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Journal of Bacteriology, August 2007, p. 5850-5859, Vol. 189, No. 16
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00680-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Membrane Sequestration of PII Proteins and Nitrogenase Regulation in the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus{triangledown}

Pier-Luc Tremblay,1 Thomas Drepper,2 Bernd Masepohl,3 and Patrick C. Hallenbeck1*

Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada,1 Institut für Molekulare Enzymtechnologie, Heinrich-Heine-Univertität Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52426 Jülich, Germany,2 Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Lehrstuhl für Biologie der Mikroorganismen, D-44780 Bochum, Germany3

Received 30 April 2007/ Accepted 11 June 2007

Both Rhodobacter capsulatus PII homologs GlnB and GlnK were found to be necessary for the proper regulation of nitrogenase activity and modification in response to an ammonium shock. As previously reported for several other bacteria, ammonium addition triggered the AmtB-dependent association of GlnK with the R. capsulatus membrane. Native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis indicates that the modification/demodification of one PII homolog is aberrant in the absence of the other. In a glnK mutant, more GlnB was found to be membrane associated under these conditions. In a glnB mutant, GlnK fails to be significantly sequestered by AmtB, even though it appears to be fully deuridylylated. Additionally, the ammonium-induced enhanced sequestration by AmtB of the unmodifiable GlnK variant GlnK-Y51F follows the wild-type GlnK pattern with a high level in the cytoplasm without the addition of ammonium and an increased level in the membrane fraction after ammonium treatment. These results suggest that factors other than PII modification are driving its association with AmtB in the membrane in R. capsulatus.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, CP 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada. Phone: (514) 343-6278. Fax: (514) 343-5701. E-mail: patrick.hallenbeck{at}umontreal.ca

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 22 June 2007.

Journal of Bacteriology, August 2007, p. 5850-5859, Vol. 189, No. 16
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00680-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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