Metabolic engineering of Oryza sativa for complete biodegradation of thiocyanate.

Sci Total Environ

Biotechnology Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 201106, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 201106, China. Electronic address:

Published: May 2022

Industrial thiocyanate (SCN) waste streams from gold mining and coal coking have caused serious environmental pollution worldwide. Phytoremediation is an efficient technology in treating hazardous wastes from the environment. However, the phytoremediation efficiency of thiocyanate is very low due to the fact that plants lack thiocyanate degradation enzymes. In this study, the thiocyanate hydrolase module was assembled correctly in rice seedlings and showed thiocyanate hydrolase activity. Rice seedlings engineered to express thiocyanate degrading activity were able to completely remove thiocyanate from coking wastewater. Our findings suggest that transforming the thiocyanate hydrolase module into plants is an efficient strategy for rapid phytoremediation of thiocyanate in the environment. Moreover, the rice seedlings expressing apoplastic or cytoplasmic targeted thiocyanate hydrolase module were constructed to compare the phytoremediation efficiency of secretory/intracellular recombinant thiocyanate hydrolase. The most obvious finding from this study is that the apoplastic expression system is more efficient than the cytoplasm expression system in the phytoremediation of thiocyanate. At last, this research also shows that the secreted thiocyanate hydrolase from engineered rice plants does not influence rhizosphere bacterial community composition.

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