Bacterial isolates Comamonas terrigena N3H (from soil contaminated with crude oil) and C. testosteroni (isolated from the sludge of a wastewater treatment plant), exhibit much higher total catalase activity than the same species from laboratory collection cultures. Electrophoretic resolution of catalases revealed only one corresponding band in cell-free extracts of both C. testosteroni cultures. Isolates of C. terrigena N3H exhibited catalase-1 and catalase-2 activity, whereas in the collection culture C. terrigena ATCC 8461 only catalase-1 was detected. The environmental isolates exhibited much higher resistance to exogenous H2O2 (20, 40 mmol/L) than collection cultures, mainly in the middle and late exponential growth phases. The stepwise H2O2-adapted culture of C. terrigena N3H, which was more resistant to oxidative stress than the original isolate, exhibited an increase of catalase and peroxidase activity represented by catalase-1. Pretreatment of cells with 0.5 mmol/L H2O2 followed by an application of the oxidative agent in toxic concentrations (up to 40 mmol/L) increased the rate of cell survival in the original isolate, but not in the H2O2-adapted variant. The protection of bacteria caused by such pretreatment corresponded with stimulation of catalase activity in pretreated culture.

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