GENETIC-ANALYSIS OF THE MARINE MANGANESE-OXIDIZING BACILLUS SP STRAIN SG-1 - PROTOPLAST TRANSFORMATION, TN917 MUTAGENESIS, AND IDENTIFICATION OF CHROMOSOMAL LOCI INVOLVED IN MANGANESE OXIDATION

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VANWAASBERGEN, LG
HOCH, JA
TEBO, BM
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[1] UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO, SCRIPPS INST OCEANOG, DIV MARINE BIOL RES, LA JOLLA, CA 92093 USA
[2] Scripps Res Inst, RES INST, DEPT MOLEC & EXPTL MED, DIV CELLULAR BIOL, LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA
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10.1128/JB.175.23.7594-7603.1993
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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Mature spores of the marine Bacillus sp. strain SG-1 bind and oxidize manganese(II), thereby becoming encrusted with a manganese(IV) oxide. Both the function and mechanism of this oxidation are unknown, although evidence suggests that spore coat proteins are involved. To further study this phenomenon, methods of genetic analysis were developed for SG-1. By a modified protoplast transformation procedure, SG-1 was transformed (approximate to 100 transformants per mu g of DNA) with several different plasmids of gram-positive origin. Transposon Tn917, delivered on the temperature-sensitive plasmid pLTV1, was used to generate mutants of SG-1. Conditions were established that allowed 98% plasmid loss and insertions to be recovered at a frequency of 10(-3). Each mutant was found to be the result of a single insertion event. Restriction analysis of 27 mutants that do not oxidize manganese but still sporulate localized 17 of the insertions within two regions of the chromosome (termed Mnx regions), and a physical map of these regions was generated. Analysis of 18 transposon integrants in which manganese oxidation was unaffected revealed random transposon integration, with none of their insertions mapping within the Mnx regions. The Mnx regions were cloned from wild-type SG-1, and the largest region, carried on the lactococcal plasmid pGK13, was used to complement in trans one of the nonoxidizing mutants. These results demonstrate that the Mnx regions encode factors that are required for the oxidation of manganese, and this represents the first report identifying genes involved in bacterial manganese oxidation.
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