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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 279, Issue 36, 37250-37260, September 3, 2004

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Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of a Ring Fission Dioxygenase with the Ability to Oxidize (Substituted) Salicylate(s) from Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans^*

Jan-Peter Hintner, Thorsten Reemtsma, and Andreas Stolz¶

From the Institute for Microbiology, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, 70569 Stuttgart and Technical University of Berlin, Department of Water Quality Control, Secretariat-KF4, Strasse des 17-Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany

The gene coding for a dioxygenase with the ability to cleave salicylate by a direct ring fission mechanism to 2-oxohepta-3,5-dienedioic acid was cloned from Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans strain BN12. The deduced amino acid sequence encoded a protein with a molecular mass of 41,176 Da, which showed 28 and 31% sequence identity, respectively, to a gentisate 1,2-dioxygenase from Pseudomonas alcaligenes NCIMB 9867 and a 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoate 1,2-dioxygenase from Nocardioides sp. KP7. The highest degree of sequence identity (58%) was found to a presumed gentisate 1,2-dioxygenase from Corynebacterium glutamicum. The enzyme from P. salicylatoxidans BN12 was heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli and purified as a His-tagged enzyme variant. The purified enzyme oxidized in addition to salicylate, gentisate, 5-aminosalicylate, and 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoate also 3-amino- and 3- and 4-hydroxysalicylate, 5-fluorosalicylate, 3-, 4-, and 5-chlorosalicylate, 3-, 4-, and 5-bromosalicylate, 3-, 4-, and 5-methylsalicylate, and 3,5-dichlorosalicylate. The reactions were analyzed by high pressure liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry, and the reaction products were tentatively identified. For comparison, the putative gentisate 1,2-dioxygenase from C. glutamicum was functionally expressed in E. coli and shown to convert gentisate but not salicylate or 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoate.

Received for publication, December 10, 2003 , and in revised form, June 17, 2004.

^* The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBank^TM/EBI Data Bank with accession number(s) AY323951.

^¶ To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 49-711-6855489; Fax: 49-711-6855725; E-mail: Andreas.Stolz{at}PO.Uni-Stuttgart.DE.

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