title: Phosphate starvation-independent 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid biodegradation in a newly isolated strain of Pseudomonas putida, NG2.
abstract: A strain of Pseudomonas putida that utilized the biogenic organophosphonate 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid as sole carbon and energy, nitrogen and phosphorus source contained 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid: pyruvate aminotransferase and phosphonoacetaldehyde hydrolase (phosphonatase) activities which were inducible by the presence of 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid in the culture medium, regardless of the phosphate status of the cells. Neither of these activities were induced in their phosphate-free or phosphate-replete medium in the absence of 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid. Alkaline phosphatase activity was induced in phosphate limited medium, however, indicating a phosphate-starvation inducible response. In Enterobacter aerogenes IFO 12010, 2-aminoethylphosphonate: pyruvate aminotransferase and phosphonatase activities were induced only when cells were both phosphate limited and supplied with 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid as sole phosphorus source for growth. Neither enzyme activity was induced in phosphate-replete medium, or in medium where both 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid and inorganic phosphate were supplied as sources of phosphorus. The results point to the presence of a substrate inducible 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid biodegradation pathway in the isolated strain of Pseudomonas putida. Uniquely, therefore, the pathway is not under pho regulon control in this strain.
authors.affiliation: School of Biology and Biochemistry, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. ng.ternan@ulst.ac.uk
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Ternan
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Quinn
mesh_terms: D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism; D000615:Aminoethylphosphonic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D003470:Culture Media; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D006867:Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae / Q000201:enzymology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D010710:Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism*; D016958:Pseudomonas putida / Q000201:enzymology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D000637:Transaminases / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D010710:Phosphates; D000615:Aminoethylphosphonic Acid; D000637:Transaminases; D006867:Hydrolases; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase; C023920:phosphonoacetaldehyde hydrolase