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SulE, a sulfonylurea herbicide de-esterification esterase from Hansschlegelia zhihuaiae S113.

ABSTRACT: De-esterification is an important degradation or detoxification mechanism of sulfonylurea herbicide in microbes and plants. However, the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of sulfonylurea herbicide de-esterification are still unknown. In this study, a novel esterase gene, sulE, responsible for sulfonylurea herbicide de-esterification, was cloned from Hansschlegelia zhihuaiae S113. The gene contained an open reading frame of 1,194 bp, and a putative signal peptide at the N terminal was identified with a predicted cleavage site between Ala37 and Glu38, resulting in a 361-residue mature protein. SulE minus the signal peptide was synthesized in Escherichia coli BL21 and purified to homogeneity. SulE catalyzed the de-esterification of a variety of sulfonylurea herbicides that gave rise to the corresponding herbicidally inactive parent acid and exhibited the highest catalytic efficiency toward thifensulfuron-methyl. SulE was a dimer without the requirement of a cofactor. The activity of the enzyme was completely inhibited by Ag(+), Cd(2+), Zn(2+), methamidophos, and sodium dodecyl sulfate. A sulE-disrupted mutant strain, ?sulE, was constructed by insertion mutation. ?sulE lost the de-esterification ability and was more sensitive to the herbicides than the wild type of strain S113, suggesting that sulE played a vital role in the sulfonylurea herbicide resistance of the strain. The transfer of sulE into Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 conferred on it the ability to de-esterify sulfonylurea herbicides and increased its resistance to the herbicides. This study has provided an excellent candidate for the mechanistic study of sulfonylurea herbicide metabolism and detoxification through de-esterification, construction of sulfonylurea herbicide-resistant transgenic crops, and bioremediation of sulfonylurea herbicide-contaminated environments.

SUBMITTER: Hang BJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3298168 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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SulE, a sulfonylurea herbicide de-esterification esterase from Hansschlegelia zhihuaiae S113.

Hang Bao-Jian BJ Hong Qing Q Xie Xiang-Ting XT Huang Xing X Wang Cheng-Hong CH He Jian J Li Shun-Peng SP

Applied and environmental microbiology 20120113 6

De-esterification is an important degradation or detoxification mechanism of sulfonylurea herbicide in microbes and plants. However, the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of sulfonylurea herbicide de-esterification are still unknown. In this study, a novel esterase gene, sulE, responsible for sulfonylurea herbicide de-esterification, was cloned from Hansschlegelia zhihuaiae S113. The gene contained an open reading frame of 1,194 bp, and a putative signal peptide at the N terminal was identifi ...[more]

PMID: 22247165

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SulE, a sulfonylurea herbicide de-esterification esterase from Hansschlegelia zhihuaiae S113.

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SulE, a sulfonylurea herbicide de-esterification esterase from Hansschlegelia zhihuaiae S113.

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