The effect of exogenous carbohydrates on nitrogen fixation and hetR expression in Nostoc PCC 9229 forming symbiosis with Gunnera

Symbiosis

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-76

  Wouters, Johanna ^a   Janson, Sven ^a,b   Bergman, Birgitta ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carbohydrates; hetR; N2 fixation; Nostoc PCC 9229; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; SYMBIOSIS;

GUNNERA; NOSTOC;

EID: 0033998648     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Bergman, B., Johansson, C., and Söderbäck, E. 1992. The Nostoc-Gunnera symbiosis. Tansley Review No. 42. New Phytologist 122: 379-400.
2. Bergman, B., Matveyev, A., and Rasmussen, U. 1996. Chemical signaling in cyanobacterial-plant symbioses. Trends in Plant Sciences 1: 191-197.
3. Black, T.A., Cai, Y., and Wolk, C.P. 1993. Spatial expression and autoregulation of hetR, a gene involved in the control of heterocyst development in Anabaena. Molecular Microbiology 9: 77-84.
4. Buikema, W. and Haselkorn, R. 1991. Characterization of a gene controlling heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena 7120. Genes and Development 5: 321-330.
5. Douglas, S.E. 1994. Chloroplast origins and evolution. In: The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria. D.A. Bryant, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 91-118.
6. Hill, L. and Smith, A. 1991. Evidence that glucose 6-phosphate is imported as the substrate for starch synthesis by the plastids of developing pea embryos. Planta 185: 91-96.
7. Huang, T.-C. and Chow, T.-J. 1988. Comparative studies on dark heterotrophic growth and nitrogenase activity of Nostoc strains. Archive für Hydrobiologie, Supplement-Band 78: 341-349.
8. Janson, S., Matveyev, A., and Bergman, B. 1998. The presence and expression of hetR in the non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Symploca PCC 8002. FEMS Microbiology Letters 168: 173-179.
9. Johansson, C. and Bergman, B. 1994. Reconstitution of the Gunnera manicata Linden symbiosis: cyanobacterial specificity. New Phytologist 126: 643-652.
10. Leganes, F., Fernandes-Pinas, F., and Wolk, C.P. 1994. Two mutations that block heterocyst differentiation have different effects on akinete differentiation in Nostoc ellipsosporum. Molecular Microbiology 12: 679-684.
11. 2 and carbon metabolism in moderating nitrogenase activity of the Gunnera / Nostoc symbiosis. Archives of Microbiology 161: 442-444.
12. Margulis, L., ed. 1970. Origin of Eukaryotic Cells, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, USA.
13. Pollock, C.J. and Farrar, J.F. 1996. Source-sink relations: The role of sucrose. In: Photosynthesis and the Environment. N.R. Baker, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 261-279.
14. Rasmussen, U., Johansson, C., and Bergman, B. 1994. Early communication in the Gunnera-Nostoc symbiosis: plant-induced cell differentiation and protein synthesis in the cyanobacterium. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 6: 696-702.
15. Rippka, R., Deruelles, J., Waterbury, J.B., Herdman, M., and Stanier, R.Y. 1979. Generic assignments, strain histories and properties of pure culture of cyanobacteria. Journal of General Microbiology 111: 1-61.
16. 2 fixation and growth of the isolated cyanobiont Anabaena azollae. Archives of Microbiology 145: 187-190.
17. 6-sugar phosphates cross the envelope membranes of potato tuber amyloplasts. Planta 196: 647-652.
18. Silvester, W.B. and Smith, D.R. 1969. Nitrogen fixation by Gunnera-Nostoc symbiosis. Nature 224: 1231.
19. Silvester, W.B. and McNamara, P.J. 1976. The infection process and ultrastructure of the Gunnera-Nostoc symbiosis. New Phytologist 77: 135-141.
20. Silvester, W.B., Parsons, R., and Watt, P. 1996. Direct measurement of release and assimilation of ammonia in the Gunnera-Nostoc symbiosis. New Phytologist 132: 617-625.
21. Smith, A.J. 1982. Modes of cyanobacterial carbon metabolism. In: The Biology of Cyanobacteria. N.G. Carr and B.A. Whitton, eds. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, pp. 47-85.
22. Söderbäck, E. and Bergman, B. 1993. The Nostoc-Gunnera symbiosis: carbon fixation and translocation. Physiologia Plantarum 89: 125-132.
23. Söderbäck, E., Lindblad, P., and Bergman, B. 1990. Developmental patterns related to nitrogen fixation in the Nostoc-Gunnera magellanica Lam. symbiosis. Planta 182: 355-362.
24. Steinberg, N. and Meeks, J. 1991. Physiological sources of reductant for nitrogen fixation activity in Nostoc sp. strain UCD 7801 in symbiotic association with Anthoceros punctatus. Journal of Bacteriology 173: 7324-7329.
25. Tandeau de Marsac, N. and Houmard, J. 1988. Complementary chromatic adaptation: physiological conditions and action spectra. In: Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 167. L. Packer and N. Glazer, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 318-328.
26. Tel-Or, E. and Sadovsky, T. 1982. The response of the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena azollae to combined nitrogen compounds and sugar. Israel Journal of Botany 31: 329-336.
27. Wolk, C.P., Ernst, A., and Elhai, J. 1994. Heterocyst metabolism and development. In: The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria. D.A. Bryant, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 769-823.
28. Zhou, R., Wei, X., Jiang, N., Li, H., Dong, Y., Hsi, K.-L., and Zhao, J. 1998. Evidence that HetR protein is an unusual serine-type protease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95: 4959-4963.