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  • Title: Biosynthesis of iron-molybdenum cofactor in the absence of nitrogenase.
    Author: Ugalde RA, Imperial J, Shah VK, Brill WJ.
    Journal: J Bacteriol; 1984 Sep; 159(3):888-93. PubMed ID: 6384184.
    Abstract:
    Klebsiella pneumoniae accumulates molybdenum during nitrogenase derepression. The molybdenum is primarily in nitrogenase component I in the form of iron-molybdenum cofactor (FeMo-co). Mutations in any of three genes (nifB, nifN, and nifE) involved in the biosynthesis of FeMo-co resulted in very low molybdenum accumulation and in a molybdenum-free nitrogenase component I. A mutant lacking both subunits of nitrogenase component I accumulated 60% of the amount of molybdenum present in the wild type. The molybdenum was in protein-bound form and behaved differently than that in the wild type with respect to electrophoretic mobility, size, and extractability by organic solvents. Two forms of molybdenum could be extracted from the protein fraction of the mutant; one of them was not detected in the wild type, and the other behaved like FeMo-co in nonaqueous gel filtration chromatography. Crude extracts of this mutant were able to complement in vitro K. pneumoniae or Azotobacter vinelandii mutants unable to produce FeMo-co. These data show that biosynthesis of FeMo-co does not require the presence of nitrogenase component I. In its absence, FeMo-co is accumulated on a different protein, presumably an intermediate in the normal FeMo-co biosynthetic pathway.
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