Denitrification by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum involves NADH-nitrate reductase

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 412-420

  Fujii, Tatsuya ^a   Takaya, Naoki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Fusarium oxysporum; Nitrate reductase; Nitrate respiration

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; ENZYMES; MUTAGENESIS; STRAIN CONTROL;

FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE RESPIRATION;

FUNGI;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE (NADH); PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUSARIUM; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTATION; NITRATE REDUCTASE (NADH); NITRATES; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM;

EID: 40449110651     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.70538     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Hackstein, J. H., Akhmanova, A., Boxma, B., Harhangi, H. R., and Voncken, F. G., Hydrogenosomes: eukaryotic adaptations to anaerobic environments. Trends Microbiol., 7, 441-447 (1999).
2. Kita, K., Hirawake, H., Miyadera, H., Amino, H., and Takeo, S., Role of complex II in anaerobic respiration of the parasite mitochondria from Ascaris suum and Plasmodium falciparum. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1553, 123-139 (2002).
3. Shoun, H., and Tanimoto, T., Denitrification by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum and involvement of cytochrome P-450 in the respiratory nitrite reduction. J. Biol. Chem., 266, 11078-11082 (1991).
4. Shoun, H., Kim, D.-H., Uchiyama, H., and Sugiyama, J., Denitrification by fungi. FEMS Microbiol. Lett., 94, 277-282 (1992).
5. Tsuruta, S., Takaya, N., Zhang, L., Shoun, H., Kimura, K., Hamamoto, M., and Nakase, T., Denitrification by yeasts and occurrence of cytochrome P450nor in Trichosporon cutaneum. FEMS Microbiol. Lett., 168, 105-110 (1998).
6. Zumft, W. G., Cell biology and molecular basis of denitrification. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev., 61, 533-616 (1997).
7. Ferguson, S. J., Denitrification and its control. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 66, 89-110 (1994).
8. Payne, W. J., Reduction of nitrogenous oxides by microorganisms. Bacteriol. Rev., 37, 409-452 (1973).
9. Usuda, K., Toritsuka, N., Matsuo, Y., Kim, D.-H., and Shoun, H., Denitrification by the fungus Cylindrocarpon tonkinense: anaerobic cell growth and two isozyme forms of cytochrome P-450nor. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 61, 883-889 (1995).
10. Kobayashi, M., and Shoun, H., The copper containing dissimilatory nitrite reductase involved in the denitrifying system of the fungus Fusarium oxysporum. J. Biol. Chem., 270, 4146-4151 (1995).
11. Kubota, Y., Takaya, N., and Shoun, H., Membrane-associated, dissimilatory nitrite reductase of the denitrifying fungus Cylindrocarpon tonkinense. Arch. Microbiol., 171, 210-213 (1999).
12. Nakahara, K., Tanimoto, T., Hatano, K., Usuda, K., and Shoun, H., Cytochrome P-450 55A1 (P-450dNIR) acts as nitric oxide reductase employing NADH as the direct electron donor. J. Biol. Chem., 268, 8350-8355 (1993).
13. Kizawa, H., Tomura, D., Oda, M., Fukamizu, A., Hoshino, T., Gotoh, O., Yasui, T., and Shoun, H., Nucleotide sequence of the unique nitrate/nitrite- inducible cytochrome P-450 cDNA from Fusarium oxysporum. J. Biol. Chem., 266, 10632-10637 (1991).
14. Zhou, Z., Takaya, N., Sakairi, A. M. C., and Shoun, H., Oxygen requirement for denitrification by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum. Arch. Microbiol., 175, 19-25 (2001).
15. Kobayashi, M., Matsuo, Y., Takimoto, A., Suzuki, S., Maruo, F., and Shoun, H., Denitrification, a novel type of respiratory metabolism in fungal mitochondrion. J. Biol. Chem., 271, 16263-16267 (1996).
16. Watsuji, T., Takaya, N., Nakamura, A., and Shoun, H., Denitrification of nitrate by the fungus Cylindrocarpon tonkinense. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 67, 1115-1120 (2003).
17. Zhou, Z., Takaya, N., Nakamura, A., Yamaguchi, M., Takeo, K., and Shoun, H., Ammonia fermentation, a novel anoxic metabolism of nitrate by fungi. J. Biol. Chem., 277, 1892-1896 (2002).
18. Takasaki, K., Shoun, H., Yamaguchi, M., Takeo, K., Nakamura, A., Hoshino, T., and Takaya, N., Fungal ammonia fermentation, a novel metabolic mechanism that couples the dissimilatory and assimilatory pathways of both nitrate and ethanol. J. Biol. Chem., 279, 12414-12420 (2004).
19. Diolez, A., Langin, T., Gerlinger, C., Brygoo, Y., and Daboussi, M. J., The niaD gene of Fusarium oxysporum: isolation, sequence and development of a homologous transformation system. Gene, 131, 61-67 (1993).
20. Johnstone, I. L., McCabe, P. C., Greaves, P., Gurr, S. J., Cole, G. E., Brow, M. A., Unkles, S. E., Clutterbuck, A. J., Kinghorn, J. R., and Innis, M. A., Isolation and characterization of the crnA-niiA-niaD gene cluster for nitrate assimilation in Aspergillus nidulans. Gene, 90, 181-192 (1990).
21. Kitamoto, N., Kimura, T., Kito, Y., Ohmiya, K., and Tsukagoshi, N., The nitrate reductase gene from a shoyu koji mold, Aspergillus oryzae KBN616. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 59, 1795-1797 (1995).
22. Tudzynski, B., Mende, K., Weltring, K. M., Kinghorn, J. R., and Unkles, S. E., The Gibberella fujikuroi niaD gene encoding nitrate reductase: isolation, sequence, homologous transformation and electrophoretic karyotype location. Microbiology, 142, 533-539 (1996).
23. Uchimura, H., Enjoji, H., Seki, T., Taguchi, A., Takaya, N., and Shoun, H., Nitrate reductase-formate dehydrogenase couple involved in the fungal dentrification by Fusarium oxysporum. J. Biochem. (Tokyo), 131, 579-586 (2002).
24. Casadaban, M. J., Martinez-Arias, A., Shapira, S. K., and Chou, J., β-galactosidase gene fusions for analyzing gene expression in Escherichia coli and yeast. Methods Enzymol., 100, 293-308 (1983).
25. Woods, J. P., and Goldman, W. E., Autonomonas replication of foreign DNA in Histoplasma capsulatum: role of native telomeric sequences. J. Bacteriol., 175, 636-641 (1993).
26. Takaya, N., and Shoun, H., Nitric oxide reduction, the last step in denitrification by Fusarium oxysporum, is obligatorily mediated by cytochrome P450nor. Mol. Gen. Genet., 263, 342-348 (2000).
27. Nicholas, D. J. D., and Nason, A., Determination of nitrate and nitrite. Methods Enzymol., 3, 981-984 (1957).
28. Miller, J. H., "Experiments in Molecular Genetics," Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor (1972).
29. Hankinson, O., and Cove, D. J., Regulation of the pentose phosphate pathway in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans. J. Biol. Chem., 249, 2344-2353 (1974).
30. Ziegler, D., and Diesk, J. S., Preparation and properties of succinate dehydrogenase-coenzyme Q reductase (Complex II). Methods Enzymol., 10, 231-235 (1967).
31. Marzluf, G. A., Genetic regulation of nitrogen metabolism in the fungi. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev., 61, 17-32 (1997).
32. Takaya, N., Kuwazaki, S., Adachi, Y., Suzuki, S., Kikuchi, T., Nakamura, H., Shiro, Y., and Shoun, H., Hybrid respiration in the denitrifying mitochondria of Fusarium oxysporum. J. Biochem. (Tokyo), 133, 461-465 (2003).
33. Tudzynski, B., Homann, V., Feng, B., and Marzluf, G. A., Isolation, characterization and disruption of the areA nitrogen regulatory gene of Gibberella fujikuroi. Mol. Gen. Genet., 261, 106-114 (1999).
34. Mo, X., and Marzluf, G. A., Cooperative action of the NIT2 and NIT4 transcription factors upon gene expression in Neurospora crassa. Curr. Genet., 42, 260-267 (2003).
35. Daboussi, M. J., Langin, T., Deschamps, F., Brygoo, Y., Scazzocchio, C., and Burger, G., Heterologous expression of the Aspergillus nidulans regulatory gene nirA in Fusarium oxysporum. Gene, 109, 155-160 (1991).
36. Takasaki, K., Shoun, H., Nakamura, A., Hoshino, T., and Takaya, N., Unusual transcription regulation of the niaD gene under anaerobic conditions supporting fungal ammonia fermentation. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 68, 978-980 (2004).