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Orthric Rieske dioxygenases for degrading mixtures of 2,4-dinitrotoluene/naphthalene and 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene/4-amino-2,6-dinitrotoluene
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Keenan, Brendan G. Wood, Thomas K. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | Pollutants are frequently found as mixtures yet it is difficult to engineer enzymes with broad substrate ranges on aromatics. Inspired by the archetypal nitroarene dioxygenase, which shares its electron transport with a salicylate monooxygenase, we have created an innovative and general approach to expand the substrate range of dioxygenase enzymes in a single cell. We have developed here a series of novel, hybrid dioxygenase enzymes that function with a single ferredoxin reductase and ferredoxin that are used to transport two electrons from nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide to the two independent terminal oxygenases. Each independent alpha-oxygenase may then be used simultaneously to create orthric enzymes that degrade mixtures of environmental pollutants. Specifically, we created a hybrid dioxygenase system consisting of naphthalene dioxygenase/dinitrotoluene dioxygenase to simultaneously degrade 2,4-dinitrotoluene and naphthalene (neither enzyme alone had significant activity on both compounds) and dinitrotoluene dioxygenase/nitrobenzene dioxygenase to simultaneously degrade the frequently encountered 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene reduction products 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene and 4-amino-2,6-dinitrotoluene. |
| Starting Page | 827 |
| Ending Page | 838 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00253-006-0538-8 |
| PubMed reference number | 16933133 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 73 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.che.psu.edu/faculty/wood/group/publications/pdf/orthric_DOs.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-006-0538-8 |
| Journal | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |