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Several bacteria from soil and rainwater samples were enriched and isolated with propanesulfonate or butanesulfonate as sole carbon and energy source. Most of the strains isolated utilized nonsubstituted alkanesulfonates with a chain length of C3-C6 and the substituted sulfonates taurine and isethionate as carbon and energy source. A gram-positive isolate, P40, and a gram-negative isolate, P53, were characterized in more detail. Phylogenetic analysis grouped strain P40 within group IV of the genus Rhodococcus and showed a close relationship with Rhodococcus opacus. After phylogenetic and physiological analyses, strain P53 was identified as Comamonas acidovorans. Both bacteria also utilized a wide range of sulfonates as sulfur source. Strain P40, but not strain P53, released sulfite into the medium during dissimilation of sulfonated compounds. Cell-free extracts of strain P53 exhibited high sulfite oxidase activity [2.34 U (mg protein)-1] when assayed with ferricyanide, but not with cytochrome c. Experiments with whole-cell suspensions of both strains showed that the ability to dissimilate 1-propanesulfonate was specifically induced during growth on this substrate and was not present in cells grown on propanol, isethionate or taurine. Whole-cell suspensions of both strains accumulated acetone when oxidizing the non-growth substrate 2-propanesulfonate. Strain P40 cells also accumulated sulfite under these conditions. Stoichiometric measurements with 2-propanesulfonate as substrate in oxygen electrode experiments indicate that the nonsubstituted alkanesulfonates were degraded by a monooxygenase. When strain P53 grew with nonsubstituted alkanesulfonates as carbon and energy source, cells expressed high amounts of yellow pigments, supporting the proposition that an oxygenase containing iron sulfur centres or flavins was involved in their degradation.
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PMID:Linear alkanesulfonates as carbon and energy sources for gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. 1036 99

Evidence is presented for the presence in propanesulfonate-grown Comamonas acidovorans strain P53 of a cytoplasmically located sulfonatase that does not sediment at 100,000 x g. This enzyme catalysed the sulfonate-dependent oxidation of NADH or NADPH, indicating a monooxygenase that effects the addition of molecular oxygen to C(3)-C(6) 1-alkanesulfonates. Enzyme activity was proportional to protein concentration only above approximately 2 mg cytoplasmic fraction protein ml(-1), suggesting that the sulfonatase is a multicomponent enzyme, possibly comparable with methanesulfonate monooxygenase. Enzyme activity was strongly inhibited by divalent metal-chelating agents, but was insensitive to cyanide and azide. Sulfite released from sulfonates by Comamonas acidovorans was oxidized by an unusual sulfite dehydrogenase. This was purified approximately 230-fold and was shown to have a molecular mass of 74.4 kDa, comprising two or more subunits. The enzyme activity was specific in vitro for ferricyanide as an electron acceptor and, unlike other bacterial sulfite dehydrogenases, did not contain native cytochrome c or reduce added cytochrome c. It was a basic protein, insensitive to chloride and sulfate, and exhibited a K(m) for sulfite of approximately 45 &mgr;M.
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PMID:Desulfonation of propanesulfonic acid by comamonas acidovorans strain P53: evidence for an alkanesulfonate sulfonatase and an atypical sulfite dehydrogenase 1059 48