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Cho DH, Kim HJ, Oh SJ, Hwang JH, Shin N, Bhatia SK, Yoon JJ, Jeon JM, Yang YH. Strategy for efficiently utilizing Escherichia coli cells producing isobutanol by combining isobutanol and indigo production systems. J Biotechnol 2023; 367:62-70. [PMID: 37019156 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2023.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Revised: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Isobutanol is a potential biofuel, and its microbial production systems have demonstrated promising results. In a microbial system, the isobutanol produced is secreted into the media; however, the cells remaining after fermentation cannot be used efficiently during the isobutanol recovery process and are discarded as waste. To address this, we aimed to investigate the strategy of utilizing these remaining cells by combining the isobutanol production system with the indigo production system, wherein the product accumulates intracellularly. Accordingly, we constructed E. coli systems with genes, such as acetolactate synthase gene (alsS), ketol-acid reductoisomerase gene (ilvC), dihydroxyl-acid dehydratase (ilvD), and alpha-ketoisovalerate decarboxylase gene (kivD), for isobutanol production and genes, such as tryptophanase gene (tnaA) and flavin-containing monooxygenase gene (FMO), for indigo production. This system produced isobutanol and indigo simultaneously while accumulating indigo within cells. The production of isobutanol and indigo exhibited a strong linear correlation up to 72 h of production time; however, the pattern of isobutanol and indigo production varied. To our knowledge, this study is the first to simultaneously produce isobutanol and indigo and can potentially enhance the economy of biochemical production.
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- Do Hyun Cho
- Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, 120, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, 120, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, 120, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, 120, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, 120, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, 120, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea; Institute for Ubiquitous Information Technology and Applications, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Green & Sustainable Materials R&D Department, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), Cheonan, Republic of Korea
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- Green & Sustainable Materials R&D Department, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), Cheonan, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, 120, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea; Institute for Ubiquitous Information Technology and Applications, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea.
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Acedos MG, de la Torre I, Santos VE, García-Ochoa F, García JL, Galán B. Modulating redox metabolism to improve isobutanol production in Shimwellia blattae. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2021; 14:8. [PMID: 33407735 PMCID: PMC7789792 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-020-01862-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Isobutanol is a candidate to replace gasoline from fossil resources. This higher alcohol can be produced from sugars using genetically modified microorganisms. Shimwellia blattae (p424IbPSO) is a robust strain resistant to high concentration of isobutanol that can achieve a high production rate of this alcohol. Nevertheless, this strain, like most strains developed for isobutanol production, has some limitations in its metabolic pathway. Isobutanol production under anaerobic conditions leads to a depletion of NADPH, which is necessary for two enzymes in the metabolic pathway. In this work, two independent approaches have been studied to mitigate the co-substrates imbalance: (i) using a NADH-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase to reduce the NADPH dependence of the pathway and (ii) using a transhydrogenase to increase NADPH level. RESULTS The addition of the NADH-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase from Lactococcus lactis (AdhA) to S. blattae (p424IbPSO) resulted in a 19.3% higher isobutanol production. The recombinant strain S. blattae (p424IbPSO, pIZpntAB) harboring the PntAB transhydrogenase produced 39.0% more isobutanol than the original strain, reaching 5.98 g L-1 of isobutanol. In both strains, we observed a significant decrease in the yields of by-products such as lactic acid or ethanol. CONCLUSIONS The isobutanol biosynthesis pathway in S. blattae (p424IbPSO) uses the endogenous NADPH-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase YqhD to complete the pathway. The addition of NADH-dependent AdhA leads to a reduction in the consumption of NADPH that is a bottleneck of the pathway. The higher consumption of NADH by AdhA reduces the availability of NADH required for the transformation of pyruvate into lactic acid and ethanol. On the other hand, the expression of PntAB from E. coli increases the availability of NADPH for IlvC and YqhD and at the same time reduces the availability of NADH and thus, the production of lactic acid and ethanol. In this work it is shown how the expression of AdhA and PntAB enzymes in Shimwellia blattae increases yield from 11.9% to 14.4% and 16.4%, respectively.
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- Miguel G Acedos
- Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, Chemical Sciences School, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, Chemical Sciences School, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, Chemical Sciences School, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, Chemical Sciences School, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Microbial and Plant Biotechnology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Microbial and Plant Biotechnology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
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Galal FH, Seufi AM. Molecular characterization of cultivable bacteria associated with adult Schistocerca gregaria, using 16S rRNA. JOURNAL OF TAIBAH UNIVERSITY FOR SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/16583655.2020.1760537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Fatma H. Galal
- Biology Department, College of Science, Jouf University, Sakaka, KSA
- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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- Department of Basic Sciences, Deanship of Common First Year, Jouf University, Sakaka, KSA
- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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Kinetic Modelling of the Coproduction Process of Fumaric and Malic Acids by Rhizopus arrhizus NRRL 1526. Processes (Basel) 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/pr8020188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The production of organic acids by biotechnological processes has experienced a notable impulse with the advent of first and second generation biorefineries and the need of searching for renewable and sustainable feedstock, such as biomass. Fumaric acid is a promising biomonomer for polyamide production and a well-known acidulant and preservative in food and feed industries. Malic acid is a well-known food acidulant with a high market share. The biotechnological Fumaric and Malic acid production via fungi of the Rhizopus genus is being explored nowadays as a process for the valorization of food and food-related waste to obtain food ingredients and key platform chemicals of the so-called biochemical biorefinery. In this work, a preliminary study is performed to find reproducible conditions for the production of the acids by Rhizopus arrhizus NRRL 1526 by controlling fungi morphology and inoculum conditions. Afterwards, several production runs are performed to obtain biomass, glucose, and acid concentration data at different processing time values. Finally, an unstructured, unsegregated model including a logistic-type equation for biomass and potential-type equations for the substrate and the products is fitted to experimental data. We find that the production of the organic acids is mainly non-associated with fungal growth.
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Effects of fluid-dynamic conditions in Shimwellia blattae (p424IbPSO) cultures in stirred tank bioreactors: Hydrodynamic stress and change of metabolic routes by oxygen availability. Biochem Eng J 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2019.107238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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de la Torre I, Martin-Dominguez V, Acedos MG, Esteban J, Santos VE, Ladero M. Utilisation/upgrading of orange peel waste from a biological biorefinery perspective. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 103:5975-5991. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-09929-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2019] [Revised: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 05/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Acedos MG, de la Torre I, Santos VE, Garcia-Ochoa F. Kinetic Modeling of the Isobutanol Production from Glucose Using Shimwellia blattae (p424IbPSO) Strain: Effect of Initial Substrate Concentration. Ind Eng Chem Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b05121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Miguel G. Acedos
- Chemical & Materials Engineering Department, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical & Materials Engineering Department, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical & Materials Engineering Department, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical & Materials Engineering Department, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Acedos MG, Santos VE, Garcia-Ochoa F. Resting cells isobutanol production by Shimwellia blattae (p424IbPSO): Influence of growth culture conditions. Biotechnol Prog 2018; 34:1073-1080. [PMID: 30281946 DOI: 10.1002/btpr.2705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2018] [Revised: 05/31/2018] [Accepted: 08/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
Isobutanol is a promising gasoline additive and could even be a potential substitute used directly as combustible. In this work, the production of isobutanol from glucose by Shimwellia blattae (p424IbPSO) in resting cell cultures is studied. This production has two stages, involving a resting cell phase that has not been studied before. The cell growth was carried out under different operating conditions: temperature and medium composition (YE, ammonium, and IPTG concentrations), looking for the highest isobutanol production. Moreover, the cells were collected at three different growth times checking their isobutanol production capacity. The best operating conditions have been determined as: 30°C of temperature, a medium containing 1.5 g L-1 YE and 1.4 g L-1 of ammonium as nitrogen sources, adding 0.5 mM IPTG as inducer. The cells collected at early growth times are significantly more active. The use of S. blattae (p424IbPSO) in resting cells is a good strategy for the production of isobutanol from glucose yielding better results than in batch growth cultures, a yield of 60% attainment of theoretical maximum yield is obtained under optimal conditions. In addition, it has been demonstrated that if the cells are cultured at higher temperatures and with high IPTG concentrations, inclusion bodies are formed in the cytoplasm inhibiting the isobutanol production in the resting cell stage.
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- Miguel G Acedos
- Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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