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Moriuchi R, Dohra H, Kanesaki Y, Ogawa N. Complete Genome Sequence of 3-Chlorobenzoate-Degrading Bacterium Cupriavidus necator NH9 and Reclassification of the Strains of the Genera Cupriavidus and Ralstonia Based on Phylogenetic and Whole-Genome Sequence Analyses. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:133. [PMID: 30809202 PMCID: PMC6379261 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Cupriavidus necator NH9, a 3-chlorobenzoate (3-CB)-degrading bacterium, was isolated from soil in Japan. In this study, the complete genome sequence of NH9 was obtained via PacBio long-read sequencing to better understand the genetic components contributing to the strain's ability to degrade aromatic compounds, including 3-CB. The genome of NH9 comprised two circular chromosomes (4.3 and 3.4 Mb) and two circular plasmids (427 and 77 kb) containing 7,290 coding sequences, 15 rRNA and 68 tRNA genes. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway analysis of the protein-coding sequences in NH9 revealed a capacity to completely degrade benzoate, 2-, 3-, or 4-hydroxybenzoate, 2,3-, 2,5-, or 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate, benzoylformate, and benzonitrile. To validate the identification of NH9, phylogenetic analyses (16S rRNA sequence-based tree and multilocus sequence analysis) and whole-genome sequence analyses (average nucleotide identity, percentage of conserved proteins, and tetra-nucleotide analyses) were performed, confirming that NH9 is a C. necator strain. Over the course of our investigation, we noticed inconsistencies in the classification of several strains that were supposed to belong to the two closely-related genera Cupriavidus and Ralstonia. As a result of whole-genome sequence analysis of 46 Cupriavidus strains and 104 Ralstonia strains, we propose that the taxonomic classification of 41 of the 150 strains should be changed. Our results provide a clear delineation of the two genera based on genome sequences, thus allowing taxonomic identification of strains belonging to these two genera.
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- Ryota Moriuchi
- Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan.,The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
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- Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan
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- The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan.,Graduate School of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan
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Porter JL, Boon PLS, Murray TP, Huber T, Collyer CA, Ollis DL. Directed evolution of new and improved enzyme functions using an evolutionary intermediate and multidirectional search. ACS Chem Biol 2015; 10:611-21. [PMID: 25419863 DOI: 10.1021/cb500809f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The ease with which enzymes can be adapted from their native roles and engineered to function specifically for industrial or commercial applications is crucial to enabling enzyme technology to advance beyond its current state. Directed evolution is a powerful tool for engineering enzymes with improved physical and catalytic properties and can be used to evolve enzymes where lack of structural information may thwart the use of rational design. In this study, we take the versatile and diverse α/β hydrolase fold framework, in the form of dienelactone hydrolase, and evolve it over three unique sequential evolutions with a total of 14 rounds of screening to generate a series of enzyme variants. The native enzyme has a low level of promiscuous activity toward p-nitrophenyl acetate but almost undetectable activity toward larger p-nitrophenyl esters. Using p-nitrophenyl acetate as an evolutionary intermediate, we have generated variants with altered specificity and catalytic activity up to 3 orders of magnitude higher than the native enzyme toward the larger nonphysiological p-nitrophenyl ester substrates. Several variants also possess increased stability resulting from the multidimensional approach to screening. Crystal structure analysis and substrate docking show how the enzyme active site changes over the course of the evolutions as either a direct or an indirect result of mutations.
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- Joanne L. Porter
- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- School
of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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Analysis of Two Gene Clusters Involved in 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol Degradation byRalstonia pickettiiDTP0602. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2014; 76:892-9. [DOI: 10.1271/bbb.110843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Jiang XW, Liu H, Xu Y, Wang SJ, Leak DJ, Zhou NY. Genetic and biochemical analyses of chlorobenzene degradation gene clusters in Pandoraea sp. strain MCB032. Arch Microbiol 2009; 191:485-92. [DOI: 10.1007/s00203-009-0476-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2008] [Revised: 03/09/2009] [Accepted: 03/27/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Fujii T, Goda Y, Yoshida M, Oikawa T, Hata Y. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of maleylacetate reductase from Rhizobium sp. strain MTP-10005. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2008; 64:737-9. [PMID: 18678945 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309108022537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2008] [Accepted: 07/18/2008] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Maleylacetate reductase (EC 1.3.1.32), which catalyzes the reduction of maleylacetate to 3-oxoadipate, plays an important role in the aerobic microbial catabolism of resorcinol. The enzyme has been crystallized at 293 K by the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method supplemented with a microseeding technique, using ammonium sulfate as the precipitating agent. The crystal belonged to the monoclinic space group C2, with unit-cell parameters a = 56.85, b = 121.13, c = 94.09 A, beta = 101.48 degrees , and contained one dimeric molecule in the asymmetric unit. It diffracted to 1.79 A resolution.
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- Tomomi Fujii
- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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Chain PSG, Denef VJ, Konstantinidis KT, Vergez LM, Agulló L, Reyes VL, Hauser L, Córdova M, Gómez L, González M, Land M, Lao V, Larimer F, LiPuma JJ, Mahenthiralingam E, Malfatti SA, Marx CJ, Parnell JJ, Ramette A, Richardson P, Seeger M, Smith D, Spilker T, Sul WJ, Tsoi TV, Ulrich LE, Zhulin IB, Tiedje JM. Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 harbors a multi-replicon, 9.73-Mbp genome shaped for versatility. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:15280-7. [PMID: 17030797 PMCID: PMC1622818 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0606924103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 252] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 (LB400), a well studied, effective polychlorinated biphenyl-degrader, has one of the two largest known bacterial genomes and is the first nonpathogenic Burkholderia isolate sequenced. From an evolutionary perspective, we find significant differences in functional specialization between the three replicons of LB400, as well as a more relaxed selective pressure for genes located on the two smaller vs. the largest replicon. High genomic plasticity, diversity, and specialization within the Burkholderia genus are exemplified by the conservation of only 44% of the genes between LB400 and Burkholderia cepacia complex strain 383. Even among four B. xenovorans strains, genome size varies from 7.4 to 9.73 Mbp. The latter is largely explained by our findings that >20% of the LB400 sequence was recently acquired by means of lateral gene transfer. Although a range of genetic factors associated with in vivo survival and intercellular interactions are present, these genetic factors are likely related to niche breadth rather than determinants of pathogenicity. The presence of at least eleven "central aromatic" and twenty "peripheral aromatic" pathways in LB400, among the highest in any sequenced bacterial genome, supports this hypothesis. Finally, in addition to the experimentally observed redundancy in benzoate degradation and formaldehyde oxidation pathways, the fact that 17.6% of proteins have a better LB400 paralog than an ortholog in a different genome highlights the importance of gene duplication and repeated acquirement, which, coupled with their divergence, raises questions regarding the role of paralogs and potential functional redundancies in large-genome microbes.
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- Patrick S. G. Chain
- Biosciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550
- Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
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- Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
- Department of Bioscience Engineering, Universiteit Gent, 9000 Gent, Belgium
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; and
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- Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachussets Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02139
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- Biosciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550
- Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
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- Nucleus Millennium of Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Nucleus Millennium of Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile
- Departamento de Ciencias y Recursos Naturales, Universidad de Magallanes, Casilla 113-D, Punta Arenas, Chile
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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- Nucleus Millennium of Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Nucleus Millennium of Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Nucleus Millennium of Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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- Biosciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Biosciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550
- Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
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- Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
- Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Nucleus Millennium of Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
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- Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
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- Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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- Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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- Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
- To whom correspondence should be addressed at:
Center for Microbial Ecology, 540E Plant and Soil Sciences Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824. E-mail:
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Seibert V, Thiel M, Hinner IS, Schlömann M. Characterization of a gene cluster encoding the maleylacetate reductase from Ralstonia eutropha 335T, an enzyme recruited for growth with 4-fluorobenzoate. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2004; 150:463-472. [PMID: 14766925 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26602-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A gene cluster containing a gene for maleylacetate reductase (EC 1.3.1.32) was cloned from Ralstonia eutropha 335(T) (DSM 531(T)), which is able to utilize 4-fluorobenzoate as sole carbon source. Sequencing of this gene cluster showed that the R. eutropha 335(T) maleylacetate reductase gene, macA, is part of a novel gene cluster, which is not related to the known maleylacetate-reductase-encoding gene clusters. It otherwise comprises a gene for a hypothetical membrane transport protein, macB, possibly co-transcribed with macA, and a presumed regulatory gene, macR, which is divergently transcribed from macBA. MacA was found to be most closely related to TftE, the maleylacetate reductase from Burkholderia cepacia AC1100 (62 % identical positions) and to a presumed maleylacetate reductase from a dinitrotoluene catabolic gene cluster from B. cepacia R34 (61 % identical positions). By expressing macA in Escherichia coli, it was confirmed that macA encodes a functional maleylacetate reductase. Purification of maleylacetate reductase from 4-fluorobenzoate-grown R. eutropha 335(T) cells allowed determination of the N-terminal sequence of the purified protein, which was shown to be identical to that predicted from the cloned macA gene, thus proving that the gene is, in fact, recruited for growth of R. eutropha 335(T) with this substrate.
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- Volker Seibert
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Interdisziplinäres Ökologisches Zentrum, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Leipziger Str. 29, D-09599 Freiberg, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Interdisziplinäres Ökologisches Zentrum, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Leipziger Str. 29, D-09599 Freiberg, Germany
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Ogawa N, Miyashita K, Chakrabarty AM. Microbial genes and enzymes in the degradation of chlorinated compounds. CHEM REC 2003; 3:158-71. [PMID: 12900936 DOI: 10.1002/tcr.10059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Microorganisms are well known for degrading numerous natural compounds. The synthesis of a multitude of chlorinated compounds by the chemical industry and their release into the natural environment have created major pollution problems. Part of the cause of such pollution is the inability of natural microorganisms to efficiently degrade synthetic chlorinated compounds. Microorganisms are, however, highly adaptable to changes in the environment and have consequently evolved the genes that specify the degradation of chlorinated compounds to varying degrees. Highly selective laboratory techniques have also enabled the isolation of microbial strains capable of utilizing normally recalcitrant highly chlorinated compounds as their sole source of carbon and energy. The evolution and role of microbial genes and enzymes, as well as their mode of regulation and genetic interrelationships, have therefore been the subjects of intense study. This review emphasizes the genetic organization and the regulation of gene expression, as well as evolutionary considerations, regarding the microbial degradation of chlorobenzoates, chlorocatechols, and chlorophenoxyacetic acids.
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- Naoto Ogawa
- National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, 3-1-3 Kan-nondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan.
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Johnson GR, Jain RK, Spain JC. Origins of the 2,4-dinitrotoluene pathway. J Bacteriol 2002; 184:4219-32. [PMID: 12107140 PMCID: PMC135200 DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.15.4219-4232.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2002] [Accepted: 05/06/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The degradation of synthetic compounds requires bacteria to recruit and adapt enzymes from pathways for naturally occurring compounds. Previous work defined the steps in 2,4-dinitrotoluene (2,4-DNT) metabolism through the ring fission reaction. The results presented here characterize subsequent steps in the pathway that yield the central metabolic intermediates pyruvate and propionyl coenzyme A (CoA). The genes encoding the degradative pathway were identified within a 27-kb region of DNA cloned from Burkholderia cepacia R34, a strain that grows using 2,4-DNT as a sole carbon, energy, and nitrogen source. Genes for the lower pathway in 2,4-DNT degradation were found downstream from dntD, the gene encoding the extradiol ring fission enzyme of the pathway. The region includes genes encoding a CoA-dependent methylmalonate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (dntE), a putative NADH-dependent dehydrogenase (ORF13), and a bifunctional isomerase/hydrolase (dntG). Results from analysis of the gene sequence, reverse transcriptase PCR, and enzyme assays indicated that dntD dntE ORF13 dntG composes an operon that encodes the lower pathway. Additional genes that were uncovered encode the 2,4-DNT dioxygenase (dntAaAbAcAd), methylnitrocatechol monooxygenase (dntB), a putative LysR-type transcriptional (ORF12) regulator, an intradiol ring cleavage enzyme (ORF3), a maleylacetate reductase (ORF10), a complete ABC transport complex (ORF5 to ORF8), a putative methyl-accepting chemoreceptor protein (ORF11), and remnants from two transposable elements. Some of the additional gene products might play as-yet-undefined roles in 2,4-DNT degradation; others appear to remain from recruitment of the neighboring genes. The presence of the transposon remnants and vestigial genes suggests that the pathway for 2,4-DNT degradation evolved relatively recently because the extraneous elements have not been eliminated from the region.
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- Glenn R Johnson
- Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S. Air Force, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida 32403, USA
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Kaschabek SR, Kuhn B, Müller D, Schmidt E, Reineke W. Degradation of aromatics and chloroaromatics by Pseudomonas sp. strain B13: purification and characterization of 3-oxoadipate:succinyl-coenzyme A (CoA) transferase and 3-oxoadipyl-CoA thiolase. J Bacteriol 2002; 184:207-15. [PMID: 11741862 PMCID: PMC134768 DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.1.207-215.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2001] [Accepted: 10/02/2001] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The degradation of 3-oxoadipate in Pseudomonas sp. strain B13 was investigated and was shown to proceed through 3-oxoadipyl-coenzyme A (CoA) to give acetyl-CoA and succinyl-CoA. 3-Oxoadipate:succinyl-CoA transferase of strain B13 was purified by heat treatment and chromatography on phenyl-Sepharose, Mono-Q, and Superose 6 gels. Estimation of the native molecular mass gave a value of 115,000 +/- 5,000 Da with a Superose 12 column. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under denaturing conditions resulted in two distinct bands of equal intensities. The subunit A and B values were 32,900 and 27,000 Da. Therefore it can be assumed that the enzyme is a heterotetramer of the type A2B2 with a molecular mass of 120,000 Da. The N-terminal amino acid sequences of both subunits are as follows: subunit A, AELLTLREAVERFVNDGTVALEGFTHLIPT; subunit B, SAYSTNEMMTVAAARRLKNGAVVFV. The pH optimum was 8.4. Km values were 0.4 and 0.2 mM for 3-oxoadipate and succinyl-CoA, respectively. Reversibility of the reaction with succinate was shown. The transferase of strain B13 failed to convert 2-chloro- and 2-methyl-3-oxoadipate. Some activity was observed with 4-methyl-3-oxoadipate. Even 2-oxoadipate and 3-oxoglutarate were shown to function as poor substrates of the transferase. 3-oxoadipyl-CoA thiolase was purified by chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose, blue 3GA, and reactive brown-agarose. Estimation of the native molecular mass gave 162,000 +/- 5,000 Da with a Superose 6 column. The molecular mass of the subunit of the denatured protein, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was 42 kDa. On the basis of these results, 3-oxoadipyl-CoA thiolase should be a tetramer of the type A4. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of 3-oxoadipyl-CoA thiolase was determined to be SREVYI-DAVRTPIGRFG. The pH optimum was 7.8. Km values were 0.15 and 0.01 mM for 3-oxoadipyl-CoA and CoA, respectively. Sequence analysis of the thiolase terminus revealed high percentages of identity (70 to 85%) with thiolases of different functions. The N termini of the transferase subunits showed about 30 to 35% identical amino acids with the glutaconate-CoA transferase of an anaerobic bacterium but only an identity of 25% with the respective transferases of aromatic compound-degrading organisms was found.
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- Stefan R Kaschabek
- Chemische Mikrobiologie, Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
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Göbel M, Kassel-Cati K, Schmidt E, Reineke W. Degradation of aromatics and chloroaromatics by Pseudomonas sp. strain B13: cloning, characterization, and analysis of sequences encoding 3-oxoadipate:succinyl-coenzyme A (CoA) transferase and 3-oxoadipyl-CoA thiolase. J Bacteriol 2002; 184:216-23. [PMID: 11741863 PMCID: PMC134769 DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.1.216-223.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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3-oxoadipate:succinyl-coenzyme A (CoA) transferase and 3-oxoadipyl-CoA thiolase carry out the ultimate steps in the conversion of benzoate and 3-chlorobenzoate to tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates in bacteria utilizing the 3-oxoadipate pathway. This report describes the characterization of DNA fragments with the overall length of 5.9 kb from Pseudomonas sp. strain B13 that encode these enzymes. DNA sequence analysis revealed five open reading frames (ORFs) plus an incomplete one. ORF1, of unknown function, has a length of 414 bp. ORF2 (catI) encodes a polypeptide of 282 amino acids and starts at nucleotide 813. ORF3 (catJ) encodes a polypeptide of 260 amino acids and begins at nucleotide 1661. CatI and CatJ are the subunits of the 3-oxoadipate:succinyl-CoA transferase, whose activity was demonstrated when both genes were ligated into expression vector pET11a. ORF4, termed catF, codes for a protein of 401 amino acid residues with a predicted mass of 41,678 Da with 3-oxoadipyl-CoA thiolase activity. The last three ORFs seem to form an operon since they are oriented in the same direction and showed an overlapping of 1 bp between catI and catJ and of 4 bp between catJ and catF. Conserved functional groups important for the catalytic activity of CoA transferases and thiolases were identified in CatI, CatJ, and CatF. ORF5 (catD) encodes the 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase. An incomplete ORF6 of 1,183 bp downstream of ORF5 and oriented in the opposite direction was found. The protein sequence deduced from ORF6 showed a putative AMP-binding domain signature.
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- Markus Göbel
- Chemische Mikrobiologie, Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
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Hickey WJ, Sabat G, Yuroff AS, Arment AR, Pérez-Lesher J. Cloning, nucleotide sequencing, and functional analysis of a novel, mobile cluster of biodegradation genes from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain JB2. Appl Environ Microbiol 2001; 67:4603-9. [PMID: 11571162 PMCID: PMC93209 DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.10.4603-4609.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2001] [Accepted: 07/31/2001] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have identified in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain JB2 a novel cluster of mobile genes encoding degradation of hydroxy- and halo-aromatic compounds. Nineteen open reading frames were located and, based on sequence similarities, were putatively identified as encoding a ring hydroxylating oxygenase (hybABCD), an ATP-binding cassette-type transporter, an extradiol ring-cleavage dioxygenase, transcriptional regulatory proteins, enzymes mediating chlorocatechol degradation, and transposition functions. Expression of hybABCD in Escherichia coli cells effected stoichiometric transformation of 2-hydroxybenzoate (salicylate) to 2,5-dihydroxybenzoate (gentisate). This activity was predicted from sequence similarity to functionally characterized genes, nagAaGHAb from Ralstonia sp. strain U2 (S. L. Fuenmayor, M. Wild, A. L. Boyes, and P. A. Williams, J. Bacteriol. 180:2522-2530, 1998), and is the second confirmed example of salicylate 5-hydroxylase activity effected by an oxygenase outside the flavoprotein group. Growth of strain JB2 or Pseudomonas huttiensis strain D1 (an organism that had acquired the 2-chlorobenzoate degradation phenotype from strain JB2) on benzoate yielded mutants that were unable to grow on salicylate or 2-chlorobenzoate and that had a deletion encompassing hybABCD and the region cloned downstream. The mutants' inability to grow on 2-chlorobenzoate suggested the loss of additional genes outside of, but contiguous with, the characterized region. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed a plasmid of >300 kb in strain D1, but no plasmids were detected in strain JB2. Hybridization analyses confirmed that the entire 26-kb region characterized here was acquired by strain D1 from strain JB2 and was located in the chromosome of both organisms. Further studies to delineate the element's boundaries and functional characteristics could provide new insights into the mechanisms underlying evolution of bacterial genomes in general and of catabolic pathways for anthropogenic pollutants in particular.
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- W J Hickey
- Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1299, USA.
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Miyauchi K, Adachi Y, Nagata Y, Takagi M. Cloning and sequencing of a novel meta-cleavage dioxygenase gene whose product is involved in degradation of gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane in Sphingomonas paucimobilis. J Bacteriol 1999; 181:6712-9. [PMID: 10542173 PMCID: PMC94136 DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.21.6712-6719.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Sphingomonas (formerly Pseudomonas) paucimobilis UT26 utilizes gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (gamma-HCH), a halogenated organic insecticide, as a sole source of carbon and energy. In a previous study, we showed that gamma-HCH is degraded to chlorohydroquinone (CHQ) and then to hydroquinone (HQ), although the rate of reaction from CHQ to HQ was slow (K. Miyauchi, S. K. Suh, Y. Nagata, and M. Takagi, J. Bacteriol. 180:1354-1359, 1998). In this study, we cloned and characterized a gene, designated linE, which is located upstream of linD and is directly involved in the degradation of CHQ. The LinE protein consists of 321 amino acids, and all of the amino acids which are reported to be essential for the activity of meta-cleavage dioxygenases are conserved in LinE. Escherichia coli overproducing LinE could convert both CHQ and HQ, producing gamma-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde and maleylacetate, respectively, with consumption of O(2) but could not convert catechol, which is one of the major substrates for meta-cleavage dioxygenases. LinE seems to be resistant to the acylchloride, which is the ring cleavage product of CHQ and which seems to react with water to be converted to maleylacetate. These results indicated that LinE is a novel type of meta-cleavage dioxygenase, designated (chloro)hydroquinone 1, 2-dioxygenase, which cleaves aromatic rings with two hydroxyl groups at para positions preferably. This study represents a direct demonstration of a new type of ring cleavage pathway for aromatic compounds, the hydroquinone pathway.
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- K Miyauchi
- Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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Ogawa N, McFall SM, Klem TJ, Miyashita K, Chakrabarty AM. Transcriptional activation of the chlorocatechol degradative genes of Ralstonia eutropha NH9. J Bacteriol 1999; 181:6697-705. [PMID: 10542171 PMCID: PMC94134 DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.21.6697-6705.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Ralstonia eutropha (formerly Alcaligenes eutrophus) NH9 degrades 3-chlorobenzoate via the modified ortho-cleavage pathway. A ca. 5.7-kb six-gene cluster is responsible for chlorocatechol degradation: the cbnABCD operon encoding the degradative enzymes (including orfX of unknown function) and the divergently transcribed cbnR gene encoding the LysR-type transcriptional regulator of the cbn operon. The cbnRAB orfXCD gene cluster is nearly identical to the chlorocatechol genes (tcbRCD orfXEF) of the 1,2, 4-trichlorobenzene-degrading bacterium Pseudomonas sp. strain P51. Transcriptional fusion studies demonstrated that cbnR regulates the expression of cbnABCD positively in the presence of either 3-chlorobenzoate or benzoate, which are catabolized via 3-chlorocatechol and catechol, respectively. In vitro transcription assays confirmed that 2-chloro-cis,cis-muconate (2-CM) and cis, cis-muconate (CCM), intermediate products from 3-chlorocatechol and catechol, respectively, were inducers of this operon. This inducer-recognizing specificity is different from those of the homologous catechol (catBCA) and chlorocatechol (clcABD) operons of Pseudomonas putida, in which only the intermediates of the regulated pathway, CCM for catBCA and 2-CM for clcABD, act as significant inducers. Specific binding of CbnR protein to the cbnA promoter region was demonstrated by gel shift and DNase I footprinting analysis. In the absence of inducer, a region of ca. 60 bp from position -20 to position -80 upstream of the cbnA transcriptional start point was protected from DNase I cleavage by CbnR, with a region of hypersensitivity to DNase I cleavage clustered at position -50. Circular permutation gel shift assays demonstrated that CbnR bent the cbnA promoter region to an angle of 78 degrees and that this angle was relaxed to 54 degrees upon the addition of inducer. While a similar relaxation of bending angles upon the addition of inducer molecules observed with the catBCA and clcABD promoters may indicate a conserved transcriptional activation mechanism of ortho-cleavage pathway genes, CbnR is unique in having a different specificity of inducer recognition and the extended footprint as opposed to the restricted footprint of CatR without CCM.
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- N Ogawa
- National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan.
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Ogawa N, Miyashita K. The chlorocatechol-catabolic transposon Tn5707 of Alcaligenes eutrophus NH9, carrying a gene cluster highly homologous to that in the 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene-degrading bacterium Pseudomonas sp. strain P51, confers the ability to grow on 3-chlorobenzoate. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:724-31. [PMID: 9925607 PMCID: PMC91086 DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.724-731.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [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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Alcaligenes eutrophus (Ralstonia eutropha) NH9, isolated in Japan, utilizes 3-chlorobenzoate as its sole source of carbon and energy. Sequencing of the relevant region of plasmid pENH91 from strain NH9 revealed that the genes for the catabolic enzymes were homologous to the genes of the modified ortho-cleavage pathway. The genes from strain NH9 (cbnR-ABCD) showed the highest homology (89 to 100% identity at the nucleotide level) to the tcbR-CDEF genes on plasmid pP51 of the 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene-degrading bacterium Pseudomonas sp. strain P51, which was isolated in The Netherlands. The structure of the operon, including the lengths of open reading frames and intervening sequences, was completely conserved between the cbn and tcb genes. Most nucleotide substitutions were localized within and proximal to the cbnB (tcbD) gene. The difference in the chloroaromatics that the two strains could use as growth substrates seemed to be due to differences in enzymes that convert substrates to chlorocatechols. The restriction map of plasmid pENH91 was clearly different from that of pP51 except in the regions that contained the cbnR-ABCD and tcbR-CDEF genes, respectively, suggesting that the chlorocatechol gene clusters might have been transferred as units. Two homologous sequences, present as direct repeats in both flanking regions of the cbnR-ABCD genes on pENH91, were found to be identical insertion sequences (ISs), designated IS1600, which formed a composite transposon designated Tn5707. Although the tcbR-CDEF genes were not associated with similar ISs, a DNA fragment homologous to IS1600 was cloned from the chromosome of strain P51. The sequence of the fragment suggested that it might be a remnant of an IS. The two sequences, together with IS1326 and nmoT, formed a distinct cluster on a phylogenetic tree of the IS21 family. The diversity of the sources of these IS or IS-like elements suggests the prevalence of ISs of this type.
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- N Ogawa
- National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, 3-1-1 Kan-nondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan.
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Reineke W. Development of hybrid strains for the mineralization of chloroaromatics by patchwork assembly. Annu Rev Microbiol 1999; 52:287-331. [PMID: 9891800 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.52.1.287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The persistence of chloroaromatic compounds can be caused by various bottlenecks, such as incomplete degradative pathways or inappropriate regulation of these pathways. Patchwork assembly of existing pathways in novel combinations provides a general route for the development of strains degrading chloroaromatics. The recruitment of known complementary enzyme sequences in a suitable host organism by conjugative transfer of genes might generate a functioning hybrid pathway for the mineralization of some chloroaromatics not degraded by the parent organisms. The rational combination uses (a) peripheral, funneling degradation sequences originating from aromatics-degrading strains to fulfill the conversion of the respective analogous chloroaromatic compound to chlorocatechols as the central intermediates; (b) a central chlorocatechol degradation sequence, the so-called modified ortho pathway, which brings about elimination of chlorine substituents; and (c) steps of the 3-oxoadipate pathway to reach the tricarboxylic acid cycle. The genetic organization of these pathway segments has been well characterized. The specificity of enzymes of the xylene, benzene, biphenyl, and chlorocatechol pathways and the specificity of the induction systems for the chlorinated substrates are analyzed in various organisms to illustrate eventual bottlenecks and to provide alternatives that are effective in the conversion of the "new" substrate. Hybrid pathways are investigated in "new" strains degrading chlorinated benzoates, toluenes, benzenes, and biphenyls. Problems occurring after the conjugative DNA transfer and the "natural" solution of these are examined, such as the prevention of misrouting into the meta pathway, to give a functioning hybrid pathway. Some examples clearly indicate that patchwork assembly also happens in nature.
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- W Reineke
- Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Germany.
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Seibert V, Kourbatova EM, Golovleva LA, Schlömann M. Characterization of the maleylacetate reductase MacA of Rhodococcus opacus 1CP and evidence for the presence of an isofunctional enzyme. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:3503-8. [PMID: 9657989 PMCID: PMC107314 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.14.3503-3508.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Maleylacetate reductases (EC 1.3.1.32) have been shown to contribute not only to the bacterial catabolism of some usual aromatic compounds like quinol or resorcinol but also to the degradation of aromatic compounds carrying unusual substituents, such as halogen atoms or nitro groups. Genes coding for maleylacetate reductases so far have been analyzed mainly in chloroaromatic compound-utilizing proteobacteria, in which they were found to belong to specialized gene clusters for the turnover of chlorocatechols or 5-chlorohydroxyquinol. We have now cloned the gene macA, which codes for one of apparently (at least) two maleylacetate reductases in the gram-positive, chlorophenol-degrading strain Rhodococcus opacus 1CP. Sequencing of macA showed the gene product to be relatively distantly related to its proteobacterial counterparts (ca. 42 to 44% identical positions). Nevertheless, like the known enzymes from proteobacteria, the cloned Rhodococcus maleylacetate reductase was able to convert 2-chloromaleylacetate, an intermediate in the degradation of dichloroaromatic compounds, relatively fast and with reductive dehalogenation to maleylacetate. Among the genes ca. 3 kb up- and downstream of macA, none was found to code for an intradiol dioxygenase, a cycloisomerase, or a dienelactone hydrolase. Instead, the only gene which is likely to be cotranscribed with macA encodes a protein of the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase family. Thus, the R. opacus maleylacetate reductase gene macA clearly is not part of a specialized chlorocatechol gene cluster.
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- V Seibert
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Philipp B, Schink B. Evidence of two oxidative reaction steps initiating anaerobic degradation of resorcinol (1,3-dihydroxybenzene) by the denitrifying bacterium Azoarcus anaerobius. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:3644-9. [PMID: 9658009 PMCID: PMC107334 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.14.3644-3649.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The denitrifying bacterium Azoarcus anaerobius LuFRes1 grows anaerobically with resorcinol (1,3-dihydroxybenzene) as the sole source of carbon and energy. The anaerobic degradation of this compound was investigated in cell extracts. Resorcinol reductase, the key enzyme for resorcinol catabolism in fermenting bacteria, was not present in this organism. Instead, resorcinol was hydroxylated to hydroxyhydroquinone (HHQ; 1,2,4-trihydroxybenzene) with nitrate or K3Fe(CN)6 as the electron acceptor. HHQ was further oxidized with nitrate to 2-hydroxy-1,4-benzoquinone as identified by high-pressure liquid chromatography, UV/visible light spectroscopy, and mass spectroscopy. Average specific activities were 60 mU mg of protein-1 for resorcinol hydroxylation and 150 mU mg of protein-1 for HHQ dehydrogenation. Both activities were found nearly exclusively in the membrane fraction and were only barely detectable in extracts of cells grown with benzoate, indicating that both reactions were specific for resorcinol degradation. These findings suggest a new strategy of anaerobic degradation of aromatic compounds involving oxidative steps for destabilization of the aromatic ring, different from the reductive dearomatization mechanisms described so far.
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- B Philipp
- Fakultät für Biologie, Mikrobielle Okologie, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany.
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