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ENHANCING ORGANOPHOSPHORUS PESTICIDES DETOXIFICATION USING INTERGENERIC PROTOPLAST FUSION BETWEEN ESCHERICHIA COLI AND TWO DIFFERENT BACTERIA GENERA By Ayman H. Mansee1*, Mohamed Yacout2 and Manal R. Montasser3 1 Pesticide Chemistry Department, Faculty of Agriculture Alexandria University 2 Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture 3 Central Lab of Pesticide, Agricultural Research Center, Alexandria *Author E-mail address: [email protected] Fax:+203-5922780 ABSTRACT Recently we isolated certain E. coli strains from specific contaminated sites of Marriute Lake Alexandria Province, EGYPT that showed capabilities for organophosphate pesticides (OP) degradation. The promising strains of those isolates had been chosen for protoplast fusion (hybridization) with Bacillus thuringiensis D55 and Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The protoplast fusion capabilities for OP biodegradation were assayed and compared with their parental bacteria. These fusions showed a superlative increase in OP biodegradation. Interestingly, the performance of the hybrids for OP biodegradation was enhanced with time and showed a tremendous efficiency (100%) even at high level of substrate concentrations. The hybrids degraded up to 250µg/ml of Paraoxon completely 54 days after hybridization. INTRODUCTION Several organophosphate compounds (OP’s) are used to control a wide variety of insect pests, weeds, and disease-transmitting vectors. Among known insecticides, OP has been intensively used in Egypt over many years (El-Sebea et al., 1993). For example, parathion is one of popular pesticides used for agriculture crop protection in US with more than 7 million pounds consumed in 1995 (EPA, 1997) The widespread use of this group of pesticides in different applications especially for agriculture purposes resulted in many undesirable effects, generating of wastewater and causing a lot of environmental pollution problems (Gill and Ballesteros, 2000). The need to develop safe, convenient, and economically feasible methods for removal and detoxification of OP’s compounds from the environment has been urgent (Grimsley et al., 1997). In this regard, biotechnology has a growing place (poison) in the remediation of hazardous waste sites allover the world, especially in developing countries where population density is high with limitation in land and fresh water resources (Omenn, 1992). Recently, using isolated microorganisms from contaminated environmental phases for pesticides decontamination is getting a great attention. Ramanathan and Lalithakumari (1999) mentioned that the continuous increasing of selection pressure due to pollution factors developed in many environmental phases such as water and soil, promptly induces the formation of modified bacteria strains; specifically characterized by their capability for bioremediation such inducing chemicals. In addition, isolates from specific contaminated areas of naturally occurring bacteria, showed variable capabilities for metabolizing OP’s (Mansee et al., 2004a). This provides the possibility for a safe and in-situ detoxification of these compounds (Mansee et al., 2004a and Mulbry et al., 1998). In this view, a number of soil bacteria have been found to be capable of degrading parathion. These bacteria normally produced parathion hydrolase, which is encoded by the opd for organophosphate degradation gene. Microbial enzymes such as parathion hydrolase are thought to play a significant role in the degradation of parathion and related organophosphate insecticides in the soil (Siddaramappa, et al., 1973 ), this observation has stimulated studying of the organisms that are capable of synthesizing such enzymes (Karns et al., 1987, Mulbry and Karns, 1989, Mulbry, and Kearney, 1991, Mulbry, 1992). In each of these organisms the opd gene was found to be located on a large plasmid (Harper et al. ,1988, Mulbry et al., 1986 , Somara, and Siddavattam, 1995). The plasmids were all unrelated as judged by Southern hybridization, but sequencing of the opd genes showed that the nucleotide sequences were 98100% identical (Mulbry and. Karns, 1989a, Serdar et al., 1989, Somara, 2002). Studies of two of the plasmids, pPDL2 from Flavobacterium sp. strain ATCC 27551 and pCMS1 from P. diminuta strain MG, by restriction analysis and hybridization experiments indicated that the opd genes were located in a highly conserved region that was estimated to extend approximately 2.6 kb upstream and 1.7 kb downstream of opd (Mulbry et al., 1986, Mulbry et al., 1987 ). No homology was evident between the two plasmids outside this region, and the possibility that the opd gene was carried on a transposon was discussed (Mulbry et al., 1987) which confirmed later by Siddavattam et al., (2003). The capabilities of different bacterial species for OP’s biodegradation and the influence of several factors on such capabilities were studied by several investigators; Bacillus sp. (Bhadbhade et al., 2002b); and E. coli (Kim et al., 2002; Mansee et al., 2004a,b and McLoughlin et al., 2004). Recently, our observation demonstrated the remarkable ability of local isolates of E. coli to degrade OP insecticides. Such observation presents a potential possibility of OP insecticides bioremediation, in the Egyptian environment. A technology based on the use of local bacteria and developing the efficiency of isolated strains by adaptation as described in our reports could be introduced an efficient, cheap and environmental friendly technique for pollutants decontamination (Mansee et al., 2004a,b). On the other hand, protoplast fusion has been used as a tool for gene transfer intergeneric bacteria (Gokhale et al., 1984, and Gokhale & Deobagkar, 1994) and to enhance genetically many bacterial characters (Shweil et al., 1998). To enhance the capability of isolated bacteria for OP’s biodegradation, the present study was undertaken to investigate the possibility of hybridization, through protoplast fusion, between Agrobacterium and Bacillus species; and isolated E. coli strains that previously indicated their capability for OP biodegradation. Moreover, the efficiency of resulted bacterial hybridizes for biodegradation of OP were investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Chemicals: Paraoxon 98% (diethyl- p-nitrophenyl phosphate) was purchased from Chem. Service, Inc, West Chester, PA, USA. Luria-Bertani (LB) media was composed of (l-1 distilled water): Bactotryptone 1g; Bactoyeast extract 5g; sodium chloride 10g; potassium dibasic phosphate 1g; and potassium monobasic phosphate 3g. Nutrient broth (NB), buffer phosphate (sodium monobasic phosphate, sodium dibasic phosphate and sodium citrate) buffered to pH 8.0, TES buffer (0.01M tris-HCL, then 0.025M Na-EDTA, and 0.6M sucrose, pH 8.0) and the selective media SM (MgSO4, MnSO4, CaCl2, CuSO4, FeSO4, (NH4)2SO4, K2HPO4, and glucose) were also used. Bacterial Strains Esherichia coli strain was collected from water samples that are located along Marriute Lake of Alexandria according to waste drainage outlets which was identified based on cultural and physiological characteristics according to Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology (Krieg and Holt, 1984 and Mates and Schaffer, 1992) and assayed its OP’s degradation ability, in our previous research (Mansee et al., 2004a). Agrobacterium tumefaciens was obtained from Department of Plant pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University and have been maintained according to Yacout (1992). Bacillus thuringiensis D55 was obtained from Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University and was maintained on L.B slape medium (Puntambekar and Ranjekar, 1989). Protoplast Formation, Fusion and Regeneration: The protoplast fusants were isolated by protoplast fusion between Bacillus thuringiensis D55, Agrobacterium tumefaciens and E. coli according to Weiss (1976) with some modifications (Shweil et al., 1998). Bacterial strains were grown for 16 hours in 10ml of L.B medium. The cells were centrifuged, washed and resuspended in 10ml TES buffer, containing lysozyme (1mg/ml). Then, the suspension incubated at 26oC for 3 hours with shaking and 0.05M MgCl2 was added. Protoplast formation was confirmed by microscopic examination after staining. Protoplasts were regenerated on LB agar plates containing 0.6 M sucrose and 0.8% agar. Identical numbers of protoplast from each were gently mixed and fused in presence of 30% polyethelene glycol (PEG) 6000 (wt/v) for 3 minutes and washed with TES buffer. The fused protoplasts were mixed in selective medium (SM) for isolation of hybrids. The hybrids were purified and used for tests. Growing and Preparing Bacterial Cells For Biodegradation : The method described by Kearney et al., (1986) and Mulbry et al., (1998) were used to grow the hybrids and single bacteria isolates by using liquid media (N.B) supplemented with (0.1g ml-1) ampicilin. The cells were harvested 48 h after growth by centrifugation at 4°C, 5000 rpm for 10 min, washed with 40ml of 150mM buffer citrate-phosphate pH 8.0 twice and recentrifuged at the same conditions. The resulted pellets were weighted and then suspended in 10ml of buffer citrate-phosphate. Capability of hybrids Bacteria for OP Biodegradation: Ten l of the harvested bacteria suspension were incubated with serial paraoxon solutions, prepared in 50 mM buffer citrate-phosphate, pH 8.0 and incubated at 37 °C for 48 h. Three replicates was carried out for each concentration, as well as three for control which prepared by incubated bacteria cells in paraoxon free buffer solution. All of them were incubated at 37°C for 48 h and then analyzed the product of degradation by measuring absorbance spectrophotometrically at 410nm for p-nitrophenol. RESULTS Protoplast Formation and Fusion: High ratios of bacterial cells (about 80-90%) were converted to protoplasts, under the standard conditions used. Successful fusions produced three types of hybrids, i.e. E. coli with A. tumefaciens (EA), E. coli with B. thuringiensisD55 (EB), and A. tumefaciens with B. thuringiensisD55 (AB). The three hybrids were confirmed by light microscope examination. Fig. (1) Shows the difference between bacterial cells size in the three parental bacteria (E. coli A. tumefaciens and B. thuringiensisD55) and their protoplast fusants (AE, BE, and AB). Hybrids cells were obviously bigger than the parental cells strains and they formed in single cells, while parental cells were smaller and forming chains. Those results agreed with Gokhale et al., (1984) and Shweil et al., (1998) results. Figure 1: Bacterial and hybrids cells " E. coli with A. tumefaciens (EA), E. coli with B. thuringiensisD55 (EB), and B. thuringiensisD55 with A. tumefaciens (AB). Degradation of Paraoxon: Degradation of Paraoxon to p-nitrophenol using the isolated E. coli, and its hybrids with either Bacillus thuringiensis D55 or Agrobacterium tumefaciens was assayed and presented in Figures 2. Figure2a showed paraoxon degradation due to the effect of microorganisms after seven days of hybridization. This figure illustrated the biodegradation efficiency powerful of E. coli (E) isolates is slightly higher than those of Bacillus thuringiensits D55 (B) or Agrobacterium tumefaciens (A). Also, the hybridization between A and B introduce hybrid AB that did not enhance the paraoxon degradation. This observation showed the essential role of E. coli isolate for producing effective hybrids for OP degradation. For the hybrids between E and either A or B, an increase in paraoxon degradation were recorded for preparations after 7 days of protoplast fusions (figure 2A). The degradation percentages of such hybrids were decreased from 100% at low concentrations of paraoxon (10 and 30µg/ml) to less than 30% at the highest concentration (250µg/ml). The relation between the paraoxon degradation and its concentration found to be reversed for all treatments. New preparations of same three hybrids were tested for their biodegradation efficiency 30 days after hybridization and the data presented in Figure 2B. The results showed an enhancement of biodegradation capabilities of hybrids EA and EB especially for the higher paraoxon concentrations level. This enhancement of the efficiency was more distinct with EB hybrid than those of EA one. Another preparation was carried out after 54 days following the same methodology and presented in Figure 2c. This figure showed a rising in the efficiency enhancement either for EA or EB hybrids. However; increasing the paraoxon concentration above 250 µ/ml, decreased the hybrids-paraoxon degradation efficiency. From the previous data it could be concluded that protoplast fusion enhanced paraoxon degradation for bacterial hybrids, used in this study, than their parents. That enhancement varied according to the parental bacteria genius where it was about 10-15% in the case of AB and 100% for AE and BE hybrids. Also, the presence of A and B increased E biodegradation capabilities five folds for the paraoxon concentration 250 µ/ml, while at paraoxon concentration of 750 µ/ml, the degradation efficiency found to be 25%. DISCUSSION Enzyme types and content is the one of the limiting factors for introducing microorganisms that capable of pesticides bioremediation. Sogorb and Vilanova (2002) reviewed the enzymes involved in the detoxification of organophosphorus insecticides through hydrolysis. Several types of enzymes are involved in the detoxification of OP’s. The most important enzymes are esterases of an unknown physiological role, classified by the International Union of Biochemistry as PTE (E.C. 3.1.8) (Vilanova and Sogorb, 1999). Siddavattam et al., (2003) cited that the efficiency of bacteria to degrade OP pesticides is generally due to their content of the enzyme organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH) that is encoded by a plasmid gene (opd). McLoughlin et al., (2004) studied opd and other genes that enabled E. coli to grow using paraoxon as the sole phosphorus source. The variation between degradation activity hybrids preparations after 7 days and after 30 or 45 days could be due to differences between their bacterial membrane activity and cell wall development. This conclusion agrees with reports of Brown (1980) and Dumas et al., (1989) that OPH is a zinc-containing homodimeric protein found in the bacterial membrane. Also, morphological differences shown that the hybrids retaining common genes from both parents (Chen et al., 1987 and Puntambekar and Ranjekar, 1989). 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