title: The NodL and NodJ proteins from Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium strains are similar to capsular polysaccharide secretion proteins from gram-negative bacteria.
abstract: The NodL and NodJ nodulation proteins have been described in different Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium species. The nodLJ genes belong to the nod regulon. Other genes from this regulon are involved in the biosynthesis and modification of lipo-oligosaccharide molecule(s) which are morphogenic signals when acting on legume roots. It has been proposed that the NodL and NodJ proteins belong to a bacterial inner membrane transport system of small molecules. Nucleotide sequencing of Mudll PR13 insertions in the nodulation region of the symbiotic plasmid from a Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. phaseoli strain CE3 has revealed the presence of nodL and nodJ-related sequences downstream of nodC. Computer nucleotide sequence analysis of the entire NodL and NodJ sequences from R. leguminosarum bv. viciae and Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains show that both proteins are similar to the KpsT and KpsM proteins from Escherichia coli K1 and K5 strains, to the BexB and BexA proteins from Haemophilis influenzae and to the CtrD and CtrC proteins from Neisseria meningitidis, respectively. Except for the NodL and NodJ proteins, all of them have been involved in the mechanism of secretion of polysaccharides in each of their harbouring species. On the basis of the similarity found, we propose that the NodL and the NodJ proteins could be involved in the export of a lipo-oligosaccharide.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,Cuernavaca, Morelos.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vázquez
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Santana
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Quinto
mesh_terms: D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D001483:Base Sequence; D001692:Biological Transport; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial / Q000378:metabolism*; D012230:Rhizobiaceae / Q000737:chemistry*; D012231:Rhizobium / Q000737:chemistry*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; C068021:MalK protein, Bacteria; C489398:MalK protein, E coli; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial; C065618:nodI protein, Bacteria; C068101:bexA protein, Haemophilus influenzae; C068104:kpsM protein, E coli; C068103:kpsT protein, E coli; C068102:bexB protein, Haemophilus influenzae; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate