FIGURE 8.
Gene clusters determining hydrogenogenic carboxydotrophy in Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans and Carboxydocella thermautotrophica strains 41T and 019. cooA: gene of redox- and CO-sensitive transcriptional regulator; cooS (red horizontal arrow): [Ni,Fe]-CODH gene; cooC: gene of [Ni,Fe]-CODH accessory nickel-insertion protein; cooMKLXUH: genes of energy-converting hydrogenase (ECH); hypA: gene of hydrogenase maturation protein; cooF: gene of ferredoxin-like protein; cooH (blue horizontal arrow): gene of ECH catalytic subunit. Red vertical arrows show locations of CooA-binding sites. The locus tags for the gene clusters are CHY_1835-1824, CTH_0165-0177, and CFE_0162-0174. Note that the exact role of the upstream ‘enigmatic’ cooSC operon (CTH_0166-167 and CFE_0163-0164) in carboxydocellas remains unclear (refer to the text for details).