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Bashiri R, Allen B, Shamurad B, Pabst M, Curtis TP, Ofiţeru ID. Looking for lipases and lipolytic organisms in low-temperature anaerobic reactors treating domestic wastewater. WATER RESEARCH 2022; 212:118115. [PMID: 35092910 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Revised: 12/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Poor lipid degradation limits low-temperature anaerobic treatment of domestic wastewater even when psychrophiles are used. We combined metagenomics and metaproteomics to find lipolytic bacteria and their potential, and actual, cold-adapted extracellular lipases in anaerobic membrane bioreactors treating domestic wastewater at 4 and 15 °C. Of the 40 recovered putative lipolytic metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), only three (Chlorobium, Desulfobacter, and Mycolicibacterium) were common and abundant (relative abundance ≥ 1%) in all reactors. Notably, some MAGs that represented aerobic autotrophs contained lipases. Therefore, we hypothesised that the lipases we found are not always associated with exogenous lipid degradation and can have other roles such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) accumulation/degradation and interference with the outer membranes of other bacteria. Metaproteomics did not provide sufficient proteome coverage for relatively lower abundant proteins such as lipases though the expression of fadL genes, long-chain fatty acid transporters, was confirmed for four genera (Dechloromonas, Azoarcus, Aeromonas and Sulfurimonas), none of which were recovered as putative lipolytic MAGs. Metaproteomics also confirmed the presence of 15 relatively abundant (≥ 1%) genera in all reactors, of which at least 6 can potentially accumulate lipid/polyhydroxyalkanoates. For most putative lipolytic MAGs, there was no statistically significant correlation between the read abundance and reactor conditions such as temperature, phase (biofilm and bulk liquid), and feed type (treated by ultraviolet light or not). Results obtained by metagenomics and metaproteomics did not confirm each other and extracellular lipases and lipolytic bacteria were not easily identifiable in the anaerobic membrane reactors used in this study. Further work is required to identify the true lipid degraders in these systems.
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- Reihaneh Bashiri
- School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom.
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Bennett K, Sadler NC, Wright AT, Yeager C, Hyman MR. Activity-Based Protein Profiling of Ammonia Monooxygenase in Nitrosomonas europaea. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:2270-2279. [PMID: 26826234 PMCID: PMC4959501 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03556-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2015] [Accepted: 01/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Nitrosomonas europaea is an aerobic nitrifying bacterium that oxidizes ammonia (NH3) to nitrite (NO2 (-)) through the sequential activities of ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) and hydroxylamine dehydrogenase (HAO). Many alkynes are mechanism-based inactivators of AMO, and here we describe an activity-based protein profiling method for this enzyme using 1,7-octadiyne (17OD) as a probe. Inactivation of NH4 (+)-dependent O2 uptake by N. europaea by 17OD was time- and concentration-dependent. The effects of 17OD were specific for ammonia-oxidizing activity, andde novoprotein synthesis was required to reestablish this activity after cells were exposed to 17OD. Cells were reacted with Alexa Fluor 647 azide using a copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) (click) reaction, solubilized, and analyzed by SDS-PAGE and infrared (IR) scanning. A fluorescent 28-kDa polypeptide was observed for cells previously exposed to 17OD but not for cells treated with either allylthiourea or acetylene prior to exposure to 17OD or for cells not previously exposed to 17OD. The fluorescent polypeptide was membrane associated and aggregated when heated with β-mercaptoethanol and SDS. The fluorescent polypeptide was also detected in cells pretreated with other diynes, but not in cells pretreated with structural homologs containing a single ethynyl functional group. The membrane fraction from 17OD-treated cells was conjugated with biotin-azide and solubilized in SDS. Streptavidin affinity-purified polypeptides were on-bead trypsin-digested, and amino acid sequences of the peptide fragments were determined by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis. Peptide fragments from AmoA were the predominant peptides detected in 17OD-treated samples. In-gel digestion and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-tandem time of flight (MALDI-TOF/TOF) analyses also confirmed that the fluorescent 28-kDa polypeptide was AmoA.
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- Kristen Bennett
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Gilch S, Meyer O, Schmidt I. A soluble form of ammonia monooxygenase in Nitrosomonas europaea. Biol Chem 2009; 390:863-73. [DOI: 10.1515/bc.2009.085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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AbstractAmmonia monooxygenase (AMO) ofNitrosomonas europaeais a metalloenzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of ammonia to hydroxylamine. This study shows that AMO resides in the cytoplasm of the bacteria in addition to its location in the membrane and is distributed approximately equally in both subcellular fractions. AMO in both fractions catalyzes the oxidation of ammonia and binds [14C]acetylene, a mechanism-based inhibitor which specifically interacts with catalytically active AMO. Soluble AMO was purified 12-fold to electrophoretic homogeneity with a yield of 8%. AMO has a molecular mass of approximately 283 kDa with subunits of ca. 27 kDa (α-subunit, AmoA), ca. 42 kDa (β-subunit, AmoB), and ca. 24 kDa (γ-subunit, cytochromec1) in an α3β3γ3sub-unit structure. Different from the β-subunit of membrane-bound AMO, AmoB of soluble AMO possesses an N-terminal signal sequence. AMO contains Cu (9.4±0.6 mol per mol AMO), Fe (3.9±0.3 mol per mol AMO), and Zn (0.5 to 2.6 mol per mol AMO). Upon reduction the visible absorption spectrum of AMO reveals absorption bands characteristic of cytochromec. Electron para-magnetic resonance spectroscopy of air-oxidized AMO at 50 K shows a paramagnetic signal originating from Cu2+and at 10 K a paramagnetic signal characteristic of heme-Fe.
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Ammonia oxidizing bacteria extract energy for growth from the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite. Ammonia monooxygenase, which initiates ammonia oxidation, remains enigmatic given the lack of purified preparations. Genetic and biochemical studies support a model for the enzyme consisting of three subunits and metal centers of copper and iron. Knowledge of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase, which oxidizes hydroxylamine formed by ammonia monooxygenase to nitrite, is informed by a crystal structure and detailed spectroscopic and catalytic studies. Other inorganic nitrogen compounds, including NO, N2O, NO2, and N2 can be consumed and/or produced by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. NO and N2O can be produced as byproducts of hydroxylamine oxidation or through nitrite reduction. NO2 can serve as an alternative oxidant in place of O2 in some ammonia-oxidizing strains. Our knowledge of the diversity of inorganic N metabolism by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria continues to grow. Nonetheless, many questions remain regarding the enzymes and genes involved in these processes and the role of these pathways in ammonia oxidizers.
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- Daniel J Arp
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
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Pinto EM, Soares DM, Brett CMA. Influence of ultrasound irradiation on the adsorption of bovine serum albumin on copper. J APPL ELECTROCHEM 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s10800-007-9382-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hatzakis NS, Engelkamp H, Velonia K, Hofkens J, Christianen PCM, Svendsen A, Patkar SA, Vind J, Maan JC, Rowan AE, Nolte RJM. Synthesis and single enzyme activity of a clicked lipase–BSA hetero-dimer. Chem Commun (Camb) 2006:2012-4. [PMID: 16767259 DOI: 10.1039/b516551b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Click chemistry is used to construct a novel lipase-BSA hetero-dimer, in which the latter protein acts as a foot enabling the anchoring of the enzyme onto the surface for single enzyme studies.
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- Nikos S Hatzakis
- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Shiemke AK, Arp DJ, Sayavedra-Soto LA. Inhibition of membrane-bound methane monooxygenase and ammonia monooxygenase by diphenyliodonium: implications for electron transfer. J Bacteriol 2004; 186:928-37. [PMID: 14761987 PMCID: PMC344235 DOI: 10.1128/jb.186.4.928-937.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Diphenyliodonium (DPI) is known to irreversibly inactivate flavoproteins. We have found that DPI inhibits both membrane-bound methane monooxygenase (pMMO) from Methylococcus capsulatus and ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) of Nitrosomonas europaea. The effect of DPI on NADH-dependent pMMO activity in vitro is ascribed to inactivation of NDH-2, a flavoprotein which we proposed catalyzes reduction of the quinone pool by NADH. DPI is a potent inhibitor of type 2 NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (NDH-2), with 50% inhibition occurring at approximately 5 micro M. Inhibition of NDH-2 is irreversible and requires NADH. Inhibition of NADH-dependent pMMO activity by DPI in vitro is concomitant with inhibition of NDH-2, consistent with our proposal that NDH-2 mediates reduction of pMMO. Unexpectedly, DPI also inhibits pMMO activity driven by exogenous hydroquinols, but with approximately 100 micro M DPI required to achieve 50% inhibition. Similar concentrations of DPI are required to inhibit formate-, formaldehyde-, and hydroquinol-driven pMMO activities in whole cells. The pMMO activity in DPI-treated cells greatly exceeds the activity of NDH-2 or pMMO in membranes isolated from those cells, suggesting that electron transfer from formate to pMMO in vivo can occur independent of NADH and NDH-2. AMO activity, which is known to be independent of NADH, is affected by DPI in a manner analogous to pMMO in vivo: approximately 100 micro M is required for 50% inhibition regardless of the nature of the reducing agent. DPI does not affect hydroxylamine oxidoreductase activity and does not require AMO turnover to exert its inhibitory effect. Implications of these data for the electron transfer pathway from the quinone pool to pMMO and AMO are discussed.
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- Andrew K Shiemke
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-9142, USA.
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Keener WK, Russell SA, Arp DJ. Kinetic characterization of the inactivation of ammonia monooxygenase in Nitrosomonas europaea by alkyne, aniline and cyclopropane derivatives. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1388:373-85. [PMID: 9858770 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(98)00188-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The kinetic mechanisms of seven inactivators of ammonia oxidation activity in cells of the nitrifying bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea were investigated. The effects of the inactivators were specific for ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) which oxidizes ammonia to hydroxylamine. The aniline derivatives, 1,3-phenylenediamine and p-anisidine, were potent inactivators of AMO while other derivatives were ineffective as inactivators. Two cyclopropane derivatives, 1, 2-dimethylcyclopropane and cyclopropyl bromide, were inactivators while cyclopropane was not an inactivator. The mechanisms of three alkynes, 1-hexyne, 3-hexyne, and acetylene, were also examined. For all seven compounds, the inactivation of AMO was irreversible, time-dependent, first-order, and dependent on catalytic turnover. Saturation of the rate of inactivation was indicated for p-anisidine (kinact=2.85 min-1; KI=1.0 mM) and cyclopropyl bromide (kinact=4.4 min-1; KI=97 microM), but not for any of the remaining five inactivators, including acetylene. Ammonia slowed the rate of inactivation for acetylene and cyclopropyl bromide, but enhanced the rate of inactivation for the remaining inactivators. All seven compounds appear to be mechanism-based inactivators of AMO.
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- W K Keener
- Laboratory for Nitrogen Fixation Research, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, 2082 Cordley, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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