Author: Fukuda M. Shimizu S. Okita N. Seto M. Masai E.
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 0003-6072
Source: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Vol.74, Iss.1-3, 1998-10, pp. : 169-173
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Abstract
Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) tolerant derivatives of a strong PCB degrader, Rhodococcus strain RHA1, were selected after growth in the presence of 100 g/ml PCBs. Some of the derivatives did not grow on biphenyl but accumulated a yellow coloured metabolite suggesting a defect in the meta-ring-cleavage compound hydrolase step encoded by the bphD gene. Other derivatives failed to grow on biphenyl and exhibited little PCB transformation activity suggesting a defect in the initial ring-hydroxylation dioxygenase step encoded by the bphA gene. These organisms had a structural alteration in the linear plasmids coding for the bph genes in RHA1, which included the bph gene deletion. When a bphD containing plasmid was introduced into a tolerant derivative, RCD1, which was shown to have a bphD deletion, the defect in the growth on biphenyl of RCD1 was overcome. The bph gene deletion seems to play a key role in these tolerant derivatives thereby suggesting that the toxic metabolic intermediate would be a main cause of the growth inhibition of RHA1 in the presence of high concentration PCBs.
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