title: Bioconversion of pyrimidine by resting cells of quinoline-degrading bacteria.
abstract: Nine quinoline-degrading bacterial strains were tested for their ability to hydroxylate pyrimidine. All strains converted pyrimidine to uracil via pyrimidine-4-one in a cometabolic process. Quinoline 2-oxidoreductases (QuinORs) were the catalysts of fortuitous pyrimidine hydroxylation. Whereas in most strains the activity of the QuinOR towards pyrimidine was very low compared to its activity towards quinoline, QuinOR in crude extracts from Comamonas testosteroni 63 showed a specific activity of 64 (mU mg protein)-1 with pyrimidine as substrate, compared to a specific activity of 237 (mU mg protein)-1 towards the intrinsic substrate quinoline. Resting cells of Comamonas testosteroni 63 rapidly converted pyrimidine almost stoichiometrically to uracil, which accumulated in the cell suspension. Using an adsorbent resin, uracil was prepared from the supernatant of Comamonas testosteroni 63 resting cells with a yield of > 98%.
authors.affiliation: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. fetzner@hrz2.uni-oldenburg.de
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fetzner
mesh_terms: D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D002384:Catalysis; D016946:Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci / Q000378:metabolism*; D006900:Hydroxylation; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000378:metabolism*; D044925:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000378:metabolism; D011743:Pyrimidines / Q000378:metabolism*; D011804:Quinolines / Q000378:metabolism*; D012240:Rhodococcus / Q000378:metabolism; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014498:Uracil / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D011743:Pyrimidines; D011804:Quinolines; D014498:Uracil; C037219:quinoline; D010088:Oxidoreductases; D044925:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors; C068667:quinoline 2-oxidoreductase; C030986:pyrimidine