Evolutionary relationships between catabolic pathways for aromatics: conservation of gene order and nucleotide sequences of catechol oxidation genes of pWW0 and NAH7 plasmids

Article Article scientifique Article Evolutionary relationships between catabolic pathways for aromatics: conservation of gene order and nucleotide sequences of catechol oxidation genes of pWW0 and NAH7 plasmids eng 1987 author Harayama Shigeaki author Rekik Monique author Wasserfallen Alain 22330 author Bairoch Amos Marc 0000-0003-2826-6444 21964 241-247 10.1007/BF00325689 3481421 0026-8925 TOL plasmid pWW0 and plasmid NAH7 encode catabolic enzymes required for oxidative degradation of toluene and naphthalene, respectively. The gene order of the catabolic operon of NAH7 for salicylate oxidation was determined to be: promoter--nahG (the structural gene for salicylate hydroxylase)--nahH (catechol 2.3-dioxygenase)--nahI (hydroxymuconic semialdehyde dehydrogenase)--nahN (hydroxymuconic semialdehyde hydrolase)--nahL (2-oxopent-4-enoate hydratase). This order is identical to that of the isofunctional genes of TOL plasmid pWW0. The complete nucleotide sequence of nahH was determined and compared with that of xylE, the isofunctional gene of TOL plasmid pWW0. There were 20% and 16% differences in their nucleotide and amino acid sequences, respectively. The homology between the NAH7 and TOL pWW0 plasmids ends upstream of the Shine-Dalgarno sequences of nahH and xylE, but the homology continues downstream of these genes. This observation suggested that genes for the catechol oxidative enzymes of NAH7 and TOL pWW0 were derived from a common ancestral sequence which was transferred as a discrete segment of DNA between plasmids. Amino Acid Sequence Base Sequence Biological Evolution Catechols/metabolism Molecular Sequence Data Oxidation-Reduction Plasmids Pseudomonas/genetics Dewey 576 136 Département de biologie structurale et bioinformatique 21E false 57 Calipho 80 MGG. Molecular & general genetics 210 2 339d76b3-65cb-4329-ac20-e9a1327ce962 Article (Published version) Restricted pub_005_3481421.pdf 815680 application/pdf restrictedAccess Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de biologie structurale et bioinformatique

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