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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2004, p. 5102-5110, Vol. 70, No. 9
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.9.5102-5110.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

The gnyRDBHAL Cluster Is Involved in Acyclic Isoprenoid Degradation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

A. L. Díaz-Pérez, A. N. Zavala-Hernández, C. Cervantes, and J. Campos-García*

Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México

Received 8 March 2004/ Accepted 12 May 2004

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 mutants affected in the ability to degrade acyclic isoprenoids were isolated with transposon mutagenesis. The gny cluster (for geranoyl), which encodes the enzymes involved in the lower pathway of acyclic isoprenoid degradation, was identified. The gny cluster is constituted by five probable structural genes, gnyDBHAL, and a possible regulatory gene, gnyR. Mutations in the gnyD, gnyB, gnyA, or gnyL gene caused inability to assimilate acyclic isoprenoids of the citronellol family of compounds. Transcriptional analysis showed that expression of the gnyB gene was induced by citronellol and repressed by glucose, whereas expression of the gnyR gene had the opposite behavior. Western blot analysis of citronellol-grown cultures showed induction of biotinylated proteins of 70 and 73 kDa, which probably correspond to 3-methylcrotonoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) carboxylase and geranoyl-CoA carboxylase (GCCase) alpha subunits, respectively. The 73-kDa biotinylated protein, identified as the {alpha}-GCCase subunit, is encoded by gnyA. Intermediary metabolites of the isoprenoid pathway, citronellic and geranic acids, were shown to accumulate in gnyB and gnyA mutants. Our data suggest that the protein products encoded in the gny cluster are the ß and {alpha} subunits of geranoyl-CoA carboxylase (GnyB and GnyA), the citronelloyl-CoA dehydrogenase (GnyD), the {gamma}-carboxygeranoyl-CoA hydratase (GnyH), and the 3-hydroxy-{gamma}-carboxygeranoyl-CoA lyase (GnyL). We conclude that the gnyRDBHAL cluster is involved in isoprenoid catabolism.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana, Edif. B-3, Ciudad Universitaria, CP 58030, Morelia, Michoacán, México. Phone and fax: (52) 443 3265788. E-mail: jcgarcia{at}zeus.umich.mx.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2004, p. 5102-5110, Vol. 70, No. 9
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.9.5102-5110.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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