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() HL PM-1 grows on 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (picric acid) or 2,4-dinitrophenol (2,4-DNP) as sole nitrogen source. A gene cluster involved in picric acid degradation was recently identified. The functional assignment of three of its genes, , and , and the tentative functional assignment of a fourth one, , is reported. The genes were expressed in as His-tag fusion proteins that were purified by Ni-affinity chromatography. The enzyme activity of each protein was determined by spectrophotometry and HPLC analyses. NpdI, a hydride transferase, catalyses a hydride transfer from reduced F to the aromatic ring of picric acid, generating the hydride σ-complex (hydride Meisenheimer complex) of picric acid (H-PA). Similarly, NpdI also transformed 2,4-DNP to the hydride σ-complex of 2,4-DNP. A second hydride transferase, NpdC catalysed a subsequent hydride transfer to H-PA, to produce a dihydride σ-complex of picric acid (2H-PA). All three reactions required the activity of NpdG, an NADPH-dependent F reductase, for shuttling the hydride ions from NADPH to F. NpdH converted 2H-PA to a hitherto unknown product, X. The results show that , and play a key role in the initial steps of picric acid degradation, and that may prove to be important in the later stages.

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