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Wei X, Lyu S, Yu Y, Wang Z, Liu H, Pan D, Chen J. Phylloremediation of Air Pollutants: Exploiting the Potential of Plant Leaves and Leaf-Associated Microbes. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:1318. [PMID: 28804491 PMCID: PMC5532450 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2017] [Accepted: 07/12/2017] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Air pollution is air contaminated by anthropogenic or naturally occurring substances in high concentrations for a prolonged time, resulting in adverse effects on human comfort and health as well as on ecosystems. Major air pollutants include particulate matters (PMs), ground-level ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxides (NO2), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). During the last three decades, air has become increasingly polluted in countries like China and India due to rapid economic growth accompanied by increased energy consumption. Various policies, regulations, and technologies have been brought together for remediation of air pollution, but the air still remains polluted. In this review, we direct attention to bioremediation of air pollutants by exploiting the potentials of plant leaves and leaf-associated microbes. The aerial surfaces of plants, particularly leaves, are estimated to sum up to 4 × 108 km2 on the earth and are also home for up to 1026 bacterial cells. Plant leaves are able to adsorb or absorb air pollutants, and habituated microbes on leaf surface and in leaves (endophytes) are reported to be able to biodegrade or transform pollutants into less or nontoxic molecules, but their potentials for air remediation has been largely unexplored. With advances in omics technologies, molecular mechanisms underlying plant leaves and leaf associated microbes in reduction of air pollutants will be deeply examined, which will provide theoretical bases for developing leaf-based remediation technologies or phylloremediation for mitigating pollutants in the air.
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- Xiangying Wei
- Fujian Univeristy Key Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interaction, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
- Department of Environmental Horticulture and Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of FloridaApopka, FL, United States
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- Department of Environmental Horticulture and Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of FloridaApopka, FL, United States
- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- Fujian Univeristy Key Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interaction, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- Fujian Univeristy Key Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interaction, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
- College of Resource and Environmental Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- Fujian Univeristy Key Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interaction, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
- Department of Environmental Horticulture and Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of FloridaApopka, FL, United States
- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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Pérez-Pantoja D, De la Iglesia R, Pieper DH, González B. Metabolic reconstruction of aromatic compounds degradation from the genome of the amazing pollutant-degrading bacteriumCupriavidus necatorJMP134. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2008; 32:736-94. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00122.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Ling H, Wang G, Tian Y, Liu G, Tan H. SanM catalyzes the formation of 4-pyridyl-2-oxo-4-hydroxyisovalerate in nikkomycin biosynthesis by interacting with SanN. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 361:196-201. [PMID: 17659257 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2007] [Accepted: 07/04/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nikkomycins are peptidyl nucleoside antibiotics with potent activities against phytopathogenic and human pathogenic fungi. The sanM and sanN genes are required for the nikkomycin biosynthesis of Streptomyces ansochromogenes. In the present study, interaction between SanM and SanN was identified by yeast two-hybrid and co-immunoprecipitation assays. Moreover, SanM and SanN were heterologously expressed and purified. Further biochemical assay demonstrated that the SanM-SanN interaction is essential for SanM aldolase activity but not for SanN dehydrogenase activity. SanM converts piconaldehyde and 2-oxobutyrate to 4-pyridyl-2-oxo-4-hydroxyisovalerate in nikkomycin biosynthesis by interacting with SanN. Steady state kinetics analysis revealed that K(m) and k(cat)/K(m) of SanM are 123.2 microM and 11.4 mM(-1)s(-1) for picolinaldehyde, while 335.6 microM and 4.0 mM(-1)s(-1) for 2-oxobutyrate, respectively. However, SanN as a dehydrogenase is independent of SanM.
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- Hongbo Ling
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Brim H, Osborne JP, Kostandarithes HM, Fredrickson JK, Wackett LP, Daly MJ. Deinococcus radiodurans engineered for complete toluene degradation facilitates Cr(VI) reduction. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2006; 152:2469-2477. [PMID: 16849809 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29009-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Toluene and other fuel hydrocarbons are commonly found in association with radionuclides at numerous US Department of Energy sites, frequently occurring together with Cr(VI) and other heavy metals. In this study, the extremely radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans, which naturally reduces Cr(VI) to the less mobile and less toxic Cr(III), was engineered for complete toluene degradation by cloned expression of tod and xyl genes of Pseudomonas putida. The recombinant Tod/Xyl strain showed incorporation of carbon from 14C-labelled toluene into cellular macromolecules and carbon dioxide, in the absence or presence of chronic ionizing radiation. The engineered bacteria were able to oxidize toluene under both minimal and complex nutrient conditions, and recombinant cells reduced Cr(VI) in sediment microcosms. As such, the Tod/Xyl strain could provide a model for examining the reduction of metals coupled to organic contaminant oxidation in aerobic radionuclide-contaminated sediments.
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- Hassan Brim
- Department of Microbiology and Cancer Center, Howard University, 2041 Georgia Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20060, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Manchester College, North Manchester, IN 46962, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences(USUHS), Rm B3153, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
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Ferrero M, Llobet-Brossa E, Lalucat J, García-Valdés E, Rosselló-Mora R, Bosch R. Coexistence of two distinct copies of naphthalene degradation genes in Pseudomonas strains isolated from the western Mediterranean region. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:957-62. [PMID: 11823244 PMCID: PMC126682 DOI: 10.1128/aem.68.2.957-962.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We analyzed the occurrence of the naphthalene degradation upper-pathway (nah) genes in the western Mediterranean region. The amplification, restriction, and sequence analysis of internal fragments for several nah genes (nahAc, nahB, nahC, and nahE) from naphthalene-degrading strains isolated from this geographical area proved the coexistence of two distinct sets of nah genes.
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- Marcela Ferrero
- Departament de Biologia, Microbiologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, and Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), Carretera Valldemossa, E-07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Sentchilo VS, Perebituk AN, Zehnder AJ, van der Meer JR. Molecular diversity of plasmids bearing genes that encode toluene and xylene metabolism in Pseudomonas strains isolated from different contaminated sites in Belarus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2000; 66:2842-52. [PMID: 10877777 PMCID: PMC92082 DOI: 10.1128/aem.66.7.2842-2852.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Twenty different Pseudomonas strains utilizing m-toluate were isolated from oil-contaminated soil samples near Minsk, Belarus. Seventeen of these isolates carried plasmids ranging in size from 78 to about 200 kb (assigned pSVS plasmids) and encoding the meta cleavage pathway for toluene metabolism. Most plasmids were conjugative but of unknown incompatibility groups, except for one, which belonged to the IncP9 group. The organization of the genes for toluene catabolism was determined by restriction analysis and hybridization with xyl gene probes of pWW0. The majority of the plasmids carried xyl-type genes highly homologous to those of pWW53 and organized in a similar manner (M. T. Gallegos, P. A. Williams, and J. L. Ramos, J. Bacteriol. 179:5024-5029, 1997), with two distinguishable meta pathway operons, one upper pathway operon, and three xylS-homologous regions. All of these plasmids also possessed large areas of homologous DNA outside the catabolic genes, suggesting a common ancestry. Two other pSVS plasmids carried only one meta pathway operon, one upper pathway operon, and one copy each of xylS and xylR. The backbones of these two plasmids differed greatly from those of the others. Whereas these parts of the plasmids, carrying the xyl genes, were mostly conserved between plasmids of each group, the noncatabolic parts had undergone intensive DNA rearrangements. DNA sequencing of specific regions near and within the xylTE and xylA genes of the pSVS plasmids confirmed the strong homologies to the xyl genes of pWW53 and pWW0. However, several recombinations were discovered within the upper pathway operons of the pSVS plasmids and pWW0. The main genetic mechanisms which are thought to have resulted in the present-day configuration of the xyl operons are discussed in light of the diversity analysis carried out on the pSVS plasmids.
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- V S Sentchilo
- Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
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Bosch R, García-Valdés E, Moore ER. Complete nucleotide sequence and evolutionary significance of a chromosomally encoded naphthalene-degradation lower pathway from Pseudomonas stutzeri AN10. Gene 2000; 245:65-74. [PMID: 10713446 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(00)00038-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Pseudomonas stutzeri strain AN10 is a naphthalene-degrading strain whose dissimilatory genes are chromosomally encoded. We sequenced the entire naphthalene-degradation lower pathway of P. stutzeri AN10, this being, together with the upper-pathway reported previously (Bosch R. et al., 1999a. Gene 236, 149-157) the first complete DNA sequence for an entire naphthalene-catabolic pathway. Eleven open reading frames were identified. The nahGTHINLOMKJ genes encode enzymes for the metabolism of salicylate to pyruvate and acetyl-CoA, and nahR encodes the NahR regulatory protein. Our findings suggest that catabolic modules were recruited through transposition events and recombination among tnpA-like genes, and subsequent rearrangements and deletions of non-essential DNA fragments allowed the formation of the actual catabolic pathway. Our results also suggest that the genes encoding the xylene/toluene-degradation enzymes of P. putida mt-2 (pWW0) have coexisted with the nah genes of the P. stutzeri AN10 ancestral genome. This could allow the selection, via recombination events among homologous genes, for a combination of genes enabling the metabolism of a given aromatic compound in the ancestral host strain. Such events accelerate the evolution of modern catabolic pathways and provide new genetic material to the environment, ultimately resulting in improved, natural, bioremediation potential.
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- R Bosch
- Departament de Biologia, Microbiologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, and Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), 07071, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Bosch R, García-Valdés E, Moore ER. Genetic characterization and evolutionary implications of a chromosomally encoded naphthalene-degradation upper pathway from Pseudomonas stutzeri AN10. Gene 1999; 236:149-57. [PMID: 10433976 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(99)00241-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Pseudomonas stutzeri strain AN10 is a naphthalene-degrading strain whose dissimilatory genes are chromosomally encoded. We sequenced a total of 11514bp including the entire naphthalene-degradation upper pathway (nah) of P. stutzeri AN10. Nine open reading frames, nahAaAbAcAdBFCED, encoding the enzymes for the degradation of naphthalene to salicylate, were identified. The nah genes of P. stutzeri AN10 have been compared with genes encoding isofunctional proteins from other Pseudomonas naphthalene-degradation upper pathways. The implications of the sequence homologies to the evolution of aromatic catabolic pathways are discussed. Our findings indicate that this entire catabolic module of P. stutzeri AN10 was recruited from other microorganisms and a short period of time has elapsed after its incorporation within the P. stutzeri AN10 genome. Comparisons also suggest the coexistence of two entire nah upper pathways in a host strain, and further recombination between them. These events could accelerate the evolution of modern catabolic pathways.
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- R Bosch
- Departament de Biologia, Microbiologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, and Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), E-07071, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
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