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Journal of Bacteriology, November 2002, p. 6301-6315, Vol. 184, No. 22
0021-9193/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.22.6301-6315.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Genes Coding for a New Pathway of Aerobic Benzoate Metabolism in Azoarcus evansii

Johannes Gescher,1 Annette Zaar,1 Magdy Mohamed,1 Hermann Schägger,2 and Georg Fuchs1*

Mikrobiologie, Institut Biologie II, Universität Freiburg,1 Zentrum der Biologischen Chemie, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt,Germany2

Received 23 May 2002/ Accepted 16 August 2002

A new pathway for aerobic benzoate oxidation has been postulated for Azoarcus evansii and for a Bacillus stearothermophilus-like strain. Benzoate is first transformed into benzoyl coenzyme A (benzoyl-CoA), which subsequently is oxidized to 3-hydroxyadipyl-CoA and then to 3-ketoadipyl-CoA; all intermediates are CoA thioesters. The genes coding for this benzoate-induced pathway were investigated in the ß-proteobacterium A. evansii. They were identified on the basis of N-terminal amino acid sequences of purified benzoate metabolic enzymes and of benzoate-induced proteins identified on two-dimensional gels. Fifteen genes probably coding for the benzoate pathway were found to be clustered on the chromosome. These genes code for the following functions: a putative ATP-dependent benzoate transport system, benzoate-CoA ligase, a putative benzoyl-CoA oxygenase, a putative isomerizing enzyme, a putative ring-opening enzyme, enzymes for ß-oxidation of CoA-activated intermediates, thioesterase, and lactone hydrolase, as well as completely unknown enzymes belonging to new protein families. An unusual putative regulator protein consists of a regulator protein and a shikimate kinase I-type domain. A deletion mutant with a deletion in one gene (boxA) was unable to grow with benzoate as the sole organic substrate, but it was able to grow with 3-hydroxybenzoate and adipate. The data support the proposed pathway, which postulates operation of a new type of ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase acting on benzoyl-CoA and nonoxygenolytic ring cleavage. A ß-oxidation-like metabolism of the ring cleavage product is thought to lead to 3-ketoadipyl-CoA, which finally is cleaved into succinyl-CoA and acetyl-CoA.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Mikrobiologie, Institut Biologie II, Schänzlestr. 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany. Phone: 49-761-2032649. Fax: 49-761-2032626. E-mail: georg.fuchs{at}biologie.uni-freiburg.de.

Journal of Bacteriology, November 2002, p. 6301-6315, Vol. 184, No. 22
0021-9193/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.22.6301-6315.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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