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Journal of Bacteriology, February 1999, p. 1309-1318, Vol. 181, No. 4
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Conversion of 3-Chlorocatechol by Various Catechol 2,3-Dioxygenases and Sequence Analysis of the Chlorocatechol Dioxygenase Region of Pseudomonas putida GJ31

Astrid E. Mars,1 Jaap Kingma,1 Stefan R. Kaschabek,2 Walter Reineke,2 and Dick B. Janssen1,*

Department of Biochemistry, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands,1 and Chemische Mikrobiologie, Bergische Universität---Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany2

Received 20 July 1998/Accepted 3 December 1998

Pseudomonas putida GJ31 contains an unusual catechol 2,3-dioxygenase that converts 3-chlorocatechol and 3-methylcatechol, which enables the organism to use both chloroaromatics and methylaromatics for growth. A 3.1-kb region of genomic DNA of strain GJ31 containing the gene for this chlorocatechol 2,3-dioxygenase (cbzE) was cloned and sequenced. The cbzE gene appeared to be plasmid localized and was found in a region that also harbors genes encoding a transposase, a ferredoxin that was homologous to XylT, an open reading frame with similarity to a protein of a meta-cleavage pathway with unknown function, and a 2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde dehydrogenase. CbzE was most similar to catechol 2,3-dioxygenases of the 2.C subfamily of type 1 extradiol dioxygenases (L. D. Eltis and J. T. Bolin, J. Bacteriol. 178:5930-5937, 1996). The substrate range and turnover capacity with 3-chlorocatechol were determined for CbzE and four related catechol 2,3-dioxygenases. The results showed that CbzE was the only enzyme that could productively convert 3-chlorocatechol. Besides, CbzE was less susceptible to inactivation by methylated catechols. Hybrid enzymes that were made of CzbE and the catechol 2,3-dioxygenase of P. putida UCC2 (TdnC) showed that the resistance of CbzE to suicide inactivation and its substrate specificity were mainly determined by the C-terminal region of the protein.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands. Phone: 31-503634008. Fax: 31-503634165. E-mail: D.B.Janssen{at}chem.rug.nl.

Journal of Bacteriology, February 1999, p. 1309-1318, Vol. 181, No. 4
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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