Glutathione S-transferase-encoding gene as a potential probe for environmental bacterial isolates capable of degrading polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3286-3290

  Lloyd Jones, Gareth ^a   Lau, Peter C K ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.;

EID: 0030790981     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.8.3286-3290.1997     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Armstrong, R. N. 1994. Glutathione S-transtcrases: structure and mechanism of an archetypical detoxification enzyme. Adv. Enzymol. 69:1-44.
2. Balkwill, D. L., G. R. Drake, R. H. Reeves, J. K. Fredrickson, D. C. White, D. B. Ringelberg, D. P. Chandler, M. F. Romine, D. W. Kennedy, and C. M. Spadoni. 1997. Taxonomic study of aromatic-degrading bacteria from deep-terrestrial-subsurface sediments and description of Sphingomonas aromaticivorans sp. nov., Sphingomonas subterranea sp. nov., and Sphingomomas stygia sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47:191-201.
3. Barthelet, M., L. G. Whyte, and C. W. Greer. 1996. Rapid, direct extraction of DNA from soils for PCR analysis using polyvinylpolypyrrolidone spin columns. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 138:17-22.
4. Bopp, L. H. 1986. Degradation of highly chlorinated PCBs by Pseudomonas strain LB400. J. Ind. Microbiol. 1:23-29.
5. Felsenstein, J. 1989. PHYLIP - phylogeny inference package (version 3.2). Cladistics 5:164-166.
6. Field, J. A., and E. M. Thurman. 1996. Glutathione conjugation and contaminant transformation. Environ. Sci. Technol. 30:1413-1418.
7. Fredrickson, J. K., D. L. Balkwill, G. R. Drake, M. F. Romine, D. B. Ringelberg, and D. C. White. 1995. Aromatic-degrading Sphingomonas isolates from the deep subsurface. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:1917-1922.
8. Furukawa, F., N. Hayase, K. Taira, and N. Tomizuka. 1989. Molecular relationship of chromosomal genes encoding biphenyl/polychlorinated biphenyl catabolism: some soil bacteria possess a highly conserved bph operon. J. Bacteriol. 171:5467-5472.
9. Furukawa, K., J. R. Simon, and A. M. Chakrabarty. 1983. Common induction and regulation of hiphenyl, xylene/toluene, and salicylate catabolism in Pseudomonas paucimobilis. J. Bacteriol. 154:1356-1362.
10. Gibson, D., V. Mahadevan, D. Jerina, H. Yagi, and H. Yeh. 1975. Oxidation of the carcinogens benzo(α)pyrene and benz(α)anthracene to dihydrodiols by a bacterium. Science 189:295-297.
11. Gish, W., and D. J. States. 1993. Identification of protein coding regions by database similarity search. Nature Genet. 3:266-272.
12. Hayes, J. D., and D. J. Pulford. 1995. The glutathione S-transferase supergene family: regulation of GST and the contribution of the isoenzymes to cancer chemoprotection and drug resistance. Crit. Rev. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 30:445-600.
13. Hofer, B., S. Backhaus, and K. N. Timmis. 1994. The biphenyl/polychlorinated hiphenyl locus (bph) of Pseudomonas sp. LB400 encodes four additional metabolic enzymes. Gene 144:9-16.
14. Kim, E., P. J. Aversano, M. F. Romine, R. P. Schnieder, and G. J. Zylstra. 1996. Homology between genes for aromatic hydrocarbon degradation in surface and deep-subsurface Sphingomonas strains. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:1467-1470.
15. La Roche, S. D., and T. Leisinger. 1990. Sequence analysis and expression of the bacterial dichloromethane dehalogenase structural gene, a member of the glulathione S-transferase supergene family. J. Bacteriol. 172:164-171.
16. Lau, P. C. K. Unpublished data.
17. Lau, P. C. K., J. Garnon, D. Labbé, and Y. Wang. 1996. Location and sequence analysis of a 2-hydroxy-6-oxo-6-phenylhexa-2,4-dienoate hydrolase-encoding gene (bpdF) of the biphenyl/polychlorinated biphenyl degradation pathway in Rhodococcus sp. M5. Gene 171:53-57.
18. Masai, E., Y. Katayama, S. Kubota, S. Kawai, M. Yamasaki, and N. Morohosihi. 1993. A bacterial enzyme degrading the model lignin compound β-etherase is a member of the glutathione S-transferase superfamily. FEBS Lett. 323:135-140.
19. McCarthy, D. L., S. Navarrete, W. S. Willett, P. C. Babbitt, and S. D. Copley. 1996. Exploration of the relationship between tetrachlorohydroquinone dehalogenase and the glutathione S-transferase superfamily. Biochemistry 35: 14634-14642.
20. Mueller, J. G., P. J. Chapman, B. O. Blattmann, and P. H. Pritchard. 1990. Isolation of a fluoranthene-utilizing strain of Pseudomonas paucimobilis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 56:1079-1086.
21. Nishida, M., K.-H. Kong, H. Inoue, and K. Takahashi. 1994. Molecular cloning and site-directed mutagenesis of glutathione S-transferase from Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 269:32536-32541.
22. Orser, C. S., J. Dutton, C. Lange, C. Jablonski, L. Xun, and M. Hargis. 1993. Characterization of a Flavobacterium glutathione S-transferase gene involved in reductive dechlorination. J. Bacteriol. 175:2640-2644.
23. Perito, B., N. Allocati, E. Casalone, M. Masulli, B. Dragan, M. Polsinelli, A. Aceto, and C. Di Ilio. 1996. Molecular cloning and overexpression of a glutathione transferase gene from Proteus mirabilis. Biochem. J. 318:157-162.
24. Ponce, R. M., and J. L. Micol. 1991. PCR amplification of long DNA fragments. Nucleic Acids Res. 20:623.
25. Romine, M., L. Fredrickson, L. Stillwell, K. K. Wong, and J. Saffer. 1996. Characterisation of a 180-kb catabolic plasmid in subsurface isolate Sphingomonas sp. strain F119, abstr. Q-324, p. 442. In Abstracts of the 96th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology 1996. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
26. Rozen, S., and H. J. Skaletsky. 1996. Primer3. Code available at http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/genome@software/other/primer3.html
27. Stillwell, L. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash.). Personal communication.
28. Suyama, A., R. Iwakiri, N. Kimura, A. Nishi, K. Nakamura, and K. Furukawa. 1996. Engineering hybrid pseudomonads capable of utilizing a wide range of aromatic hydrocarbons and of efficient degradation of trichloroethylene. J. Bacteriol. 178:4039-4046.
29. Thompson, J. D., D. G. Higgins, and T. J. Gibson. 1994. CLUSTALW: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Research 22:4673-4680.
30. Vuilleumier, S. 1997. Bacterial glutathione S-transferases: what are they good for? J. Bacteriol. 179:1431-1441.
31. Wang, Y., and P. C. K. Lau. 1996. Sequence and expression of an isocitrate dehydrogenase-encoding gene from a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon oxidizer. Sphingomonas yanoikuyae B1. Gene 168:15-21.
32. Wang, Y., P. C. K. Lau, and D. K. Button. 1996. A marine oligobacterium harboring genes known to be part of aromatic hydrocarbon degradation pathways of soil pseudomonads. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:2164-2173.
33. White, D. C., S. D. Sutton, and R. B. Ringelberg. 1996. The genus Sphingomonas: physiology and ecology. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 7:301-306.
34. Williams, P. A., and K. Murray. 1974. Metabolism of benzoates and the methylbenzoates by Pseudomonas putida (arvilla) mt-2: evidence for the existence of a TOL plasmid. J. Bacteriol. 120:416-423.
35. Zablotowicz, R. M., R. F. Hoagland, M. A. Locke, and W. J. Hickey. 1995. Glutathione S-transferase activity and metabolism of glutathione conjugates by rhizosphere bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:1054-1060.
36. Zylstra, G. J., and D. T. Gibson. J 1989. Toluene degradation by Pseudomonas putida F1. J. Biol. Chem. 264:14940-14946.