Haloalkane dehalogenase LinB is responsible for beta- and delta-hexachlorocyclohexane transformation in Sphingobium indicum B90A.

ABSTRACT: Incubation of resting cells of Sphingobium indicum B90A, Sphingobium japonicum UT26, and Sphingobium francense Sp+ showed that they were able to transform beta- and delta-hexachlorocyclohexane (beta- and delta-HCH, respectively), the most recalcitrant hexachlorocyclohexane isomers, to pentachlorocyclohexanols, but only resting cells of strain B90A could further transform the pentachlorocyclohexanol intermediates to the corresponding tetrachlorocyclohexanediols. Moreover, experiments with resting cells of Escherichia coli expressing the LinB proteins of strains B90A, UT26, and Sp+ indicated that LinB was responsible for these transformations. Purified LinB proteins from all three strains also effected the formation of the respective pentachlorocyclohexanols. Although the three LinB enzymes

SUBMITTER: Sharma P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1563659 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature