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Selenite reduction in Rhodobacter sphaeroides f. sp. denitrificans was observed under photosynthetic conditions, following a 100-h lag period. This adaptation period was suppressed if the medium was inoculated with a culture previously grown in the presence of selenite, suggesting that selenite reduction involves an inducible enzymatic pathway. A transposon library was screened to isolate mutants affected in selenite reduction. Of the eight mutants isolated, two were affected in molybdenum cofactor synthesis. These moaA and mogA mutants showed an increased duration of the lag phase and a decreased rate of selenite reduction. When grown in the presence of tungstate, a well-known molybdenum-dependent enzyme (molybdoenzyme) inhibitor, the wild-type strain displayed the same phenotype. The addition of tungstate in the medium or the inactivation of the molybdocofactor synthesis induced a decrease of 40% in the rate of selenite reduction. These results suggest that several pathways are involved and that one of them involves a molybdoenzyme. Although addition of nitrate or dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to the medium increased the selenite reduction activity of the culture, neither the periplasmic nitrate reductase NAP nor the DMSO reductase is the implicated molybdoenzyme, since the napA and dmsA mutants, with expression of nitrate reductase and DMSO reductase, respectively, eliminated, were not affected by selenite reduction. A role for the biotine sulfoxide reductase, another characterized molybdoenzyme, is unlikely, since its overexpression in a defective strain did not restore the selenite reduction activity.

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Genetic and Biochemical Evidence for the Involvement of a Molybdenum-Dependent Enzyme in One of the Selenite Reduction Pathways of<i>Rhodobacter sphaeroides</i>f. sp.<i>denitrificans</i>IL106

Genetic and Biochemical Evidence for the Involvement of a Molybdenum-Dependent Enzyme in One of the Selenite Reduction Pathways ofRhodobacter sphaeroidesf. sp.denitrificansIL106