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Appl Environ Microbiol, June 1998, p. 2006-2012, Vol. 64, No. 6
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Two Nearly Identical Aromatic Compound Hydrolase Genes in a Strong Polychlorinated Biphenyl Degrader, Rhodococcus sp. Strain RHA1

Akihiro Yamada,1 Hidekazu Kishi,1 Katsumi Sugiyama,1 Takashi Hatta,2 Kanji Nakamura,3 Eiji Masai,1 and Masao Fukuda1,*

Department of Bioengineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Kamitomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188,1 Research Institute of Technology, Okayama University of Science, Seki, Okayama, Okayama 703-8232,2 and Kurita Water Industries, Central Laboratories, Wakamiya, Morisato, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0124,3 Japan

Received 24 November 1997/Accepted 17 March 1998

The two 2-hydroxy-6-oxohepta-2,4-dienoate (HOHD) hydrolase genes, etbD1 and etbD2, were cloned from a strong polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) degrader, Rhodococcus sp. strain RHA1, and their nucleotide sequences were determined. The etbD2 gene was located in the vicinity of bphA gene homologs and encoded an enzyme whose amino-terminal sequence was very similar to the amino-terminal sequence of the HOHD hydrolase which was purified from RHA1. Using the etbD2 gene fragment as a probe, we cloned the etbD1 gene encoding the purified HOHD hydrolase by colony hybridization. Both genes encode a product having 274 amino acid residues and containing the nucleophile motif conserved in alpha /beta hydrolase fold enzymes. The deduced amino acid sequences were quite similar to the amino acid sequences of the products of the single-ring aromatic hydrolase genes, such as dmpD, cumD, todF, and xylF, and not very similar to the amino acid sequences of the products of bphD genes from PCB degraders, including RHA1. The two HOHD hydrolase genes and the RHA1 2-hydroxy-6-oxo-6-phenylhexa-2,4-dienoate (HPDA) hydrolase gene, bphD, were expressed in Escherichia coli, and their relative enzymatic activities were examined. The product of bphD was very specific to HPDA, and the products of etbD1 and etbD2 were specific to HOHD. All of the gene products exhibited poor activities against the meta-cleavage product of catechol. These results agreed with the results obtained for BphD and EtbD1 hydrolases purified from RHA1. The three hydrolase genes exhibited similar induction patterns both in an RNA slot blot hybridization analysis and in a reporter gene assay when a promoter probe vector was used. They were induced by biphenyl, ethylbenzene, benzene, toluene, and ortho-xylene. Strain RCD1, an RHA1 mutant strain lacking both the bphD gene and the etbD2 gene, grew well on ethylbenzene. This result suggested that the etbD1 gene product is involved in the meta-cleavage metabolic pathway of ethylbenzene.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Bioengineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Kamitomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan. Phone: 81-258-47-9405. Fax: 81-258-47-9450. E-mail: masao{at}vos.nagaokaut.ac.jp.

Appl Environ Microbiol, June 1998, p. 2006-2012, Vol. 64, No. 6
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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