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JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 98, Issue 2, Pages 71-76Publisher
SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1723(04)70245-5
Keywords
catechol 1,2-dioxygenase; aniline-assimilation; Rhodococcus species
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A catechol 1,2-dioxygenase (CD) was found, which was synthesized constitutively in the aniline-assimilating bacterium Rhodococcus sp. AN-22 grown on a medium without aniline, as well as on aniline medium. The bacterium synthesized CD in its cells grown on all the 21 non-aromatic substrates examined, including four natural media such as meat and yeast extracts, one sugar, six organic acids, and 10 amino acids as carbon, energy, and nitrogen sources. When the bacterium was incubated on a medium with D-glucose, L-malate, isoleucine, leucine, etc., it synthesized more CD than that in cells grown on aniline. Two CDs, which were prepared from cells grown on aniline and L-malate, were purified separately to homogeneity and characterized. The two enzymes were apparently identical in molecular and catalytic properties including molecular mass, optimal pH, stability to heating, and substrate specificity for catechol analogues. However, they differed in the substrate specificity and resistance to sulfhydryl and chelating agents from the inducible CDs produced by other aniline-assimilating bacteria reported previously.
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