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Isolation and characterization of o-xylene oxygenase genes from Rhodococcus opacus TKN14.


ABSTRACT: o-Xylene is one of the most difficult-to-degrade environmental pollutants. We report here Rhodococcus genes mediating oxygenation in the first step of o-xylene degradation. Rhodococcus opacus TKN14, isolated from soil contaminated with o-xylene, was able to utilize o-xylene as the sole carbon source and to metabolize it to o-methylbenzoic acid. A cosmid library from the genome of this strain was constructed in Escherichia coli. A bioconversion analysis revealed that a cosmid clone incorporating a 15-kb NotI fragment had the ability to convert o-xylene into o-methylbenzyl alcohol. The sequence analysis of this 15-kb region indicated the presence of a gene cluster significantly homologous to the naphthalene-inducible dioxygenase gene clusters (nidABCD) that had been isolated from Rhodococcus sp. strain I24. Complementation studies, using E. coli expressing various combinations of individual open reading frames, revealed that a gene (named nidE) for rubredoxin (Rd) and a novel gene (named nidF) encoding an auxiliary protein, which had no overall homology with any other proteins, were indispensable for the methyl oxidation reaction of o-xylene, in addition to the dioxygenase iron-sulfur protein genes (nidAB). Regardless of the presence of NidF, the enzyme composed of NidABE was found to function as a typical naphthalene dioxygenase for converting naphthalene and various (di)methylnaphthalenes into their corresponding cis-dihydrodiols. All the nidABEF genes were transcriptionally induced in R. opacus TKN14 by the addition of o-xylene to a mineral salt medium. It is very likely that these genes are involved in the degradation pathways of a wide range of aromatic hydrocarbons by Rhodococcus species as the first key enzyme.

SUBMITTER: Maruyama T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1317363 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Isolation and characterization of o-xylene oxygenase genes from Rhodococcus opacus TKN14.

Maruyama Takahiro T   Ishikura Masaharu M   Taki Hironori H   Shindo Kazutoshi K   Kasai Hiroaki H   Haga Miyuki M   Inomata Yukie Y   Misawa Norihiko N  

Applied and environmental microbiology 20051201 12


o-Xylene is one of the most difficult-to-degrade environmental pollutants. We report here Rhodococcus genes mediating oxygenation in the first step of o-xylene degradation. Rhodococcus opacus TKN14, isolated from soil contaminated with o-xylene, was able to utilize o-xylene as the sole carbon source and to metabolize it to o-methylbenzoic acid. A cosmid library from the genome of this strain was constructed in Escherichia coli. A bioconversion analysis revealed that a cosmid clone incorporating  ...[more]

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