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Query: EC:1.7.1.4 (nitrite reductase)
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Klebsiella aerogenes W70 could grow aerobically with nitrate or nitrite as the sole nitrogen source. The assimilatory nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase responsible for this ability required the presence of either nitrate or nitrite as an inducer, and both enzymes were repressed by ammonia. The repression by ammonia, which required the NTR (nitrogen regulatory) system (A. Macaluso, E. A. Best, and R. A. Bender, J. Bacteriol. 172:7249-7255, 1990), did not act solely at the level of inducer exclusion, since strains in which the expression of assimilatory nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase was was independent of the inducer were also susceptible to repression by ammonia. Insertion mutations in two distinct genes, neither of which affected the NTR system, resulted in the loss of both assimilatory nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase. One of these mutants reverted to the wild type, but the other yielded pseudorevertants at high frequency that were independent of inducer but still responded to ammonia repression.
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PMID:Regulation of assimilatory nitrate reductase formation in Klebsiella aerogenes W70. 225 83

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