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Abstract

Formaldehyde is an intermediate formed during the metabolism of methanol or other methylated compounds. Many Gram-negative bacteria generate formaldehyde from methanol via a periplasmic pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ)-dependent dehydrogenase in which the subunit of an tetramer has catalytic activity. The genome of the facultative formaldehyde-oxidizing bacterium encodes XoxF, a homologue of the catalytic subunit of a proposed PQQ-containing dehydrogenase of . is part of a gene cluster that encodes periplasmic -type cytochromes, including CycI, isocytochrome and CycB (a cyt homologue), as well as , a glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase (GSH-FDH), and , a homologue of a glutathione–formaldehyde activating enzyme (Gfa). To test the roles of XoxF, CycB and Gfa in formaldehyde metabolism by , we monitored photosynthetic growth with methanol as a source of formaldehyde and whole-cell methanol-dependent oxygen uptake. Our data show that cells lacking XoxF or CycB do not exhibit methanol-dependent oxygen uptake and lack the capacity to utilize methanol as a sole photosynthetic carbon source. These results suggest that both proteins are required for formaldehyde metabolism. Gfa is not essential to activate formaldehyde, as cells lacking are capable of both methanol-dependent oxygen uptake and growth with methanol as a photosynthetic carbon source.

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