Affiliation:
1. Laboratorio de Bioquimica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, and Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-23982
Abstract
A natural bacterial isolate that we have classified as
Pseudomonas acidovorans
grows on the lignin model compounds 1-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-2-(2-methoxyphenoxy)propane-1,3-diol (compound 1) and 1-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-2-(2-methoxyphenoxy)propane-1,3-diol (compound 1′), as well as on the corresponding 1-oxo compounds (2 and 2′) as sole sources of carbon and energy. Metabolic intermediates present in cultures growing on compound 1 included compound 2, 2-methoxyphenol (guaiacol [compound 3]), β-hydroxypro-pioveratrone (compound 4), acetoveratrone (compound 5), and veratric acid (compound 6). Also identified were compounds 1′, 2′, β-hydroxypropiovanillone (compound 4′), and acetovanillone (compound 5′), indicating that 4-O demethylation also occurs. The phenolic intermediates were the same as those found in cultures growing on compound 1′. Compounds 2 and 2′ were in part also reduced to compounds 1 and 1′, respectively. Compound 3 was shown to be derived from the 2-methoxyphenoxy moiety. A suggested degradation scheme is as follows: compound 1→2→(3 + 4)→5→6 (and similarly for 1′). In this scheme, the key reaction is cleavage of the ether linkage between C-2 (C
β
) of the phenylpropane moiety and the 2-methoxyphenoxy moiety in compounds 2 and 2′ (i.e., β-aryl ether cleavage). On the basis of compounds identified, viz., 3 and 4 (4′), cleavage appears formally to be reductive. Because this is unlikely, the initial cleavage products probably were not detected. The implications of these results for the enzyme(s) responsible are discussed.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
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