Abstract
Sphingomonas paucimobilis SYK-6 strain can degrade various lignin-related compounds. In the lignin metabolic pathway of this bacterium, vanillate and syringate are demethylated by the tetrahydrofolate (THF)-dependentO-demethylation system, which requires the enzymatic function of LigH. Upstream of theligH gene is the 5,10-methylene-THF reductase gene. Its gene product was essential for one-carbon metabolism involved in the amino acid synthesis and DNA methylation in all organisms. When themetF gene was inactivated in the genome of SYK-6, the resultant mutant, DLmetF, could not grow on vanillate and syringate as a sole carbon source. Furthermore, DLmetF showed significant accumulation of methyl-THF as a result of vanillate and syringateO-demethylation. We report here that THF-dependent vanillate and syringateO-demethylation links tightly to the one-carbon metabolic pathway that is associated with amino acid synthesis and DNA methylation, and the methyl group is the sole one-carbon source inS. paucimobilis SYK-6.
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