A recently evolved diflavin-containing monomeric nitrate reductase is responsible for highly efficient bacterial nitrate assimilation

Tan, W; Liao, TH; Wang, J; Ye, Y; Wei, YC; Zhou, HK; Xiao, YL; Zhi, XY; Shao, ZH; Lyu, LD; Zhao, GP

Zhao, GP (corresponding author), Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Prince Wales Hosp, Dept Microbiol, Shatin, Hong Kong 999077, Peoples R China.; Zhao, GP (corresponding author), Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Prince Wales Hosp, Li Ka Shing Inst Hlth Sci, Shatin, Hong Kong 999077, Peoples R China.; Lyu, LD; Zhao, GP (corresponding author), Fudan Univ, Sch Basic Med Sci, Key Lab Med Mol Virol MOE NHC CAMS, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China.; Lyu, LD; Zhao, GP (corresponding author), Fudan Univ, Sch Life Sci, Dept Microbiol & Microbial Engn, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China.; Zhao, GP (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, Shenzhen Inst Adv Technol, Inst Synthet Biol, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China.; Shao, ZH; Zhao, GP (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Synthet Biol, CAS Ctr Excellence Mol Plant Sci, Inst Plant Physiol & Ecol, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China.; Zhi, XY (corresponding author), Yunnan Univ, Sch Life Sci, Yunnan Inst Microbiol, Kunming 650091, Yunnan, Peoples R China.; Zhao, GP (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, CAS MPG Partner Inst Computat Biol, Key Lab Computat Biol,Shanghai Inst Nutr & Hlth, Univ Chinese Acad Sci,Shanghai Inst Biol Sci,Bio, Shanghai 200031, Peoples R China.; Zhao, GP (corresponding author), Chinese Natl Human Genome Ctr, Shanghai MOST Key Lab Hlth & Dis Genom, Shanghai 201203, Peoples R China.

JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, 2020; 295 (15): 5051

Abstract

Nitrate is one of the major inorganic nitrogen sources for microbes. Many bacterial and archaeal lineages have the capacity to express assimilatory ni......

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