Abstract
A study of the degradation of phenol, p-cresol, and m- and p-toluate by Alcaligenes eutrophus 345 has provided evidence that these compounds are metabolized via separate catechol meta-cleavage pathways. Analysis of the enzymes synthesized by wild-type and mutant strains and by strains cured of the plasmid pRA1000, which encodes m- and p-toluate degradation, indicated that two or more isofunctional enzymes mediated several steps in the pathway. The formation of three catechol 2,3-oxygenases and two 2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde hydrolases was indicated from an examination of the ratio of the specific activities of these enzymes against various substrates. Evidence for two 2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde dehydrogenases, two 4-oxalocrotonate isomerases and decarboxylases, and three 2-ketopent-4-enoate hydratases was derived from the induction of these enzymes under different growth conditions. Each activity was detected when the wild type was grown in the presence of m-toluate, but not when grown with phenol (except for a hydratase) or p-cresol, whereas in strains cured of pRA1000, growth with phenol or p-cresol, but not with m-toluate, induced these enzymes. Hydroxylation of phenol and p-cresol appears to be mediated by the same enzyme.
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