Arrangement of nitrogenase structural genes in an aerobic filamentous nonheterocystous cyanobacterium.

AUTOR(ES)

Zehr, J P

RESUMO

Members of the marine filamentous, nonheterocystous cyanobacterial genus Trichodesmium not only are capable of fixing nitrogen aerobically in the light but when grown under a light-dark cycle will fix nitrogen only during the light phase. In this study, we constructed a restriction map of the structural nitrogen fixation genes (nifHDK) in Trichodesmium sp. strain NIBB 1067. We found that the organization of the nif genes in Trichodesmium sp. strain NIBB 1067 is contiguous, as found in other nonheterocystous cyanobacteria and in heterocysts. Furthermore, the nif gene arrangement was identical when the cultures were grown with combined nitrogen or under nitrogen-fixing conditions. Therefore, no gene rearrangements occur, such as those that occur during the development of heterocysts in heterocystous species.

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