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Abstract

, and strains 103 and 203, can degrade polyethylene glycols (PEGs). They differ in the following respects: (i) different substrate specificities (chain length) of assimilable PEG, (ii) PEG-inducible or constitutive PEG-degradative proteins, and (iii) symbiotic or axenic degradation of PEG. was able to incorporate PEG 6000, but strain 103 could not incorporate more than PEG 4000, suggesting that the difference in assimilable PEG chain length depends on the ability to take up substrate. PEG-degradative genes (, , , , and ) from these strains were cloned. Their primary structures shared a high homology of more than 99 %. The genes encode a TonB-dependent receptor (), a PEG-aldehyde dehydrogenase (), a permease (), a PEG dehydrogenase () and an acyl-CoA ligase (), and in the opposite orientation, an AraC-type transcription regulator (). The operon was flanked by two different sets of transposases. These three strains contained large plasmids and the operon was located in one of the large plasmids in . The genes could be detected in other PEG-degrading sphingomonads. These results suggest that the genes have evolved in a plasmid-mediated manner. An insertion of a transposon gene () between and in strain 203 was found, which caused the constitutive expression of in this strain.

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