oshimai JL-2 NirK, it is compound library possible that this glutamine residue can function as a copper-binding ligand similar to stellacyanin and azurin. The large and small subunits of nitric oxide reductase (NorB and NorC) are predicted to be co-transcribed along with nitrite reductases in T. oshimai JL-2, T. thermophilus JL-18 and T. scotoductus SA-01 (Figure 6). Figure 7 Thermus oshimai JL-2 gene Theos_1053 encodes a Copper-containing nitrite reductase. Amino acid sequences of known Cu-containing nitrite reductases from Pseudomonas aureofaciens (P. aureofaciens, GI: 287907), Achromobacter cycloclastes (A. cycloclastes … Genes encoding the 15 subunit NADH-quinone oxidoreductase [55] were identified in both genomes (Theos_0703 to 0716, 1811 in T. oshimai JL-2; TTJL18_1786 to 1799, 1580 T. thermophilus JL-18).
nrcDEFN, a four gene operon encoding a novel NADH dehydrogenase, is adjacent to the nar operon in the megaplasmid of T. thermophilus HB8 and has been previously implicated in nitrate reduction [43]. In T. thermophilus JL-18, the operon is present (Figure 6), although (TTJL18_2313) is truncated (NarE in HB8: 232 AA, in JL-18: 78 AA). In T. oshimai JL-2, only nrcN is present. Theos_0161 and Theos_0162, orthologs of Wolinella succinogenes NrfA and NrfH [56], respectively, were identified in T. oshimai JL-2 suggesting that T. oshimai JL-2 may be capable of respiratory nitrite ammonification, although this phenotype has not yet been observed in Thermus [6]. Other possible electron transport components include a ba3-type heme-copper oxidase (Theos_1499, 1498, 1497, T.
oshimai JL-2; TTJL18_0925, 0926, 0927 T. thermophilus JL-18) and bc1 complex encoded by the FbcCDFB operon [57]. (Theos_0106 to 0109, T. oshimai JL-2; TTJL18_2018 to 2021 T. thermophilus JL-18). In addition, both T. oshimai JL-2 and T. thermophilus JL-18 harbor genes for archaeal-type V0-V1 (vacuolar) type ATPases, which appears to have been acquired from Archaea prior to the divergence of the modern Thermales [58]. Genes involved in iron reduction T. scotoductus SA-01 has been reported to be capable of dissimilatory Fe3+ reduction; however, the biochemical basis of iron reduction has not been elucidated in Thermus [41,59]. Sequences of proteins involved in iron reduction [60] in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (MtrA, MtrF, OmcA) and Geobacter sulfurreducens KN400 (OmcB, OmcE, OmcS, OmcT, OmcZ) were used as search queries into Thermus genomes using BLASTP.
No hits were found in T. oshimai JL-2, T. thermophilus JL-18, or T. scotoductus SA-01. This suggests that the biochemical basis of iron reduction is distinct in Thermus compared to Shewanella and Geobacter, and offers no predictive information on whether T. oshimai JL-2 and T. thermophilus JL-18 may be able to respire iron. Genes involved in sulfur Carfilzomib oxidation A complete sox cluster comprising of 15 genes, including soxCD, is present in T. oshimai JL-2 and T.