TY - JOUR
T1 - PcpA, which is involved in the degradation of pentachlorophenol in Sphingomonas chlorophenolica ATCC39723, is a novel type of ring-cleavage dioxygenase
AU - Ohtsubo, Yoshiyuki
AU - Miyauchi, Keisuke
AU - Kanda, Kenji
AU - Hatta, Takashi
AU - Kiyohara, Houzo
AU - Senda, Toshiya
AU - Nagata, Yuji
AU - Mitsui, Yukio
AU - Takagi, Masamichi
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank R.L. Crawford for the kind gift of S. chlorophenolica ATCC39723. Y.O. and K.M. are financially supported by research fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists. This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan. This work was performed using the facilities of the Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo.
PY - 1999/10/15
Y1 - 1999/10/15
N2 - The pentachlorophenol (PCP) mineralizing bacterium Sphingomonas chlorophenolica ATCC39723 degrades PCP via 2,6-dichlorohydroquinone (2,6-DCHQ). The pathway converting PCP to 2,6-DCHQ has been established previously; however, the pathway beyond 2,6-DCHQ is not clear, although it has been suggested that a PcpA plays a role in 2,6-DCHQ conversion. In this study, PcpA expressed in Escherichia coli was purified to homogeneity and shown to have novel ring-cleavage dioxygenase activity in conjunction with hydroquinone derivatives, and converting 2,6-DCHQ to 2-chloromaleylacetate. Copyright (C) 1999 Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
AB - The pentachlorophenol (PCP) mineralizing bacterium Sphingomonas chlorophenolica ATCC39723 degrades PCP via 2,6-dichlorohydroquinone (2,6-DCHQ). The pathway converting PCP to 2,6-DCHQ has been established previously; however, the pathway beyond 2,6-DCHQ is not clear, although it has been suggested that a PcpA plays a role in 2,6-DCHQ conversion. In this study, PcpA expressed in Escherichia coli was purified to homogeneity and shown to have novel ring-cleavage dioxygenase activity in conjunction with hydroquinone derivatives, and converting 2,6-DCHQ to 2-chloromaleylacetate. Copyright (C) 1999 Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
KW - Biodegradation
KW - Pentachlorophenol
KW - Ring-cleavage dioxygenase
KW - Sphingomonas
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U2 - 10.1016/S0014-5793(99)01305-8
DO - 10.1016/S0014-5793(99)01305-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 10526172
AN - SCOPUS:0032885089
SN - 0014-5793
VL - 459
SP - 395
EP - 398
JO - FEBS Letters
JF - FEBS Letters
IS - 3
ER -