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AD9 was isolated as an aniline-degrading bacterium from the soil surrounding a textile dyeing plant. The gene cluster involved in aniline degradation was cloned from the total DNA of strain AD9 into JM109. After shotgun cloning, two recombinant strains showing aniline oxidation activity or catechol -cleavage activity were obtained by simple plate assays. These strains contained 9·3 kb and 15·4 kb DNA fragments, respectively. Sequence analysis of the total 24·7 kb region revealed that this region contains a gene cluster (consisting of at least 17 genes, named ) responsible for the complete metabolism of aniline to TCA-cycle intermediates. In the gene cluster, the first five genes () and the subsequent gene () were predicted to encode a multi-component aniline dioxygenase and a LysR-type regulator, respectively, while the others () were expected to encode -cleavage pathway enzymes for catechol degradation. In addition, it was found that the gene cluster is surrounded by two IS sequences, indicating that it has a class I transposon-like structure. PFGE and Southern hybridization analyses confirmed that the gene cluster is encoded on the chromosome of strain AD9 in a single copy. These results suggest that, in strain AD9, aniline is degraded via catechol through a -cleavage pathway by the chromosome-encoded gene cluster. The gene cluster showed significant similarity in nucleotide sequence and genetic organization to the plasmid-encoded aniline degradation gene cluster of UCC22.

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