Recently evolved combination of unique sulfatase and amidase genes enables bacterial degradation of the wastewater micropollutant acesulfame worldwide.

Autor:	Bonatelli ML; Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany., Rohwerder T; Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany., Popp D; Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany., Liu Y; Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany., Akay C; Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany., Schultz C; Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany., Liao KP; Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany., Ding C; Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany., Reemtsma T; Department of Analytical Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.; Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany., Adrian L; Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.; Chair for Geobiotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Kleinsteuber S; Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in microbiology [Front Microbiol] 2023 Jul 27; Vol. 14, pp. 1223838. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 27 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI:	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1223838
Abstrakt:	Xenobiotics often challenge the principle of microbial infallibility. One example is acesulfame introduced in the 1980s as zero-calorie sweetener, which was recalcitrant in wastewater treatment plants until the early 2010s. Then, efficient removal has been reported with increasing frequency. By studying acesulfame metabolism in alphaproteobacterial degraders of the genera Bosea and Chelatococcus , we experimentally confirmed the previously postulated route of two subsequent hydrolysis steps via acetoacetamide-N-sulfonate (ANSA) to acetoacetate and sulfamate. Genome comparison of wildtype Bosea sp. 100-5 and an acesulfame degradation-defective mutant revealed the involvement of two plasmid-borne gene clusters. The acesulfame-hydrolyzing sulfatase is strictly manganese-dependent and belongs to the metallo beta-lactamase family. In all degraders analyzed, it is encoded on a highly conserved gene cluster embedded in a composite transposon. The ANSA amidase, on the other hand, is an amidase signature domain enzyme encoded in another gene cluster showing variable length among degrading strains. Transposition of the sulfatase gene cluster between chromosome and plasmid explains how the two catabolic gene clusters recently combined for the degradation of acesulfame. Searching available genomes and metagenomes for the two hydrolases and associated genes indicates that the acesulfame plasmid evolved and spread worldwide in short time. While the sulfatase is unprecedented and unique for acesulfame degraders, the amidase occurs in different genetic environments and likely evolved for the degradation of other substrates. Evolution of the acesulfame degradation pathway might have been supported by the presence of structurally related natural and anthropogenic compounds, such as aminoacyl sulfamate ribonucleotide or sulfonamide antibiotics. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2023 Bonatelli, Rohwerder, Popp, Liu, Akay, Schultz, Liao, Ding, Reemtsma, Adrian and Kleinsteuber.)
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