CHARACTERIZATION OF NITRILE HYDRATASE GENES CLONED BY DNA SCREEING FROM RHODOCOCCUS-ERYTHROPOLIS

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DURAN, R [1 ]
NISHIYAMA, M [1 ]
HORINOUCHI, S [1 ]
BEPPU, T [1 ]
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[1] UNIV TOKYO, FAC AGR, DEPT AGR CHEM, BUNKYO KU, TOKYO 113, JAPAN
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10.1271/bbb.57.1323
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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Southern hybridization analysis using the genes encoding the alpha- and beta-subunits of nitrile hydratase (NHase) from Rhodococcus sp. N-774 as probe suggested that two R. erythropolis strains, JCM6823 and JCM2892, among 31 strains mainly from Japan Culture of Microorganisms (JCM) have NHase genes. Restriction analysis of DNA fragments showing positive hybridization showed that each fragment carried a nucleotide sequence very similar to that of the NHase genes from Rhodococcus sp. N-774. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the DNA fragment cloned from R. erythropolis JCM6823 showed the presence of the genes encoding the alpha- and beta-subunits of NHase, which show 94.7% and 96.2% identity in amino acid sequence to those of Rhodococcus sp. N-774, respectively, as well as a C-terminal portion of the amidase gene upstream from these genes. Despite the extremely high amino acid sequence similarity in both NHases and amidases from R. erythropolis JCM6823 and Rhodococcus sp. N-774, the NHases and amidases from R. erythropolis strains showed broader substrate specificity when compared to those from Rhodococcus sp. N-774. This suggests that a very limited number of amino acid residues are responsible for the difference in substrate specificity. Although the NHase of Rhodococcus sp. N-774 are constitutively produced, the NHases of both R. erythropolis strains were inducibly produced by addition of epsilon-caprolactam as an inducer.
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