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- Title
A cofactor consumption screen identifies promising NfsB family nitroreductases for dinitrotoluene remediation.
- Authors
Williams, Elsie M.; Sharrock, Abigail V.; Rylott, Elizabeth L.; Bruce, Neil C.; MacKichan, Joanna K.; Ackerley, David F.
- Abstract
Objectives: To survey a library of over-expressed nitroreductases to identify those most active with 2,4- and 2,6-dinitrotoluene substrates, as promising candidates for phytoremediation of soils and groundwater contaminated with poly-nitro toluene pollutants. Results: To indirectly monitor dinitrotoluene reduction we implemented a nitroblue tetrazolium dye screen to compare relative rates of NADPH consumption for 58 nitroreductase candidates, over-expressed in a nitroreductase-deleted strain of Escherichia coli. Although the screen only provides activity data at a single substrate concentration, by altering the substrate concentration and duration of incubation we showed we could first distinguish between more-active and less-active enzymes and then discriminate between the relative rates of reduction exhibited by the most active nitroreductases in the collection. We observed that members of the NfsA and NfsB nitroreductase families were the most active with 2,4-dinitrotoluene, but that only members of the NfsB family reduced 2,6-dinitrotoluene effectively. Two NfsB family members, YfkO from Bacillus subtilis and NfsB from Vibrio vulnificus, appeared especially effective with these substrates. Purification of both enzymes as His6-tagged recombinant proteins enabled in vitro determination of Michaelis–Menten kinetic parameters with each dinitrotoluene substrate. Conclusions: Vibrio vulnificus NfsB is a particularly promising candidate for bioremediation applications, being ca. fivefold more catalytically efficient with 2,4-dinitrotoluene and over 26-fold more active with 2,6-dinitrotoluene than the benchmark E. coli nitroreductases NfsA and NfsB.
- Subjects
NITROREDUCTASES; VIBRIO vulnificus; RECOMBINANT proteins; POLLUTANTS; NITRO compounds; BACILLUS subtilis; TRICHLOROETHYLENE
- Publication
Biotechnology Letters, 2019, Vol 41, Issue 10, p1155
- ISSN
0141-5492
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10529-019-02716-z