Poly R decolorization and APPL production by Streptomyces violaceoruber and Streptomyces spiroverticillatus

RESEARCH PAPER

Poly R decolorization and APPL production by Streptomyces violaceoruber and Streptomyces spiroverticillatus

M.I. Abou-Dobara; N.F. Omar

Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt

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ABSTRACT

Two mesophilic streptomycetes (S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus) were selected to study their Poly R-478 decolorization ability and lignocellulose solubilizing activity. Both strains were able to degrade Poly R-478 dye and ferulic acid during growth on a minimal salts medium. The Poly R-478 decolorizing activities of both strains were induced by adding different carbon sources to the culture media. S. violaceoruber could decolorize 63% of Poly R-478 after 24 h. Both strains could solubilize straw and produce acid-precipitable polymeric lignin (APPL) with different efficiency. From the major extracellular enzymes recovery of both strains on rice and wheat straw, we can predicate that the biodegradation process was partial indicating a possible utilization in biological delignification.

Key words: Streptomyces, APPL, Poly-R decolorization, ferulic acid degradation.

Introduction

There has been much attention focused on the exploitation of plant biomass as a renewable energy source (Van Wyk, 2001; Ragauskas et al., 2006; Rubin, 2008). The bulk of plant biomass is lignocellulose, a complex of three polymers - lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose (Rubin, 2008). It is generally accepted that lignin degradation is a rate-limiting step in lignocellulose degradation (Bisaria and Ghose, 1981; Himmel et al., 2007). Therefore, the breakdown of lignin is critical for the conversion of this abundant form of biomass into high value chemicals or fuels as a source of renewable energy (Crawford 1981; Crawford et al., 1984; Chen and Dixon, 2007; Abdel-Hamid et al., 2013; Varanasi et al., 2013).

Regarding environmental pollution, earlier reports confirmed that lignocellulose solubilizing organisms were also capable of decolorizing Poly R-478 and various triphenylmethane dyes (Ball et al., 1989; Vasdev and Kuhad, 1994; Vasdev et al., 1995). Biological decolorization method has been considered as effective, specific, less energy intensive and environmentally benign, since it results in partial or complete bioconversion of pollutants to stable nontoxic end products (Kuhad et al., 2004; Sharma et al., 2013).

Lignin depolymerization and catabolism have been studied in a number of bacterial species, including members of the Streptomyces (McCarthy, 1987; Zimmerman, 1990; Grund and Kutzner, 1998). There are many evidences that Streptomyces species may be useful in the utilization and bioconversion of lignin and lignin-derived aromatic compounds in biotechnological applications (Davis and Sello, 2010). Streptomycetes are of particular interest because of their apparent widespread ability to degrade the lignin of straw via formation of acid-precipitable polymeric lignin (APPL) intermediates (Ball et al., 1989; Ball et al., 1990; Mason et al., 2001). APPL is a high molecular weight complex of lignin, carbohydrates and proteins and its relationship to lignin degradation need to be more understood.

Lignocarbohydrate solubilization by actinomycetes has been shown to be extracellular, and the involvement of a range of enzymes has been suggested (Ramachandra et al., 1987; Deobald and Crawford, 1987; Donnelly and Crawford, 1988; Maciel et al., 2010). These biocatalysts also represent potential application on environmental biocatalysis for the degradation of xenobiotics and recalcitrant pollutants (Gottschalk et al., 2008; Sharma et al., 2013).

In this work, we aimed to evaluate the poly-R decolorization ability of Streptomyces violaceoruber and Streptomyces spiroverticillatus. In addition, we studied the APPL formation and the enzymology of the processes involved in the lignocarbohydrate solubilization to provide insights into the native lignin-solubilizing activity of these two actinomycetes.

Materials and Methods

Strains and growth conditions

Streptomyces violaceoruber and Streptomyces spiroverticillatus used in this investigation were isolated from a soil sample collected from Sinai-Egypt and identified according to International Streptomyces Project (Shirling and Gottlieb, 1968a, 1968b, 1969, 1972), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology (Pridham and Tresner, 1974) and Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (Locci, 1989). S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus stock spores were maintained at -20 °C in a 20% (w/v) glycerol aqueous solution in the laboratory of microbiology, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, Egypt. After cell growth at 30 °C for 5-7 days on starch-nitrate agar medium (Waksman, 1959), 1 mL of spores suspensions, containing about 8 x 10⁶ spores of S. violaceoruber or S. spiroverticillatus; was used to inoculate shake flasks containing 50 mL minimal salts-yeast extract medium, pH 7.0; supplemented with 0.01%(w/v) ferulic acid or Poly R - 478. Other additive carbon sources (wheat straw, xylan, glucose) were added at 0.2% (w/v) concentration. For experiments on straw degradation, the medium was supplied with 1% (w/v) ball-milled rice or wheat straw. Minimal salts-yeast extract medium contained per 1 litre distilled water: yeast extract 2 g, (NH₄)₂SO₄ 0.1 g, NaCl 0.3 g, MgSO₄.7H₂O 0.1 g, CaCO₃ 0.02 g and 1 mL trace element solution (FeSO₄.7H₂O 1 g L^-1, ZnSO₄.7H₂O 0.9 g L^-1, MnSO₄.7H₂O 0.2 g L^-1). Cultures were incubated up to 14 days at 150 rpm and 30 °C.

Utilization of lignin related compound

Lignin related compounds, used as growth substrates, were ferulic acid and the polymeric dye Poly R - 478. Utilization of substrates was monitored spectrophotometrically after removing samples (0.1 mL) of culture medium at regular time intervals (up to 14 days). Decolorization of Poly R - 478 was determined according to Ball et al. (1989) by diluting samples 10 fold with distilled water. The wavelengths used for the absorbance ratios of Poly R - 478 were optical density at 518 nm and 346 nm (OD₅₁₈/OD₃₄₆). These wavelengths were chosen to produce the greatest change of the absorption ratio of Poly R - 478. Ferulic acid degradation was determined according to Ball et al. (1989) by diluting samples 100 fold with distilled water and recording optical density at 282 nm.

Determination of the lignin solubilizng activity of strains

Grown cultures on wheat and rice straw were centrifuged (5000 rpm for 20 min) and the supernatant was acidified to pH 1 to 2 with HCl. The acid-precipitated product (APPL) was removed by centrifugation (5000 rpm for 20 min), washed twice with distilled water, and finally dissolved in 0.05 M NaOH. APPL protein estimation by Bradford (1976) method (expressed as milligrams of protein per gram of straw) was used to monitor production.

Enzymes assay

Xylanase (endo-1,4-β-xylanase, EC 3.2.1.8) and cellulase (endo-1,4-β-glucanase, EC 3.2.1.4) activities were assayed by the estimation of reducing sugar released from oat spelt xylan and cellulose, respectively. The reaction mixture contained: 1 mL of 1.0% substrate dissolved in 0.1 M potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0) and 1 mL of diluted culture supernatant. The mixture was incubated at 50 °C for 10 min. The determination of reducing sugar released during the incubation mixture was detected by the dinitrosalicylic acid method of Miller (1959). 1 mL of dinitrosalicylic acid reagent was added to 1 mL of the clarified reaction mixture and standards. After mixing, the mixtures were boiled for 5 min. After cooling, the optical density of the coloured product at 550 nm was recorded. Calibration curves constructed using D-xylose or D-glucose standards in the range of 0- 5 µmole mL^-1 were used. One unit of xylanase and cellulase activities were defined as the amount of enzyme that released 1 µmole of xylose and glucose respectively per millilitre per minute under assay conditions. Enzyme and substrate controls were included routinely.

Peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.x) assay was adapted from the assay developed by Ramachandra et al. (1987, 1988). Peroxidase was assayed using 2, 4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP) as substrate. The final reaction (4 mL) mixture contained potassium phosphate buffer (800 µL, 0.1 M, pH 7.0); 16 mM 4-aminoantipyrine (800 µL); 25 mM 2,4- dichlorophenol (800 µL); culture supernatant (800 µL) and 50 mM hydrogen peroxide (800 µL). The reaction was initiated by the addition of hydrogen peroxide which was added last. Samples were then incubated at 50 °C for 1.0 min. The increase in absorbance as a result of the oxidation of 4-aminoantipyrine was measured at 510 nm. One unit of enzyme activity was defined as the amount of enzyme required for an increase in absorbance of 1.0 unit mL^-1. Ferulic acid esterase FAE (feruloyl esterase, EC 3.1.1.73) assay, according to Garcia et al. (1998); contained 80 mg wheat bran incubated with culture supernatant (2 mL) and potassium phosphate buffer (2 mL, 0.1 M, pH 7.0). The assay was performed for 20 min at 50 °C, and the reaction was stopped by boiling samples for 3 min. The samples were then cooled and centrifuged (5 000 rpm, 10 min) and the ferulic acid content of the supernatant determined by recording optical density at 282 nm. Calibration curve constructed using ferulic acid standard in the range of 0-5 µmole mL^-1 were used. One unit of activity was defined as the amount of enzyme releasing 1 µmole ferulic acid per minute at pH 7.0 and 50 °C. Enzyme and substrate controls were included routinely.

Growth determination

The harvested mycelia of strains were used for determination of growth as intracellular protein content. Washed pellets were suspended in 20 mL of NaOH (1 M), and boiled for 20 min. Dilution of clarified solution was used to determine the intracellular protein concentration using Bradford method (1976). Bovine serum albumin was used as standard.

All incubations and assays were performed in triplicate. Results presented are the means of three replicates with standard errors.

Results

Poly-R decolorization ability

The results of the comparative studies on the ability of S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus to decolorize Poly-R, as a lignin related compound; indicated that both strains were able to decolorize Poly-R during growth on a minimal salts medium in which the dye represented the major carbon source. S. spiroverticillatus showed approximately linear reduction in Poly-R absorbance ratio over the first 48 h, about 35% decolorization; and no further decolorization occurred (Figure 1.). Unlike S. spiroverticillatus, S. violaceoruber revealed a repolymerization of Poly-R after decolorization (Figure 2.). However, S. violaceoruber could attain faster maximum decolorization (24 h compared with 48 h) and much higher (50% compared with 35%) relative to S. spiroverticillatus.

Improvement of poly-R decolorization ability

Generally, additive carbon sources, including glucose, xylan or wheat straw as a lignocellulose; were found to induce the decolorizing activities of both strains. Poly-R decolorization by S. spiroverticillatus grown on either glucose or xylan were found to follow a similar pattern of that without any additives (Figure 1). While the addition of these carbon sources to S. violaceoruber culture increased the maximum decolorization rate from 50% to about 58%. Additionally, it limited the repolymerization of Poly-R (Figure 2). Regarding wheat straw, it was found to be the most efficient additive carbon source to Poly-R decolorization. The activity of S. spiroverticillatus cultures additionally containing wheat straw was 1.5 to 3.5 times greater than those from other additive carbon sources examined at 24 h incubation period (Figure 1). The highest decolorization activity was obtained from S. violaceoruber culture containing wheat straw as additive carbon source. In this case, decolorization rate reached the maximum rapidly (63% after 24 h) and then remained constant for the duration of the experiment (14 days) (Figure 2).

Wheat and rice straw solubilization

On the other hand, wheat and rice straw were used as native lignin sources. In general, wheat straw was more susceptible to solubilization by both Streptomyces strains as indicated by the yield of APPL. The present results with S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus showed a similar pH pattern during the incubation period with a trend to higher pH of 8.6. The peak activities for xylanase was approximately two to three fold for S. violaceoruber relative to S. spiroverticillatus (Table 1) and associated with the growth phase. Also, the peroxidases production on wheat straw followed the same behaviour of xylanases. Whereas, the peaks of peroxidases activities for both strains cultured on rice straw were approximately the same. However, S. violaceoruber showed maximum activity about 7 days earlier than did S. spiroverticillatus. Interestingly, the present study showed that neither the amount of APPL production nor consumption was contributed to the production or stability of the major studied enzymes (Table 1).

Ferulic acid degradation

Although ligninolytic system of both strains was found to lack ferulic acid esterase, they could degrade ferulic acid and use it as a sole carbon source. In contrast to Poly-R degradation ability, S. spiroverticillatus was more able to degrade ferulic acid than S. violaceoruber. S. spiroverticillatus was able to degrade 56% of the ferulic acid in the culture after 24 h while S. violaceoruber could only degrade 37% after 10 days (Figure 3).

Discussion

The first experiment in this study is focused on decolorization of the polymeric dye, Poly-R. Decolorization of dyes may take place in two ways: either adsorption on the microbial biomass or biodegradation of the dyes by the cells (Zhou and Zimmermann, 1993). Biodegradation seems more natural in its operation while biosorption of dyes does not eradicate the problem. This is due to the difficult disposal of the microbial biomass containing adsorbed dyes (Chander and Arora, 2007). The dye decolorization by both S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus was attributed to biodegradation since the decrease in Poly-R absorbance was recorded as a ratio. In adsorption, examination of the absorption spectrum reveals that all peaks decrease approximately in proportion to each other but in the case of biodegradation, either the major visible light absorbance peak will completely disappear or a new peak will appear (Chen et al., 2003; Saratale et al., 2009).

Development of efficient dye degradation biotechnology requires application of a suitable selected strain under favourable conditions (Novotny et al., 2004). The effectiveness of microbial decolorization depends on the adaptability and the activity of the selected microorganisms (Chen et al., 2003). The most efficient class of microorganisms in breaking down dyes is the white-rot fungi (Couto, 2009; Maciel et al., 2010). In comparison to fungal decolorization, decolorization by S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus is normally faster like other bacterial decolorization (Kalyani et al., 2009; Maciel et al., 2010). Interestingly, S. violaceoruber could decolorize Poly-R faster than the fungus P. cinnabarinus, 24 h compared with 192 h; with approximately the same efficiency and generally more efficient than P. chrysosporium (Diwaniyan et al., 2010). In addition, percentage of decolorization of Poly-R by these two Streptomyces was more two folds higher than that of the most widely studied S. viridosporus and S. badius (Ball and Colton, 1996; Ball et al., 1989).

Furthermore, these strains were capable of utilizing Poly-R dye as sole source of energy for their growth which indicated a real elimination of the pollutant. However, Poly-R was repolymerized rapidly after strong and fast degradation by S. violaceoruber. This behaviour was improved by addition of carbohydrates. Kondo et al. (1990) showed that the presence of a glycosyl group facilitates the depolymerization of synthetic lignin and decrease repolymerization. Also, carbohydrates were reported to be essential for the mineralization of lignin models (Kirk et al., 1976). It may play roles, in both levels, adaptability and activity of the organism. It could detoxify degradation products since the toxicity of the glycosides of these compounds is greatly reduced (Kondo and Imamura, 1989a) which improve the adaptability. On the other hand, the extracellular metabolites in presence of carbohydrates could contain other enzymes and certain compounds like organic acids, which would favour the decolorization process (Shah et al., 2003; Wesenberg et al., 2003) and prevent repolymerization of the radicals formed by the oxidative enzymes (Galliano et al., 1991). In accordance with our results, Kondo and Imamura (Kondo and Imamura, 1989b) found that the rate of consumption of the lignin models was much faster in polysaccharide than in monosaccharide media.

Several studies indicated that only lignin-degrading microorganisms are able to decolorize polymeric dyes and that efficiency of decolorization is correlated with their ability to degrade several lignin model compounds (Chet et al., 1985, Platt et al., 1985). Ball et al. (1989) suggested that decolorization of polymeric dyes is a simple and rapid method to investigate the ligninolytic system in microorganisms. So it is not surprising that most commercially important dyes has a structural similarity to lignin (sub)structures, which are amenable to transformation by ligninolytic enzymes (Wesenberg et al., 2003, Diwaniyan et al., 2010). Therefore, the second experiment in this paper trended to study the biodegradation of native lignin by S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus. Since lignin is a complex polymer without a single repeating unit, and, moreover, contains bonds in a random three dimensional arrangement (Higuchi, 1985), it is very difficult to be degraded by common organisms. From the major extracellular enzymes recovery of S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus, we can predicate that it was partial biodegradation process. It is known that the basic xylanolytic reaction can only lead to complete hydrolysis of the hemicellulose component if enzymes attacking side-groups on the xylan chain and cross-links within lignocellulose (e.g. ferulic acid esterase) are also present. Ferulic acid esterase, in general; is rarely detected in streptomycetes. The possibility to explain that can be summarized in the lack of a complete set of xylanase enzymes, resulting in low and perhaps undetectable ferulic acid esterase activity (Garcia et al., 1998). Interestingly, the complete absence of cellulases indicated a selective degradation of lignin with keeping the cellulosic biomass. Therefore, S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus could be used in biological delignification as a low energy and low cost pre-treatment. Because the components of rice straw are mainly cellulose and hemicellulose encrusted with lignin having in addition, only small amounts of protein (Parr et al., 1992), rice straw was more resistant to S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus solubilizition compared with wheat straw.

Streptomycetes hydrolytic and oxidative enzymes act co-operatively in degradation of the lignocellulose complex during primary growth (Ball et al., 1990). The mechanisms involved in this degradation process have not yet been fully elucidated. However, the main role is attributed to a solubilization activity rather than depolymerization (McCarthy, 1987). Generally, we may postulate that Streptomyces grows attached to straw which explain the undetectable growth in cases of low growth. The main product of straw and other lignocellulosic residues solubilization is an acid-precipitable polymeric lignin (Crawford et al., 1983). In this study, lignocarbohydrate solubilization occurred during primary growth while the subsequent decrease in APPL yield suggests further degradation or modification of solubilized material. Different cases of APPL degradation by ligninolytic streptomycetes has been reported by Pometto and Crawford (1986) who considered that an additional evidence for diverse lignocarbohydrate solubilizing patterns among streptomycetes (Borgmeyer and Crawford, 1985). On the other hand, Haemmerli et al. (1986) found that repolymerization occurred when the rate of peroxidase catalysis was high. Also Nanayakkara et al. (2014) reported the repolymerization of depolymerized oligomeric lignin and explained it by the esterification of hydroxyl groups in the oligomeric products. This fact may be postulated in the case of culturing both S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus on rice straw but needs to be confirmed further.

In accordance with the ability to degrade native lignin and Poly-R dye, S. spiroverticillatus have strong and fast ability to metabolize ferulic acid which is naturally linked with hemicellulose by ester bond (Mueller-Harvie et al., 1986; Smith and Hartleyr, 1983). However, they couldn't release it from straw due to the lack of ferulic acid esterase.

The reported results here provide evidence that S. violaceoruber and S. spiroverticillatus may be useful in the biological delignification of lignin in biotechnological applications as a low energy and low cost pre-treatment. Regarding environmental pollution, this study suggests S. violaceoruber, as a suitable strain to develop an efficient Poly-R degradation biotechnology.

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Approved: April 17, 2014

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Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  13 Feb 2015
• Date of issue
  Dec 2014

History

• Accepted
  17 Apr 2014
• Received
  18 Mar 2013