytochrome and flavin as prosthetic groups of A. braunii nitrate reductase. A minimum of four molecules of heme has been calculated per molecule of the enzyme complex. Redox titration of the enzyme shows a midpoint potential for the heme of -73 mV at pH 7.0. In the presence of p-hydroxymercuribenzoate, which inhibits the NAD(P)H-dependent activities of the complex, the enzyme-bound heme can be reduced with dithionite, but not with NAD(P)H.
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PMID:Purification and properties of assimilatory nitrate reductase [NAD(P)H] from Ankistrodesmus braunii. 720 Apr 26

Gel chromatography experiments over a wide range of protein concentrations showed that Chlorella nitrate reductase is a nonassociating protein with a Stokes radius of 81 A. Sedimentation equilibrium of nitrate reductase in H2O-D2O solvents yielded a partial specific volume of 0.800 +/- 0.014 (n = 12) and a Mr = 360,000 +/- 25,000. No lipid was found associated with nitrate reductase. Cross-linking with the bifunctional reagent, dimethyl suberimidate, and subsequent separation of products by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis yielded four protein-staining bands in which the molecular weights of the cross-linked products were integral multiples of the monomeric molecular weight (90,000). Extensive cross-linking of the enzyme resulted in one principal protein-staining band of 360,000, corresponding to a tetramer. The cross-linked tetramer of nitrate reductase appeared to have identical physical properties as the native enzyme. The cross-linking pattern produced by reaction with dimethyl suberimidate suggested that nitrate reductase is an isologous tetramer which has at least two different types of bonding domains. Gel filtration, sedimentation equilibrium, and density gradient experiments at very low enzyme concentrations indicated that nitrate reductase dissociates to a species with a Stokes radius of 54 A, s20.w of 7.1, and Mr = approximately 200,000 at these low enzyme concentrations. No change in specific activity of the enzyme was observed over this concentration range. Treatment of nitrate reductase with trypsin or with cyanogen bromide yielded the number of peptides expected for identical subunits. From these results, it is concluded that Chlorella nitrate reductase is a homotetramer with dihedral symmetry ("dimer of dimers").
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PMID:Quaternary structure of assimilatory NADH:nitrate reductase from Chlorella. 720 4

Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (ATCC 27774), a strictly anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacteria, is able to perform anaerobic nitrate respiration in which nitrate is first reduced to nitrite by the action of nitrate reductase, and nitrite reductase then catalyzes the six-electron reduction of nitrite to ammonia. The nitrite reductase was found to be a membrane-bound enzyme and has been purified to electrophoretic homogeneity. The purified enzyme has a minimal Mr = 66,000 as judged by sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis and contains 6 c-type heme groups/molecule. Pure nitrite reductase exhibits a typical c-type cytochrome absorption spectrum with reduced alpha-band at 552.5 nm. NADH and NADPH do not function as direct electron donors for the nitrite reductase. Desulfovibrio vulgaris hydrogenase, however, is able to transfer electrons from H2 to the nitrite reductase using FAD as the electron transfer mediator. The dithionite-reduced nitrite reductase was demonstrated to be auto-oxidizable even in the presence of potassium cyanide. On addition of nitrite, the dithionite-reduced enzyme is re-oxidized immediately. Hydroxylamine, however, can only partially re-oxidize the reduced enzyme. Ascorbate reduces the enzyme to a limited extent and the partially reduced enzyme is neither auto-oxidizable nor re-oxidizable by nitrite or hydroxylamine. Purified nitrite reductase has a pH optimum in the range of 8.0-9.5 and optimal activity at 57 degrees C. Purified nitrite reductase also has hydroxylamine reductase activity, and the Km for nitrite was determined to be 1.14 mM and that for hydroxylamine is 113.5 mM. The difference in Km values seems to exclude the possibility of hydroxylamine being a free intermediate in the reduction of nitrite.
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PMID:The isolation of a hexaheme cytochrome from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans and its identification as a new type of nitrite reductase. 730 57

A circadian rhythm in the activity of nitrate reductase (NR; EC 1.6.6.1) isolated from the marine dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra is shown to be attributable to the daily synthesis and destruction of the protein. The enzyme was purified in three steps: gel filtration on S-300 Sephacryl, an Affigel-Blue column, and a diethylaminoethyl ion-exchange column. Undenatured protein shows a molecular mass of about 310 kD; based on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the enzyme appears to be composed of six possibly identical subunits. The amino acid composition of the G. polyedra NR is very similar to that reported for the NR of barley leaves, Chlorella vulgaris, and Ankistrodesmus braunii. The experiments reported indicate that the cellular expression of NR is under circadian control. In extracts of cells grown under either constant dim light or a light-dark cycle, the activity of NR exhibits a daily rhythm, peaking at midday phase, as does photosynthesis. Staining with affinity-purified polyclonal antibodies, raised in rabbits against purified NR, shows that the amount of protein changes by a factor of about 10, with the maximum occurring in midday phase.
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PMID:Circadian oscillation of nitrate reductase activity in Gonyaulax polyedra is due to changes in cellular protein levels. 787 Aug 13

The mouse L929 fibroblastic cell line presents low, but detectable, levels of the mRNA encoding xanthine oxidoreductase under basal conditions, and it responds to type I and type II interferons by inducing the expression of the transcript [Falciani, Ghezzi, Terao, Cazzaniga, and Garattini (1992) Biochem. J. 285, 1001-1008]. This cell line, however, does not show any detectable amount of xanthine oxidoreductase enzymic activity, either before or after treatment with the cytokines. Molybdenum(VI) salts, in the millimolar range, are capable of activating xanthine oxidoreductase in L929 cells both under basal conditions and after treatment with interferon-alpha. The increase is observed in mouse L929 as well as in clones derived from it, but not in many other human and mouse cell lines. The induction observed in L929 cells is post-translational in nature and it is insensitive to cycloheximide, indicating that the molybdenum ion converts a pool of inactive xanthine oxidoreductase apoenzyme into its holoenzymic form. When grown in the absence of sodium molybdate, the L929 cell line has undetectable intracellular levels of the molybdenum cofactor, since the cell extracts are unable to complement the nitrate reductase defect of the nit-1 mutant of Neurospora crassa. L929 cells grown in the presence of millimolar concentrations of sodium molybdate, however, become competent to complement the nit-1 defect. L929 cells accumulate molybdenum ion inside the intracellular compartment as efficiently as TEnd cells, a mouse endothelial cell line that expresses xanthine oxidoreductase activity both under basal conditions and after treatment with interferon-gamma, suggesting that L929 cells have a defect in one or more of the metabolic steps leading to the synthesis of the molybdenum cofactor.
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PMID:Molybdenum(VI) salts convert the xanthine oxidoreductase apoprotein into the active enzyme in mouse L929 fibroblastic cells. 812 33

This study concerns the inhibitory effects of acid pH and nickel on growth, nutrient (NO3- and NH4+) uptake, carbon fixation, O2 evolution, electron transport chain and enzyme (nitrate reductase and ATPase) activities of acid tolerant and wild-type strains of Chlorella vulgaris. Though a general reduction in all these variables was noticed with decreasing pH, the tolerant strain was found to be metabolically more active than the wild-type. A reduced cation (NH4+, Na+, K+ and Ca2+) uptake, coupled with a facilitated influx of anions (NH4+, PO4(3-) and HCO3-), suggested the development of a positive membrane potential in acid tolerant Chlorella. Nevertheless, a tremendous increase in ATPase activity at decreasing pH revealed the involvement of superactive ATPase in exporting H+ ions and keeping the internal pH neutral. A difference in Na+ and K+ efflux of the two strains at decreasing pH suggests there is a difference in membrane permeability. The low toxicity of Ni in the acid tolerant strain may be due to the low Ni uptake brought about by a change in membrane potential as well as in permeability. Hence, the development of superactive ATPase and a change in both membrane potential and permeability not only offers protection against acidity, but also co-tolerance to metals.
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PMID:Effect of nickel on certain physiological and biochemical behaviors of an acid tolerant Chlorella vulgaris. 814 21

Some sulfate reducing bacteria can induce nitrate reductase when grown on nitrate containing media being involved in dissimilatory reduction of nitrate, an important step of the nitrogen cycle. Previously, it was reported the purification of the first soluble nitrate reductase from a sulfate-reducing bacteria Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 (S.A. Bursakov, M.-Y. Liu, W.J. Payne, J. LeGall, I. Moura, and J.J.G. Moura (1995) Anaerobe 1, 55-60). The present work provides further information about this monomeric periplasmic nitrate reductase (Dd NAP). It has a molecular mass of 74 kDa, 18.6 U specific activity, KM (nitrate) = 32 microM and a pHopt in the range 8-9.5. Dd NAP has peculiar properties relatively to ionic strength and cation/anion activity responses. It is shown that monovalent cations (potassium and sodium) stimulate NAP activity and divalent (magnesium and calcium) inhibited it. Sulfate anion also acts as an activator in KPB buffer. NAP native form is protected by phosphate anion from cyanide inactivation. In the presence of phosphate, cyanide even stimulates NAP activity (up to 15 mM). This effect was used in the purification procedure to differentiate between nitrate and nitrite reductase activities, since the later is effectively blocked by cyanide. Ferricyanide has an inhibitory effect at concentrations higher than 1 mM. The N-terminal amino acid sequence has a cysteine motive C-X2-C-X3-C that is most probably involved in the coordination of the [4Fe-4S] center detected by EPR spectroscopy. The active site of the enzyme consists in a molybdopterin, which is capable for the activation of apo-nit-1 nitrate reductase of Neurospora crassa. The oxidized product of the pterin cofactor obtained by acidic hidrolysis of native NAP with sulfuric acid was identified by HPLC chromatography and characterized as a molybdopterin guanine dinucleotide (MGD).
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PMID:Enzymatic properties and effect of ionic strength on periplasmic nitrate reductase (NAP) from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774. 936 52

We examined the ability of plant nitrate reductase (NR) to produce nitric oxide (NO) using in vitro assays. Electrochemical and fluorometric measurements both showed that NO is produced by corn NR in the presence of nitrite and NADH at pH 7. The NO production was inhibited by sodium azide, a known inhibitor for NR. During the reaction, absorbance of 2',7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein increased markedly. This change was completely suppressed by sodium azide, glutathione or depletion of oxygen. We conclude that plant NR produces both NO and its toxic derivative, peroxynitrite, under aerobic conditions when nitrite is provided as the substrate for NR.
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PMID:Simultaneous production of nitric oxide and peroxynitrite by plant nitrate reductase: in vitro evidence for the NR-dependent formation of active nitrogen species. 1068 47


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