Identification of a possible respiratory arsenate reductase in Denitrovibrio acetiphilus, a member of the phylum Deferribacteres

Arch Microbiol. 2013 Sep;195(9):661-70. doi: 10.1007/s00203-013-0915-5. Epub 2013 Aug 18.

Abstract

Denitrovibrio acetiphilus N2460(T) is one of the few members of the phylum Deferribacteres with a sequenced genome. N2460(T) was capable of growing with dimethyl sulfoxide, selenate, or arsenate provided as a terminal electron acceptor, and we identified 15 genes that could possibly encode respiratory reductases for these compounds. The protein encoded by one of these genes, YP_003504839, clustered with respiratory arsenate reductases on a phylogenetic tree. Transcription of the gene for YP_003504839, Dacet_2121, was highly induced when arsenate was provided as a terminal electron acceptor. Dacet_2121 exists in a possible operon that is distinct from the previously characterized respiratory arsenate reductase operon in Shewanella sp. ANA-3.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Arsenate Reductases / genetics
  • Arsenate Reductases / isolation & purification*
  • Arsenate Reductases / metabolism
  • Bacteria / classification
  • Bacteria / enzymology*
  • Bacteria / genetics
  • Operon
  • Phylogeny
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Shewanella / enzymology

Substances

  • Arsenate Reductases