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Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 11 1995, 3992-3997, Vol 61, No. 11
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Rhizobium tropici chromosomal citrate synthase gene

I Hernandez-Lucas, MA Pardo, L Segovia, J Miranda and E Martinez-Romero
Departamento de Genetica Molecular, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

Two genes encoding citrate synthase, a key enzyme in the Krebs cycle, have been found in Rhizobium tropici. One of them is in the bacterial chromosome, while the other is in the symbiotic plasmid. We sequenced the chromosomal gene and found that it is very similar to the previously reported plasmidic gene sequence in its structural region but not in its regulatory region. The chromosomal gene is able to complement an Escherichia coli citrate synthase mutant. In R. tropici, a mutant in the chromosomal citrate synthase gene has a diminished citrate synthase activity (in free-living bacteria), a diminished nodulation capacity, and forms nitrogen-fixing nodules. In contrast, the citrate synthase double mutant forms ineffective nodules devoid of bacteroids and forms less nodules than the single chromosomal mutant. It is inferred that both genes are functional and required during the nodulation process in R. tropici.


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