Physical Map Location of the Multicopy Genes Coding for Ammonia Monooxygenase and Hydroxylamine Oxidoreductase in the Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterium Nitrosomonas sp. Strain ENI-11

AUTOR(ES)

Hirota, Ryuichi

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of PmeI digests of the Nitrosomonas sp. strain ENI-11 chromosome produced four bands ranging from 1,200 to 480 kb in size. Southern hybridizations suggested that a 487-kb PmeI fragment contained two copies of the amoCAB genes, coding for ammonia monooxygenase (designated amoCAB1 and amoCAB2), and three copies of the hao gene, coding for hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (hao1, hao2, and hao3). In this DNA fragment, amoCAB1 and amoCAB2 were about 390 kb apart, while hao1, hao2, and hao3 were separated by at least about 100 kb from each other. Interestingly, hao1 and hao2 were located relatively close to amoCAB1 and amoCAB2, respectively. DNA sequence analysis revealed that hao1 and hao2 shared 160 identical nucleotides immediately upstream of each translation initiation codon. However, hao3 showed only 30% nucleotide identity in the 160-bp corresponding region.

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