Transcriptional control of nitric oxide reductase gene (CYP55) in the fungal denitrifier Fusarium oxysporum
2002
Takaya, N. (Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki (Japan). Inst. of Applied Biochemistry) | Uchimura, H. | Lai, Y. | Shoun, H.
Fungal denitrification is a dissimilating metabolic mechanism for nitrate and was first described in Fusarium oxysporum. Here we investigated regulatory systems of expression of CYP55, which encodes cytochrome P450 (P450nor) and is essential for the fungal denitrification. Promoter-reporter analysis of F. oxysporum CYP55 using Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase showed that the region between nucleotides -526 and -515 was critical for induction by nitrate. It contained a nucleotide sequence similar to the binding consensus sequence of the pathway-specific transcriptional factor NirA, which induces expression of the nitrate-assimilatory genes of Aspergillus nidulans in the presence of nitrate. This indicates that expression of the nitrate dissimilatory gene (CYP55) is concomitantly regulated with the nitrate-assimilatory genes. The deletion studies also indicated that the nucleotide sequence between -118 and -107, which was similar to the binding consensus of the yeast Roxlp, which represses the anoxic genes under aerobic conditions, was responsible for repression of CYP55 under aerobic conditions. These results indicate that the fungus adapts to the denitrifying conditions by a combination of NirA- and Rox1-like transcription factors.
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