Manipulating nitrogen regulation in diazotrophic bacteria for agronomic benefit

The ammonium transporter AmtB and the PII signal transduction protein GlnZ are required to inhibit DraG in Azospirillum brasilense

(2019) V.R. Moure et al.   FEBS Journal

OUP accepted manuscript

(2018)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Extreme bioengineering to meet the nitrogen challenge

(2018) Stefan Burén et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New insights into the adaptive transcriptional response to nitrogen starvation in Escherichia coli

(2018) Amy Switzer et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Metabolic engineering of a diazotrophic bacterium improves ammonium release and biofertilization of plants and microalgae

(2017) Rafael Ambrosio et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

The oil-contaminated soil diazotroph Azoarcus olearius DQS-4T is genetically and phenotypically similar to the model grass endophyte Azoarcus sp. BH72

(2017) Helisson Faoro et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Biosynthesis of the Metalloclusters of Nitrogenases

(2016) Yilin Hu et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and the Challenges to Its Extension to Nonlegumes

(2016) Florence Mus et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Major cereal crops benefit from biological nitrogen fixation when inoculated with the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 X940

(2016) Ana Romina Fox et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Wheat colonization by an Azospirillum brasilense ammonium-excreting strain reveals upregulation of nitrogenase and superior plant growth promotion

(2016) K. F. D. N. Santos et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The nitrogen fix

(2016) E. Stokstad   SCIENCE

Gene Deletions Resulting in Increased Nitrogen Release by Azotobacter vinelandii: Application of a Novel Nitrogen Biosensor

(2015) Brett M. Barney et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Use of plant colonizing bacteria as chassis for transfer of N 2 -fixation to cereals

(2015) Barney A Geddes et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Sensory properties of the PIIsignalling protein family

(2015) Karl Forchhammer et al.   FEBS Journal

The Emergence of 2-Oxoglutarate as a Master Regulator Metabolite

(2015) Luciano F. Huergo et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Robust biological nitrogen fixation in a model grass-bacterial association

(2015) Vânia C. S. Pankievicz et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase: The Next Stage

(2014) Brian M. Hoffman et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Synthetic biology approaches to engineering the nitrogen symbiosis in cereals

(2014) C. Rogers et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Transcriptional Profiling of Nitrogen Fixation and the Role of NifA in the Diazotrophic Endophyte Azoarcus sp. Strain BH72

(2014) Abhijit Sarkar et al.   PLoS One

Direct observation of electrogenic NH4+transport in ammonium transport (Amt) proteins

(2014) Tobias Wacker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biotechnological solutions to the nitrogen problem

(2013) Giles ED Oldroyd et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Nitrogen Assimilation in Escherichia coli: Putting Molecular Data into a Systems Perspective

(2013) W. C. van Heeswijk et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Engineering Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 for Nitrogen Fixation and its Application to Improve Plant Growth under Nitrogen-Deficient Conditions

(2013) Lorena Setten et al.   PLoS One

Association with an Ammonium-Excreting Bacterium Allows Diazotrophic Culture of Oil-Rich Eukaryotic Microalgae

(2012) Juan Cesar Federico Ortiz-Marquez et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Nitrogenase Regulatory Enzyme Dinitrogenase Reductase ADP-Ribosyltransferase (DraT) Is Activated by Direct Interaction with the Signal Transduction Protein GlnB

(2012) Vivian R. Moure et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Role of Bacterial Enhancer Binding Proteins as Specialized Activators of  54-Dependent Transcription

(2012) M. Bush et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Comparative analyses imply that the enigmatic sigma factor 54 is a central controller of the bacterial exterior

(2011) Christof Francke et al.   BMC GENOMICS

PII signal transduction proteins: pivotal players in post-translational control of nitrogenase activity

(2011) L. F. Huergo et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

A novel regulatory role of the Rnf complex of Azoarcus sp. strain BH72

(2011) Abhijit Sarkar et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Nitrogen fixation control in Herbaspirillum seropedicae

(2011) Leda Satie Chubatsu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Crystal structure of the GlnZ-DraG complex reveals a different form of PII-target interaction

(2011) C. Rajendran et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Future Prospects for Cereals That Fix Nitrogen

(2011) P. H. Beatty et al.   SCIENCE

Reactive nitrogen in the environment and its effect on climate change

(2011) Jan Willem Erisman et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Global transcriptional analysis of nitrogen fixation and ammonium repression in root-associated Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501

(2010) Yongliang Yan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Mutagenesis and Functional Characterization of the Four Domains of GlnD, a Bifunctional Nitrogen Sensor Protein

(2010) Y. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Mechanism of Mo-Dependent Nitrogenase

(2009) Lance C. Seefeldt et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Sensation and Signaling of α-Ketoglutarate and Adenylylate Energy Charge by theEscherichia coliPII Signal Transduction Protein Require Cooperation of the Three Ligand-Binding Sites within the PII Trimer

(2009) Peng Jiang et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Wheat growth promotion through inoculation with an ammonium-excreting mutant of Azospirillum brasilense

(2009) Anne Van Dommelen et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

(2008) S. Q. Le et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An Earth-system perspective of the global nitrogen cycle

(2008) Nicolas Gruber et al.   NATURE

Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems

(2008) R. J. Diaz et al.   SCIENCE