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Ding Q, Liu Q, Zhang Y, Li F, Song H. Modular Engineering Strategy to Redirect Electron Flux into the Electron-Transfer Chain for Enhancing Extracellular Electron Transfer in Shewanella oneidensis. ACS Synth Biol 2023; 12:471-481. [PMID: 36457250 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Efficient extracellular electron transfer (EET) of exoelectrogens is critical for practical applications of various bioelectrochemical systems. However, the low efficiency of electron transfer remains a major bottleneck. In this study, a modular engineering strategy, including broadening the sources of the intracellular electron pool, enhancing intracellular nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) regeneration, and promoting electron release from electron pools, was developed to redirect electron flux into the electron transfer chain in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. Among them, four genes include gene SO1522 encoding a lactate transporter for broadening the sources of the intracellular electron pool, gene gapA encoding a glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and gene mdh encoding a malate dehydrogenase in the central carbon metabolism for enhancing intracellular NADH regeneration, and gene ndh encoding NADH dehydrogenase on the inner membrane for releasing electrons from intracellular electron pools into the electron-transport chain. Upon assembly of the four genes, electron flux was directly redirected from the electron donor to the electron-transfer chain, achieving 62% increase in intracellular NADH levels, which resulted in a 3.5-fold enhancement in the power density from 59.5 ± 3.2 mW/m2 (wild type) to 270.0 ± 12.7 mW/m2 (recombinant strain). This study confirmed that redirecting electron flux from the electron donor to the electron-transfer chain is a viable approach to enhance the EET rate of S. oneidensis.
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- Qinran Ding
- Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin300072, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin300072, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin300072, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin300072, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin300072, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin300072, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin300072, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin300072, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin300072, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin300072, China
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Gruenberg MC, TerAvest MA. A common inducer molecule enhances sugar utilization by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2023; 50:kuad018. [PMID: 37537149 PMCID: PMC10549210 DOI: 10.1093/jimb/kuad018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
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Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is an electroactive bacterium that is a promising host for bioelectrochemical technologies, which makes it a common target for genetic engineering, including gene deletions and expression of heterologous pathways. Expression of heterologous genes and gene knockdown via CRISPRi in S. oneidensis are both frequently induced by β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG), a commonly used inducer molecule across many model organisms. Here, we report and characterize an unexpected phenotype; IPTG enhances the growth of wild-type S. oneidensis MR-1 on the sugar substrate N-acetylglucosamine (NAG). IPTG improves the carrying capacity of S. oneidensis growing on NAG while the growth rate remains similar to cultures without the inducer. Extracellular acetate accumulates faster and to a higher concentration in cultures without IPTG than those with it. IPTG appears to improve acetate metabolism, which combats the negative effect that acetate accumulation has on the growth of S. oneidensis with NAG. We recommend using extensive experimental controls and careful data interpretation when using both NAG and IPTG in S. oneidensis cultures.
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- Megan C Gruenberg
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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Shewanella sp. T2.3D-1.1 a Novel Microorganism Sustaining the Iron Cycle in the Deep Subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10081585. [PMID: 36014003 PMCID: PMC9415397 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10081585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Revised: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) is one of the largest deposits of sulphidic minerals on Earth. Río Tinto raises from its core, presenting low a pH and high metal concentration. Several drilling cores were extracted from the IPB’s subsurface, and strain T2.3D-1.1 was isolated from a core at 121.8 m depth. We aimed to characterize this subterranean microorganism, revealing its phylogenomic affiliation (Average Nucleotide Identity, digital DNA-DNA Hybridization) and inferring its physiology through genome annotation, backed with physiological experiments to explore its relationship with the Fe biogeochemical cycle. Results determined that the isolate belongs to the Shewanella putrefaciens (with ANI 99.25 with S. putrefaciens CN-32). Its genome harbours the necessary genes, including omcA mtrCAB, to perform the Extracellular Electron Transfer (EET) and reduce acceptors such as Fe3+, napAB to reduce NO3− to NO2−, hydAB to produce H2 and genes sirA, phsABC and ttrABC to reduce SO32−, S2O32− and S4O62−, respectively. A full CRISPR-Cas 1F type system was found as well. S. putrefaciens T2.3D-1.1 can reduce Fe3+ and promote the oxidation of Fe2+ in the presence of NO3− under anaerobic conditions. Production of H2 has been observed under anaerobic conditions with lactate or pyruvate as the electron donor and fumarate as the electron acceptor. Besides Fe3+ and NO3−, the isolate also grows with Dimethyl Sulfoxide and Trimethyl N-oxide, S4O62− and S2O32− as electron acceptors. It tolerates different concentrations of heavy metals such as 7.5 mM of Pb, 5 mM of Cr and Cu and 1 mM of Cd, Co, Ni and Zn. This array of traits suggests that S. putrefaciens T2.3D-1.1 could have an important role within the Iberian Pyrite Belt subsurface participating in the iron cycle, through the dissolution of iron minerals and therefore contributing to generate the extreme conditions detected in the Río Tinto basin.
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Bai X, Lin T, Liang N, Li BZ, Song H, Yuan YJ. Engineering synthetic microbial consortium for efficient conversion of lactate from glucose and xylose to generate electricity. Biochem Eng J 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2021.108052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Engineering Cooperation in an Anaerobic Coculture. Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:AEM.02852-20. [PMID: 33771781 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02852-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Over the past century, microbiologists have studied organisms in pure culture, yet it is becoming increasingly apparent that the majority of biological processes rely on multispecies cooperation and interaction. While little is known about how such interactions permit cooperation, even less is known about how cooperation arises. To study the emergence of cooperation in the laboratory, we constructed both a commensal community and an obligate mutualism using the previously noninteracting bacteria Shewanella oneidensis and Geobacter sulfurreducens Incorporation of a glycerol utilization plasmid (pGUT2) enabled S. oneidensis to metabolize glycerol and produce acetate as a carbon source for G. sulfurreducens, establishing a cross-feeding, commensal coculture. In the commensal coculture, both species coupled oxidative metabolism to the respiration of fumarate as the terminal electron acceptor. Deletion of the gene encoding fumarate reductase in the S. oneidensis/pGUT2 strain shifted the coculture with G. sulfurreducens to an obligate mutualism where neither species could grow in the absence of the other. A shift in metabolic strategy from glycerol catabolism to malate metabolism was associated with obligate coculture growth. Further targeted deletions in malate uptake and acetate generation pathways in S. oneidensis significantly inhibited coculture growth with G. sulfurreducens The engineered coculture between S. oneidensis and G. sulfurreducens provides a model laboratory system to study the emergence of cooperation in bacterial communities, and the shift in metabolic strategy observed in the obligate coculture highlights the importance of genetic change in shaping microbial interactions in the environment.IMPORTANCE Microbes seldom live alone in the environment, yet this scenario is approximated in the vast majority of pure-culture laboratory experiments. Here, we develop an anaerobic coculture system to begin understanding microbial physiology in a more complex setting but also to determine how anaerobic microbial communities can form. Using synthetic biology, we generated a coculture system where the facultative anaerobe Shewanella oneidensis consumes glycerol and provides acetate to the strict anaerobe Geobacter sulfurreducens In the commensal system, growth of G. sulfurreducens is dependent on the presence of S. oneidensis To generate an obligate coculture, where each organism requires the other, we eliminated the ability of S. oneidensis to respire fumarate. An unexpected shift in metabolic strategy from glycerol catabolism to malate metabolism was observed in the obligate coculture. Our work highlights how metabolic landscapes can be expanded in multispecies communities and provides a system to evaluate the evolution of cooperation under anaerobic conditions.
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Evidence for auxiliary anaerobic metabolism in obligately aerobic Zetaproteobacteria. ISME JOURNAL 2020; 14:1057-1062. [PMID: 31969684 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-0586-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2019] [Revised: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Zetaproteobacteria are obligate chemolithoautotrophs that oxidize Fe(II) as an electron and energy source, and play significant roles in nutrient cycling and primary production in the marine biosphere. Zetaproteobacteria thrive under microoxic conditions near oxic-anoxic interfaces, where they catalyze Fe(II) oxidation faster than the abiotic reaction with oxygen. Neutrophilic Fe(II) oxidizing bacteria produce copious amounts of insoluble iron oxyhydroxides as a by-product of their metabolism. Oxygen consumption by aerobic respiration and formation of iron oxyhydroxides at oxic-anoxic interfaces can result in periods of oxygen limitation for bacterial cells. Under laboratory conditions, all Zetaproteobacteria isolates have been shown to strictly require oxygen as an electron acceptor for growth, and anaerobic metabolism has not been observed. However, genomic analyses indicate a range of potential anaerobic pathways present in Zetaproteobacteria. Heterologous expression of proteins from Mariprofundus ferrooxydans PV-1, including pyruvate formate lyase and acetate kinase, further support a capacity for anaerobic metabolism. Here we define auxiliary anaerobic metabolism as a mechanism to provide maintenance energy to cells and suggest that it provides a survival advantage to Zetaproteobacteria in environments with fluctuating oxygen availability.
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NADH dehydrogenases Nuo and Nqr1 contribute to extracellular electron transfer by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 in bioelectrochemical systems. Sci Rep 2019; 9:14959. [PMID: 31628378 PMCID: PMC6802487 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51452-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2019] [Accepted: 09/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is quickly becoming a synthetic biology workhorse for bioelectrochemical technologies due to a high level of understanding of its interaction with electrodes. Transmembrane electron transfer via the Mtr pathway has been well characterized, however, the role of NADH dehydrogenases in feeding electrons to Mtr has been only minimally studied in S. oneidensis MR-1. Four NADH dehydrogenases are encoded in the genome, suggesting significant metabolic flexibility in oxidizing NADH under a variety of conditions. A strain lacking the two dehydrogenases essential for aerobic growth exhibited a severe growth defect with an anode (+0.4 VSHE) or Fe(III)-NTA as the terminal electron acceptor. Our study reveals that the same NADH dehydrogenase complexes are utilized under oxic conditions or with a high potential anode. Our study also supports the previously indicated importance of pyruvate dehydrogenase activity in producing NADH during anerobic lactate metabolism. Understanding the role of NADH in extracellular electron transfer may help improve biosensors and give insight into other applications for bioelectrochemical systems.
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Li F, An X, Wu D, Xu J, Chen Y, Li W, Cao Y, Guo X, Lin X, Li C, Liu S, Song H. Engineering Microbial Consortia for High-Performance Cellulosic Hydrolyzates-Fed Microbial Fuel Cells. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:409. [PMID: 30936852 PMCID: PMC6432859 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are eco-friendly bio-electrochemical reactors that use exoelectrogens as biocatalyst for electricity harvest from organic biomass, which could also be used as biosensors for long-term environmental monitoring. Glucose and xylose, as the primary ingredients from cellulose hydrolyzates, is an appealing substrate for MFC. Nevertheless, neither xylose nor glucose can be utilized as carbon source by well-studied exoelectrogens such as Shewanella oneidensis. In this study, to harvest the electricity by rapidly harnessing xylose and glucose from corn stalk hydrolysate, we herein firstly designed glucose and xylose co-fed engineered Klebsiella pneumoniae-S. oneidensis microbial consortium, in which K. pneumoniae as the fermenter converted glucose and xylose into lactate to feed the exoelectrogens (S. oneidensis). To produce more lactate in K. pneumoniae, we eliminated the ethanol and acetate pathway via deleting pta (phosphotransacetylase gene) and adhE (alcohol dehydrogenase gene) and further constructed a synthesis and delivery system through expressing ldhD (lactate dehydrogenase gene) and lldP (lactate transporter gene). To facilitate extracellular electron transfer (EET) of S. oneidensis, a biosynthetic flavins pathway from Bacillus subtilis was expressed in a highly hydrophobic S. oneidensis CP-S1, which not only improved direct-contacted EET via enhancing S. oneidensis adhesion to the carbon electrode but also accelerated the flavins-mediated EET via increasing flavins synthesis. Furthermore, we optimized the ratio of glucose and xylose concentration to provide a stable carbon source supply in MFCs for higher power density. The glucose and xylose co-fed MFC inoculated with the recombinant consortium generated a maximum power density of 104.7 ± 10.0 mW/m2, which was 7.2-folds higher than that of the wild-type consortium (12.7 ± 8.0 mW/m2). Lastly, we used this synthetic microbial consortium in the corn straw hydrolyzates-fed MFC, obtaining a power density 23.5 ± 6.0 mW/m2.
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- Feng Li
- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (MOE), Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (MOE), Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Brewing Engineering, Moutai Institute, Renhuai, China.,Tianjin Engineering Research Center of Microbial Metabolism and Fermentation Process Control, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (MOE), Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (MOE), Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (MOE), Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (MOE), Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Engineering Research Center of Microbial Metabolism and Fermentation Process Control, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (MOE), Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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Complex Iron Uptake by the Putrebactin-Mediated and Feo Systems in Shewanella oneidensis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:AEM.01752-18. [PMID: 30097446 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01752-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Shewanella oneidensis is an extensively studied bacterium capable of respiring minerals, including a variety of iron ores, as terminal electron acceptors (EAs). Although iron plays an essential and special role in iron respiration of S. oneidensis, little has been done to date to investigate the characteristics of iron transport in this bacterium. In this study, we found that all proteins encoded by the pub-putA-putB cluster for putrebactin (S. oneidensis native siderophore) synthesis (PubABC), recognition-transport of Fe3+-putrebactin across the outer membrane (PutA), and reduction of ferric putrebactin (PutB) are essential to putrebactin-mediated iron uptake. Although homologs of PutA are many, none can function as its replacement, but some are able to work with other bacterial siderophores. We then showed that Fe2+-specific Feo is the other primary iron uptake system, based on the synthetical lethal phenotype resulting from the loss of both iron uptake routes. The role of the Feo system in iron uptake appears to be more critical, as growth is significantly impaired by the absence of the system but not of putrebactin. Furthermore, we demonstrate that hydroxyl acids, especially α-types such as lactate, promote iron uptake in a Feo-dependent manner. Overall, our findings underscore the importance of the ferrous iron uptake system in metal-reducing bacteria, providing an insight into iron homeostasis by linking these two biological processes.IMPORTANCE S. oneidensis is among the first- and the best-studied metal-reducing bacteria, with great potential in bioremediation and biotechnology. However, many questions regarding mechanisms closely associated with those applications, such as iron homeostasis, including iron uptake, export, and regulation, remain to be addressed. Here we show that Feo is a primary player in iron uptake in addition to the siderophore-dependent route. The investigation also resolved a few puzzles regarding the unexpected phenotypes of the putA mutant and lactate-dependent iron uptake. By elucidating the physiological roles of these two important iron uptake systems, this work revealed the breadth of the impacts of iron uptake systems on the biological processes.
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Using metabolic charge production in the tricarboxylic acid cycle (Q TCA) to evaluate the extracellular-electron-transfer performances of Shewanella spp. Bioelectrochemistry 2018; 124:119-126. [PMID: 30015268 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2018] [Revised: 06/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/03/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Using an electrochemical cell equipped with carbon felt electrodes (poised at +0.63 V vs. SHE), the current production capabilities of two Shewanella strains-NTOU1 and KR-12-were examined under various conditions with lactate as an electron donor. The metabolic charge produced in the tricarboxylic acid cycle (QTCA) was calculated by mass-balance. The data showed a linear relation between the electric coulomb production (QEL) and QTCA with an R2 of 0.65. In addition, a large amount of pyruvate accumulation was observed at pH = 6, rendering QTCA negative. The results indicate an occurrence of an undesired cataplerotic reaction. It was also found that QTCA provides important information showing the oxygen-boosting TCA cycle and anodic-current generation of Shewanella spp. Linear dependence of the change in charge for biomass growth (4.52FΔnCell) on QTCA was also found as expressed by 4.52FΔnCell = 1.0428 QTCA + 0.0442, indicating that these two charge quantities are inherently identical under most of the experimental conditions. In the mediator-spiked experiments, the external addition of the mediators (ferricyanide, anthraquinone-2, 6-disulfonate, and riboflavin) beyond certain concentrations inhibited the activity of the TCA cycle, indicating that the oxidative phosphorylation is deactivated by excessive amounts of mediators, yet Shewanella spp. are constrained with regard to carrying out the substrate-level phosphorylation.
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Li F, Li Y, Sun L, Chen X, An X, Yin C, Cao Y, Wu H, Song H. Modular Engineering Intracellular NADH Regeneration Boosts Extracellular Electron Transfer of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. ACS Synth Biol 2018; 7:885-895. [PMID: 29429342 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Efficient extracellular electron transfer (EET) of exoelectrogens is essentially for practical applications of versatile bioelectrochemical systems. Intracellular electrons flow from NADH to extracellular electron acceptors via EET pathways. However, it was yet established how the manipulation of intracellular NADH impacted the EET efficiency. Strengthening NADH regeneration from NAD+, as a feasible approach for cofactor engineering, has been used in regulating the intracellular NADH pool and the redox state (NADH/NAD+ ratio) of cells. Herein, we first adopted a modular metabolic engineering strategy to engineer and drive the metabolic flux toward the enhancement of intracellular NADH regeneration. We systematically studied 16 genes related to the NAD+-dependent oxidation reactions for strengthening NADH regeneration in the four metabolic modules of S. oneidensis MR-1, i.e., glycolysis, C1 metabolism, pyruvate fermentation, and tricarboxylic acid cycle. Among them, three endogenous genes mostly responsible for increasing NADH regeneration were identified, namely gapA2 encoding a NAD+-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in the glycolysis module, mdh encoding a NAD+-dependent malate dehydrogenase in the TCA cycle, and pflB encoding a pyruvate-formate lyase that converted pyruvate to formate in the pyruvate fermentation module. An exogenous gene fdh* from Candida boidinii encoding a NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase to increase NADH regeneration in the pyruvate fermentation module was further identified. Upon assembling these four genes in S. oneidensis MR-1, ∼4.3-fold increase in NADH/NAD+ ratio, and ∼1.2-fold increase in intracellular NADH pool were obtained under anaerobic conditions without discharge, which elicited ∼3.0-fold increase in the maximum power output in microbial fuel cells, from 26.2 ± 2.8 (wild-type) to 105.8 ± 4.1 mW/m2 (recombinant S. oneidensis), suggesting a boost in the EET efficiency. This modular engineering method in controlling the intracellular reducing equivalents would be a general approach in tuning the EET efficiency of exoelectrogens.
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- Feng Li
- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Petrochemical Research Institute, PetroChina Company Limited, Beijing 102206, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Engineering of China National Light Industry Council, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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Tracking Electron Uptake from a Cathode into Shewanella Cells: Implications for Energy Acquisition from Solid-Substrate Electron Donors. mBio 2018; 9:mBio.02203-17. [PMID: 29487241 PMCID: PMC5829830 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02203-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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While typically investigated as a microorganism capable of extracellular electron transfer to minerals or anodes, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 can also facilitate electron flow from a cathode to terminal electron acceptors, such as fumarate or oxygen, thereby providing a model system for a process that has significant environmental and technological implications. This work demonstrates that cathodic electrons enter the electron transport chain of S. oneidensis when oxygen is used as the terminal electron acceptor. The effect of electron transport chain inhibitors suggested that a proton gradient is generated during cathode oxidation, consistent with the higher cellular ATP levels measured in cathode-respiring cells than in controls. Cathode oxidation also correlated with an increase in the cellular redox (NADH/FMNH2) pool determined with a bioluminescence assay, a proton uncoupler, and a mutant of proton-pumping NADH oxidase complex I. This work suggested that the generation of NADH/FMNH2 under cathodic conditions was linked to reverse electron flow mediated by complex I. A decrease in cathodic electron uptake was observed in various mutant strains, including those lacking the extracellular electron transfer components necessary for anodic-current generation. While no cell growth was observed under these conditions, here we show that cathode oxidation is linked to cellular energy acquisition, resulting in a quantifiable reduction in the cellular decay rate. This work highlights a potential mechanism for cell survival and/or persistence on cathodes, which might extend to environments where growth and division are severely limited. The majority of our knowledge of the physiology of extracellular electron transfer derives from studies of electrons moving to the exterior of the cell. The physiological mechanisms and/or consequences of the reverse processes are largely uncharacterized. This report demonstrates that when coupled to oxygen reduction, electrode oxidation can result in cellular energy acquisition. This respiratory process has potentially important implications for how microorganisms persist in energy-limited environments, such as reduced sediments under changing redox conditions. From an applied perspective, this work has important implications for microbially catalyzed processes on electrodes, particularly with regard to understanding models of cellular conversion of electrons from cathodes to microbially synthesized products.
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Cao Y, Li X, Li F, Song H. CRISPRi-sRNA: Transcriptional-Translational Regulation of Extracellular Electron Transfer in Shewanella oneidensis. ACS Synth Biol 2017; 6:1679-1690. [PMID: 28616968 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Extracellular electron transfer (EET) in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, which is one of the most well-studied exoelectrogens, underlies many microbial electrocatalysis processes, including microbial fuel cells, microbial electrolysis cells, and microbial electrosynthesis. However, regulating the efficiency of EET remains challenging due to the lack of efficient genome regulation tools that regulate gene expression levels in S. oneidensis. Here, we systematically established a transcriptional regulation technology, i.e., clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats interference (CRISPRi), in S. oneidensis MR-1 using green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a reporter. We used this CRISPRi technology to repress the expression levels of target genes, individually and in combination, in the EET pathways (e.g., the MtrCAB pathway and genes affecting the formation of electroactive biofilms in S. oneidensis), which in turn enabled the efficient regulation of EET efficiency. We then established a translational regulation technology, i.e., Hfq-dependent small regulatory RNA (sRNA), in S. oneidensis by repressing the GFP reporter and mtrA, which is a critical gene in the EET pathways in S. oneidensis. To achieve coordinated transcriptional and translational regulation at the genomic level, the CRISPRi and Hfq-dependent sRNA systems were incorporated into a single plasmid harbored in a recombinant S. oneidensis strain, which enabled an even higher efficiency of mtrA gene repression in the EET pathways than that achieved by the CRISPRi and Hfq-dependent sRNA system alone, as exhibited by the reduced electricity output. Overall, we developed a combined CRISPRi-sRNA method that enabled the synergistic transcriptional and translational regulation of target genes in S. oneidensis. This technology involving CRISPRi-sRNA transcriptional-translational regulation of gene expression at the genomic level could be applied to other microorganisms.
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- Yingxiu Cao
- Key Laboratory of Systems
Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering
(Tianjin), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems
Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering
(Tianjin), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems
Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering
(Tianjin), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems
Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering
(Tianjin), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P.R. China
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Li SW, Zeng RJ, Sheng GP. An excellent anaerobic respiration mode for chitin degradation by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 in microbial fuel cells. Biochem Eng J 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2016.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Li F, Li Y, Sun L, Li X, Yin C, An X, Chen X, Tian Y, Song H. Engineering Shewanella oneidensis enables xylose-fed microbial fuel cell. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2017; 10:196. [PMID: 28804512 PMCID: PMC5549365 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-017-0881-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2017] [Accepted: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a green and sustainable technology for electricity energy harvest from biomass, in which exoelectrogens use metabolism and extracellular electron transfer pathways for the conversion of chemical energy into electricity. However, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, one of the most well-known exoelectrogens, could not use xylose (a key pentose derived from hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass) for cell growth and power generation, which limited greatly its practical applications. RESULTS Herein, to enable S. oneidensis to directly utilize xylose as the sole carbon source for bioelectricity production in MFCs, we used synthetic biology strategies to successfully construct four genetically engineered S. oneidensis (namely XE, GE, XS, and GS) by assembling one of the xylose transporters (from Candida intermedia and Clostridium acetobutylicum) with one of intracellular xylose metabolic pathways (the isomerase pathway from Escherichia coli and the oxidoreductase pathway from Scheffersomyces stipites), respectively. We found that among these engineered S. oneidensis strains, the strain GS (i.e. harbouring Gxf1 gene encoding the xylose facilitator from C. intermedi, and XYL1, XYL2, and XKS1 genes encoding the xylose oxidoreductase pathway from S. stipites) was able to generate the highest power density, enabling a maximum electricity power density of 2.1 ± 0.1 mW/m2. CONCLUSION To the best of our knowledge, this was the first report on the rationally designed Shewanella that could use xylose as the sole carbon source and electron donor to produce electricity. The synthetic biology strategies developed in this study could be further extended to rationally engineer other exoelectrogens for lignocellulosic biomass utilization to generate electricity power.
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- Feng Li
- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
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- Petrochemical Research Institute, PetroChina Company Limited, Beijing, 102206 People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China
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Lin T, Bai X, Hu Y, Li B, Yuan Y, Song H, Yang Y, Wang J. Synthetic
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Shewanella oneidensis
consortium enables glucose‐fed high‐performance microbial fuel cell. AIChE J 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.15611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Tong Lin
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)Tianjin UniversityTianjin300072 China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)Tianjin UniversityTianjin300072 China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)Tianjin UniversityTianjin300072 China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)Tianjin UniversityTianjin300072 China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)Tianjin UniversityTianjin300072 China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)Tianjin UniversityTianjin300072 China
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- School of Chemistry and EnvironmentBeihang UniversityBeijing100191 China
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- Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials ScienceUniversity of MinnesotaMinneapolis MN55455
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- Tao Jin
- Iowa State University; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; 2114 Sweeney Hall, 618 Bissell Rd. Ames, IA 50011 USA
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- Iowa State University; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; 2114 Sweeney Hall, 618 Bissell Rd. Ames, IA 50011 USA
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- Iowa State University; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; 2114 Sweeney Hall, 618 Bissell Rd. Ames, IA 50011 USA
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Formate Metabolism in Shewanella oneidensis Generates Proton Motive Force and Prevents Growth without an Electron Acceptor. J Bacteriol 2016; 198:1337-46. [PMID: 26883823 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00927-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 02/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 is a facultative anaerobe that thrives in redox-stratified environments due to its ability to utilize a wide array of terminal electron acceptors. Conversely, the electron donors utilized by S. oneidensis are more limited and include products of primary fermentation such as lactate, pyruvate, formate, and hydrogen. Lactate, pyruvate, and hydrogen metabolisms inS. oneidensis have been described previously, but little is known about the role of formate oxidation in the ecophysiology of these bacteria. Formate is produced by S. oneidensis through pyruvate formate lyase during anaerobic growth on carbon sources that enter metabolism at or above the level of pyruvate, and the genome contains three gene clusters predicted to encode three complete formate dehydrogenase complexes. To determine the contribution of each complex to formate metabolism, strains lacking one, two, or all three annotated formate dehydrogenase gene clusters were generated and examined for growth rates and yields on a variety of carbon sources. Here, we report that formate oxidation contributes to both the growth rate and yield of S. oneidensis through the generation of proton motive force. Exogenous formate also greatly accelerated growth on N-acetylglucosamine, a carbon source normally utilized very slowly by S. oneidensis under anaerobic conditions. Surprisingly, deletion of all three formate dehydrogenase gene clusters enabled growth of S. oneidensis using pyruvate in the absence of a terminal electron acceptor, a mode of growth never before observed in these bacteria. Our results demonstrate that formate oxidation is a fundamental strategy under anaerobic conditions for energy conservation inS. oneidensis. IMPORTANCE Shewanella species have garnered interest in biotechnology applications for their ability to respire extracellular terminal electron acceptors, such as insoluble iron oxides and electrodes. While much effort has gone into studying the proteins for extracellular electron transport, how electrons generated through the oxidation of organic carbon sources enter this pathway remains understudied. Here, we quantify the role of formate oxidation in the anaerobic physiology of Shewanella oneidensis Formate oxidation contributes to both the growth rate and yield on a variety of carbon sources through the generation of proton motive force. Advances in our understanding of the anaerobic metabolism of S. oneidensis are important for our ability to utilize and engineer this organism for applications in bioenergy, biocatalysis, and bioremediation.
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Liu T, Yu YY, Deng XP, Ng CK, Cao B, Wang JY, Rice SA, Kjelleberg S, Song H. Enhanced Shewanella biofilm promotes bioelectricity generation. Biotechnol Bioeng 2015; 112:2051-9. [PMID: 25899863 DOI: 10.1002/bit.25624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2014] [Revised: 03/11/2015] [Accepted: 04/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Electroactive biofilms play essential roles in determining the power output of microbial fuel cells (MFCs). To engineer the electroactive biofilm formation of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, a model exoelectrogen, we herein heterologously overexpressed a c-di-GMP biosynthesis gene ydeH in S. oneidensis MR-1, constructing a mutant strain in which the expression of ydeH is under the control of IPTG-inducible promoter, and a strain in which ydeH is under the control of a constitutive promoter. Such engineered Shewanella strains had significantly enhanced biofilm formation and bioelectricity generation. The MFCs inoculated with these engineered strains accomplished a maximum power density of 167.6 ± 3.6 mW/m(2) , which was ∼ 2.8 times of that achieved by the wild-type MR-1 (61.0 ± 1.9 mW/m(2) ). In addition, the engineered strains in the bioelectrochemical system at poised potential of 0.2 V vs. saturated calomel electrode (SCE) generated a stable current density of 1100 mA/m(2) , ∼ 3.4 times of that by wild-type MR-1 (320 mA/m(2) ).
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- Ting Liu
- School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore
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- School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore
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- School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore.,School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
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Genome-scale metabolic network validation of Shewanella oneidensis using transposon insertion frequency analysis. PLoS Comput Biol 2014; 10:e1003848. [PMID: 25233219 PMCID: PMC4168976 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2014] [Accepted: 08/07/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Transposon mutagenesis, in combination with parallel sequencing, is becoming a powerful tool for en-masse mutant analysis. A probability generating function was used to explain observed miniHimar transposon insertion patterns, and gene essentiality calls were made by transposon insertion frequency analysis (TIFA). TIFA incorporated the observed genome and sequence motif bias of the miniHimar transposon. The gene essentiality calls were compared to: 1) previous genome-wide direct gene-essentiality assignments; and, 2) flux balance analysis (FBA) predictions from an existing genome-scale metabolic model of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. A three-way comparison between FBA, TIFA, and the direct essentiality calls was made to validate the TIFA approach. The refinement in the interpretation of observed transposon insertions demonstrated that genes without insertions are not necessarily essential, and that genes that contain insertions are not always nonessential. The TIFA calls were in reasonable agreement with direct essentiality calls for S. oneidensis, but agreed more closely with E. coli essentiality calls for orthologs. The TIFA gene essentiality calls were in good agreement with the MR-1 FBA essentiality predictions, and the agreement between TIFA and FBA predictions was substantially better than between the FBA and the direct gene essentiality predictions.
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Fondi M, Maida I, Perrin E, Mellera A, Mocali S, Parrilli E, Tutino ML, Liò P, Fani R. Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction and constraint-based modelling of the Antarctic bacteriumPseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125. Environ Microbiol 2014; 17:751-66. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Marco Fondi
- Laboratory of Microbial and Molecular Evolution; Department of Biology; University of Florence; Via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino Florence 50019 Italy
- ComBo; Florence Computational Biology Group; University of Florence; Via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino Florence 50019 Italy
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- Laboratory of Microbial and Molecular Evolution; Department of Biology; University of Florence; Via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino Florence 50019 Italy
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- Laboratory of Microbial and Molecular Evolution; Department of Biology; University of Florence; Via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino Florence 50019 Italy
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- Laboratory of Microbial and Molecular Evolution; Department of Biology; University of Florence; Via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino Florence 50019 Italy
- ComBo; Florence Computational Biology Group; University of Florence; Via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino Florence 50019 Italy
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- Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura; Centro di Ricerca per l'Agrobiologia e la Pedologia (CRA-ABP); Firenze Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Naples Federico II; Naples Italy
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- Computer Laboratory; Cambridge University; Cambridge UK
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- Laboratory of Microbial and Molecular Evolution; Department of Biology; University of Florence; Via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino Florence 50019 Italy
- ComBo; Florence Computational Biology Group; University of Florence; Via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino Florence 50019 Italy
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Caspi R, Altman T, Billington R, Dreher K, Foerster H, Fulcher CA, Holland TA, Keseler IM, Kothari A, Kubo A, Krummenacker M, Latendresse M, Mueller LA, Ong Q, Paley S, Subhraveti P, Weaver DS, Weerasinghe D, Zhang P, Karp PD. The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 42:D459-71. [PMID: 24225315 PMCID: PMC3964957 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 797] [Impact Index Per Article: 72.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The MetaCyc database (MetaCyc.org) is a comprehensive and freely accessible database describing metabolic pathways and enzymes from all domains of life. MetaCyc pathways are experimentally determined, mostly small-molecule metabolic pathways and are curated from the primary scientific literature. MetaCyc contains >2100 pathways derived from >37 000 publications, and is the largest curated collection of metabolic pathways currently available. BioCyc (BioCyc.org) is a collection of >3000 organism-specific Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), each containing the full genome and predicted metabolic network of one organism, including metabolites, enzymes, reactions, metabolic pathways, predicted operons, transport systems and pathway-hole fillers. Additions to BioCyc over the past 2 years include YeastCyc, a PGDB for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and 891 new genomes from the Human Microbiome Project. The BioCyc Web site offers a variety of tools for querying and analysis of PGDBs, including Omics Viewers and tools for comparative analysis. New developments include atom mappings in reactions, a new representation of glycan degradation pathways, improved compound structure display, better coverage of enzyme kinetic data, enhancements of the Web Groups functionality, improvements to the Omics viewers, a new representation of the Enzyme Commission system and, for the desktop version of the software, the ability to save display states.
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- Ron Caspi
- SRI International, 333 Ravenswood, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Tower Road, Ithaca, New York 14853 USA
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Jevremović D, Boley D. Finding minimal generating set for metabolic network with reversible pathways. Biosystems 2013; 112:31-6. [PMID: 23474418 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2013.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2012] [Revised: 10/07/2012] [Accepted: 02/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Elementary flux modes give a mathematical representation of metabolic pathways in metabolic networks satisfying the constraint of non-decomposability. The large cost of their computation shifts attention to computing a minimal generating set which is a conically independent subset of elementary flux modes. When a metabolic network has reversible reactions and also admits a reversible pathway, the minimal generating set is not unique. A theoretical development and computational framework is provided which outline how to compute the minimal generating set in this case. The method is based on combining existing software to compute the minimal generating set for a "pointed cone" together with standard software to compute the Reduced Row Echelon Form.
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- Dimitrije Jevremović
- Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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Brutinel ED, Gralnick JA. Anomalies of the anaerobic tricarboxylic acid cycle inShewanella oneidensisrevealed by Tn-seq. Mol Microbiol 2012; 86:273-83. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08196.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Evan D. Brutinel
- BioTechnology Institute and Department of Microbiology; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; St Paul; MN; 55108; USA
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- BioTechnology Institute and Department of Microbiology; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; St Paul; MN; 55108; USA
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Trinh CT, Thompson RA. Elementary mode analysis: a useful metabolic pathway analysis tool for reprograming microbial metabolic pathways. Subcell Biochem 2012; 64:21-42. [PMID: 23080244 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5055-5_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Elementary mode analysis is a useful metabolic pathway analysis tool to characterize cellular metabolism. It can identify all feasible metabolic pathways known as elementary modes that are inherent to a metabolic network. Each elementary mode contains a minimal and unique set of enzymatic reactions that can support cellular functions at steady state. Knowledge of all these pathway options enables systematic characterization of cellular phenotypes, analysis of metabolic network properties (e.g. structure, regulation, robustness, and fragility), phenotypic behavior discovery, and rational strain design for metabolic engineering application. This chapter focuses on the application of elementary mode analysis to reprogram microbial metabolic pathways for rational strain design and the metabolic pathway evolution of designed strains.
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- Cong T Trinh
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA,
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