Versatile Oxidase and Dehydrogenase Activities of Bacterial Pyranose 2-Oxidase Facilitate Redox Cycling with Manganese Peroxidase In Vitro

Establishment of a mechanistic synergism between pyranose oxidase and (manganese) peroxidases represents a vital step in the course of elucidating microbial lignin degradation. Here, the comprehensive characterization of a bacterial pyranose 2-oxidase from Kitasatospora aureofaciens is of particular interest for several reasons. First, the phylogenetic analysis of putative pyranose oxidase genes reveals a widespread occurrence of highly similar enzymes in bacteria. Still, there is only a single report on a bacterial pyranose oxidase, stressing the need of closing this gap in the scientific literature. In addition, the relatively small K. aureofaciens proteome supposedly supplies a limited set of enzymatic functions to realize lignocellulosic biomass degradation. Both enzyme and organism therefore present a viable model to study the mechanisms of bacterial lignin decomposition, elucidate physiologically relevant interactions with specialized peroxidases, and potentially realize biotechnological applications. ABSTRACT Pyranose 2-oxidase (POx) has long been accredited a physiological role in lignin degradation, but evidence to provide insights into the biochemical mechanisms and interactions is insufficient. There are ample data in the literature on the oxidase and dehydrogenase activities of POx, yet the biological relevance of this duality could not be established conclusively. Here we present a comprehensive biochemical and phylogenetic characterization of a novel pyranose 2-oxidase from the actinomycetous bacterium Kitasatospora aureofaciens (KaPOx) as well as a possible biomolecular synergism of this enzyme with peroxidases using phenolic model substrates in vitro. A phylogenetic analysis of both fungal and bacterial putative POx-encoding sequences revealed their close evolutionary relationship and supports a late horizontal gene transfer of ancestral POx sequences. We successfully expressed and characterized a novel bacterial POx gene from K. aureofaciens, one of the putative POx genes closely related to well-known fungal POx genes. Its biochemical characteristics comply with most of the classical hallmarks of known fungal pyranose 2-oxidases, i.e., reactivity with a range of different monosaccharides as electron donors as well as activity with oxygen, various quinones, and complexed metal ions as electron acceptors. Thus, KaPOx shows the pronounced duality of oxidase and dehydrogenase similar to that of fungal POx. We further performed efficient redox cycling of aromatic lignin model compounds between KaPOx and manganese peroxidase (MnP). In addition, we found a Mn(III) reduction activity in KaPOx, which, in combination with its ability to provide H2O2, implies this and potentially other POx as complementary enzymatic tools for oxidative lignin degradation by specialized peroxidases. IMPORTANCE Establishment of a mechanistic synergism between pyranose oxidase and (manganese) peroxidases represents a vital step in the course of elucidating microbial lignin degradation. Here, the comprehensive characterization of a bacterial pyranose 2-oxidase from Kitasatospora aureofaciens is of particular interest for several reasons. First, the phylogenetic analysis of putative pyranose oxidase genes reveals a widespread occurrence of highly similar enzymes in bacteria. Still, there is only a single report on a bacterial pyranose oxidase, stressing the need of closing this gap in the scientific literature. In addition, the relatively small K. aureofaciens proteome supposedly supplies a limited set of enzymatic functions to realize lignocellulosic biomass degradation. Both enzyme and organism therefore present a viable model to study the mechanisms of bacterial lignin decomposition, elucidate physiologically relevant interactions with specialized peroxidases, and potentially realize biotechnological applications.

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