PMID- 16820465 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20060905 LR - 20181113 IS - 0099-2240 (Print) IS - 1098-5336 (Electronic) IS - 0099-2240 (Linking) VI - 72 IP - 7 DP - 2006 Jul TI - Purification and characterization of an arene cis-dihydrodiol dehydrogenase endowed with broad substrate specificity toward polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon dihydrodiols. PG - 4726-34 AB - Initial reactions involved in the bacterial degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) include a ring-dihydroxylation catalyzed by a dioxygenase and a subsequent oxidation of the dihydrodiol products by a dehydrogenase. In this study, the dihydrodiol dehydrogenase from the PAH-degrading Sphingomonas strain CHY-1 has been characterized. The bphB gene encoding PAH dihydrodiol dehydrogenase (PDDH) was cloned and overexpressed as a His-tagged protein. The recombinant protein was purified as a homotetramer with an apparent Mr of 110,000. PDDH oxidized the cis-dihydrodiols derived from biphenyl and eight polycyclic hydrocarbons, including chrysene, benz[a]anthracene, and benzo[a]pyrene, to corresponding catechols. Remarkably, the enzyme oxidized pyrene 4,5-dihydrodiol, whereas pyrene is not metabolized by strain CHY-1. The PAH catechols produced by PDDH rapidly auto-oxidized in air but were regenerated upon reaction of the o-quinones formed with NADH. Kinetic analyses performed under anoxic conditions revealed that the enzyme efficiently utilized two- to four-ring dihydrodiols, with Km values in the range of 1.4 to 7.1 microM, and exhibited a much higher Michaelis constant for NAD+ (Km of 160 microM). At pH 7.0, the specificity constant ranged from (1.3 +/- 0.1) x 10(6) M(-1) s(-1) with benz[a]anthracene 1,2-dihydrodiol to (20.0 +/- 0.8) x 10(6) M(-1) s(-1) with naphthalene 1,2-dihydrodiol. The catalytic activity of the enzyme was 13-fold higher at pH 9.5. PDDH was subjected to inhibition by NADH and by 3,4-dihydroxyphenanthrene, and the inhibition patterns suggested that the mechanism of the reaction was ordered Bi Bi. The regulation of PDDH activity appears as a means to prevent the accumulation of PAH catechols in bacterial cells. FAU - Jouanneau, Yves AU - Jouanneau Y AD - CEA, DSV, Departement de Reponse et Dynamique Cellulaires/BBSI, CEA-Grenoble, 17 avenue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. yves.jouanneau@cea.fr FAU - Meyer, Christine AU - Meyer C LA - eng SI - GENBANK/AM230449 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Appl Environ Microbiol JT - Applied and environmental microbiology JID - 7605801 RN - 0 (Naphthalenes) RN - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) RN - 0 (trans-1,2-dihydro-1,2-naphthalenediol) RN - 2166IN72UN (naphthalene) RN - EC 1.- (Oxidoreductases) SB - IM MH - Cloning, Molecular MH - Escherichia coli/enzymology/genetics MH - Kinetics MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Naphthalenes/chemistry/*metabolism MH - *Oxidoreductases/chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - Sphingomonas/*enzymology/genetics MH - Substrate Specificity PMC - PMC1489356 EDAT- 2006/07/06 09:00 MHDA- 2006/09/06 09:00 PMCR- 2006/11/01 CRDT- 2006/07/06 09:00 PHST- 2006/07/06 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/09/06 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/07/06 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2006/11/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 72/7/4726 [pii] AID - 0395-06 [pii] AID - 10.1128/AEM.00395-06 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Appl Environ Microbiol. 2006 Jul;72(7):4726-34. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00395-06.