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J Bacteriol. 1993 August; 175(15): 4851-4858

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New aerobic benzoate oxidation pathway via benzoyl-coenzyme A and 3-hydroxybenzoyl-coenzyme A in a denitrifying Pseudomonas sp.

U Altenschmidt, B Oswald, E Steiner, H Herrmann and G Fuchs

Abteilung Angewandte Mikrobiologie, University of Ulm, Germany.

ABSTRACT

A denitrifying Pseudomonas sp. is able to oxidize aromatic compounds compounds completely to CO2, both aerobically and anaerobically. It is shown that benzoate is aerobically oxidized by a new degradation pathway via benzoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) and 3-hydroxybenzoyl-CoA. The organism grew aerobically with benzoate, 3-hydroxybenzoate, and gentisate; catechol, 2-hydroxybenzoate, and protocatechuate were not used, and 4-hydroxybenzoate was a poor substrate. Mutants were obtained which were not able to utilize benzoate as the sole carbon source aerobically but still used 3-hydroxybenzoate or gentisate. Simultaneous adaptation experiments with whole cells seemingly suggested a sequential induction of enzymes of a benzoate oxidation pathway via 3-hydroxybenzoate and gentisate. Cells grown aerobically with benzoate contained a benzoate-CoA ligase (AMP forming) (0.1 mumol min-1 mg-1) which converted benzoate but not 3-hydroxybenzoate into its CoA thioester. The enzyme of 130 kDa composed of two identical subunits of 56 kDa was purified and characterized. Cells grown aerobically with 3-hydroxybenzoate contained a similarly active CoA ligase for 3-hydroxybenzoate, 3-hydroxybenzoate-CoA ligase (AMP forming). Extracts from cells grown aerobically with benzoate catalyzed a benzoyl-CoA- and flavin adenine dinucleotide-dependent oxidation of NADPH with a specific activity of at least 25 nmol NADPH oxidized min-1 mg of protein-1; NADH and benzoate were not used. This new enzyme, benzoyl-CoA 3-monooxygenase, was specifically induced during aerobic growth with benzoate and converted [U-14C]benzoyl-CoA stoichiometrically to [14C]3-hydroxybenzoyl-CoA.

J Bacteriol. 1993 August; 175(15): 4851-4858




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