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  • Title: Nickel enzyme maturation in Helicobacter hepaticus: roles of accessory proteins in hydrogenase and urease activities.
    Author: Benoit SL, Zbell AL, Maier RJ.
    Journal: Microbiology (Reading); 2007 Nov; 153(Pt 11):3748-3756. PubMed ID: 17975083.
    Abstract:
    Helicobacter hepaticus, a causative agent of chronic hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma in mice, possesses a hydrogenase and a urease, both of which are nickel-containing enzymes. Analysis of the genome sequence of H. hepaticus revealed a full set of accessory genes which are required for the nickel maturation of each enzyme in other micro-organisms. Erythromycin-resistant mutants were constructed in four of these genes, hypA, hypB, ureE and ureG. Controls for polar effect were provided for hypA or hypB mutants by disrupting each gene located immediately downstream, i.e. hp0809 or hypC, respectively. Urease and hydrogenase activities were determined for each strain with or without supplemented nickel in the medium. As expected, the ureE and the ureG mutants had negligible urease activity, but they retained normal levels of hydrogenase activity. Urease levels could not be increased by the addition of nickel to the medium. The H. hepaticus hypA and hypB strains were deficient in both urease and hydrogenase activities, suggesting that both gene products act in a similar fashion as their counterparts in H. pylori. However, in contrast with the analogous mutants of H. pylori, the addition of nickel into the growth medium failed to restore either urease or hydrogenase enzyme levels in the H. hepaticus hypA or hypB mutants, indicating a probably unique role for these genes in the mouse liver pathogen.
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