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Properties of nitrate reductase from Fusarium oxysporum 11dn1 fungi grown under anaerobic conditions

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Production of nitrate reductase was studied in 15 species of microscopic fungi grown on a nitrate-containing medium. Experiments were performed with Fusarium oxysporum 11dn1, a fungus capable of producing nitrous oxide as the end product of denitrification. Moreover, a shift from aerobic to anaerobic conditions of growth was accompanied by a sharp increase in the activity of nitrate reductase. Studies of nitrate reductase from the mycelium of Fusarium oxysporum 11dn1, grown under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, showed that this enzyme belongs to molybdenum-containing nitrate reductases. The enzymes under study differed in the molecular weight, temperature optimum, and other properties. Nitrate reductase from the mycelium grown under aerobic conditions was shown to belong to the class of assimilatory enzymes. However, nitrate reductase from the mycelium grown anaerobically had a dissimilatory function. An increase in the activity of dissimilatory nitrate reductase, observed under anaerobic conditions, was associated with de novo synthesis of the enzyme.

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Abbreviations

BPB:

bromophenol blue

MV:

methyl viologen

NRase:

nitrate reductase

NIRase:

nitrite reductase

NORase:

nitric oxide reductase

PMSF:

phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride

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  1. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071, Russia

    E. V. Morozkina, A. N. Nosikov & N. P. L’vov

  2. Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    A. V. Kurakov & E. V. Sapova

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Translated from Prikladnaya Biokhimiya i Mikrobiologiya, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2005, pp. 292–297.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Morozkina, Kurakov, Nosikov, Sapova, L’vov.

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Morozkina, E.V., Kurakov, A.V., Nosikov, A.N. et al. Properties of nitrate reductase from Fusarium oxysporum 11dn1 fungi grown under anaerobic conditions. Appl Biochem Microbiol 41, 254–258 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10438-005-0043-3

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