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Bhardwaj M, Kamble P, Mundhe P, Jindal M, Thakur P, Bajaj P. Multifaceted personality and roles of heme enzymes in industrial biotechnology. 3 Biotech 2023; 13:389. [PMID: 37942054 PMCID: PMC10630290 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-023-03804-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
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Heme enzymes are the most prominent category of iron-containing metalloenzymes with the capability of catalyzing an astonishingly wide range of reactions like epoxidation, hydroxylation, demethylation, desaturation, reduction, sulfoxidation, and decarboxylation. Various enzymes in this category are P450s, heme peroxidases, catalases, myoglobin, cytochrome C, and others. Besides this, the natural promiscuity and amenability of these enzymes to protein engineering and evolution have also added several non-native reactions such as C-H, N-H, S-H insertions, cyclopropanation, and other industrially important reactions to their capabilities. Surprisingly, all of these reactions and their wide substrate scopes are attributed to changes in the active site scaffold of different heme enzymes as the center of all enzymes is constituted by a porphyrin ring containing iron. Multiple prominent research groups across the world, including 2018, Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold's group, have shown keen interest in engineering and evolving these enzymes for utilizing their industrial potential. Besides engineering the active site, researchers have also explored the possibility of these enzymes catalyzing non-native reactions by replacing the center porphyrin ring with other cofactors or by changing the iron in the porphyrin ring with other metal ions along with engineering the active site and thereby creating novel artificial metalloenzymes. Thus, in this mini-review from our group, for the first time, we are trying to catalog various activities catalyzed by heme enzymes and their engineered variants and their active usage in various industries along with shedding light on their potential for use in various applications in the future.
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- Mahipal Bhardwaj
- Department of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Kukatpally Industrial Estate, NH-9, Balanagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500037 India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Kukatpally Industrial Estate, NH-9, Balanagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500037 India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Kukatpally Industrial Estate, NH-9, Balanagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500037 India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Kukatpally Industrial Estate, NH-9, Balanagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500037 India
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- CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTech), Sector-39A, Chandigarh, 160036 India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Kukatpally Industrial Estate, NH-9, Balanagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500037 India
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Wang W, Liu A, Chen X, Zheng X, Fu W, Wang G, Ji J, Jin C, Guan C. The potential role of betaine in enhancement of microbial-assisted phytoremediation of benzophenone-3 contaminated soil. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 307:135783. [PMID: 35868529 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2022] [Revised: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 07/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Benzophenone-3 (BP-3) is an emerging environmental pollutant used in personal care products, helping to reduce the risk of ultraviolet radiation to human skin. The BP-3 removal potential from soil by tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) assisted with Methylophilus sp. FP-6 was explored in our previous study. However, the reduced BP-3 remediation efficiency by FP-6 in soil and the inhibited plant growth by BP-3 limited the application of this phytoremediation strategy. The aim of the present study was to reveal the potential roles of betaine, as the methyl donor of methylotrophic bacteria and plant regulator, in improving the strain FP-6-assisted phytoremediation capacity of BP-3 contaminated soil. The results revealed that strain FP-6 could use betaine as a co-metabolism substrate to enhance the BP-3 degradation activity. About 97.32% BP-3 in soil was effectively removed in the phytoremediation system using tobacco in combination with FP-6 and betaine for 40 d while the concentration of BP-3 in tobacco significantly reduced. Moreover, the biomass and photosynthetic efficiency of plants were remarkably improved through the combined treatment of betaine and strain FP-6. Simultaneously, inoculation of FP-6 in the presence of betaine stimulated the change of local microbial community structure, which might correlate with the production of a series of hydrolases and reductases involved in soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling processes. Meantime, some of the dominant bacteria could secrete various multiple enzymes involved in degrading organic pollutants, such as laccase, to accelerate the demethylation and hydroxylation of BP-3. Overall, the results from this study proposed that the co-metabolic role of betaine could be utilized to strengthen microbial-assisted phytoremediation process by increasing the degradation ability of methylotrophic bacteria and enhancing plant tolerance to BP-3. The present results provide novel insights and perspectives for broadening the engineering application scope of microbial-assisted phytoremediation of organic pollutants without sacrificing economic crop safety.
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- Wenjing Wang
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China.
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A first report on the identification of a novel archaea, Methanospirillum lacunae from spoilt paints in Lagos, Nigeria using a metagenomic approach. SCIENTIFIC AFRICAN 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2021.e01029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Takio N, Yadav M, Yadav HS. Catalase-mediated remediation of environmental pollutants and potential application – a review. BIOCATAL BIOTRANSFOR 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/10242422.2021.1932838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Nene Takio
- Department of Chemistry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Itanagar, India
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- Department of Chemistry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Itanagar, India
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- Department of Chemistry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Itanagar, India
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Raper E, Stephenson T, Fisher R, Anderson DR, Soares A. Characterisation of thiocyanate degradation in a mixed culture activated sludge process treating coke wastewater. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 288:121524. [PMID: 31154279 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.121524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Revised: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Microbial degradation of thiocyanate (SCN-) has been reported to suffer from instability highlighting the need for improved understanding of underlying mechanisms and boundaries. Respirometry, batch tests and DNA sequencing analysis were used to improve understanding of a mixed culture treating coke wastewater rich in SCN-. An uncultured species of Thiobacillus was the most abundant species (26%) and displayed similar metabolic capabilities to Thiobacillus denitrificans and Thiobacillus thioparus. Thiocyanate was hydrolysed/oxidised to NH4+-N, HCO3- and SO42-. Nevertheless, at 360-2100 mg SCN-/L a breakdown in the degradation pathway was observed. Respirometry tests demonstrated that NH4+-N was inhibitory to SCN- degradation (IC50: 316 mg/L). Likewise, phenol (180 mg/L) and hydroxylamine (0.25-16 mg/L) reduced SCN- degradation by 41% and ca. 7%, respectively. The understanding of the SCN- degradation pathways can enable stable treatment efficiencies and compliance with effluent of <4 mg SCN/L, required by the Industrial Emissions Directive.
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- Eleanor Raper
- Cranfield Water Sciences Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK
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- Cranfield Water Sciences Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK
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- Tata Steel, Group Health Safety and Environment, Swinden Technology Centre, Rotherham S60 3AR, UK
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- Tata Steel, Group Health Safety and Environment, Swinden Technology Centre, Rotherham S60 3AR, UK
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- Cranfield Water Sciences Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK.
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Abass OK, Fang F, Zhuo M, Zhang K. Integrated interrogation of causes of membrane fouling in a pilot-scale anoxic-oxic membrane bioreactor treating oil refinery wastewater. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 642:77-89. [PMID: 29894884 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2018] [Revised: 06/03/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Studies on membrane fouling during treatment of oil refinery wastewater (ORW) via membrane bioreactor (MBR) are currently lacking, and associated fouling challenges are largely undocumented. Using advanced chemical and Illumina sequencing approach, we investigated the complex bio-physiochemical interactions responsible for foulant-membrane interactions during treatment of ORW. After nearly 2 months of the MBR operation, COD removal reached maximal of 97.15 ± 1.85%, while oil and grease removal was maintained at 96.6 ± 2.6%, during the treatment duration. Most of the less or non-biodegradable oil moieties (>0.5 μm) progressively accumulated on the membrane as the influent oil concentration increased. Presence of relatively higher unsaturated extracellular polymers (100.6 mg/g VSS) like fulvic acid and aromatic-like compounds at high volumetric loading (~18.7 kg COD/m3/d), enhanced the adsorption of chemical elements (Fe = 88.9, Al = 63.4, and Ce = 0.56 mg/g dry-sludge, respectively). Moreover, shift in microbial community structure to hydrocarbon-utilizing and metals-tolerating genera, as Comamonas and Rhodanobacter, respectively, uncovers major membrane colonizers in ORW treatment via MBR.
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- Olusegun K Abass
- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
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Husseneder C, Park JS, Howells A, Tikhe CV, Davis JA. Bacteria Associated With Piezodorus guildinii (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), With Special Reference to Those Transmitted by Feeding. ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY 2017; 46:159-166. [PMID: 28025221 DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvw112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The redbanded stink bug, Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), is a rapidly growing pest damaging southern US agriculture. Pentatomid stink bugs are known to vector bacterial, fungal, and viral plant diseases. However, bacteria associated with redbanded stink bugs and their vector potential have not yet been assessed. In this study, we 1) cultured and identified bacteria transmitted by feeding of redbanded stink bug and 2) described bacteria from guts of redbanded stink bug individuals using next-generation sequencing of 16S rRNA genes. Nineteen bacteria transmitted by feeding of redbanded stink bug on soybean agar were isolated and identified via Sanger sequencing of near full length 16S RNA genes. The transmitted bacteria belonged to at least a dozen species in eight genera and included potential plant pathogens (Phaseolibacter flectens), plant beneficials (Bacillus atropheus), and possible insect beneficials (Acinetobacter sp. and Citrobacter farmeri). A total of 284,448 reads were captured from Illumina MiSeq sequencing of the uncultured gut bacteria community. Fifty-one putative bacteria species (74% of the estimated total species richness) were identified via matches to NCBI databases. The bacteria metagenome contained potential plant and insect pathogens (Erwinia persicina, E. rhaponici, Brenneria nigrifluens, Ralstonia picketti, and Serratia marcescens) and beneficials (Pantoea dispersa, Klebsiella oxytoca, Clostridium butyricum, and Citrobacter farmeri).
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- Claudia Husseneder
- Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (; ; ; ; )
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- Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (; ; ; ; )
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- Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (; ; ; ; )
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- Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (; ; ; ; )
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- Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (; ; ; ; )
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Sooch BS, Kauldhar BS, Puri M. Recent insights into microbial catalases: Isolation, production and purification. Biotechnol Adv 2014; 32:1429-47. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2014.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2014] [Revised: 09/10/2014] [Accepted: 09/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Bucková M, Godocíková J, Zámocký M, Polek B. Screening of bacterial isolates from polluted soils exhibiting catalase and peroxidase activity and diversity of their responses to oxidative stress. Curr Microbiol 2010; 61:241-7. [PMID: 20145932 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-010-9601-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2009] [Accepted: 01/27/2010] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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For the survival of individual isolates of gram-negative bacteria Pseudomonas putida, Achromobacter xylosoxidans, and the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus megaterium, in an environment polluted with crude oil products, the production of catalases exhibiting both catalase and dianisidine-peroxidase activity is important. Electrophoretic resolution of cell-free extracts of aerobically grown strains in Luria-Bertani medium during exponential phase revealed distinctive expression of catalatic and peroxidatic activities detected with 3,3'-diaminobenzidine tetrahydrochloride. A considerable diversity in microbial catalase and peroxidase responses to 20 or 40 mM H(2)O(2) stress, resulted from hydroperoxidase's variant of original isolates, indicating an environmental selective pressure. However, catalase was important for the adaptation of cultures to high concentration of 60 mM H(2)O(2). Appreciable differences in the sensitivity to toxic effect of H(2)O(2) (20 or 40 mM) treatment between individual isolates and their adapted variants during growth were observed until the middle of exponential phase, but they were insignificant at the entry to stationary phase. Isolates also exhibited a considerable diversity in catalases responses to phenolic contaminants 1 and 2 mM o- or p-phenylenediamine. Catalase activity of bacterium P. putida was visibly stimulated only by p-phenylenediamine and not by its positional isomer o-PDA. This study contributes to a better understanding of the role catalases play in bacterial responses to a polluted environment.
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- Mária Bucková
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 21, 84551 Bratislava, Slovakia
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Bohácová V, Zámocký M, Godocíková J, Bucková M, Polek B. The Expression and Diversity of Catalases in Isolates of Genus Comamonas in Response to the Oxidative Stress of a Polluted Environment. Curr Microbiol 2006; 53:430-4. [PMID: 17066334 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0246-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2006] [Accepted: 07/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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We have evaluated the role of monofunctional heme-containing catalase encoded by cat-1 gene from the soil bacterium Comamonas terrigena N3H in the response to various forms of oxidative stress. Our results indicate that this constitutively expressed catalase represents the major source for the defence of Comamonas terrigena cells against toxic peroxides but the cells can express also a second form of catalase that is bigger and its regulation is probably more complicated. The sequence analysis confirmed the presence of highly conserved catalase sequence motifs in two environmental strains of Comamonas terrigena but in those strains that were not exposed to oxidative stress, no such sequence motif could be detected. The results obtained underline the importance of catalase expression in the defence mechanism against oxidative stress in bacterial cells.
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- Viera Bohácová
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 21, SK-84551, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Godocíková J, Bohácová V, Zámocký M, Polek B. Production of catalases by Comamonas spp. and resistance to oxidative stress. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 2005; 50:113-8. [PMID: 16110914 DOI: 10.1007/bf02931458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Bacterial isolates Comamonas terrigena N3H (from soil contaminated with crude oil) and C. testosteroni (isolated from the sludge of a wastewater treatment plant), exhibit much higher total catalase activity than the same species from laboratory collection cultures. Electrophoretic resolution of catalases revealed only one corresponding band in cell-free extracts of both C. testosteroni cultures. Isolates of C. terrigena N3H exhibited catalase-1 and catalase-2 activity, whereas in the collection culture C. terrigena ATCC 8461 only catalase-1 was detected. The environmental isolates exhibited much higher resistance to exogenous H2O2 (20, 40 mmol/L) than collection cultures, mainly in the middle and late exponential growth phases. The stepwise H2O2-adapted culture of C. terrigena N3H, which was more resistant to oxidative stress than the original isolate, exhibited an increase of catalase and peroxidase activity represented by catalase-1. Pretreatment of cells with 0.5 mmol/L H2O2 followed by an application of the oxidative agent in toxic concentrations (up to 40 mmol/L) increased the rate of cell survival in the original isolate, but not in the H2O2-adapted variant. The protection of bacteria caused by such pretreatment corresponded with stimulation of catalase activity in pretreated culture.
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- J Godocíková
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Centre of Excellence, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 51 Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Bucková M, Godocíková J, Simonovicová A, Polek B. Production of catalases by Aspergillus niger isolates as a response to pollutant stress by heavy metals. Curr Microbiol 2005; 50:175-9. [PMID: 15902463 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-004-4458-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2004] [Accepted: 09/25/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Isolates of Aspergillus niger, selected from the coal dust of a mine containing arsenic (As; 400 mg/kg) and from the river sediment of mine surroundings (As, 1651 mg/kg, Sb, 362 mg/kg), growing in minimal nitrate medium in the phase of hyphal development and spore formation, exhibited much higher levels of total catalase activity than the same species from the culture collection or a culture adapted to soil contaminated with As (5 mg/L). Electrophoretic resolution of catalases in cell-free extracts revealed three isozymes of catalases and production of individual isozymes was not significantly affected by stress environments. Exogenously added stressors (As(5+), Cd(2+), Cu(2+)) at final concentrations of 25 and 50 mg/L and H(2)O(2) (20 or 40 mM) mostly stimulated production of catalases only in isolates from mines surroundings, and H(2)O(2) and Hg(2+) caused the disappearance of the smallest catalase I. Isolates exhibited a higher tolerance of the toxic effects of heavy metals and H(2)O(2), as monitored by growth, than did the strain from the culture collection.
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- Maria Bucková
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská-cesta 21, Bratislava 84551, Slovakia.
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Abriouel H, Herrmann A, Stärke J, Yousif NMK, Wijaya A, Tauscher B, Holzapfel W, Franz CMAP. Cloning and heterologous expression of hematin-dependent catalase produced by Lactobacillus plantarum CNRZ 1228. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:603-6. [PMID: 14711694 PMCID: PMC321233 DOI: 10.1128/aem.70.1.603-606.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Lactobacillus plantarum CNRZ 1228 exhibited heme-dependent catalase activity under environmental conditions similar to those encountered during sausage fermentation. The 1,455-bp catalase gene (katL) was cloned and encoded a protein of 484 amino acids. Expression of katL in a heterologous host showed that katL encodes a functional catalase. PCR screening of selected strains of lactic acid bacteria for katL indicated the presence of similar genes in other strains of lactobacilli.
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- Hikmate Abriouel
- Institute of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Federal Research Centre for Nutrition, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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