Molecular genetic analysis of the moa operon of Escherichia coli K-12 required for molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1071-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Rivers ◽  
E. McNairn ◽  
F. Blasco ◽  
G. Giordano ◽  
D. H. Boxer
1992 ◽  
Vol 174 (2) ◽  
pp. 486-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
E A Groisman ◽  
F Heffron ◽  
F Solomon

Structure ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1115-1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare E.M. Stevenson ◽  
Frank Sargent ◽  
Grant Buchanan ◽  
Tracy Palmer ◽  
David M. Lawson

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1063-1067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángel Llamas ◽  
Manuel Tejada-Jimenez ◽  
David González-Ballester ◽  
José Javier Higuera ◽  
Guenter Schwarz ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT We have isolated and characterized the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genes for molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis, namely, CNX1G and CNX1E, and expressed them and their chimeric fusions in Chlamydomonas and Escherichia coli. In all cases, the wild-type phenotype was restored in individual mutants as well as in a CNX1G CNX1E double mutant. Therefore, CrCNX1E is the first eukaryotic protein able to complement an E. coli moeA mutant.


2006 ◽  
Vol 141 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Beskhlebnaya ◽  
E. V. Trinchina ◽  
P. Aprikyan ◽  
V. Chesnokova ◽  
E. V. Sokurenko

2000 ◽  
Vol 182 (12) ◽  
pp. 3361-3367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislav G. Kozmin ◽  
Youri I. Pavlov ◽  
Ronnie L. Dunn ◽  
Roel M. Schaaper

ABSTRACT We have shown previously that Escherichia coli andSalmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strains carrying a deletion of the uvrB-bio region are hypersensitive to the mutagenic and toxic action of 6-hydroxylaminopurine (HAP) and related base analogs. This sensitivity is not due to theuvrB excision repair defect associated with this deletion because a uvrB point mutation or a uvrAdeficiency does not cause hypersensitivity. In the present work, we have investigated which gene(s) within the deleted region may be responsible for this effect. Using independent approaches, we isolated both a point mutation and a transposon insertion in themoeA gene, which is located in the region covered by the deletion, that conferred HAP sensitivity equal to that conferred by theuvrB-bio deletion. The moeAB operon provides one of a large number of genes responsible for biosynthesis of the molybdenum cofactor. Defects in other genes in the same pathway, such as moa or mod, also lead to the same HAP-hypersensitive phenotype. We propose that the molybdenum cofactor is required as a cofactor for an as yet unidentified enzyme (or enzymes) that acts to inactivate HAP and other related compounds.


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