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Wang Y, Bai Y, Zeng Q, Jiang Z, Liu Y, Wang X, Liu X, Liu C, Min W. Recent advances in the metabolic engineering and physiological opportunities for microbial synthesis of L-aspartic acid family amino acids: A review. Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 253:126916. [PMID: 37716660 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.126916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Revised: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/18/2023]
Abstract
L-aspartic acid, L-threonine, L-isoleucine, l-lysine, and L-methionine constitute the l-aspartate amino acids (AFAAs). Except for L-aspartic acid, these are essential amino acids that cannot be synthesized by humans or animals themselves. E. coli and C. glutamicum are the main model organisms for AFAA production. It is necessary to reconstitute microbial cell factories and the physiological state of industrial fermentation cells for in-depth research into strains with higher AFAA production levels and optimal growth states. Considering that the anabolic pathways of the AFAAs and engineering modifications have rarely been reviewed in the latest progress, this work reviews the central metabolic pathways of two strains and strategies for the metabolic engineering of AFAA synthetic pathways. The challenges posed by microbial physiology in AFAA production and possible strategies to address them, as well as future research directions for constructing strains with high AFAA production levels, are discussed in this review article.
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- Yusheng Wang
- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, PR China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, PR China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, PR China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, PR China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, PR China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, PR China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, PR China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, PR China.
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, PR China.
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de Sousa-d'Auria C, Constantinesco F, Bayan N, Constant P, Tropis M, Daffé M, Graille M, Houssin C. Cg1246, a new player in mycolic acid biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2022; 168. [PMID: 35394419 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Mycolic acids are key components of the complex cell envelope of Corynebacteriales. These fatty acids, conjugated to trehalose or to arabinogalactan form the backbone of the mycomembrane. While mycolic acids are essential to the survival of some species, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, their absence is not lethal for Corynebacterium glutamicum, which has been extensively used as a model to depict their biosynthesis. Mycolic acids are first synthesized on the cytoplasmic side of the inner membrane and transferred onto trehalose to give trehalose monomycolate (TMM). TMM is subsequently transported to the periplasm by dedicated transporters and used by mycoloyltransferase enzymes to synthesize all the other mycolate-containing compounds. Using a random transposition mutagenesis, we recently identified a new uncharacterized protein (Cg1246) involved in mycolic acid metabolism. Cg1246 belongs to the DUF402 protein family that contains some previously characterized nucleoside phosphatases. In this study, we performed a functional and structural characterization of Cg1246. We showed that absence of the protein led to a significant reduction in the pool of TMM in C. glutamicum, resulting in a decrease in all other mycolate-containing compounds. We found that, in vitro, Cg1246 has phosphatase activity on organic pyrophosphate substrates but is most likely not a nucleoside phosphatase. Using a computational approach, we identified important residues for phosphatase activity and constructed the corresponding variants in C. glutamicum. Surprisingly complementation with these non-functional proteins fully restored the defect in TMM of the Δcg1246 mutant strain, suggesting that in vivo, the phosphatase activity is not involved in mycolic acid biosynthesis.
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- Célia de Sousa-d'Auria
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale de la Cellule (BIOC), CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, IP Paris, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, Paris, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Liu Z, Xiao J, Tang J, Liu Y, Shuai L, Cao L, Xia Z, Ding X, Rang J, Xia L. Effects of acuC on the growth development and spinosad biosynthesis of Saccharopolyspora spinosa. Microb Cell Fact 2021; 20:141. [PMID: 34294095 PMCID: PMC8296664 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-021-01630-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 07/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Acetoin utilization protein (acuC) is a type I histone deacetylase which is highly conserved in bacteria. The acuC gene is related to the acetylation/deacetylation posttranslational modification (PTM) system in S. spinosa. Spinosyns, the secondary metabolites produced by Saccharopolyspora spinosa, are the active ingredients in a family of insect control agents. However, the specific functions and influences of acuC protein in S. spinosa are yet to be characterized. RESULTS The knockout strain and overexpression strain were constructed separately with the shuttle vector pOJ260. The production of spinosyns A and D from S. spinosa-acuC were 105.02 mg/L and 20.63 mg/L, which were 1.82-fold and 1.63-fold higher than those of the wild-type strain (57.76 mg/L and 12.64 mg/L), respectively. The production of spinosyns A and D from S. spinosa-ΔacuC were 32.78 mg/L and 10.89 mg/L, respectively. The qRT-PCR results of three selected genes (bldD, ssgA and whiA) confirmed that the overexpression of acuC affected the capacities of mycelial differentiation and sporulation. Comparative proteomics analysis was performed on these strains to investigate the underlying mechanism leading to the enhancement of spinosad yield. CONCLUSIONS This study first systematically analysed the effects of overexpression acuC on the growth of S. spinosa and the production of spinosad. The results identify the differentially expressed proteins and provide evidences to understand the acetylation metabolic mechanisms which can lead to the increase of secondary metabolites.
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- Zhudong Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Lushan Road 36, Changsha, 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Lushan Road 36, Changsha, 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Lushan Road 36, Changsha, 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Lushan Road 36, Changsha, 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Lushan Road 36, Changsha, 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Lushan Road 36, Changsha, 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Lushan Road 36, Changsha, 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Lushan Road 36, Changsha, 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Lushan Road 36, Changsha, 410081, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Lushan Road 36, Changsha, 410081, China.
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Liu Z, Zhu Z, Tang J, He H, Wan Q, Luo Y, Huang W, Yu Z, Hu Y, Ding X, Xia L. RNA-Seq-Based Transcriptomic Analysis of Saccharopolyspora spinosa Revealed the Critical Function of PEP Phosphonomutase in the Replenishment Pathway. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2020; 68:14660-14669. [PMID: 33258371 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c04443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Spinosyns, the secondary metabolites produced by Saccharopolyspora spinosa, are the active ingredients in a family of novel biological insecticides. Although the complete genome sequence of S. spinosa has been published, the transcriptome of S. spinosa remains poorly characterized. In this study, high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technology was applied to dissect the transcriptome of S. spinosa. Through transcriptomic analysis of different periods of S. spinosa growth, we found large numbers of differentially expressed genes and classified them according to their different functions. Based on the RNA-seq data, the CRISPR-Cas9 method was used to knock out the PEP phosphonomutase gene (orf 06952-4171). The yield of spinosyns A and D in S. spinosa-ΔPEP was 178.91 mg/L and 42.72 mg/L, which was 2.14-fold and 1.76-fold higher than that in the wild type (83.51 and 24.34 mg/L), respectively. The analysis of the mutant strains also verified the validity of the transcriptome data. The deletion of the PEP phosphonomutase gene leads to an increase in pyruvate content and affects the biosynthesis of spinosad. The replenishment of phosphoenol pyruvate in S. spinosa provides the substrate for the production of spinosad. We envision that these transcriptomic analysis results will contribute to the further study of secondary metabolites in actinomycetes.
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- Zhudong Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Development Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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Jeong H, Lee JH, Kim Y, Lee HS. Thiol-specific oxidant diamide downregulates whiA gene of Corynebacterium glutamicum, thereby suppressing cell division and metabolism. Res Microbiol 2020; 171:331-340. [PMID: 32750493 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2020.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Revised: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The whiA (NCgl1527) gene from Corynebacterium glutamicum plays a crucial role during cell growth, and WhiA is recognized as the transcription factor for genes involved in cell division. In this study, we assessed the regulatory role of the gene in cell physiology. Transcription of the gene was specifically downregulated by the thiol-specific oxidant, diamide, and by heat stress. Cells exposed to diamide showed decreased transcription of genes involved in cell division and these effects were more profound in ΔwhiA cells. In addition, the ΔwhiA cells showed sensitivity to thiol-specific oxidants, DNA-damaging agents, and high temperature. Further, downregulation of sigH (NCgl0733), the central regulator in stress responses, along with master regulatory genes in cell metabolism, was observed in the ΔwhiA strain. Moreover, the amount of cAMP in the ΔwhiA cells in the early stationary phase was only at 30% level of that for the wild-type strain. Collectively, our data indicate that the role of whiA is to downregulate genes associated with cell division in response to heat or thiol-specific oxidative stress, and may suggest a role for the gene in downshifting cell metabolism by downregulating global regulatory genes when growth condition is not optimal for cells.
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- Haeri Jeong
- Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Korea University, Sejong, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Korea University, Sejong, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Korean Medicine, Semyung University, Jecheon, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Korea University, Sejong, Republic of Korea.
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