Arsenic Demethylation by a C路As Lyase in Cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. PCC 7120
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- 作者：Yu Yan ; Jun Ye ; Xi-Mei Xue ; Yong-Guan Zhu
- 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 15, 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：49
- 期：24
- 页码：14350-14358
- 全文大小：464K
- ISSN：1520-5851
文摘
Arsenic, a ubiquitous toxic substance, exists mainly as inorganic forms in the environment. It is perceived that organoarsenicals can be demethylated and degraded into inorganic arsenic by microorganisms. Few studies have focused on the mechanism of arsenic demethylation in bacteria. Here, we investigated arsenic demethylation in a typical freshwater cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. PCC 7120. This bacterium was able to demethylate monomethylarsenite [MAs(III)] rapidly to arsenite [As(III)] and also had the ability to demethylate monomethylarsenate [MAs(V)] to As(III). The NsarsI encoding a C路As lyase responsible for MAs(III) demethylation was cloned from Nostoc sp. PCC 7120 and heterologously expressed in an As-hypersensitive strain Escherichia coli AW3110 (螖arsRBC). Expression of NsarsI was shown to confer MAs(III) resistance through arsenic demethylation. The purified NsArsI was further identified and functionally characterized in vitro. NsArsI existed mainly as the trimeric state, and the kinetic data were well-fit to the Hill equation with K0.5 = 7.55 卤 0.33 渭M for MAs(III), Vmax = 0.79 卤 0.02 渭M min鈥?, and h = 2.7. Both of the NsArsI truncated derivatives lacking the C-terminal 10 residues (ArsI10) or 23 residues (ArsI23) had a reduced ability of MAs(III) demethylation. These results provide new insights for understanding the important role of cyanobacteria in arsenic biogeochemical cycling in the environment.