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Antonacci A, Bertalan I, Giardi MT, Scognamiglio V, Turemis M, Fisher D, Johanningmeier U. Enhancing resistance of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to oxidative stress fusing constructs of heterologous antioxidant peptides into D1 protein. ALGAL RES 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2021.102184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Sawyer A, Bai Y, Lu Y, Hemschemeier A, Happe T. Compartmentalisation of [FeFe]-hydrogenase maturation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 90:1134-1143. [PMID: 28295776 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2016] [Revised: 03/01/2017] [Accepted: 03/06/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Molecular hydrogen (H2 ) can be produced in green microalgae by [FeFe]-hydrogenases as a direct product of photosynthesis. The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii hydrogenase HYDA1 contains a catalytic site comprising a classic [4Fe4S] cluster linked to a unique 2Fe sub-cluster. From in vitro studies it appears that the [4Fe4S] cluster is incorporated first by the housekeeping FeS cluster assembly machinery, followed by the 2Fe sub-cluster, whose biosynthesis requires the specific maturases HYDEF and HYDG. To investigate the maturation process in vivo, we expressed HYDA1 from the C. reinhardtii chloroplast and nuclear genomes (with and without a chloroplast transit peptide) in a hydrogenase-deficient mutant strain, and examined the cellular enzymatic hydrogenase activity, as well as in vivo H2 production. The transformants expressing HYDA1 from the chloroplast genome displayed levels of H2 production comparable to the wild type, as did the transformants expressing full-length HYDA1 from the nuclear genome. In contrast, cells equipped with cytoplasm-targeted HYDA1 produced inactive enzyme, which could only be activated in vitro after reconstitution of the [4Fe4S] cluster. This indicates that the HYDA1 FeS cluster can only be built by the chloroplastic FeS cluster assembly machinery. Further, the expression of a bacterial hydrogenase gene, CPI, from the C. reinhardtii chloroplast genome resulted in H2 -producing strains, demonstrating that a hydrogenase with a very different structure can fulfil the role of HYDA1 in vivo and that overexpression of foreign hydrogenases in C. reinhardtii is possible. All chloroplast transformants were stable and no toxic effects were seen from HYDA1 or CPI expression.
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- Anne Sawyer
- AG Photobiotechnologie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- AG Photobiotechnologie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- AG Photobiotechnologie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- AG Photobiotechnologie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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Hanson MR, Lin MT, Carmo-Silva AE, Parry MA. Towards engineering carboxysomes into C3 plants. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 87:38-50. [PMID: 26867858 PMCID: PMC4970904 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2015] [Revised: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Photosynthesis in C3 plants is limited by features of the carbon-fixing enzyme Rubisco, which exhibits a low turnover rate and can react with O2 instead of CO2 , leading to photorespiration. In cyanobacteria, bacterial microcompartments, known as carboxysomes, improve the efficiency of photosynthesis by concentrating CO2 near the enzyme Rubisco. Cyanobacterial Rubisco enzymes are faster than those of C3 plants, though they have lower specificity toward CO2 than the land plant enzyme. Replacement of land plant Rubisco by faster bacterial variants with lower CO2 specificity will improve photosynthesis only if a microcompartment capable of concentrating CO2 can also be installed into the chloroplast. We review current information about cyanobacterial microcompartments and carbon-concentrating mechanisms, plant transformation strategies, replacement of Rubisco in a model C3 plant with cyanobacterial Rubisco and progress toward synthesizing a carboxysome in chloroplasts.
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- Maureen R. Hanson
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Biotechnology Building, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Biotechnology Building, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom
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Qi Y, Xu W, Xing T, Zhao M, Li N, Yan L, Xia G, Wang M. Synonymous Codon Usage Bias in the Plastid Genome is Unrelated to Gene Structure and Shows Evolutionary Heterogeneity. Evol Bioinform Online 2015; 11:65-77. [PMID: 25922569 PMCID: PMC4395140 DOI: 10.4137/ebo.s22566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2014] [Revised: 02/22/2015] [Accepted: 02/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Synonymous codon usage bias (SCUB) is the nonuniform usage of codons, occurring often in nearly all organisms. Our previous study found that SCUB is correlated with intron number, is unequal among exons in the plant nuclear genome, and mirrors evolutionary specialization. However, whether this rule exists in the plastid genome has not been addressed. Here, we present an analysis of SCUB in the plastid genomes of 25 species from lower to higher plants (algae, bryophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and spermatophytes). We found NNA and NNT (A- and T-ending codons) are preferential in the plastid genomes of all plants. Interestingly, this preference is heterogeneous among taxonomies of plants, with the strongest preference in bryophytes and the weakest in pteridophytes, suggesting an association between SCUB and plant evolution. In addition, SCUB frequencies are consistent among genes with varied introns and among exons, indicating that the bias of NNA and NNT is unrelated to either intron number or exon position. Further, SCUB is associated with DNA methylation–induced conversion of cytosine to thymine in the vascular plants but not in algae or bryophytes. These data demonstrate that these SCUB profiles in the plastid genome are distinctly different compared with the nuclear genome.
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- Yueying Qi
- The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- Shandong Center of Crop Germplasm Resources, Jinan 250100,Shandong, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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Ullrich KK, Hiss M, Rensing SA. Means to optimize protein expression in transgenic plants. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2015; 32:61-67. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2014] [Revised: 10/29/2014] [Accepted: 11/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Bertalan I, Munder MC, Weiß C, Kopf J, Fischer D, Johanningmeier U. A rapid, modular and marker-free chloroplast expression system for the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J Biotechnol 2014; 195:60-6. [PMID: 25554634 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2014] [Revised: 12/16/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
In search of alternative expression platforms heterologous protein production in microalgae has gained increasing importance in the last years. Particularly, the chloroplast of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been adopted to successfully express foreign proteins like vaccines and antibodies. However, when compared with other expression systems, the development of the algal chloroplast to a powerful production platform for recombinant proteins is still in its early stages. In an effort to further improve methods for a reliable and rapid generation of transplastomic Chlamydomonas strains we constructed the key plasmid pMM2 containing the psbA gene and a multiple cloning site for foreign gene insertion. The psbA gene allows a marker-free selection procedure using as a recipient the Fud7 strain of Chlamydomonas, which grows on media containing acetate as a carbon source, but is unable to grow photoautotrophically due to the lack of an intact psbA gene. Biolistic transformation of Fud7 with vectors containing this gene restores photoautotrophic growth and thus permits selection in the light on media without carbon sources and antibiotics. The multiple cloning site with a BsaI recognition sequence allows type IIs restriction enzyme-based modular cloning which rapidly generates new gene constructs without sequences, which could influence the expression and characteristics of the foreign protein. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, a codon optimized version of the gene for the bacterial protein MPT64 has been integrated into the plastome. Several strains with different promoter/UTR combinations show a stable expression of the HA tagged MPT64 protein in Chlamydomonas chloroplasts.
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- Ivo Bertalan
- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie, Weinbergweg 10, 06120 Halle, Germany.
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- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie, Weinbergweg 10, 06120 Halle, Germany
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- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie, Weinbergweg 10, 06120 Halle, Germany
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- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie, Weinbergweg 10, 06120 Halle, Germany
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- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie, Weinbergweg 10, 06120 Halle, Germany
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- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie, Weinbergweg 10, 06120 Halle, Germany
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Scognamiglio V, Arduini F, Palleschi G, Rea G. Biosensing technology for sustainable food safety. Trends Analyt Chem 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2014.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Gimpel JA, Mayfield SP. Analysis of heterologous regulatory and coding regions in algal chloroplasts. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2012. [PMID: 23179624 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4580-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The basic photosynthetic apparatus is highly conserved across all photosynthetic organisms, and this conservation can be seen in both protein composition and amino acid sequence. Conservation of regulatory elements also seems possible in chloroplast genes, as many mRNA untranslated regions (UTRs) appear to have similar structural elements. The D1 protein of Photosystem II (psbA gene) is a highly conserved core reaction center protein that shows very similar regulation from cyanobacteria through higher plants. We engineered full and partial psbA genes from a diverse set of photosynthetic organisms into a psbA deficient strain of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Analysis of D1 protein accumulation and photosynthetic growth revealed that coding sequences and promoters are interchangeable even between anciently diverged species. On the other hand functional recognition of 5' UTRs is limited to closely related organisms. Furthermore transformation of heterologous promoters and 5' UTRs from the atpA, tufA and psbD genes conferred psbA mRNA accumulation but not translation. Overall, our results show that heterologous D1 proteins can be expressed and complement Photosystem II function in green algae, while RNA regulatory elements appear to be very specific and function only from closely related species. Nonetheless, there is great potential for the expression of heterologous photosynthetic coding sequences for studying and modifying photosynthesis in C. reinhardtii chloroplasts.
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- Javier A Gimpel
- San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0368, USA
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