The cytochrome bc complex (menaquinone:cytochrome c reductase) in Bacillus subtilis has a nontraditional subunit organization

Author:

Yu J1,Hederstedt L1,Piggot P J1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, USA.

Abstract

We have identified an operon in Bacillus subtilis, designated qcr, that is thought to encode a quinone: cytochrome c reductase. Northern (RNA blot) analysis suggests a tricistronic operon. The operon is located at about 200 degrees on the B. subtilis map. Disruption of the operon leads to loss of a 22-kDa cytochrome c from membrane preparations. The structure of the putative protein products of the qcr operon suggests a protein complex that is closely related to but distinct from known cytochrome bc1 and b6f complexes, which catalyze electron transfer from a quinol to a c-type cytochrome or to plastocyanin. QcrA is similar to Rieske-type iron-sulfur proteins; QcrB is similar in size and sequence to b-type cytochromes from b6f complexes; and QcrC has a novel structure that resembles a fusion of a subunit IV (found in b6f complexes) to a cytochrome c. Transcription of the operon is induced at the end of exponential growth from a sigma A-like promoter. This transition state induction appears to be dependent on the downregulation of abrB expression, which is mediated by Spo0A activation. As bacteria move from the transition state into sporulation, transcription of the operon is reduced in a sigma F-dependent manner.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

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