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Braga A, Gomes D, Rainha J, Amorim C, Cardoso BB, Gudiña EJ, Silvério SC, Rodrigues JL, Rodrigues LR. Zymomonas mobilis as an emerging biotechnological chassis for the production of industrially relevant compounds. BIORESOUR BIOPROCESS 2021; 8:128. [PMID: 38650193 PMCID: PMC10992037 DOI: 10.1186/s40643-021-00483-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Zymomonas mobilis is a well-recognized ethanologenic bacterium with outstanding characteristics which make it a promising platform for the biotechnological production of relevant building blocks and fine chemicals compounds. In the last years, research has been focused on the physiological, genetic, and metabolic engineering strategies aiming at expanding Z. mobilis ability to metabolize lignocellulosic substrates toward biofuel production. With the expansion of the Z. mobilis molecular and computational modeling toolbox, the potential of this bacterium as a cell factory has been thoroughly explored. The number of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and fluxomic data that is becoming available for this bacterium has increased. For this reason, in the forthcoming years, systems biology is expected to continue driving the improvement of Z. mobilis for current and emergent biotechnological applications. While the existing molecular toolbox allowed the creation of stable Z. mobilis strains with improved traits for pinpointed biotechnological applications, the development of new and more flexible tools is crucial to boost the engineering capabilities of this bacterium. Novel genetic toolkits based on the CRISPR-Cas9 system and recombineering have been recently used for the metabolic engineering of Z. mobilis. However, they are mostly at the proof-of-concept stage and need to be further improved.
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- Adelaide Braga
- CEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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- CEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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- CEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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- CEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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- CEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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- CEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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- CEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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- CEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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- CEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.
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Kurumbang NP, Vera JM, Hebert AS, Coon JJ, Landick R. Heterologous expression of a glycosyl hydrolase and cellular reprogramming enable Zymomonas mobilis growth on cellobiose. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0226235. [PMID: 32797046 PMCID: PMC7428164 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Plant-derived fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass have significant potential to replace reliance on petroleum and improve global carbon balance. However, plant biomass contains significant fractions of oligosaccharides that are not usable natively by many industrial microorganisms, including Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Zymomonas mobilis. Even after chemical or enzymatic hydrolysis, some carbohydrate remains as non-metabolizable oligosaccharides (e.g., cellobiose or longer cellulose-derived oligomers), thus reducing the efficiency of conversion to useful products. To begin to address this problem for Z. mobilis, we engineered a strain (Z. mobilis GH3) that expresses a glycosyl hydrolase (GH) with β-glucosidase activity from a related α-proteobacterial species, Caulobacter crescentus, and subjected it to an adaptation in cellobiose medium. Growth on cellobiose was achieved after a prolonged lag phase in cellobiose medium that induced changes in gene expression and cell composition, including increased expression and extracellular release of GH. These changes were reversible upon growth in glucose-containing medium, meaning they did not result from genetic mutation but could be retained upon transfer of cells to fresh cellobiose medium. After adaptation to cellobiose, our GH-expressing strain was able to convert about 50% of cellobiose to glucose within 24 h and use it for growth and ethanol production. Alternatively, pre-growth of Z. mobilis GH3 in sucrose medium enabled immediate growth on cellobiose. Proteomic analysis of cellobiose- and sucrose-adapted strains revealed upregulation of secretion-, transport-, and outer membrane-related proteins, which may aid release or surface display of GHs, entry of cellobiose into the periplasm, or both. Our two key findings are that Z. mobilis can be reprogrammed to grow on cellobiose as a sole carbon source and that this reprogramming is related to a natural response of Z. mobilis to sucrose that promotes sucrase production.
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- Nagendra P. Kurumbang
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Genome Center of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Genome Center of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Departments of Chemistry and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Departments of Biochemistry and Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Jakob F, Quintero Y, Musacchio A, Estrada‐de los Santos P, Hernández L, Vogel RF. Acetic acid bacteria encode two levansucrase types of different ecological relationship. Environ Microbiol 2019; 21:4151-4165. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Revised: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Frank Jakob
- Lehrstuhl für Technische Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München Gregor‐Mendel‐Straße 4, 85354 Freising Germany
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- Grupo Tecnología de Enzimas, Centro de Ingeniería Genética y Biotecnología (CIGB) Ave 31 entre 158 y 190, Apartado Postal 6162, Habana 10600 Cuba
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- Departamento de Biología de Sistemas Centro de Ingeniería Genética y Biotecnología (CIGB) Ave 31 entre 158 y 190, Apartado Postal 6162, Habana 10600 Cuba
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- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Prol. de Carpio y Plan de Ayala s/n Col. Santo Tomás C.P., 11340 Cd. de México Mexico
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- Grupo Tecnología de Enzimas, Centro de Ingeniería Genética y Biotecnología (CIGB) Ave 31 entre 158 y 190, Apartado Postal 6162, Habana 10600 Cuba
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- Lehrstuhl für Technische Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München Gregor‐Mendel‐Straße 4, 85354 Freising Germany
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Lu L, Fu F, Zhao R, Jin L, He C, Xu L, Xiao M. A recombinant levansucrase from Bacillus licheniformis 8-37-0-1 catalyzes versatile transfructosylation reactions. Process Biochem 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2014.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Characterization of multiple promoters and transcript stability in the sacB–sacC gene cluster in Zymomonas mobilis. Arch Microbiol 2009; 191:529-41. [DOI: 10.1007/s00203-009-0479-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2008] [Revised: 04/07/2009] [Accepted: 04/14/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Senthilkumar V, Rameshkumar N, Busby SJW, Gunasekaran P. Disruption of the Zymomonas mobilis extracellular sucrase gene (sacC) improves levan production. J Appl Microbiol 2004; 96:671-6. [PMID: 15012804 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2003.02169.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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AIMS Disruption of the extracellular Zymomonas mobilis sucrase gene (sacC) to improve levan production. METHODS AND RESULTS A PCR-amplified tetracycline resistance cassette was inserted within the cloned sacC gene in pZS2811. The recombinant construct was transferred to Z. mobilis by electroporation. The Z. mobilis sacC gene, encoding an efficient extracellular sucrase, was inactivated. A sacC defective mutant of Z. mobilis, which resulted from homologous recombination, was selected and the sacC gene disruption was confirmed by PCR. Fermentation trials with this mutant were conducted, and levansucrase activity and levan production were measured. In sucrose medium, the sacC mutant strain produced threefold higher levansucrase (SacB) than the parent strain. This resulted in higher levels of levan production, whilst ethanol production was considerably decreased. CONCLUSIONS Zymomonas mobilis sacC gene encoding an extracellular sucrase was inactivated by gene disruption. This sacC mutant strain produced higher level of levan in sucrose medium because of the improved levansucrase (SacB) than the parent strain. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY The Z. mobilis CT2, sacC mutant produces high level of levansucrase (SacB) and can be used for the production of levan.
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- V Senthilkumar
- Department of Microbial Technology, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India
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van Hijum SAFT, Szalowska E, van der Maarel MJEC, Dijkhuizen L. Biochemical and molecular characterization of a levansucrase from Lactobacillus reuteri. Microbiology (Reading) 2004; 150:621-630. [PMID: 14993311 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26671-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Lactobacillus reuteri strain 121 employs a fructosyltransferase (FTF) to synthesize a fructose polymer [a fructan of the levan type, with beta(2-->6) linkages] from sucrose or raffinose. Purification of this FTF (a levansucrase), and identification of peptide amino acid sequences, allowed isolation of the first Lactobacillus levansucrase gene (lev), encoding a protein (Lev) consisting of 804 amino acids. Lev showed highest similarity with an inulosucrase of L. reuteri 121 [Inu; producing an inulin polymer with beta(2-->1)-linked fructosyl units] and with FTFs from streptococci. Expression of lev in Escherichia coli resulted in an active FTF (Lev Delta 773His) that produced the same levan polymer [with only 2-3 % beta(2-->1-->6) branching points] as L. reuteri 121 cells grown on raffinose. The low degree of branching of the L. reuteri levan is very different from bacterial levans known up to now, such as that of Streptococcus salivarius, having up to 30 % branches. Although Lev is unusual in showing a higher hydrolysis than transferase activity, significant amounts of levan polymer are produced both in vivo and in vitro. Lev is strongly dependent on Ca(2+) ions for activity. Unique properties of L. reuteri Lev together with Inu are: (i) the presence of a C-terminal cell-wall-anchoring motif causing similar expression problems in Escherichia coli, (ii) a relatively high optimum temperature for activity for FTF enzymes, and (iii) at 50 degrees C, kinetics that are best described by the Hill equation.
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- S A F T van Hijum
- Department of Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
- Centre for Carbohydrate Bioengineering, TNO-RUG, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
- Centre for Carbohydrate Bioengineering, TNO-RUG, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
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- Innovative Ingredients and Products Department, TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Rouaanstraat 27, 9723 CC Groningen, The Netherlands
- Centre for Carbohydrate Bioengineering, TNO-RUG, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
- Centre for Carbohydrate Bioengineering, TNO-RUG, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
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Ghose TK, Bisaria VS. Development of biotechnology in India. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 2001; 69:87-124. [PMID: 11036692 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44964-7_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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India has embarked upon a very ambitious program in biotechnology with a view to harnessing its available human and unlimited biodiversity resources. It has mainly been a government sponsored effort with very little private industry participation in investment. The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) established under the Ministry of Science and Technology in 1986 was the major instrument of action to bring together most talents, material resources, and budgetary provisions. It began sponsoring research in molecular biology, agricultural and medical sciences, plant and animal tissue culture, biofertilizers and biopesticides, environment, human genetics, microbial technology, and bioprocess engineering, etc. The establishment of a number of world class bioscience research institutes and provision of large research grants to some existing universities helped in developing specialized centres of biotechnology. Besides DBT, the Department of Science & Technology (DST), also under the Ministry of S&T, sponsors research at universities working in the basic areas of life sciences. Ministry of Education's most pioneering effort was instrumental in the creation of Biochemical Engineering Research Centre at IIT Delhi with substantial assistance from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland to make available state-of-the-art infrastructure for education, training, and research in biochemical engineering and biotechnology in 1974. This initiative catalysed biotechnology training and research at many institutions a few years later. With a brief introduction, the major thrust areas of biotechnology development in India have been reviewed in this India Paper which include education and training, agricultural biotechnology, biofertilizers and biopesticides, tissue culture for tree and woody species, medicinal and aromatic plants, biodiversity conservation and environment, vaccine development, animal, aquaculture, seri and food biotechnology, microbial technology, industrial biotechnology, biochemical engineering and associated activities such as creation of biotechnology information system and national repositories. Current status of intellectual property rights has also been discussed. Contribution to the India's advances in biotechnology by the industry, excepting a limited few, has been far below expectations. The review concludes with some cautious notes.
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- T K Ghose
- Department of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India
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Sangiliyandi G, Gunasekaran P. Polymerase and hydrolase activities of Zymomonas mobilis levansucrase separately modulated by in vitro mutagenesis and elevated temperature. Process Biochem 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0032-9592(00)00239-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Ananthalakshmy V, Gunasekaran P. Overproduction of levan in Zymomonas mobilis by using cloned sacB gene. Enzyme Microb Technol 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0141-0229(99)00018-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Sangiliyandi G, Gunasekaran P. A simple method for purification of thermostable levansucrase of Zymomonas mobilis from a recombinant Escherichia coli. J Microbiol Methods 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7012(98)00051-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Sprenger GA. Carbohydrate metabolism inZymomonas mobilis: a catabolic highway with some scenic routes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1996. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb08593.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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