Catabolism of 5-chlorosalicylate by a Bacillus isolated from the Mississippi River.

AUTOR(ES)

Crawford, R L

RESUMO

A strain of Bacillus brevis isolated from a polluted section of the Mississippi River was shown to utilize 5-chloro-2-hydroxybenzoate (5-chlorosalicylate) as a sale source of carbon and energy. Enzymic analyses of cell-free extracts prepared from 5-chlorosalicylate-grown cells demonstrated that the initial step in the pathway involved cleavage of the aromatic ring between C1 and C2 by a specific 5-chlorosalicylate 1,2-dioxygenase. Loss of chloride from the growth substrate occurred after ring fission and was probably enzyme mediated. An intermediate chlorolactone apparently lost chloride by enzymatic hydrolysis with formation of maleylpyruvate. Maleylpyruvate was further degraded by both glutathione-dependent and glutathione-independent mechanisms, with these reactions being identical to the terminal reactions of the gentisate pathway. It was suggested that this novel 5-chlorosalicylate pathway may have evolved by recruitment of enzymes from an ancestral gentisate pathway.

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