Conversion of chlorinated propanes by Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b expressing soluble methane monooxygenase |
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Authors: | T Bosma D B Janssen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands Tel.: +31 50 3634008 Fax: +31 50 3634165, NL |
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Abstract: | Chlorinated propanes are important pollutants that may show persistent behaviour in the environment. The biotransformation
of 1-chloropropane, 1,2-dichloropropane, 1,3-dichloropropane and 1,2,3-trichloropropane was studied using resting cell suspensions
of Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b expressing soluble methane monooxygenase. The transformation followed first-order kinetics. The rate constants were
in the order 1-chloropropane > 1,3-dichloropropane > 1,2-dichloropropane > 1,2,3-trichloropropane, and varied from 0.07 to
1.03 ml min−1 mg of cells−1 for 1,2,3-trichloropropane and 1-chloropropane respectively. Turnover-dependent inactivation occurred for all of the chloropropanes
tested. The inactivation constants were lower for 1-chloropropane and 1,2-dichloropropane than for 1,2,3-trichloropropane
and 1,3-dichloropropane. Not all the chloride was released during cometabolic transformation of the chlorinated propanes and
production of monochlorinated- and dichlorinated propanols was found by gas chromatography. The reaction pathway of 1,2,3-trichloropropane
conversion was studied by mass spectrometric analysis of products formed in 2H2O, which indicated that 1,2,3-trichloropropane was initially oxidized to 2,3-dichloropropionaldehyde and 1,3-dichloroacetone,
depending on whether oxygen insertion occurred on the C-3 or C-2 carbon of 1,2,3,-trichloropropane, followed by reduction
to the corresponding propanols. The results show that chloropropanes are susceptible to cometabolic oxidation by methanotrophs,
but that the transformation kinetics is worse than with cometabolic conversion of trichloroethylene.
Received: 27 November 1997 / Received revision: 27 February 1998 / Accepted: 27 February 1998 |
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