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Chen K, Ma C, Cheng X, Wang Y, Guo K, Wu R, Zhu Z. Construction of Cupriavidus necator displayed with superoxide dismutases for enhanced growth in bioelectrochemical systems. BIORESOUR BIOPROCESS 2023; 10:36. [PMID: 38647886 PMCID: PMC10992759 DOI: 10.1186/s40643-023-00655-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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It is of great significance to utilize CO2 as feedstock to synthesize biobased products, particularly single cell protein (SCP) as the alternative food and feed. Bioelectrochemical system (BES) driven by clean electric energy has been regarded as a promising way for Cupriavidus necator to produce SCP from CO2 directly. At present, the key problem of culturing C. necator in BES is that reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated in cathode chamber are harmful to bacterial growth. Therefore, it is necessary to find a solution to mitigate the negative effect of ROS. In this study, we constructed a number of C. necator strains displayed with superoxide dismutase (SOD), which allowed the decomposition of superoxide anion radical. The effects of promoters and signal peptides on the cell surface displayed SOD were analyzed. The proteins displayed on the surface were further verified by the fluorescence experiment. Finally, the growth of C. necator CMS incorporating a pBAD-SOD-E-tag-IgAβ plasmid could achieve 4.9 ± 1.0 of OD600 by 7 days, equivalent to 1.7 ± 0.3 g/L dry cell weight (DCW), and the production rate was 0.24 ± 0.04 g/L/d DCW, around 2.7-fold increase than the original C. necator CMS (1.8 ± 0.3 of OD600). This study can provide an effective and novel strategy of cultivating strains for the production of CO2-derived SCP or other chemicals in BES.
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- Ke Chen
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, The College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China
- Key Laboratory of Engineering Biology for Low-Carbon Manufacturing, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Xiqidao, Tianjin Airport Economic Park, Tianjin, 300308, China
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- Haihe Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, 21 Xishiwudao, Tianjin Airport Economic Park, Tianjin, 300308, China
- Key Laboratory of Engineering Biology for Low-Carbon Manufacturing, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Xiqidao, Tianjin Airport Economic Park, Tianjin, 300308, China
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China
- Key Laboratory of Engineering Biology for Low-Carbon Manufacturing, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Xiqidao, Tianjin Airport Economic Park, Tianjin, 300308, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China
- Key Laboratory of Engineering Biology for Low-Carbon Manufacturing, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Xiqidao, Tianjin Airport Economic Park, Tianjin, 300308, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China
- Key Laboratory of Engineering Biology for Low-Carbon Manufacturing, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Xiqidao, Tianjin Airport Economic Park, Tianjin, 300308, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China.
- Key Laboratory of Engineering Biology for Low-Carbon Manufacturing, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Xiqidao, Tianjin Airport Economic Park, Tianjin, 300308, China.
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Meyers A, Furtmann C, Gesing K, Tozakidis IEP, Jose J. Cell density-dependent auto-inducible promoters for expression of recombinant proteins in Pseudomonas putida. Microb Biotechnol 2019; 12:1003-1013. [PMID: 31237428 PMCID: PMC6680623 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Revised: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Inducible promoters such as Plac are of limited usability for industrial protein production with Pseudomonas putida. We therefore utilized cell density-dependent auto-inducible promoters for recombinant gene expression in P. putida KT2440 based on the RoxS/RoxR Quorum Sensing (QS) system of the bacterium. To this end, genetic regions upstream of the RoxS/RoxR-regulated genes ddcA (PR ox132 ) and PP_3332 (PR ox306 ) were inserted into plasmids that mediated the expression of superfolder green fluorescent protein (sfGFP) and surface displayed mCherry, confirming their promoter functionalities. Mutation of the Pribnow box of PR ox306 to the σ70 consensus sequence (PR ox3061 ) resulted in a more than threefold increase of sfGFP production. All three promoters caused cell density-dependent expression, starting transcription at optical densities (OD578 ) of approximately 1.0 (PR ox132 , PR ox306 ) or 0.7 (PR ox3061 ) as determined by RT-qPCR. The QS dependency of PR ox306 was further shown by cultivating P. putida in media that had already been used for cultivation and thus contained bacterial signal molecules. The longer P. putida had grown in these media before, the earlier protein expression in freshly inoculated P. putida appeared with PR ox306 . This confirmed previous findings that a bacterial compound accumulates within the culture and induces protein expression.
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- Annika Meyers
- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische ChemieWestfälische Wilhelms‐Universität MünsterPharmaCampus, Corrensstr. 4848149MünsterGermany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische ChemieWestfälische Wilhelms‐Universität MünsterPharmaCampus, Corrensstr. 4848149MünsterGermany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische ChemieWestfälische Wilhelms‐Universität MünsterPharmaCampus, Corrensstr. 4848149MünsterGermany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische ChemieWestfälische Wilhelms‐Universität MünsterPharmaCampus, Corrensstr. 4848149MünsterGermany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische ChemieWestfälische Wilhelms‐Universität MünsterPharmaCampus, Corrensstr. 4848149MünsterGermany
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Tozakidis IEP, Lüken LM, Üffing A, Meyers A, Jose J. Improving the autotransporter-based surface display of enzymes in Pseudomonas putida KT2440. Microb Biotechnol 2019; 13:176-184. [PMID: 31044490 PMCID: PMC6922575 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Revised: 04/15/2019] [Accepted: 04/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas putida can be used as a host for the autotransporter‐mediated surface display of enzymes (autodisplay), resulting in whole‐cell biocatalysts with recombinant functionalities on their cell envelope. The efficiency of autotransporter‐mediated secretion depends on the N‐terminal signal peptide as well as on the C‐terminal translocator domain of autotransporter fusion proteins. We set out to optimize autodisplay for P. putida as the host bacterium by comparing different signal peptides and translocator domains for the surface display of an esterase. The translocator domain did not have a considerable effect on the activity of the whole‐cell catalysts. In contrast, by using the signal peptide of the P. putida outer membrane protein OprF, the activity was more than 12‐fold enhanced to 638 mU ml−1 OD−1 compared with the signal peptide of V. cholerae CtxB (52 mU ml−1 OD−1). This positive effect was confirmed with a β‐glucosidase as a second example enzyme. Here, cells expressing the protein with N‐terminal OprF signal peptide showed more than fourfold higher β‐glucosidase activity (181 mU ml−1 OD−1) than with the CtxB signal peptide (42 mU ml−1 OD−1). SDS‐PAGE and flow cytometry analyses indicated that the increased activities correlated with an increased amount of recombinant protein in the outer membrane and a higher number of enzymes detectable on the cell surface.
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- Iasson E P Tozakidis
- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstr. 48, 48149, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstr. 48, 48149, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstr. 48, 48149, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstr. 48, 48149, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstr. 48, 48149, Münster, Germany
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Meyers A, Furtmann C, Jose J. Direct optical density determination of bacterial cultures in microplates for high-throughput screening applications. Enzyme Microb Technol 2018; 118:1-5. [PMID: 30143192 DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2018.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Revised: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 06/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A convenient and most abundantly applied method to determine the growth state of a bacterial cell culture is to determine the optical density (OD) spectrophotometrically. Dilution of the samples, which is necessary to measure within the linear range of the spectrophotometer, is time-consuming and not compatible with high-throughput applications. Here we present a direct approach to estimate the OD at 578 nm (OD578) of bacterial cultures in microplates without the need for sample dilution. This could be advantageous for high-throughput analysis of bacterial cells in microplates for example when optimizing growth conditions, screening for new substrates of a bacterial strain or monitoring enzymatic activity after enzyme evolution. Pseudomonas putida cells were grown in shake flasks. The OD578 was determined in parallel in a microplate directly without dilution and in a spectrophotometer cuvette after dilution. The resulting data set was used to identify a conversion formula, which enables direct and reliable transformation of OD measurements of undiluted samples into the corrected OD values as would have been obtained for diluted samples measured in a standard spectrophotometer. Subsequently we could show that just a few OD calibration points are required to adjust this conversion formula and make it suitable for other suspensions or cultures of bacterial strains different than P. putida. The OD calibration points can be obtained by any combination of microplate reader and cuvette spectrophotometer. For this purpose, conversion formulas for a formazine standard suspension and a suspension of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) cells were successfully generated. The OD values calculated by both conversion formulas turned out to be identical with the values as obtained by the control measurements in the spectrophotometer. This indicates the general applicability of the conversion formula as described.
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- Annika Meyers
- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 48, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 48, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 48, 48149 Münster, Germany.
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Schüürmann J, Quehl P, Lindhorst F, Lang K, Jose J. Autodisplay of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase for redox cofactor regeneration at the cell surface. Biotechnol Bioeng 2017; 114:1658-1669. [PMID: 28401536 DOI: 10.1002/bit.26308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2016] [Revised: 03/02/2017] [Accepted: 04/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Inherent cofactor regeneration is a pivotal feature of whole cell biocatalysis. For specific biotechnological applications, surface display of enzymes is emerging as a tool to circumvent mass transfer limitations or enzyme stability problems. Even complex reactions can be accomplished applying displayed enzymes. Yet, industrial utilization of the technique is still impeded by lacking cofactor regeneration at the cell surface. Here, we report on the surface display of a glucose-6-phoshate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) via Autodisplay to address this limitation and regenerate NADPH directly at the cell surface. The obtained whole cell biocatalyst demonstrated similar kinetic parameters compared to the purified enzyme, more precisely KM values of 0.2 mM for NADP+ and calculated total turnover numbers of 107 . However, the KM for the substrate G6P increased by a factor of 7 to yield 1.5 mM. The whole cell biocatalyst was cheaper to produce, easy to separate from the reaction mixture and reusable in consecutive reaction cycles. Furthermore, lyophilization allowed storage at room temperature. The whole cell biocatalyst displaying G6PDH was applicable for NADPH regeneration in combination with soluble as well as surface displayed enzymes and model reactions in combination with bacterial CYP102A1 and human CYP1A2 were realized. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2017;114: 1658-1669. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Jan Schüürmann
- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 48, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 48, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 48, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 48, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 48, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Sungkeeree P, Whangsuk W, Dubbs J, Mongkolsuk S, Loprasert S. Biodegradation of endocrine disrupting dibutyl phthalate by a bacterial consortium expressing Sphingobium sp. SM42 esterase. Process Biochem 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2016.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Tozakidis IEP, Brossette T, Lenz F, Maas RM, Jose J. Proof of concept for the simplified breakdown of cellulose by combining Pseudomonas putida strains with surface displayed thermophilic endocellulase, exocellulase and β-glucosidase. Microb Cell Fact 2016; 15:103. [PMID: 27287198 PMCID: PMC4901517 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-016-0505-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2016] [Accepted: 06/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The production and employment of cellulases still represents an economic bottleneck in the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels and other biocommodities. This process could be simplified by displaying the necessary enzymes on a microbial cell surface. Such an approach, however, requires an appropriate host organism which on the one hand can withstand the rough environment coming along with lignocellulose hydrolysis, and on the other hand does not consume the generated glucose so that it remains available for subsequent fermentation steps. RESULTS The robust soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida showed a strongly reduced uptake of glucose above a temperature of 50 °C, while remaining structurally intact hence recyclable, which makes it suitable for cellulose hydrolysis at elevated temperatures. Consequently, three complementary, thermophilic cellulases from Ruminiclostridium thermocellum were displayed on the surface of the bacterium. All three enzymes retained their activity on the cell surface. A mixture of three strains displaying each one of these enzymes was able to synergistically hydrolyze filter paper at 55 °C, producing 20 μg glucose per mL cell suspension in 24 h. CONCLUSION We could establish Pseudomonas putida as host for the surface display of cellulases, and provided proof-of-concept for a fast and simple cellulose breakdown process at elevated temperatures. This study opens up new perspectives for the application of P. putida in the production of biofuels and other biotechnological products.
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- Iasson E P Tozakidis
- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, PharmaCampus, Corrensstraße 48, 48149, Münster, Germany.,NRW Graduate School of Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, PharmaCampus, Corrensstraße 48, 48149, Münster, Germany
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- Autodisplay Biotech GmbH, Merowingerplatz 1a, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, PharmaCampus, Corrensstraße 48, 48149, Münster, Germany
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- Autodisplay Biotech GmbH, Merowingerplatz 1a, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, PharmaCampus, Corrensstraße 48, 48149, Münster, Germany. .,NRW Graduate School of Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, PharmaCampus, Corrensstraße 48, 48149, Münster, Germany.
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Cao Q, Li T, Shao H, Tan X, Zhang Y. Three new shuttle vectors for heterologous expression in Zymomonas mobilis. ELECTRON J BIOTECHN 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejbt.2015.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Autodisplay of Human Hyaluronidase Hyal-1 on Escherichia coli and Identification of Plant-Derived Enzyme Inhibitors. Molecules 2015; 20:15449-68. [PMID: 26343612 PMCID: PMC6331893 DOI: 10.3390/molecules200915449] [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: 07/02/2015] [Revised: 08/17/2015] [Accepted: 08/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Hyaluronan (HA) is the main component of the extracellular matrix (ECM). Depending on its chain size, it is generally accepted to exert diverse effects. High molecular weight HA is anti-angiogenic, immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory, while lower fragments are angiogenic and inflammatory. Human hyaluronidase Hyal-1 (Hyal-1) is one of the main enzymes in the metabolism of HA. This makes Hyal-1 an interesting target. Not only for functional and mechanistic studies, but also for drug development. In this work, Hyal-1 was expressed on the surface of E. coli, by applying Autodisplay, to overcome formation of inactive “inclusion bodies”. With the cells displaying Hyal-1 an activity assay was performed using “stains-all” dye. Subsequently, the inhibitory effects of four saponins and 14 plant extracts on the activity of surface displayed Hyal-1 were evaluated. The determined IC50 values were 177 µM for glycyrrhizic acid, 108 µM for gypsophila saponin 2, 371 µM for SA1657 and 296 µM for SA1641. Malvae sylvestris flos, Equiseti herba and Ononidis radix extracts showed IC50 values between 1.4 and 1.7 mg/mL. In summary, Autodisplay enabled the expression of functional human target protein Hyal-1 in E. coli and facilitated an accelerated testing of potential inhibitors.
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Parajuli P, Pandey RP, Trang NTH, Chaudhary AK, Sohng JK. Synthetic sugar cassettes for the efficient production of flavonol glycosides in Escherichia coli. Microb Cell Fact 2015; 14:76. [PMID: 26051114 PMCID: PMC4459062 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-015-0261-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2015] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background A multi-monocistronic synthetic vector was used to assemble multiple genes of a nucleotide diphosphate (NDP)-sugar biosynthetic pathway to construct robust genetic circuits for the production of valuable flavonoid glycosides in Escherichia coli. Characterized functional genes involved in the biosynthesis of uridine diphosphate (UDP)-glucose and thymidine diphosphate (TDP)-rhamnose from various microbial sources along with glucose facilitator diffusion protein (glf) and glucokinase (glk) from Zymomonas mobilis were assembled and overexpressed in a single synthetic multi-monocistronic operon. Results The newly generated NDP-sugars biosynthesis circuits along with regiospecific glycosyltransferases from plants were introduced in E. coli BL21 (DE3) to probe the bioconversion of fisetin, a medicinally important polyphenol produced by various plants. As a result, approximately 1.178 g of fisetin 3-O-glucoside and 1.026 g of fisetin 3-O-rhamnoside were produced in UDP-glucose and TDP-rhamnose biosynthesis systems respectively, after 48 h of incubation in 3 L fermentor while supplementing 0.9 g of fisetin. These yields of fisetin glycosides represent ~99% of bioconversion of exogenously supplemented fisetin. The systems were also found to be highly effective in bio-transforming other flavonols (quercetin, kaempferol, myricetin) into their respective glycosides, achieving over 95% substrate conversion. Conclusion The construction of a synthetic expression vector for bacterial cell factory followed by subsequent re-direction of metabolic flux towards desirable products have always been revolutionized the biotechnological processes and technologies. This multi-monocistronic synthetic vector in a microbial platform is customizable to defined task and would certainly be useful for applications in producing and modifying such therapeutically valued plant secondary metabolites. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12934-015-0261-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Prakash Parajuli
- Department of BT-Convergent Pharmaceutical Engineering, Institute of Biomolecule Reconstruction, Sun Moon University, 70 Sunmoon-ro 221, Tangjeong-myeon, Asan-Si, Chungnam, 336-708, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of BT-Convergent Pharmaceutical Engineering, Institute of Biomolecule Reconstruction, Sun Moon University, 70 Sunmoon-ro 221, Tangjeong-myeon, Asan-Si, Chungnam, 336-708, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of BT-Convergent Pharmaceutical Engineering, Institute of Biomolecule Reconstruction, Sun Moon University, 70 Sunmoon-ro 221, Tangjeong-myeon, Asan-Si, Chungnam, 336-708, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of BT-Convergent Pharmaceutical Engineering, Institute of Biomolecule Reconstruction, Sun Moon University, 70 Sunmoon-ro 221, Tangjeong-myeon, Asan-Si, Chungnam, 336-708, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of BT-Convergent Pharmaceutical Engineering, Institute of Biomolecule Reconstruction, Sun Moon University, 70 Sunmoon-ro 221, Tangjeong-myeon, Asan-Si, Chungnam, 336-708, Republic of Korea.
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Going beyond E. coli: autotransporter based surface display on alternative host organisms. N Biotechnol 2015; 32:644-50. [PMID: 25579193 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2014.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2014] [Revised: 12/19/2014] [Accepted: 12/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Autotransporters represent one of the most popular anchoring motifs used to display peptides, proteins or enzymes on the cell surface of a Gram-negative bacterium. Applications range from vaccine delivery to library screenings to biocatalysis and bioremediation. Although the underlying secretion mechanism is supposed to be available in most, if not all, Gram-negative bacteria, autotransporters have to date almost exclusively been used for surface display on Escherichia coli. However, for their utilisation beyond a laboratory scale, in particular for biocatalysis, host bacteria with specific features and industrial applicability are required. A few groups have addressed this issue and demonstrated that bacteria other than E. coli can also be used for autotransporter based surface display. We summarise these studies and discuss opportunities and challenges that arise from surface display of recombinant proteins using the autotransporter pathway in alternative hosts.
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Sichwart S, Tozakidis IEP, Teese M, Jose J. Maximized Autotransporter-Mediated Expression (MATE) for Surface Display and Secretion of Recombinant Proteins in Escherichia coli. Food Technol Biotechnol 2015; 53:251-260. [PMID: 27904356 DOI: 10.17113/ftb.53.03.15.3802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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A new optimized system for the surface display and secretion of recombinant proteins is described, termed MATE (maximized autotransporter-mediated expression). It is based on an artificial gene consisting of the coding region for the signal peptide of CtxB, a multiple cloning site for passenger gene insertion, flanked by coding sequences for linear epitopes for monoclonal antibodies and OmpT, and factor Xa protease cleavage sites followed by a codon-optimized DNA sequence of the linker and the β-barrel of the type V autotransporter EhaA from Escherichia coli under control of an IPTG-inducible T5 promoter. The MATE system enabled the continuous secretion of recombinant passenger mCherry via OmpT-mediated cleavage, using native OmpT protease activity in E. coli when grown at 37 °C. It is the first example to show that native OmpT activity is sufficient to facilitate the secretion of a correctly folded target protein in preparative amounts obtaining 240 µg of purified mCherry from 800 mL of crude culture supernatant. Because the release of mCherry was achieved by a simple transfer of the encoding plasmid from an OmpT-negative to an OmpT-positive strain, it bears the option to use surface display for screening purposes and secretion for production of the selected variant. A single plasmid could therefore be used for continuous secretion in OmpT-positive strains or surface display in OmpT-negative strains. In conclusion, the MATE system appears to be a versatile tool for the surface display and for the secretion of target proteins in E. coli.
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- Shanna Sichwart
- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, PharmaCampus, Westphalian Wilhelms-University, Corrensstraße 48, DE-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, PharmaCampus, Westphalian Wilhelms-University, Corrensstraße 48, DE-48149 Münster, Germany; The NRW Graduate School of Chemistry, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 10, DE-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, PharmaCampus, Westphalian Wilhelms-University, Corrensstraße 48, DE-48149 Münster, Germany; Present address: Technical University Munich, Weihenstephaner Berg 3, DE-85354 Freising, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, PharmaCampus, Westphalian Wilhelms-University, Corrensstraße 48, DE-48149 Münster, Germany; The NRW Graduate School of Chemistry, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 10, DE-48149 Münster, Germany
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