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gorzata Korycka-Machaa1aw Dziadek1
1 Medical Biology Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodowa 106, 93-232 
odz, Poland
2 Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Technical University of odz, Wolczanska 171/173, 90-924 odz, Poland
Correspondence
Jarosaw Dziadek
jdziadek{at}cbm.pan.pl
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1-dehydrogenase (KsdD). The recent annotation of the Mycobacterium smegmatis genome (TIGR database) revealed six KsdD homologues. Targeted disruption of the MSMEG5898 (ksdD-1) gene, but not the MSMEG4855 (ksdD-2) gene, resulted in partial inactivation of the cholesterol degradation pathway and accumulation of the intermediate 4-androstene-3,17-dione. This effect was reversible by the introduction of the wild-type ksdD-1 gene into M. smegmatis ksdD-1 or overexpression of ksdD-2. The data indicate that KsdD1 is the main KsdD in M. smegmatis, but that KsdD2 is able to perform the cholesterol degradation process when overproduced.
-hydroxy-4-androstene-3,17-dione; AD, 4-androstene-3,17-dione; ADD, 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione; DCO, double-crossover homologous recombinant; Kan, kanamycin; KsdD, 3-ketosteroid 1-dehydrogenase; SCO, single-crossover homologous recombinant |
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; Martin, 1977; Szentirmai, 1990). These intermediates may be used as precursors for the production of steroid drugs and hormones (Sedlaczek, 1988). Two enzymes, 3-ketosteroid 1-dehydrogenase (KsdD) and 3-ketosteroid 9-hydroxylase (KsdH) are essential to initiate steroid ring degradation (Fig. 1). KsdD catalyses transhydrogenation of 3-keto-4-ene-steroid to 3-keto-1,4-diene-steroid, e.g. progesterone to ADD. ksdD genes have been isolated and overproduced from a number of micro-organisms (Molnar et al., 1995; Choi et al., 1995; Itagaki et al., 1990; Kaufmann et al., 1992; Morii et al., 1998), but the most abundant data about enzymes involved in steroid skeleton degradation have come from the study of Comamonas testosteroni (Plesiat et al., 1991; Florin et al., 1996; Horinouchi et al., 2001, 2003a, b). The inactivation of KsdD may lead to the accumulation of 9-hydroxy-4-androstene-3,17-dione (9OHAD) from steroid compounds.
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, 2001). The disruption of both genes was required to block effectively the AD degradation process (Geize et al., 2002). Reported mycobacterial activities in sterol biodegradation (Wilmanska et al., 1995; Wovcha et al., 1979) are not supported by the identification and molecular characterization of genes involved in this process. Here we report on the identification of the main ksdD gene in Mycobacterium smegmatis and its characterization by unmarked gene deletion. |
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) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra. The mycobacterial strains were cultured in Middlebrook 7H9 broth or 7H10 agar plates supplemented with albumin-glucose and 25 µg kanamycin (Kan) ml–1 (when required). For steroid bioconversion experiments, mycobacterial strains were cultured in NB broth [8·0 g nutrient broth (Difco) l–1, 10·0 g glucose l–1, supplemented with 0·2 % Tween 80 (pH 6·0–6·2)] or in mineral medium [g l–1: MgSO4.7H2O, 0·5; Na2HPO4, 1·0; KH2PO4, 0·5; NH4NO3, 2·5; CaCl2.2H2O, 0·001; Fe2(SO4)3.nH2O, 0·01; MnSO4.nH2O, 0·0001; Co(NO3)2.6H2O, 0·000005; (NH4)6Mo7O24.4H2O, 0·0001].
Plasmid constructions.
The plasmid DNA of mycobacterial transformants was recovered and analysed as described by Madiraju et al. (2000).
Standard molecular biology protocols were used for this purpose (Sambrook et al., 1989). All PCR products were obtained using thermostable ExTaq polymerase (Takara) and were cloned initially into a TA vector (pGemTeasy; Promega), then released by digestion with appropriate restriction enzymes before cloning into expression vectors. To facilitate subcloning into expression vectors, restriction enzyme recognition sites (underlined, see below) were incorporated into the sequence of the primers. The plasmids used in this work are listed in Table 1.
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Complementation and overexpression constructs.
Two ORFs (MSMEG5898, ksdD-1; MSMEG4855, ksdD-2) were PCR-amplified using primers MsD1s (5'-GGAAGATCTATGACTGGACAGGAGTACG-3') and MsD1r (5'-GCTCTAGAGCCCTTCCGGGAGGCCGC-3') for ksdD-1, and MsD2s (5'-GAAGATCTATGACTGATTCGAACGGCCTCC-3') and MsD2r (5'-GCTCTAGATTATCAGTCGACTGATTTGCCCG-3') for ksdD-2, and cloned into the BamHI/XbaI sites of pJam2 downstream from the Pami promoter. The resulting constructs carrying putative M. smegmatis ksdD-1 and ksdD-2 genes were named pTS1 and pAB42, respectively. The putative ksdD genes of M. tuberculosis were PCR-amplified using TbD1s (5'-GAAGATCTATGACTGTGCAGGAGTTCG-3') and TbD1r (5'-GGAATTCTCAGCGCTTTCCCGCATGATCG-3') for ksdD-1tb (MT3641) or TbD2s (5'-CGGGATCCGTGGCGTTAACCTGTACCG-3') and TbD2r (5'-CCCAAGCTTCTAGCGGATATCCTCGGCGGC-3') for ksdD-2tb (MT0809). The PCR products were cloned into the BamHI/EcoRI (ksdD-1tb) or BamHI/HindIII (ksdD-2tb) sites of pMV261 under control of the Phsp promoter. The resulting constructs carrying ksdD-1tb or ksdD-2tb were named pAB49 and pAB43, respectively.
Disruption of ksdD-1 and ksdD-2 genes.
The protocol of Parish & Stoker (2000) was used to disrupt ksdD-1, ksdD-2 or both genes at their native loci on the chromosome. Plasmid DNA (pTS10, pAB46) was treated with NaOH (0·2 mM) and integrated into the M. smegmatis mc2155 chromosome by homologous recombination. The resulting single-crossover homologous recombinant (SCO) mutant colonies were blue, KanR and sensitive to sucrose. The site of recombination was confirmed by PCR and Southern hybridization. The SCO strains were further processed to select for double-crossover (DCO) mutants that were white, KanS and resistant to sucrose (2 %). PCR and Southern hybridization were used to distinguish between the wild-type and DCO mutants.
Steroid standards.
-Sitosterol (Triple Crown) and androst-1-ene-3,11,17-trione (Sigma) were used as internal standards for quantitative determination by GC (for cholesterol and AD, respectively). Additional standards were 9OHAD, AD and ADD (Koch-Light).
Growth of wild-type and mutant M. smegmatis strains on cholesterol or AD.
NB medium (100 ml in 1 l flasks) was inoculated with M. smegmatis and incubated overnight at 37 °C with shaking at 130 r.p.m. min–1. From this culture 20 ml was transferred to 180 ml fresh NB medium in 1 l flasks. At the time of inoculation, cholesterol or AD (0·1–0·3 g l–1) were added to the medium and the cultures were incubated on a shaker (130 r.p.m.) at 37 °C. To determine the dry cell mass at the start of the experiments and at 24 h time intervals, samples (2x5 ml) were withdrawn from the culture, filtered through Synpor filters (pore diameter 0·2 µm) of known weight and the sediment was dried to constant weight.
To determine the progress in cholesterol or AD biotransformation, 2 ml culture samples were taken, mixed with -sitosterol and androst-1-ene-3,11,17-trione as internal standards (each at 100 µg in 50 µl chloroform), and extracted three times with an equal volume of chloroform. The extracts were dried under vacuum, the residue was dissolved in 0·5 ml acetone and steroids were analysed by chromatography as described previously (Rumijowska et al., 1997).
To prepare cholesterol or AD, the substrate was dissolved in 5 ml 96 % warm ethanol and an equal volume of sterile distilled water was added. Then the mixture was micronized for 20 min using a water bath/ultrasonic cleaner.
An overnight culture of M. smegmatis (100 ml in 1 l flasks) grown in NB medium was harvested by centrifugation for 20 min at 4000 r.p.m. The cells were resuspended in 10 ml mineral medium and a 2 ml sample was transferred to 198 ml fresh mineral medium in 1 l flasks. Cholesterol or AD was added as sole carbon source. Progress in dry cell mass production and cholesterol or AD biotransformation were monitored. The concentration of the substrate was determined in each experiment.
The enzymic activity of each strain was measured by using GC in at least three independent experiments.
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) revealed a putative ksdD gene (Rv3537/MT3641) exhibiting about 34 % identity with Arthrobacter simplex and Rhodococcus rhodochrous ksdD products at the amino acid level and an additional ORF (MT0809) with limited homology to a known KsdD (25 % identity with KsdD of A. simplex). Recently the genome sequence of M. smegmatis was annotated. There are as many as six ORFs (MSMEG2871, 2873, 4850, 4855, 5801 and 5898) identified as putative ksdD genes, including those analysed in this paper. The most significant similarity values for each M. smegmatis and M. tuberculosis putative ksdD gene are shown in Table 2. KsdD is a flavoprotein carrying a conservative N-terminal FAD-binding domain with the consensus sequence GSG(A/G)(A/G)(A/G)X17E (Geize et al., 2000). Such a motif can be identified in MSMEG5898, MSMEG4850 and MT3641, but not in the other five ORFs analysed (Fig. 2). Two putative ksdD genes of M. smegmatis, ksdD-1 (MSMEG5898) and ksdD-2 (MSMEG4855), displaying respectively high (78 %) and low (33 %) amino acid sequence identity with the putative ksdD gene of M. tuberculosis (MT3641), were selected for this study. The alignment of putative KsdDs revealed that ksdD-1 (MSMEG5898) is the most probable counterpart of the putative M. tuberculosis ksdD gene (MT3641) and that ksdD-2 (MSMEG4855) shows limited homology to both putative M. tuberculosis ksdD genes MT3641 and MT0809 (33 and 20 %, respectively). Both M. smegmatis KsdDs contain the putative N-terminal FAD-binding motif with one exception, S to T in KsdD2, but we do not know the significance of this variation.
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was used to obtain the unmarked deletion of the ksdD-1 gene from the M. smegmatis chromosome as described in Methods. The resultant mutant was verified by PCR and Southern hybridization (Fig. 3). TLC analysis revealed the accumulation of AD when a mutant M. smegmatis strain, ksdD-1 (DCO1), but not a wild-type M. smegmatis strain, was cultured in the presence of cholesterol (data not shown). To quantify the results obtained, GC analysis, with androsterone and -sitosterol as the internal standards, was performed. Growth of ksdD-1 mutant and wild-type M. smegmatis strains in the presence of cholesterol results in fast (48 h) degradation of the steroid substrate. However, the intermediates of cholesterol degradation were detected only in the mutant culture (Fig. 4). The expected accumulation of AD indicates the inhibition of the cholesterol degradation pathway at the KsdD step. Maximum AD accumulation was observed in a 48-h-old culture of the DCO1 mutant and its presence for the next 192 h indicated that ksdD-1 is essential for degradation of androstendione in M. smegmatis cultured under the conditions used. To confirm that the observed effect was due to unmarked deletion of the ksdD-1 gene, the ksdD gene of M. smegmatis was amplified and cloned in the pJam2 expression vector under the acetamidase promoter and introduced into the DCO1 mutant. The resultant complemented strain was cultured in the presence of cholesterol and acetamide (0·2 %) to induce the expression of the plasmid copy of ksdD-1 and the cholesterol degradation process was monitored by GC. Fast and complete degradation of cholesterol, without accumulation of detectable amounts of steroid degradation intermediates, was observed (data not shown). In the control culture (M. smegmatis ksdD-1) we found that acetamide per se has no effect on cholesterol degradation and accumulation of AD.
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). Until the 96 h time point the accumulation of AD was observed, then the amount of AD began to decrease with a simultaneous increase in ADD. This result indicates that KsdD2 exhibits at least a low activity of KsdD after its accumulation in M. smegmatis cells. To test the significance of KsdD2 in M. smegmatis cholesterol degradation, a ksdD-2 gene knock-out in wild-type M. smegmatis and the DCO1 mutant was performed. For unmarked ksdD-2 gene deletion mutagenesis, plasmid pAB46 was constructed and introduced into wild-type M. smegmatis and the DCO1 mutant. The selected ksdD-2 knock-out strains were analysed by PCR and Southern hybridization (Fig. 6). The obtained mutants, M. smegmatis ksdD-2 (DCO2) and M. smegmatis ksdD-1 ksdD-2 (dDCO1,2), were cultured in the presence of cholesterol. The degradation of cholesterol and accumulation of the steroid intermediates were monitored by GC. Both mutants were able to use cholesterol for 48 h as described for the wild-type strain (Fig. 5). The DCO2 mutant was shown to accumulate a small amount of AD [<1 mg l–1 (g dry mass)–1] and ADD in the first 24–48 h of the biotransformation process. After 48–72 h, steroids were not detectable, probably due to KsdD1 activity. The double mutant dDCO1,2 transformed cholesterol to AD, which was stably maintained until 192 h of culture (Fig. 5). Moreover, ADD was not detectable at any time point, suggesting that KsdD activity was completely inhibited in the dDCO1,2 mutant growing under the given conditions. Furthermore, the pJam2-ksdD-2 construct was introduced into the dDCO1,2 mutant to confirm the activity of KsdD2. The dDCO1,2 mutant carrying the plasmid copy of ksdD-2 gene under a strong, inducible promoter restored KsdD activity manifested by the conversion of AD to ADD which was detectable after 96 h of culture as observed previously for the DCO1-ksdD-2 strain (Fig. 5).
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ksdD-1 ksdD-2 double mutant. Both genes were PCR-amplified and cloned under control of the Phsp promoter. The resulting constructs were introduced into the mutant cells. GC analysis revealed that overproduction of ksdD-1tb complements the ksdD-1 ksdD-2 double mutation (Fig. 7). Initially, cholesterol was biotransformed to AD (48 h) which was further degraded with temporary accumulation of ADD. The pAB43 construct (ksdD-2tb) did not change the ability of the host strain to biotransform cholesterol in comparison to M. smegmatis ksdD-1 ksdD-2.
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). It is very likely that the mineral medium with AD or cholesterol as a sole source of carbon and energy induced the expression of ksdD-like genes (see Table 2
) which are not expressed in rich medium. This expression would allow dDCO1,2 to convert AD to ADD which can be further degraded.
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ksdD-1 mutant complemented the mutant ksdD-1 gene and restored KsdD activity. The double mutant, lacking both ksdD-1 and ksdD-2 genes, accumulated AD in the cholesterol degradation process performed in rich medium, but was able to grow in mineral medium with cholesterol (or AD) as the sole source of carbon and energy. This clearly showed the presence of at least one additional KsdD enzyme responsible for AD dehydrogenation. Two KsdDs were previously described in R. erythropolis and each enzyme alone was able to support the degradation of 9OHAD (Geize et al., 2002). However, the double disruption of both kstD and kstD2 genes resulted in a metabolic block at the level of 9OHAD. It is interesting that disruption of kstD or kstD2 genes in R. erythropolis resulted in the accumulation of 9OHAD (Geize et al., 2002). In the case of M. smegmatis the 9OHAD was observed exclusively when cholesterol but not AD was used as a substrate (Wovcha et al., 1979). This would suggest differences in the steroid degradation pathways in R. erythropolis and M. smegmatis.
Two distinct KsdD activities have also been reported in Mycobacterium fortuitum. Crude extracts of cells induced by AD exhibited 1 dehydrogenation activity to AD and much weaker activity (four times) to 9OHAD. In contrast, cultures induced with 9OH-progesterone were found to show a two-times higher level of 1 dehydrogenation activity to 9OHAD than to AD. However, the particular genes encoding these enzymes remain unknown (Wovcha et al., 1979). An extra ksdD-like gene (ORF3) was also reported in the A. simplex genome, but its activity was not confirmed (Dziadek et al., 1998).
In contrast to M. smegmatis, the genome of M. tuberculosis contains only two putative ksdD genes, MT3641 and MT0809 (TIGR). Moreover, the N-terminal FAD-binding motif is not conserved in MT0809. Since the amino acid identity is over 80 %, it is likely that the counterpart of MT3641 in the M. smegmatis genome is MSMEG5898 (ksdD-1). We also found that MT3641 (but not MT0809) was able to complement KsdD activity when overproduced in M. smegmatis dDCO1,2. The genome of M. smegmatis is much bigger in comparison to M. tuberculosis (6·9/4·4 Mb). It is likely that the number of genes has decreased in the course of evolution, since the huge enzymic machinery important for environmental strains could probably be decreased in pathogenic bacteria growing in much more defined conditions. The presence of MT0809 in the M. tuberculosis genome and its low level of homology to known non-mycobacterial ksdD genes would suggest a specific enzyme activity distinct from KsdD1 of M. smegmatis or M. tuberculosis. The most likely counterpart of MT0809 in the M. smegmatis genome is MSMEG5801 (78 % identity at amino acid level) which also lacks the conserved N-terminal FAD-binding sequence. However, further investigations would be necessary to identify the significance of MT0809 and MSMEG5801 for steroid bioconversion.
The significant accumulation of AD by M. smegmatis ksdD-1 in the biotransformation of cholesterol suggests that the other KsdD-like enzymes (including KsdD2) exhibit low activity or a low expression level in rich medium. The overproduction of KsdD2 in the M. smegmatis ksdD-1 mutant resulted in the accumulation of AD in the first 72 h of the cholesterol degradation process and subsequent bioconversion of AD to ADD. Our previous investigations showed that the time of maximal activation of Pami in the presence of 0·2 % acetamide is 3–6 h. Moreover, the activated Pami was able to produce about 250 000 FtsZ molecules per M. smegmatis cell (Dziadek et al., 2002). On the other hand, the complementation of M. smegmatis ksdD-1 by ksdD-1, expressed under control of the same promoter (Pami), resulted in fast (48 h) degradation of cholesterol without the accumulation of steroid intermediates as observed in the wild-type strain. The low activity of KsdD2 and potentially of the other KsdD-like enzymes of M. smegmatis could be due to different substrate specificity of these enzymes. It is likely that a particular KsdD-like enzyme uses a different substrate for dehydrogenation and the other substrates are less preferred. We observed the accumulation of an unrecognized product (probably C22–24 acids) in the cholesterol degradation process carried out by strains lacking ksdD-2 which did not accumulate in M. smegmatis ksdD-1. However, to understand the significance of all putative KsdDs in steroid biotransformation and their substrate specificity, further investigations, including construction of mutants, protein purification and analysis, would be required.
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Received 8 February 2005;
revised 24 March 2005;
accepted 24 March 2005.
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