Publications
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| reversible super-reduction of the cubane [4fe-4s](3+;2+;1+) in the high-potential iron-sulfur protein under non-denaturing conditions. epr spectroscopic and electrochemical studies. | the reversible 2 x 1 e- reduction of the cubane cluster from oxidized to reduced to super-reduced states ([4fe-4s]3+<-->[4fe-4s]2+<-->[4fe-4s]1+) was studied in high-potential iron-sulfur proteins (hipips). super-reduction to the 1+ state was not observed in any of the seven hipips tested during cyclic voltammetry (down to -0.95 v). however, equilibration at low potential (ph 7.5) of rhodopila globiformis hipip yields a transient peak around -0.47 v due to the oxidation of super-reduced hipip ad ... | 1995 | 7588720 |
| construction of a 2.8-megabase yeast artificial chromosome contig and cloning of the human methylthioadenosine phosphorylase gene from the tumor suppressor region on 9p21. | many human malignant cells lack methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (mtap) enzyme activity. the gene (mtap) encoding this enzyme was previously mapped to the short arm of chromosome 9, band p21-22, a region that is frequently deleted in multiple tumor types. to clone candidate tumor suppressor genes from the deleted region on 9p21-22, we have constructed a long-range physical map of 2.8 megabases for 9p21 by using overlapping yeast artificial chromosome and cosmid clones. this map includes the typ ... | 1995 | 7604019 |
| direct evidence for secondary loss of mitochondria in entamoeba histolytica. | archezoan protists are though to represent lineages that diverged from other eukaryotes before acquisition of the mitochondrion and other organelles. the parasite entamoeba histolytica was originally included in this group. ribosomal rna based phylogenies, however, place e. histolytica on a comparatively recent branch of the eukaryotic tree, implying that its ancestors had these structures. in this study, direct evidence for secondary loss of mitochondrial function was obtained by isolating two ... | 1995 | 7604025 |
| phylogeny of the genus azospirillum based on 16s rdna sequence. | the 16s rdna of 17 strains of azospirillum, 14 assigned to one of the known species a. amazonense, a. brasilense, a. halopraeferens, a. irakense and a. lipoferum, and the other three of uncertain taxonomic position, was sequenced after polymerase chain reaction amplification and analysed in order to investigate the phylogenetic relationships at the intra-generic and super-generic level. the phylogenetic analysis confirms that the genus azospirillum constitutes a phylogenetically separate entity ... | 1995 | 7607400 |
| spectroscopic properties of the light-harvesting complexes from rhodospirillum molischianum. | spectroscopic properties, including low-temperature absorbance, linear and circular dichroism and site-selection fluorescence of the antenna complexes from rhodospirillum molischianum have been determined. the unique 'lh1-like' character of the amino acid sequence from lh2 of this bacterium is reflected in the circular dichroism of the b850 band of this complex. the wavelength dependence of the polarization of the lh2 complex shows an unusual shape that is attributed to the octameric state of th ... | 1995 | 7619833 |
| mutation of the ser2 codon of the light-harvesting b870 alpha polypeptide of rhodobacter capsulatus partially suppresses the pufx phenotype. | the exact function of the pufx gene product of rhodobacter capsulatus is uncertain, but deletion of the pufx gene renders cells incapable of phototrophic growth on a minimal medium, and photosynthetic electron transfer is impaired in vitro. however, suppressor mutants that are able to grow phototropically are readily isolated. two such suppressor mutants were characterized as to their phototrophic growth properties, their fluorescence at different incident light intensities, the integrity of the ... | 1995 | 7642484 |
| theory of fluorescence induction in photosystem ii: derivation of analytical expressions in a model including exciton-radical-pair equilibrium and restricted energy transfer between photosynthetic units. | the theoretical relationships between the fluorescence and photochemical yields of ps ii and the fraction of open reaction centers are examined in a general model endowed with the following features: i) a homogeneous, infinite ps ii domain; ii) exciton-radical-pair equilibrium; and iii) different rates of exciton transfer between core and peripheral antenna beds. simple analytical relations are derived for the yields and their time courses in induction experiments. the introduction of the excito ... | 1995 | 7647250 |
| effect of an ntrbc mutation on the posttranslational regulation of nitrogenase activity in rhodospirillum rubrum. | homologs of ntrb and ntrc genes from rhodospirillum rubrum were cloned and sequenced. a mutant lacking ntrbc was constructed, and this mutant has normal nitrogenase activity under nif-derepressing conditions, indicating that ntrbc are not necessary for the expression of the nif genes in r. rubrum. however, the post-translational regulation of nitrogenase activity by adp-ribosylation in response to nh4+ was partially abolished in this mutant. more surprisingly, the regulation of nitrogenase activ ... | 1995 | 7665521 |
| oxygenation mechanism of ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. structure and origin of 2-carboxytetritol 1,4-bisphosphate, a novel o2-dependent side product generated by a site-directed mutant. | site-directed mutagenesis has implicated active-site lys329 of rhodospirillum rubrum ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) in promoting the reaction of co2 with the 2,3-enediol of ribulose bisphosphate and in stabilizing carboxylation intermediates [hartman, f. c., & lee, e. h. (1989) j. biol. chem. 264, 11784-11789; lorimer, g. h., chen, y.-r., & hartman, f. c. (1993) biochemistry 32, 9018-9024]. although the k329a mutant is greatly impaired in carboxylation, it catalyzes fo ... | 1995 | 7669788 |
| electron paramagnetic resonance studies of ferric cytochrome c' from photosynthetic bacteria. | electronic ground nature of ferric cytochromes c' isolated from five photosynthetic bacteria. chromatium vinosum atcc 17899, rhodobacter capsulatus atcc 11166, rhodopseudomonas palustris atcc 17001, rhodospirillum molischianum atcc 14031, and rhodospirillum rubrum atcc 11170 has been investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance (epr) spectroscopy. epr spectra indicate that the electronic ground state of five ferric cytochromes c' is a quantum mechanical admixed-spin state of a high spin (s = ... | 1995 | 7669805 |
| evolutionary relationships among magnetospirillum strains inferred from phylogenetic analysis of 16s rdna sequences. | we have investigated the evolutionary relationships between two facultatively anaerobic magnetospirillum strains (amb-1 and mgt-1) and fastidious, obligately microaerophilic species, such as magnetospirillum magnetotacticum, using a molecular phylogenetic approach. genomic dna from strains mgt-1 and amb-1 was used as a template for amplification of the genes coding for 16s rrna (16s rdna) by the polymerase chain reaction. amplified dna fragments were sequenced (1,424 bp) and compared with sequen ... | 1993 | 7691800 |
| studies on reconstitution of the rhodospirillum rubrum nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase. | the energy-transducing nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase of rhodospirillum rubrum is composed of 3 subunits alpha 1, alpha 2 and beta, with m(r) values, respectively, of 40.3, 14.9 and 47.8 kda. subunit alpha 1 is water-soluble, loosely bound to chromatophores, and can be easily and reversibly removed. subunits alpha 2 and beta are integral membrane proteins, and their removal from chromatophores requires the use of detergents. treatment of chromatophores with various detergents inhibited ... | 1994 | 7696982 |
| macroscopic phototactic behavior of the purple photosynthetic bacterium rhodospirillum centenum. | most photosynthetic microorganisms have the capability of photosensing light quality and intensity. movement of motile photosynthetic microorganisms to locales that offer optimal physical and chemical conditions for light-dependent growth provides obvious selective advantages. among phototrophs, many cyanobacteria and algae migrate towards or away from the direction of light, a process termed phototaxis. in contrast, anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria are believed to respond to changes in light ... | 1995 | 7710317 |
| mechanistic insights provided by deletion of a flexible loop at the active site of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. | to evaluate the functions of flexible loop 6 at the active site of rhodospirillum rubrum d-ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, the loop was truncated by cassette mutagenesis, whereby seven residues of the twelve-residue loop were excised and replaced by two glycyl residues. the purified loop-deletion mutant was totally devoid of carboxylase activity, but retained substantial catalytic competency in the enolization of ribulose bisphosphate (the initial step in the overall carboxylase ... | 1995 | 7718555 |
| carbon monoxide-induced activation of gene expression in rhodospirillum rubrum requires the product of cooa, a member of the cyclic amp receptor protein family of transcriptional regulators. | induction of the co-oxidizing system of the photosynthetic bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum is regulated at the level of gene expression by the presence of co. in this paper, we describe the identification of a gene that is required for co-induced gene expression. an 11-kb deletion of the region adjacent to the previously characterized coofsctj region resulted in a mutant unable to synthesize co dehydrogenase in response to co and unable to grow utilizing co as an energy source. a 2.5-kb region t ... | 1995 | 7721706 |
| carbon monoxide-dependent growth of rhodospirillum rubrum. | under dark, anaerobic conditions in the presence of sufficient nickel, rhodospirillum rubrum grows with a doubling time of under 5 h by coupling the oxidation of co to the reduction of h+ to h2. co-dependent growth of r. rubrum ur294, bearing a kanamycin resistance cassette in cooc, depends on a medium nickel level ninefold higher than that required for optimal growth of coo+ strains. | 1995 | 7721719 |
| conformational properties of four peptides corresponding to alpha-helical regions of rhodospirillum cytochrome c2 and bovine calcium binding protein. | four peptides corresponding to alpha-helical regions delimited by residues 63-73 and 97-112 of cytochrome c2 (rhodospirillum) and residues 24-36 and 45-55 of bovine calcium binding protein are predicted to be alpha-helical by a recently developed method [rooman, m., kocher, j.p., & wodak, s.j. (1991) j. mol. biol. 221, 961-979], synthesized by solid phase methods, and purified by hplc, and their solution conformations are determined by nmr and cd. the observed conformational properties of these ... | 1994 | 7727367 |
| reactivity of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase from rhodospirillum rubrum with carbon dioxide, carbonyl sulfide, and carbon disulfide. | the reactivities of co2 and the related compounds cos and cs2 with the nickel- and iron- sulfur-containing carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (codh) from rhodospirillum rubrum have been investigated. both co2 and cos were substrates for codh in a reductant-dependent reaction resulting in the formation of co. co2 was reduced to co and h2o, while cos was reduced to co and h2s. co was a potent inhibitor of co2 reduction at dissolved concentrations as low as 1 microm, but this inhibition could be prevent ... | 1995 | 7727395 |
| comparison studies of dinitrogenase reductase adp-ribosyl transferase/dinitrogenase reductase activating glycohydrolase regulatory systems in rhodospirillum rubrum and azospirillum brasilense. | reversible adp ribosylation of dinitrogenase reductase, catalyzed by the dinitrogenase reductase adp-ribosyl transferase (drat)/dinitrogenase reductase activating glycohydrolase (drag) regulatory system, has been characterized in both rhodospirillum rubrum and azospirillum brasilense. although the general functions of drat and drag are very similar in these two organisms, there are a number of interesting differences, e.g., in the timing and extent of the regulatory response to different stimuli ... | 1995 | 7730264 |
| properties of the soluble polypeptide of the proton-translocating transhydrogenase from rhodospirillum rubrum obtained by expression in escherichia coli. | transhydrogenase, which catalyses the reduction of nadp+ by nadh coupled to proton translocation across a membrane, may be unique in the photosynthetic bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum. unlike the homologous enzyme from animal mitochondria and other bacterial sources, it has a water-soluble polypeptide, which exists as a dimer (ths), that can be reversibly dissociated from the membrane component [williams, r., cotton, n. p. j., thomas, c. m. & jackson, j. b. (1994) microbiology, 140, 1595-1604]. ... | 1995 | 7737169 |
| evidence that some dinoflagellates contain a ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase related to that of the alpha-proteobacteria. | the ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) large subunit from several dinoflagellates has a structure similar to that of the form ii enzyme from rhodospirillum and rhodobacter species rather than the form i rubisco of eukaryotic algae and higher plants. the dinoflagellate rubisco was identified on native polyacrylamide gels by autoradiographic detection of the stable rubisco-[2'-14c]-2-carboxy-d-arabinitol 1,5-bisphosphate complex. the antibody to the symbiodinium sp. large su ... | 1995 | 7740046 |
| a signature of the oxygenase intermediate in catalysis by ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase as provided by a site-directed mutant. | an uncharacterized minor transient product, observed in our earlier studies of substrate turnover by the e48q mutant of rhodospirillum rubrum ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (lee, e. h., harpel, m. r., chen, y.-r., and hartman, f. c. (1993) j. biol. chem. 268, 26583-26591), becomes a major product when it is trapped and stabilized with borate as an additive to the reaction mixture. chemical characterization establishes this novel product as d-glycero-2,3-pentodiulose 1,5-bisphosphate ... | 1995 | 7744819 |
| identification and partial sequence of the bcha gene of rhodospirillum rubrum. | the dna sequence was determined for a region upstream of the puf operon of rhodospirillum rubrum. a partial orf was identified. the dna sequence and the inferred amino acid sequences were aligned with those of bcha of rhodobacter capsulatus and other phototrophic bacteria. based on this alignment and genetic evidence, this orf was identified as r. rubrum bcha, which encodes an enzyme involved in bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis. an additional orf was identified in the intergenic region between b ... | 1993 | 7763790 |
| cloning and sequence of the l2 form of rubisco from a marine obligately autotrophic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium, hydrogenovibrio marinus strain mh-110. | a form ii ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) gene was isolated and sequenced from a marine hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium, hydrogenovibrio marinus strain mh-110. to our knowledge, this is the first report for the sequence of a form ii (l2-form) rubisco gene derived from a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium. the form ii rubisco gene coded for 463 amino acid residues (1389 bp, m(r) = 50,655). the deduced amino acid sequence had high homology with those of the l2-form rubisco of r ... | 1994 | 7765489 |
| characterization of an aerobic repressor that coordinately regulates bacteriochlorophyll, carotenoid, and light harvesting-ii expression in rhodobacter capsulatus. | for most species of purple photosynthetic bacteria, the presence of molecular oxygen represses synthesis of carotenoids and bacteriochlorophyll. in this study we characterize a strain of rhodobacter capsulatus, db469, which contains a genomic disruption of an open reading frame in the photosynthesis gene cluster termed orf469. characterization of the steady-state level of bacteriochlorophyll synthesis demonstrates that disruption of orf469 results in a 2.5-fold increase in aerobic synthesis of b ... | 1995 | 7768793 |
| posttranslational regulation of nitrogenase in rhodospirillum rubrum strains overexpressing the regulatory enzymes dinitrogenase reductase adp-ribosyltransferase and dinitrogenase reductase activating glycohydrolase. | rhodospirillum rubrum strains that overexpress the enzymes involved in posttranslational nitrogenase regulation, dinitrogenase reductase adp-ribosyltransferase (drat) and dinitrogenase reductase activating glycohydrolase (drag), were constructed, and the effect of this overexpression on in vivo drat and drag regulation was investigated. broad-host-range plasmid constructs containing a fusion of the r. rubrum nifh promoter and translation initiation sequences to the second codon of drat, the firs ... | 1995 | 7836296 |
| h+/ppi stoichiometry of membrane-bound pyrophosphatase of rhodospirillum rubrum. | two kinetic methods have been used to measure the h+/ppi stoichiometry in the chromatophores of the photosynthetic bacteria rhodospirillum rubrum. in the first method, the fluorescent probe acridine orange was employed to infer the proton pump activity at the steady state of the delta ph generation. at this point the translocation of protons by the h(+)-ppiase in one direction is balanced exactly by the leak of protons in the opposite direction. pyrophosphatase activity was then quickly stopped ... | 1995 | 7840646 |
| energy-transducing nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase: nucleotide sequences of the genes and predicted amino acid sequences of the subunits of the enzyme from rhodospirillum rubrum. | based on the amino acid sequence of the n-terminus of the soluble subunit of the rhodospirillum rubrum nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase, two oligonucleotide primers were synthesized and used to amplify the corresponding dna segment (110 base pairs) by the polymerase chain reaction. using this pcr product as a probe, one clone with the insert of 6.4 kbp was isolated from a genomic library of r. rubrum and sequenced. this sequence contained three open reading frames, constituting the genes ... | 1994 | 7844118 |
| enzymatic and chemical cleavage of the core light-harvesting polypeptides of photosynthetic bacteria: determination of the minimal polypeptide size and structure required for subunit and light-harvesting complex formation. | to ascertain the minimal structural requirements for formation of the subunit and core light-harvesting complex (lh1), the alpha- and beta-polypeptides of the lh1 from three purple photosynthetic bacteria were enzymatically or chemically truncated or modified. these polypeptides were then used in reconstitution experiments with bacteriochlorophyll a (bchla), and the formation of subunit and lh1 complexes was evaluated using absorbance and circular dichroism spectroscopies. truncation or modifica ... | 1995 | 7849015 |
| differentiation of brucella abortus bv. 1, 2, and 4, brucella melitensis, brucella ovis, and brucella suis bv. 1 by pcr. | several pcr assays which identify the genus brucella but do not discriminate among species have been reported. we describe a pcr assay that comprises five oligonucleotide primers which can identify selected biovars of four species of brucella. individual biovars within a species are not differentiated. the assay can identify three biovars (1, 2, and 4) of b. abortus, all three biovars of b. melitensis, biovar 1 of b. suis, and all b. ovis biovars. these biovars include all of the brucella specie ... | 1994 | 7852552 |
| molecular relationship of an atypical azospirillum strain 4t to other azospirillum species. | dna/dna hybridization, plasmid content and partial 16s rdna sequence were determined to confirm the relationship between two azospirillum strains, 4b and 4t, isolated from the same rice rhizosphere. the partial 16s rdna sequence was determined for 9 strains belonging to 5 azospirillum species which included azospirillum lipoferum strains 4b and 4t, and was compared to a set of ribosomal sequences from other bacteria of the alpha subdivision of the proteobacteria. four azospirillum species sequen ... | 1994 | 7871242 |
| the 8.5 a projection map of the light-harvesting complex i from rhodospirillum rubrum reveals a ring composed of 16 subunits. | two-dimensional crystals from light-harvesting complex i (lhc i) of the purple non-sulfur bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum have been reconstituted from detergent-solubilized protein complexes. frozen-hydrated samples have been analysed by electron microscopy. the crystals diffract beyond 8 a and a projection map was calculated to 8.5 a. the projection map shows 16 subunits in a 116 a diameter ring with a 68 a hole in the centre. these dimensions are sufficient to incorporate a reaction centre in ... | 1995 | 7882966 |
| stability of the asymmetric escherichia coli chaperonin complex. guanidine chloride causes rapid dissociation. | the chaperonin proteins, groel14 and groes7, inhibit protein aggregation and assist in protein folding in a potassium/atp-dependent manner. in vitro, assays for chaperonin activity typically involve adding a denatured substrate protein to the chaperonins and measuring the appearance of correctly folded substrate protein. the influence of denaturant is generally ignored. low concentrations of guanidinium chloride (< 100 mm) had a profound effect on the activity/structure of the chaperonins. guani ... | 1995 | 7890652 |
| reconstitution of the bacterial core light-harvesting complexes of rhodobacter sphaeroides and rhodospirillum rubrum with isolated alpha- and beta-polypeptides, bacteriochlorophyll alpha, and carotenoid. | methodology has been developed to reconstitute carotenoids and bacteriochlorophyll alpha with isolated light-harvesting complex i (lhi) polypeptides of both rhodobacter sphaeroides and rhodospirillum rubrum. reconstitution techniques first developed in this laboratory using the lhi polypeptides of r. rubrum, r. sphaeroides, and rhodobacter capsulatus reproduced bacteriochlorophyll alpha spectral properties characteristic of lhi complexes lacking carotenoids. in this study, carotenoids are suppli ... | 1995 | 7890709 |
| amino acid sequences of cytochromes c2 and c' from the moderately halophilic purple phototrophic bacterium rhodospirillum salexigens. | rhodospirillum salexigens is a moderately halophilic purple phototrophic bacterium which grows optimally in 8% nacl. the amino acid sequences of the two principal soluble cytochromes c have been determined. one of these is a cytochrome c2, similar in size to mitochondrial cytochrome c. while clearly of the same sequence class as mitochondrial cytochrome c and the proteins from several other gram-negative bacteria, it does not show particular affinity to any already known sequence in terms of the ... | 1994 | 7893810 |
| tight nucleotide binding sites and atpase activities of the rhodospirillum rubrum rrf1-atpase as compared to spinach chloroplast cf1-atpase. | solubilized rhodospirillum rubrum rrf1-atpase, depleted of loosely bound nucleotides, retains 2.6 mol of tightly bound atp and adp/mol of enzyme. incubation of the depleted rrf1 with mg(2+)-atp or mg(2+)-amp-pnp, followed by passage through two successive sephadex centrifuge columns, results in retention of a maximal number of 4 mol of tightly bound nucleotides/mol of rrf1. they include 1.5 mol of nonexchangeable atp, whereas all tightly bound adp is fully exchangeable. a similar retention of on ... | 1994 | 7896772 |
| reversible adp-ribosylation as a mechanism of enzyme regulation in procaryotes. | several cases of adp-ribosylation of endogenous proteins in procaryotes have been discovered and investigated. the most thoroughly studied example is the reversible adp-ribosylation of the dinitrogenase reductase from the photosynthetic bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum and related bacteria. a dinitrogenase reductase adp-ribosyltransferase (drat) and a dinitrogenase reductase adp-ribose glycohydrolase (drag) from r. rubrum have been isolated and characterized. the genes for these proteins have bee ... | 1994 | 7898454 |
| bacteriophage t4 encodes a co-chaperonin that can substitute for escherichia coli groes in protein folding. | several bacteriophages use the escherichia coli groes and groel chaperonins for folding and assembly of their morphogenetic structures. bacteriophage t4 is unusual in that it encodes a specialized protein (gp31) that is thought to interact with the host groel and to be absolutely required for the correct assembly of the major capsid protein (gp23) in vivo. here we show that despite the absence of amino-acid sequence similarity between gp31 and groes, gp31 can functionally substitute for the groe ... | 1994 | 7908418 |
| characterization of antimycin resistant mutants of rhodospirillum rubrum. | 1994 | 7911439 | |
| comparative study of reaction centers from photosynthetic purple bacteria: electron paramagnetic resonance and electron nuclear double resonance spectroscopy. | reaction centers (rcs) from four species of purple bacteria, rhodobacter sphaeroides, rhodobacter capsulatus, rhodospirillum rubrum, and the recently discovered bacterium rhodospirillum centenum, have been characterized by optical spectroscopy [wang, s., lin, x., woodbury, n. w., & allen, j. p. (1994) photosynth. res. (submitted for publication)] and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. all rcs contain a bacteriochlorophyll (bchl) a dimer as the primary donor. for rb. sphaeroides and rs. rubrum the ... | 1994 | 7918428 |
| molecular characterization of two spontaneous antimycin a resistant mutants of rhodospirillum rubrum. | antimycin a is an inhibitor of cytochrome bc1 complexes acting at the quinone reducing site (qi) of the cytochrome b subunit. we report here the isolation and molecular characterization of two spontaneous mutants of the purple non-sulfur bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum resistant to this inhibitor. in the two mutants antimycin a resistance was found to be conferred by replacement of an aspartate residue at position 243 of the cytochrome b polypeptide chain, in one case by histidine and in the oth ... | 1994 | 7918532 |
| purification and characterization of an oxygen-stable form of dinitrogenase reductase-activating glycohydrolase from rhodospirillum rubrum. | dinitrogenase reductase-activating glycohydrolase (drag) is responsible for removing the adp-ribose moiety from post-translationally inactivated nitrogenase of rhodospirillum rubrum. using drag purified from an overexpressing strain (ur276), further properties of this enzyme were studied, including its u.v.-visible and fluorescence spectra and its stability in air. drag appears to require no covalently bound inorganic cofactors for its activity or regulation. previously, purified drag was found ... | 1994 | 7945205 |
| reconstitution of a functional photosynthetic receptor complex with isolated subunits of core light-harvesting complex and reaction centers. | the b820 subunit form of the core light-harvesting complex lhi, isolated from the photosynthetic bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum, was combined in a reassociation assay with the reaction center (rc) isolated from the same or related bacteria. this reassociation produced a photoreceptor complex (prc) which appeared, by absorption spectroscopy, circular dichroism measurements, and kinetic absorption spectroscopy measuring transient photochanges, as analogous to the prc in the intact bacteria. energ ... | 1994 | 7947741 |
| an improved procedure and new vectors for transposon tn5 mutagenesis of the phototrophic bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum. | a detailed examination of vectors and procedures used for tn5 mutagenesis of the phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum has been performed. the mobilizable tn5 suicide vectors currently available show a frequency of tn5 mutagenesis for r. rubrum of approx. 10(-7)-10(-8), approx. 100-1000-fold lower than observed for the related bacteria rhodobacter capsulatus and rhodobacter sphaeroides. using the blue-to-red reversion of a blue-green mutant, r. rubrum st6, containing a s ... | 1994 | 7959072 |
| characterization of a light-responding trans-activator responsible for differentially controlling reaction center and light-harvesting-i gene expression in rhodobacter capsulatus. | the purple nonsulfur photosynthetic bacterium rhodobacter capsulatus regulates synthesis of its photosystem in response to two environmental stimuli, oxygen tension and light intensity. here we describe the identification and characterization of the trans-acting regulatory gene hvra, which we show is involved in differentially controlling reaction center and light-harvesting gene expression in response to alterations in light intensity. an hvra mutant strain is shown to lack the capability to tr ... | 1994 | 7961455 |
| changes in the nad(p)h concentration caused by addition of nitrogenase 'switch-off' effectors in rhodospirillum rubrum g-9, as measured by fluorescence. | the effect of nitrogenase 'switch-off' effectors on the concentration of nad(p)h in rhodospirillum rubrum g-9 was investigated by fluorescence. a rapid decrease in fluorescence was observed when cells, either n2-grown or nitrogen-starved, were subjected to the effectors, but not when sodium chloride or tris buffer was added. no effects on the fluorescence were observed in non-nitrogen fixing cultures except when nad+ was added. the results strongly indicate that the redox state of the pyridine n ... | 1994 | 7988717 |
| the effect of sulfite on the atp hydrolysis and synthesis activity of membrane-bound h(+)-atp synthase from various species. | the action of sulfite on atp hydrolysis and synthesis activities is investigated in membrane vesicles prepared from the cyanobacterium synechococcus 6716, chromatophores from the photosynthetic purple bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum, membrane vesicles from the related non-photosynthetic bacterium paracoccus denitrificans, and bovine heart submitochondrial particles. without any further pretreatment atp hydrolysis is stimulated by sulfite in all four membrane preparations. typically atp synthesis ... | 1994 | 8002977 |
| a structural role for arginine in proteins: multiple hydrogen bonds to backbone carbonyl oxygens. | we propose that arginine side chains often play a previously unappreciated general structural role in the maintenance of tertiary structure in proteins, wherein the positively charged guanidinium group forms multiple hydrogen bonds to backbone carbonyl oxygens. using as a criterion for a "structural" arginine one that forms 4 or more hydrogen bonds to 3 or more backbone carbonyl oxygens, we have used molecular graphics to locate arginines of interest in 4 proteins: arg 180 in thermus thermophilu ... | 1994 | 8003972 |
| the photoactive yellow protein from ectothiorhodospira halophila as studied with a highly specific polyclonal antiserum: (intra)cellular localization, regulation of expression, and taxonomic distribution of cross-reacting proteins. | a rabbit antiserum was raised against the photoactive yellow protein (pyp) from ectothiorhodospira halophila and purified by adsorption experiments to obtain a highly specific polyclonal antiserum. this antiserum was used to obtain the following results. (i) in e. halophila, pyp can be isolated from the fraction of soluble proteins. in the intact cell, however, pyp appeared to be associated with (intra)cytoplasmic membranes, as was concluded from analysis of immunogold-labelled thin sections of ... | 1994 | 8021174 |
| interaction between cytochrome c2 and reaction centers from purple bacteria. | the kinetics of electron transfer of cytochrome c2 from rhodobacter sphaeroides, rhodobacter capsulatus, and rhodospirillum centenum to reaction centers from rb. sphaeroides and rb. capsulatus have been measured. observed in the kinetics of decay of the oxidized donor are a rapid first-order rate and one or more slower rates that are due to diffusion-limited complex formation. for reaction centers from rb. sphaeroides, the fast component had time constants of 1.0 and 0.5 microsecond for cytochro ... | 1994 | 8031763 |
| energy migration and trapping in a spectrally and spatially inhomogeneous light-harvesting antenna. | in this paper, we analyze the process of excitation energy migration and trapping by reaction centres in photosynthesis and discuss the mechanisms that may provide an overall description of this process in the photosynthetic bacterium rhodospirillum (rs.) rubrum and related organisms. a wide range of values have been published for the pigment to pigment transfer rate varying from less than 1 ps up to 10 ps. these differences occur because the interpretation of trapping measurements depend on the ... | 1994 | 8061207 |
| photosynthetic deficiency of a pufx deletion mutant of rhodobacter sphaeroides is suppressed by point mutations in the light-harvesting complex genes pufb or pufa. | the pufx gene of the facultative phototroph rhodobacter sphaeroides encodes a membrane protein that is required for photoheterotrophic growth. deletion of pufx impairs the photosynthetic generation of a transmembrane potential, suggesting a role for the pufx protein in light-driven cyclic electron transfer [farchaus, j. w., et al. (1992) embo j. 11, 2779-2788]. here we describe the isolation and characterization of 65 spontaneous suppressor mutants in which photosynthetic competence was restored ... | 1994 | 8068653 |
| cloning and sequencing of the genes for the proton-translocating nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase from rhodospirillum rubrum and the implications for the domain structure of the enzyme. | the genes for the proton-translocating nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase from rhodospirillum rubrum have been cloned using a probe constructed with the polymerase chain reaction, genomic dna as target and oligonucleotide primers corresponding to amino acid sequence obtained from the purified soluble subunit. there is a cluster of three genes, designated pntaa, pntab and pntb, whose translation products indicate polypeptides of 384, 139 and 464 amino acids, respectively. this contrasts wit ... | 1994 | 8075801 |
| posttranslational modification of nitrogenase. differences between the purple bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum and the cyanobacterium anabaena variabilis. | in the photosynthetic bacteria rhodospirillum rubrum and rhodopseudomonas capsulatus post-translational regulation of nitrogenase is due to adp-ribosylation of the fe-protein, the dinitrogenase reductase [burris, r. h. (1991) j. biol. chem. 266, 9339-9342]. this mechanism has been assumed to be responsible for nitrogenase modification in a variety of organisms. in the present study, we examined whether adp-ribosylation holds true for the filamentous cyanobacterium anabaena variabilis. genes codi ... | 1994 | 8119279 |
| identification of the myxococcus xanthus 59-kda membrane-associated gtp-binding protein as a proton-translocating atpase. | five gtp-binding proteins have been detected in myxococcus xanthus by photoaffinity cross-linking with azido-gtp [muñoz-dorado et al., j. biol. chem. 265 (1990a) 2702-2706]. one of them, the 59-kda membrane-associated gtp-binding protein, has been purified. the n-terminal sequence of a 10-kda fragment from the protease v8 digestion of the purified protein has been determined and degenerate oligodeoxyribonucleotides based on that sequence have been used to isolate and clone the gene that encodes ... | 1994 | 8125291 |
| energy transfer in the inhomogeneously broadened core antenna of purple bacteria: a simultaneous fit of low-intensity picosecond absorption and fluorescence kinetics. | the excited state decay kinetics of chromatophores of the purple photosynthetic bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum have been recorded at 77 k using picosecond absorption difference spectroscopy under strict annihilation free conditions. the kinetics are shown to be strongly detection wavelength dependent. a simultaneous kinetic modeling of these experiments together with earlier fluorescence kinetics by numerical integration of the appropriate master equation is performed. this model, which account ... | 1994 | 8130341 |
| beta-elimination of phosphate from reaction intermediates by site-directed mutants of ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. | five residues (thr-53, asn-54, gly-370, gly-393, and gly-394) of rhodospirillum rubrum ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase are positioned to serve as hydrogen-bond donors for the c1 phosphate of ribulose bisphosphate and thereby constrain conformational flexibility of the initial enediol(ate) intermediate (knight, s., andersson, i., and brändén, c.-i. (1990) j. mol. biol. 215, 113-160). to study the functional contributions of the residues implicated in ribulose bisphosphate binding and ... | 1994 | 8157638 |
| thermodynamics of membrane polypeptide oligomerization in light-harvesting complexes and associated structural changes. | investigation of the equilibrium between the dissociated b777 form of the light-harvesting complex of rhodospirillum rubrum and the oligomeric b820 form demonstrates that the b777 form consists of bacteriochlorophyll a (bchl) bound to the alpha or beta polypeptide chains; this binding appears to be reasonably stable at room temperature with little dissociation to free bchl and polypeptides. analysis of the reaction order for the b777 association reaction to form b820 shows that this reaction req ... | 1994 | 8176735 |
| anaerobic bacteria from hypersaline environments. | strictly anaerobic halophiles, namely fermentative, sulfate-reducing, homoacetogenic, phototrophic, and methanogenic bacteria are involved in the oxidation of organic carbon in hypersaline environments. to date, six anaerobic fermentative genera, containing nine species, have been described. two of them are homoacetogens. six species belong to the family haloanaerobiaceae, as indicated by their unique 16s rrna oligonucleotide sequences. desulfohalobium retbaense and desulfovibrio halophilus repr ... | 1994 | 8177169 |
| chemical rescue by exogenous amines of a site-directed mutant of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase that lacks a key lysyl residue. | ligand binding to ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase immobilizes the flexible loop 6 of the beta/alpha barrel domain in its closed conformation. lys329, located at the apex of this loop, interacts electrostatically with glu48 of the adjacent subunit and with the co2-derived carboxylate of the carboxylated reaction intermediate [knight et al. (1990) j. mol. biol. 215, 113-160]. previous studies have implicated lys329 in the addition of co2 to the initial enediol(ate) intermediate: mu ... | 1994 | 8180178 |
| amino acid sequence similarities between the vacuolar proton-pumping inorganic pyrophosphatase and the c-subunit of f0f1-atpases. | comparison of the arabidopsis thaliana vacuolar proton-pumping inorganic pyrophosphatase with three f0f1-atpase c-subunits revealed a strong similarity between a stretch containing amino acids 227-245 of the h(+)-ppase and a transmembrane alpha-helix of the c-subunits which contains the glutamate which binds n,n'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide. | 1993 | 8199778 |
| picosecond absorbance difference spectra of the antenna of photosynthetic purple bacteria. the influence of exciton interactions and librations. | the influence of exciton interactions and pseudolocal librational modes on the relaxation of photo-induced absorption changes of the light-harvesting antenna of the photosynthetic purple bacterium, rhodospirillum rubrum, was studied in the ps time domain. a hypothesis is put forward that the long-lived librational modes can occur in the circular aggregate of light-harvesting bacteriochlorophyll molecules of the core antenna. the model spectra obtained quantitatively fit the shape of the photo-in ... | 1994 | 8200456 |
| synthesis of quinolones and acridones and their inhibitory activity in nadh-dehydrogenases and cytochrome b/c1-complexes. | 1994 | 8206292 | |
| construction of a synechocystis pcc6803 mutant suitable for the study of variant hexadecameric ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase enzymes. | the cyanobacterium synechocystis pcc6803 was chosen as a target organism for construction of a suitable photosynthetic host to enable selection of variant plant-like ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) enzymes. the dna region containing the operon encoding rubisco (rbc) was cloned, sequenced and used for the construction of a transformation vector bearing flanking sequences to the rbc genes. this vector was utilized for the construction of a cyanobacterial rbc null mutant in wh ... | 1993 | 8219082 |
| surface charge modifications do not affect the hydrolytic activity of membrane-bound pyrophosphatase of rhodospirillum rubrum. | the surface charge of the membrane of chromatophores of rhodospirillum rubrum was modified by two methods: fusion of liposomes with the membrane of the chromatophore by changing the ph and by incubating chromatophores in the presence of cationic or anionic detergents. the hydrolytic activity of membrane-bound pyrophosphatase, on surface charge modified chromatophores, did not change the km of the enzyme for its substrate (mg-ppi2-) nor the activation effect of free mg2+ on the hydrolytic activit ... | 1993 | 8220258 |
| the ratio of protons translocated/hydride ion equivalent transferred by nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase in chromatophores from rhodospirillum rubrum. | the reduction of acetylpyridine adenine dinucleotide (acpdad+, an nad+ analogue) by nadph, in chromatophores treated with valinomycin, was accompanied by alkalinisation of the external medium, as measured by the absorbance change of added cresol red, a simple, non-binding ph indicator. experiments with a stopped-flow spectrophotometer showed that initial (linear) rates of alkalinisation persisted for 1-2s. from the results of experiments in which h+ uptake was driven by a series of short flashes ... | 1993 | 8223619 |
| photolithoautotrophic growth and control of co2 fixation in rhodobacter sphaeroides and rhodospirillum rubrum in the absence of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase. | rhodospirillum rubrum and rhodobacter sphaeroides were shown to be capable of photolithoautotrophic growth in the absence of the reductive pentose phosphate (calvin) cycle. ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (rubisco) deletion strains were incapable of photolithoautotrophic growth using hydrogen as an electron donor but were able to grow in the absence of organic carbon using less reduced inorganic electron donors, i.e., thiosulfate or sulfide. wild-type r. rubrum grown in the prese ... | 1993 | 8226655 |
| atomic structure of a cytochrome c' with an unusual ligand-controlled dimer dissociation at 1.8 a resolution. | the crystallographic structure of cytochrome c' from the purple phototrophic bacterium chromatium vinosum (cvcp) has been determined at 1.8 a resolution using multiple isomorphous replacement. the molecule is a dimer, with each 131-residue chain folding as a four-helical bundle incorporating a covalently bound heme group at the core. this structure is the third of the ubiquitous cytochromes c' to be solved and is similar to the known structures of cytochrome c' from r. molischianum (rmcp) and r. ... | 1993 | 8230224 |
| perturbation of reaction-intermediate partitioning by a site-directed mutant of ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. | to explore the roles of active-site glu48 of ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from rhodospirillum rubrum, the e48q mutant has been characterized with respect to kinetics and product distribution. although the kcat for carboxylase activity is only 0.6% of the wild-type value, the mutant retains full activity in catalyzing the conversion of the carboxylated reaction intermediate to 3-phosphoglycerate and retains 10% of the normal activity in catalyzing the enolization of ribulose bispho ... | 1993 | 8253788 |
| atpase of rhodospirillum rubrum requires three functional copies of beta subunit as determined by radiation inactivation analysis. | radiation inactivation analysis yielded a functional unit of 170 +/- 26 kda as beta subunit of atpase was irradiated and then reconstituted to beta-depleted chromatophores of rhodospirillum rubrum. a functional size of 132 +/- 17 kda for the beta-depleted atpase moiety involved in atp hydrolysis reaction was also determined. when both purified beta subunit and beta-depleted chromatophore were irradiated separately, reconstituted, and then activity measured, the functional mass was 312 +/- 50 kda ... | 1993 | 8260936 |
| the dratg gene region of rhodobacter capsulatus is required for post-translational regulation of both the molybdenum and the alternative nitrogenase. | synthetic oligonucleotides, which were designed according to amino acid sequences conserved between rhodospirillum rubrum and azospirillum brasilense drat and drag, respectively, were used to identify the corresponding genes of rhodobacter capsulatus. sequence analysis of a 1904 bp dna fragment proved the existence of r. capsulatus drat and drag. these two genes were separated by 11 bp only, suggesting that r. capsulatus drat and drag were part of one transcriptional unit. in contrast to r. rubr ... | 1993 | 8277250 |
| the source and characteristics of chemiluminescence associated with the oxygenase reaction catalyzed by mn(2+)-ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase. | we confirm the observation of mogel and mcfadden (mogel, s.n., and mcfadden, b. a. (1990) biochemistry 29, 8333-8337) that ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) exhibits chemiluminescence while catalyzing its oxygenase reaction in the presence of mn2+. however, our results with the spinach and rhodospirillum rubrum enzymes differ markedly in the following respects. 1) chemiluminescence intensity was directly proportional to enzyme concentration and behaved as if representing the r ... | 1993 | 8314755 |
| purification of form l2 rubisco from a marine obligately autotrophic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium, hydrogenovibrio marinus strain mh-110. | ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) was purified from an obligately autotrophic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium, hydrogenovibrio marinus mh-110. the protein has a m(r) value of approximately 110,000, and is composed of two identical subunits of 55,000. to our knowledge, the existence of l2-form rubisco in a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium is first reported in this paper. the n-terminal amino acid sequence determination of the purified enzyme showed high homology with those of ... | 1993 | 8319883 |
| picosecond dynamics of excitations in light-harvesting complex b800-850 from chromatium minutissimum studied using fluorescence spectrochronography. | the picosecond dynamics of excitations in the isolated b800-850 light-harvesting complex of the purple sulfur bacterium chromatium minutissimum has been studied using picosecond fluorescence spectrochronography. a short-lived component of about 20 ps lifetime has been found at 77k at the short wavelength part of the b850 fluorescence spectrum similar to that previously described for the core antenna bacteriochlorophyll band b880 of rhodospirillum rubrum. evidence has been presented indicating th ... | 1993 | 8335097 |
| complementation analysis and regulation of co2 fixation gene expression in a ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase deletion strain of rhodospirillum rubrum. | a ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (rubisco) deletion strain of rhodospirillum rubrum that was incapable of photolithoautotrophic growth was constructed. photoheterotrophic growth, however, was possible for the r. rubrum rubisco deletion strain when oxidized carbon compounds such as malate were supplied. the r. rubrum rubisco-deficient strain was not complemented to photolithoautotrophic growth by various r. rubrum dna fragments that contain the gene encoding rubisco, cbbm. when t ... | 1993 | 8349547 |
| amplification of ribulose biphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit (rubisco lsu) gene fragments from thiobacillus ferrooxidans and a moderate thermophile using polymerase chain reaction. | southern blot analysis of dna from an iron-oxidising moderate thermophile nmw-6 and from thiobacillus ferrooxidans strain tfi-35 demonstrated sequences homologous to the rubisco lsu gene of synechococcus. dna fragments (457 bp) encoding part of the rubisco lsu gene (amino acids 73-200) were amplified from the genomic dna of thiobacillus ferrooxidans and the moderate thermophile nmw-6 using the polymerase chain reaction (pcr) technique (saiki et al. (1985) science 233, 1350-1354). a comparison wi ... | 1993 | 8357616 |
| a role for the epsilon-amino group of lysine-334 of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase in the addition of carbon dioxide to the 2,3-enediol(ate) of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate. | earlier structural and functional studies of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase imply that k334 facilitates the addition of gaseous substrate to the 2,3-enediol(ate) derived from ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate. crystallographic analysis of the activated spinach enzyme [knight et al. (1990) j. mol. biol. 215, 113-160] shows that the lysyl side chain is appropriately positioned to stabilize the transition state for the addition of co2 to the enediol(ate). furthermore, despite total impairm ... | 1993 | 8369274 |
| excitonic interactions in the light-harvesting antenna of photosynthetic purple bacteria and their influence on picosecond absorbance difference spectra. | a new model of the light-harvesting antenna (core complex) of purple photosynthetic bacteria is proposed based on excitonic interactions in circular aggregates of bacteriochlorophyll molecules. the calculated absorbance difference spectra of circular aggregates demonstrate all special features observed in the experimental spectra of purple bacteria. in particular, the absorption changes with high amplitude of bleaching at the long-wavelength side of the absorption band at different excitation en ... | 1993 | 8370458 |
| modulation of the proton-translocation stoichiometry of h(+)-atp synthases in two phototrophic prokaryotes by external ph. | the stoichiometry between proton translocation and atp synthesis/hydrolysis was studied in two different photosynthetic prokaryotes, the thermophilic cyanobacterium synechococcus 6716 and the purple bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum. the h+/atp ratio was determined by acid-base transitions as a function of the external ph. the h+/atp ratio of the synechococcus 6716 atp synthase was found to increase with increasing ph. in contrast, in r. rubrum this ratio decreased with increasing ph. these result ... | 1993 | 8379927 |
| pathway of proton transfer in bacterial reaction centers: second-site mutation asn-m44-->asp restores electron and proton transfer in reaction centers from the photosynthetically deficient asp-l213-->asn mutant of rhodobacter sphaeroides. | site-directed mutagenesis of the photosynthetic reaction center (rc) from rhodobacter sphaeroides has shown asp-213 of the l subunit (asp-l213) to be important for photosynthetic viability. replacement of asp-l213 with asn resulted in a photosynthetically deficient mutant, due to the 10(4)-fold slower rate for the proton-coupled electron transfer reaction qa-qb- + 2h+-->qaqbh2 (k(2)ab). the detrimental effect of asn-l213 is surprising since rcs from rhodopseudomonas viridis, rhodospirillum rubru ... | 1993 | 8381964 |
| an open reading frame in the rhodospirillum rubrum plasmid, pky1, similar to alga, encoding the bifunctional enzyme phosphomannose isomerase-guanosine diphospho-d-mannose pyrophosphorylase (pmi-gmp). | the nucleotide sequence of a bglii fragment (3188 bp) from the plasmid pky1 of rhodospirillum rubrum was determined. a significant similarity was found between the amino acid sequences deduced from the nucleotide sequence of bglii fragment with that of alga, encoding the bifunctional enzyme with both the activities of phosphomannose isomerase and guanosine diphospho-d-mannose pyrophosphorylase of pseudomonas aeruginosa. | 1993 | 8383539 |
| reversible dissociation and conformational stability of dimeric ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase. | dimer-monomer dissociation of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from rhodospirillum rubrum was investigated using hydrostatic pressure in the range 1-2 kbar to promote dissociation. intrinsic fluorescence emission and polarization, along with the polarization of the fluorescence of single-labeled aedans conjugates, were used to follow the dissociation. full reversibility after dissociation was observed to depend on the presence of small ligands: glycerol, mg2+, and nahco3, the last two ... | 1993 | 8388254 |
| differential sensitivity of membrane-associated pyrophosphatases to inhibition by diphosphonates and fluoride delineates two classes of enzyme. | 1,1-diphosphonate analogs of pyrophosphate, containing an amino or a hydroxyl group on the bridge carbon atom, are potent inhibitors of the h(+)-translocating pyrophosphatases of chromatophores prepared from the bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum and vacuolar membrane vesicles prepared from the plant vigna radiata. the inhibition constant for aminomethylenediphosphonate, which binds competitively with respect to substrate, is below 2 microm. rat liver mitochondrial pyrophosphatase is two orders of ... | 1993 | 8392953 |
| molecular cloning and sequencing of the ferredoxin i fdxn gene of the photosynthetic bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum. | using an oligonucleotide probe derived from the amino acid sequence of rhodospirillum rubrum ferredoxin i, the gene (fdxn) was identified, cloned and sequenced. the fdxn coding region is 183 nucleotides which codes for a 61 amino acid (7267 da) protein. phylogenetic comparisons between the r. rubrum fdi and other 8fe-8s nif-coupled ferredoxins showed only moderate degrees of similarity between the amino acid sequences. r. rubrum fdi synthesis was stimulated by nif derepressing conditions, but wa ... | 1993 | 8399287 |
| the structure and function of omega loop a replacements in cytochrome c. | the structural and functional consequences of replacing omega-loop a (residues 18-32) in yeast iso-1-cytochrome c with the corresponding loop of rhodospirillum rubrum cytochrome c2 have been examined. the three-dimensional structure of this loop replacement mutant repa2 cytochrome c, and a second mutant repa2(val 20) cytochrome c in which residue 20 was back substituted to valine, were determined using x-ray diffraction techniques. a change in the molecular packing is evident in the repa2 mutant ... | 1993 | 8401228 |
| precise location of the cu(ii)-inhibitory binding site in higher plant and bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers as probed by light-induced absorption changes. | light-dependent absorption change at 325 nm, ascribed to qa activity, was strongly reduced in the presence of cu(ii) in oxygen-evolving core complex. this change was much less affected in the presence of the herbicide 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (dcmu), indicating that the cu(ii)-binding site is different from that of the dcmu and that cu(ii) blocks qa reduction. cu(ii) did not eliminate the absorption change at 545 nm, ascribed to pheophytin reduction, in na2s2o4-treated oxygen-evol ... | 1993 | 8420944 |
| inhibition of proton-translocating transhydrogenase from photosynthetic bacteria by n,n'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide. | the effects of n,n'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide [(chxn)2c] on the proton-translocating enzyme, nad(p) h(+)-transhydrogenase (h(+)-thase), from two species of phototrophic bacteria have been investigated. the polypeptides of h(+)-thase from rhodobacter capsulatus are membrane-associated, requiring detergent to maintain solubility. the enzyme from rhodospirillum rubrum, however, has a water soluble polypeptide (ths) and a membrane-associated component (thm) which, separately, have no activity but whi ... | 1993 | 8436126 |
| expression study with the escherichia coli lep gene for leader peptidase in phototrophic purple bacteria. | synthesis and assembly of leader peptidase of escherichia coli (signal peptidase i), was studied by heterologous expression of its lep gene in three species of phototrophic purple bacteria. cell extracts of the recipient species showed neither cross reaction with antibodies against e. coli leader peptidase nor cleavage of the model substrate m13-procoat in vitro. the lep gene was transferred via conjugation using the plasmid expression vector for phototrophic bacteria pjaj9. plasmid-borne leader ... | 1993 | 8439231 |
| role of phenylalanine-327 in the closure of loop 6 of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from rhodospirillum rubrum. | phenylalanine-327 of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) from rhodospirillum rubrum was mutated to tryptophan, leucine, valine, alanine, and glycine, and was also deleted. the least active mutant, the deletion mutant, exhibits less than 0.5% of the carboxylase activity of the wild-type enzyme. steady-state kinetic analysis of f327-->leu, val, ala, gly mutant enzymes reveals that kcat and the co2/o2 specificity are unchanged while km(rubp) (rubp = ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate) is dr ... | 1993 | 8448152 |
| gene expression of the b875 light-harvesting prepolypeptides from rhodospirillum rubrum in escherichia coli. | the gene coding for the prepolypeptides of alpha and beta, obtained as a 429 bp fragment from chromosomal dna of rhodospirillum rubrum s1 by polymerase chain reaction amplification, were cloned in tandem into the high-level expression vector potsnco 12 for expression in escherichia coli. the vector potsnco12 is a derivative of the pas vector system, which contains the strong lambda pl promotor and is under tight control by the ci857 repressor encoded by the expression strain ar58. induction of t ... | 1993 | 8451297 |
| site-specific mutations in a loop region of the c-terminal domain of the large subunit of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase that influence substrate partitioning. | amino acids composing a flexible loop (loop 6) of the eight-stranded barrel domain of the l-subunit of synechococcus ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (ec 4.1.1.39) involved in reaction intermediate stabilization have been modified by site-specific mutagenesis. changes at positions both distant and within the active site affect overall catalysis and substrate partitioning. most significantly, replacement of the active site lys (lys-334) with arg at the apex of the loop almost completel ... | 1993 | 8463309 |
| unexpected similarities of the b800-850 light-harvesting complex from rhodospirillum molischianum to the b870 light-harvesting complexes from other purple photosynthetic bacteria. | the b800-850 light-harvesting complex (also called lh2) was isolated from photosynthetic membranes of rhodospirillum molischianum dsm 119 using molecular sieve and ion-exchange chromatography. its two bacteriochlorophyll a-binding polypeptides (alpha-subunit and beta-subunit) were purified with a reverse-phase hplc system. the complete amino acid sequences of both subunits have been determined. the alpha- and beta-subunits consist of 56 and 45 amino acids, respectively, corresponding to molecula ... | 1993 | 8504081 |
| two-dimensional crystallization of the light-harvesting complex from rhodospirillum rubrum. | homogeneous detergent-solubilized b873 light-harvesting complexes from a carotenoid-less mutant of the purple non-sulfur bacterium, rhodospirillum rubrum g9, were reassembled spontaneously into two-dimensional (2d) hexagonal arrays during extensive and controlled dialysis. as the complexes contain only 1 to 2 mol phospholipid per mol alpha beta dimer, the arrays formed by a self assembly process are primary due to protein-protein interactions. the hexagonal lattices were analyzed by negative sta ... | 1993 | 8510160 |
| occurrence and purification of the photoactive yellow protein of ectothiorhodospira halophila (pyp) and of immunologically related proteins of rhodospirillum salexigens and chromatium salexigens and intracellular localization of pyp. | the photoactive yellow protein of ectothiohodospira halophila (pyp) was purified to homogeneity by an advanced method and applied as an affinity ligand for the isolation of an anti-pyp igg fraction which was used for immunoscreening. the distribution of proteins immunologically related to pyp was investigated in protein fractions of 51 strains from 38 species of non-halophilic and halophilic phototrophic and chemotrophic eubacteria and archaeobacteria. strong immunoreactive bands indicating the ... | 1995 | 8519800 |
| direct observation of sub-picosecond equilibration of excitation energy in the light-harvesting antenna of rhodospirillum rubrum. | excitation energy transfer in the light-harvesting antenna of rhodospirillum rubrum was studied at room temperature using sub-picosecond transient absorption measurements. upon excitation of rs. rubrum membranes with a 200 fs, 600 nm laser flash in the qx transition of the bacteriochlorophyll-a (bchl-a) absorption, the induced transient absorption changes in the qy region were monitored. in rs. rubrum membranes the observed delta od spectrum exhibits ground state bleaching, excited state absorpt ... | 1995 | 8519962 |
| nonlinear annihilation of excitations in photosynthetic systems. | the theory of the singlet-singlet annihilation in quasi-homogeneous photosynthetic antenna systems is developed further. in the new model, the following important contributions are taken into account: 1) the finite excitation pulse duration, 2) the occupation of higher excited states during the annihilation, 3) excitation correlation effects, and 4) the effect of local heating. the main emphasis is concentrated on the analysis of pump-probe kinetic measurements demonstrating the first two above ... | 1995 | 8519966 |
| predicting the structure of the light-harvesting complex ii of rhodospirillum molischianum. | we attempted to predict through computer modeling the structure of the light-harvesting complex ii (lh-ii) of rhodospirillum molischianum, before the impending publication of the structure of a homologous protein solved by means of x-ray diffraction. the protein studied is an integral membrane protein of 16 independent polypeptides, 8 alpha-apoproteins and 8 beta-apoproteins, which aggregate and bind to 24 bacteriochlorophyll-a's and 12 lycopenes. available diffraction data of a crystal of the p ... | 1995 | 8528066 |
| spectroscopic characterization of nitrosylheme in nitric oxide complexes of ferric and ferrous cytochrome c' from photosynthetic bacteria. | reactions of ferric and ferrous cytochromes c' from four photosynthetic bacteria (rhodobacter capsulatus atcc 11166, rhodopseudomonas palustris atcc 17001, rhodospirillum rubrum atcc 11170, and chromatium vinosum atcc 17899) with nitric oxide have been investigated by electronic absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopies. the heme iron(iii) of these ferric cytochromes c' has been recently reported to be in a quantum mechanically admixed (s = 5/2, 3/2) state [fujii, s., yoshimu ... | 1996 | 8547347 |
| characterization of a co-responsive transcriptional activator from rhodospirillum rubrum. | in rhodospirillum rubrum, co induces the expression of at least two transcripts that encode an enzyme system for co oxidation. this regulon is positively regulated by cooa, which is a member of the camp receptor protein family of transcriptional regulators. the transcriptional start site of one of the transcripts (coofsctj) has been identified by primer extension. the ability of cooa to bind to this promoter in vitro was characterized with dnase i footprinting experiments using extracts of a coo ... | 1996 | 8550545 |
| estimation of the h+/h- ratio of the reaction catalysed by the nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase in chromatophores from over-expressing strains of rhodospirillum rubrum and in liposomes inlaid with the purified bovine enzyme. | two strains of rhodospirillum rubrum were constructed in which, by a gene dosage effect, the transhydrogenase activity of isolated chromatophores was increased 7-10-fold and 15-20-fold, respectively. the h+/h- ratio (the ratio of protons translocated per hydride ion equivalent transferred from nadph to an nad+ analogue, acetyl pyridine adenine dinucleotide), determined by a spectroscopic technique, was approximately 1.0 for chromatophores from the over-expressing strains, but was only approximat ... | 1996 | 8573594 |