Regulated Operon: nasBCDEF

Genes
Genes Synonyms Direction Genome position Function COG ID Genus clusters
nasB nasBA - 360002..362314 assimilatory nitrate reductase (electron transfer subunit) COG1251  
nasC narB, nasBB - 357863..359995 assimilatory nitrate reductase (catalytic subunit) COG0243  
nasD nasBC, nirB - 355324..357741 assimilatory nitrite reductase (subunit) COG1251 nirB-BAC  
nasE nasBD, nirD - 354972..355292 assimilatory nitrite reductase (subunit) COG2146  
nasF nasBE - 353460..354911 uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase COG1587  

Operon evidence: Northern blotting (9.2 kb transcript)
Reference: Nakano MM, et al. (1995), Nakano MM, et al. (1998), Yoshida K, et al. (2003)
Comments: The internal promoter in front of nasD leads to a 4.5 kb transcript


Promoters

Binding
factor
Regulation Location Absolute position Binding seq.(cis-element) Experimental evidence
GlnR Negative -58:-42 362395..362413 GTGTAAGTTTTTGTGACAC Nakano MM, et al. (1995): DP SDM
SigA Promoter -49:+17 362338..362403 TTGTGACACGTTTAATGCGTTAACAATGCATTGTGACATAATTTTTAATAGGAGAAAACTTACGAG Nakano MM, et al. (1995): PE
TnrA Positive -58:-42 362395..362413 GTGTAAGTTTTTGTGACAC Nakano MM, et al. (1995): DP SDM
Yoshida K, et al. (2003): AR HM GS
ResD Positive -83:-39 357811..357854 TAAAATTTTTAGAACTTTTCGTATATTTTGTTACATTTTATAAC Nakano MM, et al. (1998): DB
Nakano MM, et al. (2001): RG
unknown Promoter -50:+6 357766..357821 CATTTTATAACATGTATCTTAAATATTCCTTTTTGCTGTGCTACGCTGGAAAAAAC Nakano MM, et al. (1998): PE RG
TnrA Positive -55:-39 357810..357826 TGTTACATTTTATAACA Nakano MM, et al. (1998): RG DB
Yoshida K, et al. (2003): AR HM GS
ArfM Positive ND ND ND Marino M, et al. (2001): RG DB
NsrR Negative ND ND ND Nakano MM, et al. (2006): RG
Fur Negative ND 355293..355342 TGTCGTGACCACATCATAATGACAAAAACTATCATTGAGGAGGAATGGAC Baichoo N, et al. (2002): FT

Terminator

Terminator sequence Absolute position Position from stop codon Free energy
[kcal/mol]
Downstream of
GCAAGCAGCCCTTTTCCTCAAGGGCTGTTTTATTTATGCACC
     >>>>>>>>      <<<<<<<<
353431..353452
8..29
-13.7
nasF

Overview



Upper Region






Copyright: Human Genome Center, Inst. Med. Sci., Univ. Tokyo; 1999-2006
Contact: Kenta Nakai