Studies on p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase from Pseudomonas putida
Enzymatic hydroxylation mechanism of p- hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase from Pseudomonas putidas, describing product separation and purification
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Enzymatic hydroxylation mechanism of p- hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase from Pseudomonas putidas, describing product separation and purification
Synthesis regulation of p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase and protocatechuate oxygenase in beta- ketoadipate pathway in Pseudomonas putida
A method is developed for the detection and identification of biological particles introduced in aerosol form into a quadrupole mass spectrometer. The bacterial aerosol is generated by nebulizing an ethanol suspension. The particles are introduced into the ion source of the mass spectrometer in the form of a beam, where they are individually volatilized on a V-type rhenium filament and ionized by electron impaction. It is shown that the average intensity of a mass peak is obtained from the pulse height distribution of about a thousand ion pulses from different particles. Pseudomonas putida, Bacillus subtilis, and Bacillus cereus are used in the studies. Differences between the relative intensities of mass peaks in the spectra from P. putida and B. subtilis are found and may provide a method for differentiation of microorganisms. The results for the two species agree reasonably well with those reported by Kistemaker et al. (1975) and Schulten et al. (1973). However, there exist some differences between the two spectra in the high mass range due to the difference in the pyrolysis conditions.
A new technique is presented for in-vivo remote query measurement of the complex permittivity spectra of a biological culture solution. A sensor comprised of a printed inductor-capacitor resonant-circuit is placed within the culture solution of interest, with the impedance spectrum of the sensor measured using a remotely located loop antenna; the complex permittivity spectra of the culture is calculated from the measured impedance spectrum. The remote query nature of the sensor platform enables, for example, the in-vivo real-time monitoring of bacteria or yeast growth from within sealed opaque containers. The wireless monitoring technique does not require a specific alignment between sensor and antenna. Results are presented for studies conducted on laboratory strains of Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli JM109, Pseudomonas putida and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Manganese-oxidizing bacteria (MnOB) produce Mn oxide minerals that can be used by humans for bioremediation but the purpose for the bacterium is less clear. This study describes the isolation and characterization of cold-tolerant MnOB strains isolated from a compost pile in Morris, Minnesota, USA: Pseudomonas sp. MS-1 and DSV-1. The strains were preliminarily identified as members of species Pseudomonas psychrophila by 16S rRNA analysis and a multi-locus phylogenetic study using a database of 88 genomes from the Pseudomonas genus. However, the average nucleotide identity (ANI) between these strains and the P. psychrophila sp. CF149 type strain was less than 93%. Thus, the two strains are members of a novel species that diverged from P. psychrophila . DSV-1 and MS-1 are cold tolerant; both grow at 4C but grow faster at 24C. Unlike the mesophilic MnOB P. putida GB-1, both strains are capable of robustly oxidizing Mn at low temperatures. Both DSV-1 and MS-1 genomes contain homologs of several Mn oxidation genes found in P. putida GB-1 ( mnxG, mcoA, mnxS1, mnxS2 and mnxR ). Random mutagenesis by transposon insertion was successfully performed in both strains and identified genes involved in Mn oxidation that were similar to those found in P. putida GB-1. Our results show that MnOB can be isolated from compost, supporting a role for Mn oxidation in plant waste degradation. The novel isolates Pseudomonas spp. DSV-1 and MS-1 both can oxidize Mn at low temperature and likely employ similar mechanisms and regulation as P. putida GB-1.