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HAW-EB4 was previously isolated for its potential to mineralize hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) from a UXO (unexploded ordnance)-contaminated marine sediment site near Halifax Harbor. The present study was undertaken to determine the effect of terminal electron acceptors (TEA) on the growth of strain HAW-EB4 and on the enzymic processes involved in RDX metabolism. The results showed that aerobic conditions were optimal for bacterial growth, but that anaerobic conditions in the presence of trimethylamine -oxide (TMAO) or in the absence of TEA favoured RDX metabolism. RDX as a substrate neither stimulated respiratory growth nor induced its own biotransformation. Strain HAW-EB4 used periplasmic proteins to transform RDX to both nitroso [hexahydro-1-nitroso-3,5-dinitro-1,3,5-triazine (MNX), hexahydro-1,3-dinitroso-5-nitro-1,3,5-triazine (DNX), and hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitroso-1,3,5-triazine (TNX)] and ring cleavage products (such as methylenedinitramine), with more nitroso formation in cells grown on TMAO or pre-incubated in the absence of TEA. Using spectroscopy, SDS-PAGE and haem-staining analysis, strain HAW-EB4 was found to produce different sets of -type cytochromes when grown on various TEA, with several more cytochromes produced in cells grown on TMAO. Crude cytochromes from total periplasmic proteins of TMAO-grown cells metabolized RDX to products similar to those found in assays using total periplasmic proteins and whole cells. To prove the involvement of cytochrome in RDX metabolism, we monitored dithionite- or NADH-reduced cytochromes by their absorbance at the (551 nm) or (418–420 nm) bands during anaerobic incubation with RDX. In both cases we found that RDX biotransformation was accompanied by oxidation of reduced cytochrome. Furthermore, O, an oxidant of reduced cytochrome, inhibited RDX transformation. The present results demonstrate that HAW-EB4 metabolizes RDX optimally under TMAO-reducing conditions, and that -type cytochromes are involved.

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