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Šoltysová M, Řezáčová P. Structure and function of bacterial transcription regulators of the SorC family. Transcription 2024:1-22. [PMID: 39223991 DOI: 10.1080/21541264.2024.2387895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2024] [Revised: 07/29/2024] [Accepted: 07/30/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
Abstract
The SorC family is a large group of bacterial transcription regulators involved in controlling carbohydrate catabolism and quorum sensing. SorC proteins consist of a conserved C-terminal effector-binding domain and an N-terminal DNA-binding domain, whose type divides the family into two subfamilies: SorC/DeoR and SorC/CggR. Proteins of the SorC/CggR subfamily are known to regulate the key node of glycolysis-triose phosphate interconversion. On the other hand, SorC/DeoR proteins are involved in a variety of peripheral carbohydrate catabolic pathways and quorum sensing functions, including virulence. Despite the abundance and importance of this family, SorC proteins seem to be on the periphery of scientific interest, which might be caused by the fragmentary information about its representatives. This review aims to compile the existing knowledge and provide material to inspire future questions about the SorC protein family.
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- Markéta Šoltysová
- Structural Biology, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Structural Biology, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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Shabestary K, Klemm C, Carling B, Marshall J, Savigny J, Storch M, Ledesma-Amaro R. Phenotypic heterogeneity follows a growth-viability tradeoff in response to amino acid identity. Nat Commun 2024; 15:6515. [PMID: 39095345 PMCID: PMC11297284 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50602-8] [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: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 07/16/2024] [Indexed: 08/04/2024] Open
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In their natural environments, microorganisms mainly operate at suboptimal growth conditions with fluctuations in nutrient abundance. The resulting cellular adaptation is subject to conflicting tasks: growth or survival maximisation. Here, we study this adaptation by systematically measuring the impact of a nitrogen downshift to 24 nitrogen sources on cellular metabolism at the single-cell level. Saccharomyces lineages grown in rich media and exposed to a nitrogen downshift gradually differentiate to form two subpopulations of different cell sizes where one favours growth while the other favours viability with an extended chronological lifespan. This differentiation is asymmetrical with daughter cells representing the new differentiated state with increased viability. We characterise the metabolic response of the subpopulations using RNA sequencing, metabolic biosensors and a transcription factor-tagged GFP library coupled to high-throughput microscopy, imaging more than 800,000 cells. We find that the subpopulation with increased viability is associated with a dormant quiescent state displaying differences in MAPK signalling. Depending on the identity of the nitrogen source present, differentiation into the quiescent state can be actively maintained, attenuated, or aborted. These results establish amino acids as important signalling molecules for the formation of genetically identical subpopulations, involved in chronological lifespan and growth rate determination.
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- Kiyan Shabestary
- Department of Bioengineering and Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
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- Department of Bioengineering and Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering and Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
- London Biofoundry, Imperial College Translation & Innovation Hub, London, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering and Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
- London Biofoundry, Imperial College Translation & Innovation Hub, London, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering and Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- London Biofoundry, Imperial College Translation & Innovation Hub, London, UK
- Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering and Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Holbrook-Smith D, Trouillon J, Sauer U. Metabolomics and Microbial Metabolism: Toward a Systematic Understanding. Annu Rev Biophys 2024; 53:41-64. [PMID: 38109374 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-030722-021957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
Abstract
Over the past decades, our understanding of microbial metabolism has increased dramatically. Metabolomics, a family of techniques that are used to measure the quantities of small molecules in biological samples, has been central to these efforts. Advances in analytical chemistry have made it possible to measure the relative and absolute concentrations of more and more compounds with increasing levels of certainty. In this review, we highlight how metabolomics has contributed to understanding microbial metabolism and in what ways it can still be deployed to expand our systematic understanding of metabolism. To that end, we explain how metabolomics was used to (a) characterize network topologies of metabolism and its regulation networks, (b) elucidate the control of metabolic function, and (c) understand the molecular basis of higher-order phenomena. We also discuss areas of inquiry where technological advances should continue to increase the impact of metabolomics, as well as areas where our understanding is bottlenecked by other factors such as the availability of statistical and modeling frameworks that can extract biological meaning from metabolomics data.
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- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland;
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- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland;
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Mori M, Patsalo V, Euler C, Williamson JR, Scott M. Proteome partitioning constraints in long-term laboratory evolution. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4087. [PMID: 38744842 PMCID: PMC11094134 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48447-2] [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: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024] Open
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Adaptive laboratory evolution experiments provide a controlled context in which the dynamics of selection and adaptation can be followed in real-time at the single-nucleotide level. And yet this precision introduces hundreds of degrees-of-freedom as genetic changes accrue in parallel lineages over generations. On short timescales, physiological constraints have been leveraged to provide a coarse-grained view of bacterial gene expression characterized by a small set of phenomenological parameters. Here, we ask whether this same framework, operating at a level between genotype and fitness, informs physiological changes that occur on evolutionary timescales. Using a strain adapted to growth in glucose minimal medium, we find that the proteome is substantially remodeled over 40 000 generations. The most striking change is an apparent increase in enzyme efficiency, particularly in the enzymes of lower-glycolysis. We propose that deletion of metabolic flux-sensing regulation early in the adaptation results in increased enzyme saturation and can account for the observed proteome remodeling.
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- Matteo Mori
- Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research and the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
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Woo H, Kim Y, Kim D, Yoon SH. Machine learning identifies key metabolic reactions in bacterial growth on different carbon sources. Mol Syst Biol 2024; 20:170-186. [PMID: 38291231 PMCID: PMC10912204 DOI: 10.1038/s44320-024-00017-w] [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: 08/16/2023] [Revised: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 02/01/2024] Open
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Carbon source-dependent control of bacterial growth is fundamental to bacterial physiology and survival. However, pinpointing the metabolic steps important for cell growth is challenging due to the complexity of cellular networks. Here, the elastic net model and multilayer perception model that integrated genome-wide gene-deletion data and simulated flux distributions were constructed to identify metabolic reactions beneficial or detrimental to Escherichia coli grown on 30 different carbon sources. Both models outperformed traditional in silico methods by identifying not just essential reactions but also nonessential ones that promote growth. They successfully predicted metabolic reactions beneficial to cell growth, with high convergence between the models. The models revealed that biosynthetic pathways generally promote growth across various carbon sources, whereas the impact of energy-generating pathways varies with the carbon source. Intriguing predictions were experimentally validated for findings beyond experimental training data and the impact of various carbon sources on the glyoxylate shunt, pyruvate dehydrogenase reaction, and redundant purine biosynthesis reactions. These highlight the practical significance and predictive power of the models for understanding and engineering microbial metabolism.
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- Hyunjae Woo
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul, 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul, 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul, 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul, 05029, Republic of Korea.
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Moreno R, Rojo F. What are the signals that control catabolite repression in Pseudomonas? Microb Biotechnol 2024; 17:e14407. [PMID: 38227132 PMCID: PMC10832556 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.14407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/17/2024] Open
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Metabolically versatile bacteria exhibit a global regulatory response known as carbon catabolite repression (CCR), which prioritizes some carbon sources over others when all are present in sufficient amounts. This optimizes growth by distributing metabolite fluxes, but can restrict yields in biotechnological applications. The molecular mechanisms and preferred substrates for CCR vary between bacterial groups. Escherichia coli prioritizes glucose whereas Pseudomonas sp. prefer certain organic acids or amino acids. A significant issue in understanding (and potentially bypassing) CCR is the lack of information about the signals that trigger this regulatory response. In E. coli, several key compounds act as flux sensors, governing the flow of metabolites through catabolic pathways and preventing imbalances. These flux sensors can also modulate the CCR response. It has been suggested that the order of substrate preference is determined by carbon uptake flux rather than substrate identity. For Pseudomonas, much less information is available, as the signals that induce CCR are poorly understood. This article briefly discusses the available evidence on the signals that trigger CCR and the questions that remain to be answered in Pseudomonas.
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- Renata Moreno
- Department of Microbial BiotechnologyCentro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSICMadridSpain
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- Department of Microbial BiotechnologyCentro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSICMadridSpain
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Coltman BL, Rebnegger C, Gasser B, Zanghellini J. Characterising the metabolic rewiring of extremely slow growing Komagataella phaffii. Microb Biotechnol 2024; 17:e14386. [PMID: 38206275 PMCID: PMC10832545 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.14386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Revised: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Retentostat cultivations have enabled investigations into substrate-limited near-zero growth for a number of microbes. Quantitative physiology at these near-zero growth conditions has been widely discussed, yet characterisation of the fluxome is relatively under-reported. We investigated the rewiring of metabolism in the transition of a recombinant protein-producing strain of Komagataella phaffii to glucose-limited near-zero growth rates. We used cultivation data from a 200-fold range of growth rates and comprehensive biomass composition data to integrate growth rate dependent biomass equations, generated using a number of different approaches, into a K. phaffii genome-scale metabolic model. Here, we show that a non-growth-associated maintenance value of 0.65 mmol ATP g CDW - 1 h - 1 and a growth-associated maintenance value of 108 mmol ATP g CDW - 1 lead to accurate growth rate predictions. In line with its role as energy source, metabolism is rewired to increase the yield of ATP per glucose. This includes a reduction of flux through the pentose phosphate pathway, and a greater utilisation of glycolysis and the TCA cycle. Interestingly, we observed activity of an external, non-proton translocating NADH dehydrogenase in addition to the malate-aspartate shuttle. Regardless of the method used for the generation of biomass equations, a similar, yet different, growth rate dependent rewiring was predicted. As expected, these differences between the different methods were clearer at higher growth rates, where the biomass equation provides a much greater constraint than at slower growth rates. When placed on an increasingly limited glucose diet, the metabolism of K. phaffii adapts, enabling it to continue to drive critical processes sustaining its high viability at near-zero growth rates.
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- Benjamin Luke Coltman
- CD‐Laboratory for Growth‐decoupled Protein Production in Yeast at Department of BiotechnologyUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)ViennaAustria
- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Microbiology and Microbial BiotechnologyUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)ViennaAustria
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- CD‐Laboratory for Growth‐decoupled Protein Production in Yeast at Department of BiotechnologyUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)ViennaAustria
- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Microbiology and Microbial BiotechnologyUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)ViennaAustria
- Austrian Centre of Industrial BiotechnologyViennaAustria
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- CD‐Laboratory for Growth‐decoupled Protein Production in Yeast at Department of BiotechnologyUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)ViennaAustria
- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Microbiology and Microbial BiotechnologyUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)ViennaAustria
- Austrian Centre of Industrial BiotechnologyViennaAustria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial BiotechnologyViennaAustria
- Department of Analytical ChemistryUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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Eigenfeld M, Wittmann L, Kerpes R, Schwaminger SP, Becker T. Studying the impact of cell age on the yeast growth behaviour of Saccharomyces pastorianus var. carlsbergensis by magnetic separation. Biotechnol J 2023; 18:e2200610. [PMID: 37014328 DOI: 10.1002/biot.202200610] [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: 12/05/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Despite the fact that yeast is a widely used microorganism in the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries, the impact of viability and age distribution on cultivation performance has yet to be fully understood. For a detailed analysis of fermentation performance and physiological state, we introduced a method of magnetic batch separation to isolate daughter and mother cells from a heterogeneous culture. By binding functionalised iron oxide nanoparticles, it is possible to separate the chitin-enriched bud scars by way of a linker protein. This reveals that low viability cultures with a high daughter cell content perform similarly to a high viability culture with a low daughter cell content. Magnetic separation results in the daughter cell fraction (>95%) showing a 21% higher growth rate in aerobic conditions than mother cells and a 52% higher rate under anaerobic conditions. These findings emphasise the importance of viability and age during cultivation and are the first step towards improving the efficiency of yeast-based processes.
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- Marco Eigenfeld
- TUM School of Life Science, Technical University of Munich, Chair of Brewing and Beverage Technology, Freising, Germany
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- TUM School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Chair of Bioseparation Engineering, Garching, Germany
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- TUM School of Life Science, Technical University of Munich, Chair of Brewing and Beverage Technology, Freising, Germany
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- TUM School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Chair of Bioseparation Engineering, Garching, Germany
- Otto-Loewi Research Center, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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- TUM School of Life Science, Technical University of Munich, Chair of Brewing and Beverage Technology, Freising, Germany
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Kang Z, Wu B, Zhang L, Liang X, Guo D, Yuan S, Xie D. Metabolic regulation by biomaterials in osteoblast. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2023; 11:1184463. [PMID: 37324445 PMCID: PMC10265685 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1184463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023] Open
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The repair of bone defects resulting from high-energy trauma, infection, or pathological fracture remains a challenge in the field of medicine. The development of biomaterials involved in the metabolic regulation provides a promising solution to this problem and has emerged as a prominent research area in regenerative engineering. While recent research on cell metabolism has advanced our knowledge of metabolic regulation in bone regeneration, the extent to which materials affect intracellular metabolic remains unclear. This review provides a detailed discussion of the mechanisms of bone regeneration, an overview of metabolic regulation in bone regeneration in osteoblasts and biomaterials involved in the metabolic regulation for bone regeneration. Furthermore, it introduces how materials, such as promoting favorable physicochemical characteristics (e.g., bioactivity, appropriate porosity, and superior mechanical properties), incorporating external stimuli (e.g., photothermal, electrical, and magnetic stimulation), and delivering metabolic regulators (e.g., metal ions, bioactive molecules like drugs and peptides, and regulatory metabolites such as alpha ketoglutarate), can affect cell metabolism and lead to changes of cell state. Considering the growing interests in cell metabolic regulation, advanced materials have the potential to help a larger population in overcoming bone defects.
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- Zhengyang Kang
- Department of Orthopedics, The Second People’s Hospital of Panyu Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China
- Department of Joint Surgery and Sports Medicine, Center for Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Hospital of Guangdong Province, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Bone and Joint Degeneration Diseases, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The Second People’s Hospital of Panyu Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Joint Surgery and Sports Medicine, Center for Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Hospital of Guangdong Province, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Joint Surgery and Sports Medicine, Center for Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Hospital of Guangdong Province, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Joint Surgery and Sports Medicine, Center for Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Hospital of Guangdong Province, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Joint Surgery and Sports Medicine, Center for Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Hospital of Guangdong Province, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Joint Surgery and Sports Medicine, Center for Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Hospital of Guangdong Province, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Bone and Joint Degeneration Diseases, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Bone and Joint Degeneration Diseases, Youjiang Medical University For Nationalities, Baise, China
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Fulton RL, Downs DM. Modulators of a robust and efficient metabolism: Perspective and insights from the Rid superfamily of proteins. Adv Microb Physiol 2023; 83:117-179. [PMID: 37507158 PMCID: PMC10642521 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2023.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
Abstract
Metabolism is an integrated network of biochemical pathways that assemble to generate the robust, responsive physiologies of microorganisms. Despite decades of fundamental studies on metabolic processes and pathways, our understanding of the nuance and complexity of metabolism remains incomplete. The ability to predict and model metabolic network structure, and its influence on cellular fitness, is complicated by the persistence of genes of unknown function, even in the best-studied model organisms. This review describes the definition and continuing study of the Rid superfamily of proteins. These studies are presented with a perspective that illustrates how metabolic complexity can complicate the assignment of function to uncharacterized genes. The Rid superfamily of proteins has been divided into eight subfamilies, including the well-studied RidA subfamily. Aside from the RidA proteins, which are present in all domains of life and prevent metabolic stress, most members of the Rid superfamily have no demonstrated physiological role. Recent progress on functional assignment supports the hypothesis that, overall, proteins in the Rid superfamily modulate metabolic processes to ensure optimal organismal fitness.
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- Ronnie L Fulton
- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States.
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Ortega AD. Real-Time Assessment of Intracellular Metabolites in Single Cells through RNA-Based Sensors. Biomolecules 2023; 13:biom13050765. [PMID: 37238635 DOI: 10.3390/biom13050765] [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: 03/24/2023] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Quantification of the concentration of particular cellular metabolites reports on the actual utilization of metabolic pathways in physiological and pathological conditions. Metabolite concentration also constitutes the readout for screening cell factories in metabolic engineering. However, there are no direct approaches that allow for real-time assessment of the levels of intracellular metabolites in single cells. In recent years, the modular architecture of natural bacterial RNA riboswitches has inspired the design of genetically encoded synthetic RNA devices that convert the intracellular concentration of a metabolite into a quantitative fluorescent signal. These so-called RNA-based sensors are composed of a metabolite-binding RNA aptamer as the sensor domain, connected through an actuator segment to a signal-generating reporter domain. However, at present, the variety of available RNA-based sensors for intracellular metabolites is still very limited. Here, we go through natural mechanisms for metabolite sensing and regulation in cells across all kingdoms, focusing on those mediated by riboswitches. We review the design principles underlying currently developed RNA-based sensors and discuss the challenges that hindered the development of novel sensors and recent strategies to address them. We finish by introducing the current and potential applicability of synthetic RNA-based sensors for intracellular metabolites.
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- Alvaro Darío Ortega
- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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El-Mansi M. Control of central metabolism’s architecture in Escherichia coli: An overview. Microbiol Res 2023; 266:127224. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2022.127224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2022] [Revised: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Verhagen KJA, Eerden SA, Sikkema BJ, Wahl SA. Predicting Metabolic Adaptation Under Dynamic Substrate Conditions Using a Resource-Dependent Kinetic Model: A Case Study Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:863470. [PMID: 35651815 PMCID: PMC9149170 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.863470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Exposed to changes in their environment, microorganisms will adapt their phenotype, including metabolism, to ensure survival. To understand the adaptation principles, resource allocation-based approaches were successfully applied to predict an optimal proteome allocation under (quasi) steady-state conditions. Nevertheless, for a general, dynamic environment, enzyme kinetics will have to be taken into account which was not included in the linear resource allocation models. To this end, a resource-dependent kinetic model was developed and applied to the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae by combining published kinetic models and calibrating the model parameters to published proteomics and fluxomics datasets. Using this approach, we were able to predict specific proteomes at different dilution rates under chemostat conditions. Interestingly, the approach suggests that the occurrence of aerobic fermentation (Crabtree effect) in S. cerevisiae is not caused by space limitation in the total proteome but rather an effect of constraints on the mitochondria. When exposing the approach to repetitive, dynamic substrate conditions, the proteome space was allocated differently. Less space was predicted to be available for non-essential enzymes (reserve space). This could indicate that the perceived “overcapacity” present in experimentally measured proteomes may very likely serve a purpose in increasing the robustness of a cell to dynamic conditions, especially an increase of proteome space for the growth reaction as well as of the trehalose cycle that was shown to be essential in providing robustness upon stronger substrate perturbations. The model predictions of proteome adaptation to dynamic conditions were additionally evaluated against respective experimentally measured proteomes, which highlighted the model’s ability to accurately predict major proteome adaptation trends. This proof of principle for the approach can be extended to production organisms and applied for both understanding metabolic adaptation and improving industrial process design.
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- K. J. A. Verhagen
- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
- Lehrstuhl für Bioverfahrenstechnik, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- *Correspondence: S. A. Wahl,
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Euler C, Mahadevan R. On the design principles of metabolic flux sensing. Biophys J 2022; 121:237-247. [PMID: 34951981 PMCID: PMC8790210 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Revised: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Metabolism is precisely coordinated, with the goal of balancing fluxes to maintain robust growth. However, coordinating fluxes requires information about rates, which can only be inferred through concentrations. While flux-sensitive metabolites have been reported, the design principles underlying such sensing have not been clearly elucidated. Here we use kinetic modeling to show that substrate concentrations of thermodynamically constrained reactions reflect upstream flux and therefore carry information about rates. Then we use untargeted multi-omic data from Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae to show that the concentrations of some metabolites in central carbon metabolism reflect fluxes as a result of thermodynamic constraints. We then establish, using 37 real concentration-flux relationships across both organisms, that in vivo ΔG∘≥-4 kJ/mol is the threshold above which substrates are likely to be sensitive to upstream flux(es).
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- Christian Euler
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Miyazawa H, Snaebjornsson MT, Prior N, Kafkia E, Hammarén HM, Tsuchida-Straeten N, Patil KR, Beck M, Aulehla A. Glycolytic flux-signaling controls mouse embryo mesoderm development. eLife 2022; 11:83299. [PMID: 36469462 PMCID: PMC9771359 DOI: 10.7554/elife.83299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
How cellular metabolic state impacts cellular programs is a fundamental, unresolved question. Here, we investigated how glycolytic flux impacts embryonic development, using presomitic mesoderm (PSM) patterning as the experimental model. First, we identified fructose 1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) as an in vivo sentinel metabolite that mirrors glycolytic flux within PSM cells of post-implantation mouse embryos. We found that medium-supplementation with FBP, but not with other glycolytic metabolites, such as fructose 6-phosphate and 3-phosphoglycerate, impaired mesoderm segmentation. To genetically manipulate glycolytic flux and FBP levels, we generated a mouse model enabling the conditional overexpression of dominant active, cytoplasmic PFKFB3 (cytoPFKFB3). Overexpression of cytoPFKFB3 indeed led to increased glycolytic flux/FBP levels and caused an impairment of mesoderm segmentation, paralleled by the downregulation of Wnt-signaling, reminiscent of the effects seen upon FBP-supplementation. To probe for mechanisms underlying glycolytic flux-signaling, we performed subcellular proteome analysis and revealed that cytoPFKFB3 overexpression altered subcellular localization of certain proteins, including glycolytic enzymes, in PSM cells. Specifically, we revealed that FBP supplementation caused depletion of Pfkl and Aldoa from the nuclear-soluble fraction. Combined, we propose that FBP functions as a flux-signaling metabolite connecting glycolysis and PSM patterning, potentially through modulating subcellular protein localization.
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- Hidenobu Miyazawa
- Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHeidelbergGermany
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- Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHeidelbergGermany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHeidelbergGermany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHeidelbergGermany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHeidelbergGermany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHeidelbergGermany
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- Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHeidelbergGermany
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Shimizu K, Matsuoka Y. Feedback regulation and coordination of the main metabolism for bacterial growth and metabolic engineering for amino acid fermentation. Biotechnol Adv 2021; 55:107887. [PMID: 34921951 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2021.107887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 12/05/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Living organisms such as bacteria are often exposed to continuous changes in the nutrient availability in nature. Therefore, bacteria must constantly monitor the environmental condition, and adjust the metabolism quickly adapting to the change in the growth condition. For this, bacteria must orchestrate (coordinate and integrate) the complex and dynamically changing information on the environmental condition. In particular, the central carbon metabolism (CCM), monomer synthesis, and macromolecular synthesis must be coordinately regulated for the efficient growth. It is a grand challenge in bioscience, biotechnology, and synthetic biology to understand how living organisms coordinate the metabolic regulation systems. Here, we consider the integrated sensing of carbon sources by the phosphotransferase system (PTS), and the feed-forward/feedback regulation systems incorporated in the CCM in relation to the pool sizes of flux-sensing metabolites and αketoacids. We also consider the metabolic regulation of amino acid biosynthesis (as well as purine and pyrimidine biosyntheses) paying attention to the feedback control systems consisting of (fast) enzyme level regulation with (slow) transcriptional regulation. The metabolic engineering for the efficient amino acid production by bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Corynebacterium glutamicum is also discussed (in relation to the regulation mechanisms). The amino acid synthesis is important for determining the rate of ribosome biosynthesis. Thus, the growth rate control (growth law) is further discussed on the relationship between (p)ppGpp level and the ribosomal protein synthesis.
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- Kazuyuki Shimizu
- Kyushu institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan; Institute of Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata 997-0017, Japan.
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- Department of Fisheries Distribution and Management, National Fisheries University, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi 759-6595, Japan
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Zhu Y, Li Y, Xu Y, Zhang J, Ma L, Qi Q, Wang Q. Development of bifunctional biosensors for sensing and dynamic control of glycolysis flux in metabolic engineering. Metab Eng 2021; 68:142-151. [PMID: 34610458 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2021.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Revised: 09/30/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Glycolysis is the primary metabolic pathway in all living organisms. Maintaining the balance of glycolysis flux and biosynthetic pathways is the crucial matter involved in the microbial cell factory. Few regulation systems can address the issue of metabolic flux imbalance in glycolysis. Here, we designed and constructed a bifunctional glycolysis flux biosensor that can dynamically regulate glycolysis flux for overproduction of desired biochemicals. A series of positive-and negative-response biosensors were created and modified for varied thresholds and dynamic ranges. These engineered glycolysis flux biosensors were verified to be able to characterize in vivo fructose-1,6-diphosphate concentration. Subsequently, the biosensors were applied for fine-tuning glycolysis flux to effectively balance the biosynthesis of two chemicals: mevalonate and N-acetylglucosamine. A glycolysis flux-dynamically controlled Escherichia coli strain achieved a 111.3 g/L mevalonate titer in a 1L fermenter.
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- Yuan Zhu
- National Glycoengineering Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, PR China
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, PR China
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, PR China
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, PR China
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, PR China
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, PR China; CAS Key Lab of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, PR China.
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, PR China.
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Okano H, Hermsen R, Hwa T. Hierarchical and simultaneous utilization of carbon substrates: mechanistic insights, physiological roles, and ecological consequences. Curr Opin Microbiol 2021; 63:172-178. [PMID: 34365153 PMCID: PMC9744632 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2021.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Revised: 07/03/2021] [Accepted: 07/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Bacteria grown on a mixture of carbon substrates exhibit two utilization patterns: hierarchical utilization (HU) and simultaneous utilization (SU). How and why cells adopt these different behaviors remains poorly understood despite decades of research. Recent studies address various open questions from multiple viewpoints. From a mechanistic perspective, it was found that flux sensors play a central role in the regulation of substrate utilization, accounting for the known dependences on single-substrate growth rates, substrate concentrations, and the point where the substrate enters central metabolism. From a physiological perspective, several recent studies suggested HU or SU as growth-optimizing strategies through efficient allocation of essential proteome resources. However, other studies demonstrate that a significant fraction of the proteome is dedicated to functions apparently unnecessary for growth, casting doubt on explanations based on slight efficiency gains. From an ecological perspective, recent theoretical studies suggest that HU can help increase species diversity in bacterial communities.
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- Hiroyuki Okano
- Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA,corresponding authors: H. Okano () and R. Hermsen ()
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- Theoretical Biology Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands,corresponding authors: H. Okano () and R. Hermsen ()
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- Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Lee SB, Tremaine M, Place M, Liu L, Pier A, Krause DJ, Xie D, Zhang Y, Landick R, Gasch AP, Hittinger CT, Sato TK. Crabtree/Warburg-like aerobic xylose fermentation by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metab Eng 2021; 68:119-130. [PMID: 34592433 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2021.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Revised: 09/24/2021] [Accepted: 09/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bottlenecks in the efficient conversion of xylose into cost-effective biofuels have limited the widespread use of plant lignocellulose as a renewable feedstock. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae ferments glucose into ethanol with such high metabolic flux that it ferments high concentrations of glucose aerobically, a trait called the Crabtree/Warburg Effect. In contrast to glucose, most engineered S. cerevisiae strains do not ferment xylose at economically viable rates and yields, and they require respiration to achieve sufficient xylose metabolic flux and energy return for growth aerobically. Here, we evolved respiration-deficient S. cerevisiae strains that can grow on and ferment xylose to ethanol aerobically, a trait analogous to the Crabtree/Warburg Effect for glucose. Through genome sequence comparisons and directed engineering, we determined that duplications of genes encoding engineered xylose metabolism enzymes, as well as TKL1, a gene encoding a transketolase in the pentose phosphate pathway, were the causative genetic changes for the evolved phenotype. Reengineered duplications of these enzymes, in combination with deletion mutations in HOG1, ISU1, GRE3, and IRA2, increased the rates of aerobic and anaerobic xylose fermentation. Importantly, we found that these genetic modifications function in another genetic background and increase the rate and yield of xylose-to-ethanol conversion in industrially relevant switchgrass hydrolysate, indicating that these specific genetic modifications may enable the sustainable production of industrial biofuels from yeast. We propose a model for how key regulatory mutations prime yeast for aerobic xylose fermentation by lowering the threshold for overflow metabolism, allowing mutations to increase xylose flux and to redirect it into fermentation products.
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- Sae-Byuk Lee
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Center for Genomic Science Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Center for Genomic Science Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Center for Genomic Science Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Center for Genomic Science Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Center for Genomic Science Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA.
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Kumar K, Bruheim P. Large dependency of intracellular NAD and CoA pools on cultivation conditions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BMC Res Notes 2021; 14:372. [PMID: 34556160 PMCID: PMC8461857 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-021-05783-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the variation of NAD and CoA metabolite pools in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cultivated under various cultivation conditions. This study complements a previous report on glycolytic, pentose phosphate pathway, tricarboxylic acid cycle, amino acids, and deoxy-/nucleoside phosphate pools determined under the same cultivation conditions. RESULTS S. cerevisiae pellets from batch (four carbohydrate sources) and chemostat (carbon-, nitrogen-, phosphate-limited and a range of dilution rates) bioreactor cultivations were extracted and analyzed with two recently established absolute quantitative liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) methods for NAD and CoA metabolites. Both methods apply 13C internal standard dilution strategy for the enhanced analytical accuracy and precision. Individual metabolite pools were relatively constant for the different growth rates within the same mode of cultivation, but large differences were observed among some of the modes, i.e. NAD metabolites were 10 to 100-fold lower in nitrogen limited chemostats compared to the other modes, and phosphate limited chemostats were characterized with much lower CoA metabolite pools. The results complement the previous results and together provide a comprehensive insight into primary metabolite pools variations at a large range in growth and carbon source consumption rates.
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- Kanhaiya Kumar
- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Sem Sælands vei 6/8, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Sem Sælands vei 6/8, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Zhang X, Wang L, Li Q, den Haan R, Li F, Liu CG, Bai FW. Omics analysis reveals mechanism underlying metabolic oscillation during continuous very-high-gravity ethanol fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biotechnol Bioeng 2021; 118:2990-3001. [PMID: 33934328 DOI: 10.1002/bit.27809] [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: 06/15/2020] [Revised: 03/27/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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During continuous very-high-gravity (VHG) ethanol fermentation with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the process exhibits sustained oscillation in residual glucose, ethanol, and biomass, raising a question: how do yeast cells respond to this phenomenon? In this study, the oscillatory behavior of yeast cells was characterized through transcriptome and metabolome analysis for one complete oscillatory period. By analyzing the accumulation of 26 intracellular metabolites and the expression of 90 genes related to central carbon metabolism and stress response, we confirmed that the process oscillation was attributed to intracellular metabolic oscillation with phase difference, and the expression of HXK1, HXT1,2,4, and PFK1 was significantly different from other genes in the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway, indicating that glucose transport and phosphorylation could be key nodes for regulating the intracellular metabolism under oscillatory conditions. Moreover, the expression of stress response genes was triggered and affected predominately by ethanol inhibition in yeast cells. This progress not only contributes to the understanding of mechanisms underlying the process oscillation observed for continuous VHG ethanol fermentation, but also provides insights for understanding unsteady state that might develop in other continuous fermentation processes operated under VHG conditions to increase product titers for robust production.
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- Xue Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Biological Engineering, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, Liaoning, China
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- School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University, Dalian, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
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- COFCO Nutrition & Health Research Institute, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Burgstaller W. Overflow Metabolism in Penicillium ochrochloron and Causation in Organisms. FRONTIERS IN FUNGAL BIOLOGY 2021; 2:682062. [PMID: 37744154 PMCID: PMC10512369 DOI: 10.3389/ffunb.2021.682062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 09/26/2023]
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Ortega AD, Takhaveev V, Vedelaar SR, Long Y, Mestre-Farràs N, Incarnato D, Ersoy F, Olsen LF, Mayer G, Heinemann M. A synthetic RNA-based biosensor for fructose-1,6-bisphosphate that reports glycolytic flux. Cell Chem Biol 2021; 28:1554-1568.e8. [PMID: 33915105 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2021.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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RNA-based sensors for intracellular metabolites are a promising solution to the emerging issue of metabolic heterogeneity. However, their development, i.e., the conversion of an aptamer into an in vivo-functional intracellular metabolite sensor, still harbors challenges. Here, we accomplished this for the glycolytic flux-signaling metabolite, fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP). Starting from in vitro selection of an aptamer, we constructed device libraries with a hammerhead ribozyme as actuator. Using high-throughput screening in yeast with fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS), next-generation sequencing, and genetic-environmental perturbations to modulate the intracellular FBP levels, we identified a sensor that generates ratiometric fluorescent readout. An abrogated response in sensor mutants and occurrence of two sensor conformations-revealed by RNA structural probing-indicated in vivo riboswitching activity. Microscopy showed that the sensor can differentiate cells with different glycolytic fluxes within yeast populations, opening research avenues into metabolic heterogeneity. We demonstrate the possibility to generate RNA-based sensors for intracellular metabolites for which no natural metabolite-binding RNA element exits.
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- Alvaro Darío Ortega
- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands; Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands
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- LIMES Institute, University of Bonn, 53121 Bonn, Germany; Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- LIMES Institute, University of Bonn, 53121 Bonn, Germany; Center of Aptamer Research & Development, University of Bonn, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Kumar K, Venkatraman V, Bruheim P. Adaptation of central metabolite pools to variations in growth rate and cultivation conditions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Microb Cell Fact 2021; 20:64. [PMID: 33750414 PMCID: PMC7941957 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-021-01557-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a well-known popular model system for basic biological studies and serves as a host organism for the heterologous production of commercially interesting small molecules and proteins. The central metabolism is at the core to provide building blocks and energy to support growth and survival in normal situations as well as during exogenous stresses and forced heterologous protein production. Here, we present a comprehensive study of intracellular central metabolite pool profiling when growing S. cerevisiae on different carbon sources in batch cultivations and at different growth rates in nutrient-limited glucose chemostats. The latest versions of absolute quantitative mass spectrometry-based metabolite profiling methodology were applied to cover glycolytic and pentose phosphate pathway metabolites, tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA), complete amino acid, and deoxy-/nucleoside phosphate pools. Results Glutamate, glutamine, alanine, and citrate were the four most abundant metabolites for most conditions tested. The amino acid is the dominant metabolite class even though a marked relative reduction compared to the other metabolite classes was observed for nitrogen and phosphate limited chemostats. Interestingly, glycolytic and pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) metabolites display the largest variation among the cultivation conditions while the nucleoside phosphate pools are more stable and vary within a closer concentration window. The overall trends for glucose and nitrogen-limited chemostats were increased metabolite pools with the increasing growth rate. Next, comparing the chosen chemostat reference growth rate (0.12 h−1, approximate one-fourth of maximal unlimited growth rate) illuminates an interesting pattern: almost all pools are lower in nitrogen and phosphate limited conditions compared to glucose limitation, except for the TCA metabolites citrate, isocitrate and α-ketoglutarate. Conclusions This study provides new knowledge-how the central metabolism is adapting to various cultivations conditions and growth rates which is essential for expanding our understanding of cellular metabolism and the development of improved phenotypes in metabolic engineering. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12934-021-01557-8.
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- Kanhaiya Kumar
- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491, Trondheim, Norway.
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Sun S, Gresham D. Cellular quiescence in budding yeast. Yeast 2021; 38:12-29. [PMID: 33350503 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Revised: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Cellular quiescence, the temporary and reversible exit from proliferative growth, is the predominant state of all cells. However, our understanding of the biological processes and molecular mechanisms that underlie cell quiescence remains incomplete. As with the mitotic cell cycle, budding and fission yeast are preeminent model systems for studying cellular quiescence owing to their rich experimental toolboxes and the evolutionary conservation across eukaryotes of pathways and processes that control quiescence. Here, we review current knowledge of cell quiescence in budding yeast and how it pertains to cellular quiescence in other organisms, including multicellular animals. Quiescence entails large-scale remodeling of virtually every cellular process, organelle, gene expression, and metabolic state that is executed dynamically as cells undergo the initiation, maintenance, and exit from quiescence. We review these major transitions, our current understanding of their molecular bases, and highlight unresolved questions. We summarize the primary methods employed for quiescence studies in yeast and discuss their relative merits. Understanding cell quiescence has important consequences for human disease as quiescent single-celled microbes are notoriously difficult to kill and quiescent human cells play important roles in diseases such as cancer. We argue that research on cellular quiescence will be accelerated through the adoption of common criteria, and methods, for defining cell quiescence. An integrated approach to studying cell quiescence, and a focus on the behavior of individual cells, will yield new insights into the pathways and processes that underlie cell quiescence leading to a more complete understanding of the life cycle of cells. TAKE AWAY: Quiescent cells are viable cells that have reversibly exited the cell cycle Quiescence is induced in response to a variety of nutrient starvation signals Quiescence is executed dynamically through three phases: initiation, maintenance, and exit Quiescence entails large-scale remodeling of gene expression, organelles, and metabolism Single-cell approaches are required to address heterogeneity among quiescent cells.
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- Siyu Sun
- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, 10003, USA.,Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, 10003, USA
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- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, 10003, USA.,Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, 10003, USA
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Persson S, Welkenhuysen N, Shashkova S, Cvijovic M. Fine-Tuning of Energy Levels Regulates SUC2 via a SNF1-Dependent Feedback Loop. Front Physiol 2020; 11:954. [PMID: 32922308 PMCID: PMC7456839 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Nutrient sensing pathways are playing an important role in cellular response to different energy levels. In budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the sucrose non-fermenting protein kinase complex SNF1 is a master regulator of energy homeostasis. It is affected by multiple inputs, among which energy levels is the most prominent. Cells which are exposed to a switch in carbon source availability display a change in the gene expression machinery. It has been shown that the magnitude of the change varies from cell to cell. In a glucose rich environment Snf1/Mig1 pathway represses the expression of its downstream target, such as SUC2. However, upon glucose depletion SNF1 is activated which leads to an increase in SUC2 expression. Our single cell experiments indicate that upon starvation, gene expression pattern of SUC2 shows rapid increase followed by a decrease to initial state with high cell-to-cell variability. The mechanism behind this behavior is currently unknown. In this work we study the long-term behavior of the Snf1/Mig1 pathway upon glucose starvation with a microfluidics and non-linear mixed effect modeling approach. We show a negative feedback mechanism, involving Snf1 and Reg1, which reduces SUC2 expression after the initial strong activation. Snf1 kinase activity plays a key role in this feedback mechanism. Our systems biology approach proposes a negative feedback mechanism that works through the SNF1 complex and is controlled by energy levels. We further show that Reg1 likely is involved in the negative feedback mechanism.
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- Sebastian Persson
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.,Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.,Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.,Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Kamrad S, Grossbach J, Rodríguez‐López M, Mülleder M, Townsend S, Cappelletti V, Stojanovski G, Correia‐Melo C, Picotti P, Beyer A, Ralser M, Bähler J. Pyruvate kinase variant of fission yeast tunes carbon metabolism, cell regulation, growth and stress resistance. Mol Syst Biol 2020; 16:e9270. [PMID: 32319721 PMCID: PMC7175467 DOI: 10.15252/msb.20199270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Revised: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Cells balance glycolysis with respiration to support their metabolic needs in different environmental or physiological contexts. With abundant glucose, many cells prefer to grow by aerobic glycolysis or fermentation. Using 161 natural isolates of fission yeast, we investigated the genetic basis and phenotypic effects of the fermentation-respiration balance. The laboratory and a few other strains depended more on respiration. This trait was associated with a single nucleotide polymorphism in a conserved region of Pyk1, the sole pyruvate kinase in fission yeast. This variant reduced Pyk1 activity and glycolytic flux. Replacing the "low-activity" pyk1 allele in the laboratory strain with the "high-activity" allele was sufficient to increase fermentation and decrease respiration. This metabolic rebalancing triggered systems-level adjustments in the transcriptome and proteome and in cellular traits, including increased growth and chronological lifespan but decreased resistance to oxidative stress. Thus, low Pyk1 activity does not lead to a growth advantage but to stress tolerance. The genetic tuning of glycolytic flux may reflect an adaptive trade-off in a species lacking pyruvate kinase isoforms.
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- Stephan Kamrad
- Molecular Biology of Metabolism LaboratoryThe Francis Crick InstituteLondonUK
- Department of Genetics, Evolution & EnvironmentInstitute of Healthy AgeingUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- CECADMedical Faculty & Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesUniversity of CologneCologneGermany
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & EnvironmentInstitute of Healthy AgeingUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Molecular Biology of Metabolism LaboratoryThe Francis Crick InstituteLondonUK
- Charité University MedicineBerlinGermany
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- Molecular Biology of Metabolism LaboratoryThe Francis Crick InstituteLondonUK
- Department of Genetics, Evolution & EnvironmentInstitute of Healthy AgeingUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Department of BiologyInstitute of Molecular Systems BiologyETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & EnvironmentInstitute of Healthy AgeingUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Molecular Biology of Metabolism LaboratoryThe Francis Crick InstituteLondonUK
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- Department of BiologyInstitute of Molecular Systems BiologyETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- CECADMedical Faculty & Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesUniversity of CologneCologneGermany
- Center for Molecular Medicine CologneCologneGermany
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- Molecular Biology of Metabolism LaboratoryThe Francis Crick InstituteLondonUK
- Charité University MedicineBerlinGermany
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & EnvironmentInstitute of Healthy AgeingUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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Microfluidic Single-Cell Analytics. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 2020; 179:159-189. [PMID: 32737554 DOI: 10.1007/10_2020_134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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What is the impact of cellular heterogeneity on process performance? How do individual cells contribute to averaged process productivity? Single-cell analysis is a key technology for answering such key questions of biotechnology, beyond bulky measurements with populations. The analysis of cellular individuality, its origins, and the dependency of process performance on cellular heterogeneity has tremendous potential for optimizing biotechnological processes in terms of metabolic, reaction, and process engineering. Microfluidics offer unmatched environmental control of the cellular environment and allow massively parallelized cultivation of single cells. However, the analytical accessibility to a cell's physiology is of crucial importance for obtaining the desired information on the single-cell production phenotype. Highly sensitive analytics are required to detect and quantify the minute amounts of target analytes and small physiological changes in a single cell. For their application to biotechnological questions, single-cell analytics must evolve toward the measurement of kinetics and specific rates of the smallest catalytic unit, the single cell. In this chapter, we focus on an introduction to the latest single-cell analytics and their application for obtaining physiological parameters in a biotechnological context from single cells. We present and discuss recent advancements in single-cell analytics that enable the analysis of cell-specific growth, uptake, and production kinetics, as well as the gene expression and regulatory mechanisms at a single-cell level.
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Wang G, Haringa C, Tang W, Noorman H, Chu J, Zhuang Y, Zhang S. Coupled metabolic-hydrodynamic modeling enabling rational scale-up of industrial bioprocesses. Biotechnol Bioeng 2019; 117:844-867. [PMID: 31814101 DOI: 10.1002/bit.27243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Revised: 11/28/2019] [Accepted: 11/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Metabolomics aims to address what and how regulatory mechanisms are coordinated to achieve flux optimality, different metabolic objectives as well as appropriate adaptations to dynamic nutrient availability. Recent decades have witnessed that the integration of metabolomics and fluxomics within the goal of synthetic biology has arrived at generating the desired bioproducts with improved bioconversion efficiency. Absolute metabolite quantification by isotope dilution mass spectrometry represents a functional readout of cellular biochemistry and contributes to the establishment of metabolic (structured) models required in systems metabolic engineering. In industrial practices, population heterogeneity arising from fluctuating nutrient availability frequently leads to performance losses, that is reduced commercial metrics (titer, rate, and yield). Hence, the development of more stable producers and more predictable bioprocesses can benefit from a quantitative understanding of spatial and temporal cell-to-cell heterogeneity within industrial bioprocesses. Quantitative metabolomics analysis and metabolic modeling applied in computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-assisted scale-down simulators that mimic industrial heterogeneity such as fluctuations in nutrients, dissolved gases, and other stresses can procure informative clues for coping with issues during bioprocessing scale-up. In previous studies, only limited insights into the hydrodynamic conditions inside the industrial-scale bioreactor have been obtained, which makes case-by-case scale-up far from straightforward. Tracking the flow paths of cells circulating in large-scale bioreactors is a highly valuable tool for evaluating cellular performance in production tanks. The "lifelines" or "trajectories" of cells in industrial-scale bioreactors can be captured using Euler-Lagrange CFD simulation. This novel methodology can be further coupled with metabolic (structured) models to provide not only a statistical analysis of cell lifelines triggered by the environmental fluctuations but also a global assessment of the metabolic response to heterogeneity inside an industrial bioreactor. For the future, the industrial design should be dependent on the computational framework, and this integration work will allow bioprocess scale-up to the industrial scale with an end in mind.
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- Guan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Transport Phenomena, Chemical Engineering Department, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.,DSM Biotechnology Center, Delft, The Netherlands
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- DSM Biotechnology Center, Delft, The Netherlands
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- DSM Biotechnology Center, Delft, The Netherlands.,Bioprocess Engineering, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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Yan J, Estanbouli H, Liao C, Kim W, Monk JM, Rahman R, Kamboj M, Palsson BO, Qiu W, Xavier JB. Systems-level analysis of NalD mutation, a recurrent driver of rapid drug resistance in acute Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. PLoS Comput Biol 2019; 15:e1007562. [PMID: 31860667 PMCID: PMC6944390 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Revised: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a main cause of human infection, can gain resistance to the antibiotic aztreonam through a mutation in NalD, a transcriptional repressor of cellular efflux. Here we combine computational analysis of clinical isolates, transcriptomics, metabolic modeling and experimental validation to find a strong association between NalD mutations and resistance to aztreonam-as well as resistance to other antibiotics-across P. aeruginosa isolated from different patients. A detailed analysis of one patient's timeline shows how this mutation can emerge in vivo and drive rapid evolution of resistance while the patient received cancer treatment, a bone marrow transplantation, and antibiotics up to the point of causing the patient's death. Transcriptomics analysis confirmed the primary mechanism of NalD action-a loss-of-function mutation that caused constitutive overexpression of the MexAB-OprM efflux system-which lead to aztreonam resistance but, surprisingly, had no fitness cost in the absence of the antibiotic. We constrained a genome-scale metabolic model using the transcriptomics data to investigate changes beyond the primary mechanism of resistance, including adaptations in major metabolic pathways and membrane transport concurrent with aztreonam resistance, which may explain the lack of a fitness cost. We propose that metabolic adaptations may allow resistance mutations to endure in the absence of antibiotics and could be targeted by future therapies against antibiotic resistant pathogens.
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- Jinyuan Yan
- Program for Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Program for Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Program for Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Infection Control, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College & Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Program for Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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Monteiro F, Hubmann G, Takhaveev V, Vedelaar SR, Norder J, Hekelaar J, Saldida J, Litsios A, Wijma HJ, Schmidt A, Heinemann M. Measuring glycolytic flux in single yeast cells with an orthogonal synthetic biosensor. Mol Syst Biol 2019; 15:e9071. [PMID: 31885198 PMCID: PMC6920703 DOI: 10.15252/msb.20199071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Revised: 11/28/2019] [Accepted: 11/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Metabolic heterogeneity between individual cells of a population harbors significant challenges for fundamental and applied research. Identifying metabolic heterogeneity and investigating its emergence require tools to zoom into metabolism of individual cells. While methods exist to measure metabolite levels in single cells, we lack capability to measure metabolic flux, i.e., the ultimate functional output of metabolic activity, on the single-cell level. Here, combining promoter engineering, computational protein design, biochemical methods, proteomics, and metabolomics, we developed a biosensor to measure glycolytic flux in single yeast cells. Therefore, drawing on the robust cell-intrinsic correlation between glycolytic flux and levels of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP), we transplanted the B. subtilis FBP-binding transcription factor CggR into yeast. With the developed biosensor, we robustly identified cell subpopulations with different FBP levels in mixed cultures, when subjected to flow cytometry and microscopy. Employing microfluidics, we were also able to assess the temporal FBP/glycolytic flux dynamics during the cell cycle. We anticipate that our biosensor will become a valuable tool to identify and study metabolic heterogeneity in cell populations.
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- Francisca Monteiro
- Molecular Systems BiologyGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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cE3c‐Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental ChangesFaculdade de CiênciasUniversidade de LisboaLisboaPortugal
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- Molecular Systems BiologyGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
- Present address:
Laboratory of Molecular Cell BiologyDepartment of BiologyInstitute of Botany and MicrobiologyKU Leuven, & Center for Microbiology, VIBHeverlee, FlandersBelgium
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- Molecular Systems BiologyGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems BiologyGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems BiologyGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems BiologyGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems BiologyGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems BiologyGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Biotechnology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems BiologyGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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Molina L, La Rosa R, Nogales J, Rojo F. Influence of the Crc global regulator on substrate uptake rates and the distribution of metabolic fluxes in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 growing in a complete medium. Environ Microbiol 2019; 21:4446-4459. [PMID: 31595602 PMCID: PMC6900033 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Revised: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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When the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida grows in a complete medium, it prioritizes the assimilation of preferred carbon sources, optimizing its metabolism and growth. This regulatory process is orchestrated by the Crc and Hfq proteins. The present work examines the changes that occur in metabolic fluxes when the crc gene is inactivated and cells grow exponentially in LB complete medium. Analyses were performed at three different moments during exponential growth, examining the assimilation rates for the compounds present in LB, changes in the proteome, and the changes in metabolic fluxes predicted by the iJN1411 metabolic model for P. putida KT2440. During the early exponential phase, consumption rates for sugars, many organic acids and most amino acids were higher in a Crc-null strain than in the wild type, leading to an overflow of the metabolic pathways and the leakage of pyruvate and acetate. These accelerated consumption rates decreased during the mid-exponential phase, when cells mostly used sugars and alanine. At later times, pyruvate was recovered from the medium and utilized. The higher consumption rates of the Crc-null strain reduced the growth rate. The lack of the Crc/Hfq regulatory system thus led to unbalanced metabolism with poorly optimized metabolic fluxes.
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- Lázaro Molina
- Department of Microbial BiotechnologyCentro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSICMadridSpain
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for BiosustainabilityTechnical University of DenmarkKgs. LyngbyDenmark
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- Systems Biology ProgramCentro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSICMadridSpain
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- Department of Microbial BiotechnologyCentro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSICMadridSpain
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Chaudhary T, Shukla P. Bioinoculant capability enhancement through metabolomics and systems biology approaches. Brief Funct Genomics 2019; 18:159-168. [PMID: 31232454 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elz011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2019] [Revised: 03/30/2019] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Bioinoculants are eco-friendly microorganisms, and their products are utilized for improving the potential of soil and fulfill the nutrients requirement for the host plant. The agricultural yield has increased due to the use of bioinoculants over chemical-based fertilizers, and thus it generates interest in understanding the innovation process by various methods. By gene-editing tool, the desired gene product can be changed for engineered microbial inoculants. We have also described various modern biotechnological tools like constraint-based modeling, OptKnock, flux balance analysis and modeling of the biological network for enhancing the bioinoculant capability. These fluxes give the fascinating perception of the metabolic network in the absence of comprehensive kinetic information. These tools also help in the stimulation of the metabolic networks by incorporation of enzyme-encoding genes. The present review explains the use of systems biology and gene-editing tools for improving the capability of bioinoculants. Moreover, this review also emphasizes on the challenges and future perspective of systems biology and its multidisciplinary facets.
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- Twinkle Chaudhary
- Enzyme Technology and Protein Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India
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- Enzyme Technology and Protein Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India
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Zhang J, Martinez-Gomez K, Heinzle E, Wahl SA. Metabolic switches from quiescence to growth in synchronized Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metabolomics 2019; 15:121. [PMID: 31468142 PMCID: PMC6715666 DOI: 10.1007/s11306-019-1584-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The switch from quiescence (G0) into G1 and cell cycle progression critically depends on specific nutrients and metabolic capabilities. Conversely, metabolic networks are regulated by enzyme-metabolite interaction and transcriptional regulation that lead to flux modifications to support cell growth. How cells process and integrate environmental information into coordinated responses is challenging to analyse and not yet described quantitatively. OBJECTIVES To quantitatively monitor the central carbon metabolism during G0 exit and the first 2 h after reentering the cell cycle from synchronized Saccharomyces cerevisiae. METHODS Dynamic tailored 13C metabolic flux analysis was used to observe the intracellular metabolite flux changes, and the metabolome and proteome were observed to identify regulatory mechanisms. RESULTS G0 cells responded immediately to an extracellular increase of glucose. The intracellular metabolic flux changed in time and specific events were observed. High fluxes into trehalose and glycogen synthesis were observed during the G0 exit. Both fluxes then decreased, reaching a minimum at t = 65 min. Here, storage degradation contributed significantly (i.e. 21%) to the glycolytic flux. In contrast to these changes, the glucose uptake rate remained constant after the G0 exit. The flux into the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway was highest (29-fold increase, 36.4% of the glucose uptake) at t = 65 min, while it was very low at other time points. The maximum flux seems to correlate with a late G1 state preparing for the S phase transition. In the G1/S phase (t = 87 min), anaplerotic reactions such as glyoxylate shunt increased. Protein results show that during this transition, proteins belonging to clusters related with ribosome biogenesis and assembly, and initiation transcription factors clusters were continuously synthetised. CONCLUSION The intracellular flux distribution changes dynamically and these major rearrangements highlight the coordinate reorganization of metabolic flux to meet requirements for growth during different cell state.
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- Jinrui Zhang
- 0000 0001 2097 4740grid.5292.cDepartment of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- 0000 0001 2167 7588grid.11749.3aBiochemical Engineering, Saarland University, Campus A 1.5, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- 0000 0001 2167 7588grid.11749.3aBiochemical Engineering, Saarland University, Campus A 1.5, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- 0000 0001 2097 4740grid.5292.cDepartment of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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Shimizu K, Matsuoka Y. Redox rebalance against genetic perturbations and modulation of central carbon metabolism by the oxidative stress regulation. Biotechnol Adv 2019; 37:107441. [PMID: 31472206 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2019.107441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2019] [Revised: 08/04/2019] [Accepted: 08/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The micro-aerophilic organisms and aerobes as well as yeast and higher organisms have evolved to gain energy through respiration (via oxidative phosphorylation), thereby enabling them to grow much faster than anaerobes. However, during respiration, reactive oxygen species (ROSs) are inherently (inevitably) generated, and threaten the cell's survival. Therefore, living organisms (or cells) must furnish the potent defense systems to keep such ROSs at harmless level, where the cofactor balance plays crucial roles. Namely, NADH is the source of energy generation (catabolism) in the respiratory chain reactions, through which ROSs are generated, while NADPH plays important roles not only for the cell synthesis (anabolism) but also for detoxifying ROSs. Therefore, the cell must rebalance the redox ratio by modulating the fluxes of the central carbon metabolism (CCM) by regulating the multi-level regulation machinery upon genetic perturbations and the change in the growth conditions. Here, we discuss about how aerobes accomplish such cofactor homeostasis against redox perturbations. In particular, we consider how single-gene mutants (including pgi, pfk, zwf, gnd and pyk mutants) modulate their metabolisms in relation to cofactor rebalance (and also by adaptive laboratory evolution). We also discuss about how the overproduction of NADPH (by the pathway gene mutation) can be utilized for the efficient production of useful value-added chemicals such as medicinal compounds, polyhydroxyalkanoates, and amino acids, all of which require NADPH in their synthetic pathways. We then discuss about the metabolic responses against oxidative stress, where αketoacids play important roles not only for the coordination between catabolism and anabolism, but also for detoxifying ROSs by non-enzymatic reactions, as well as for reducing the production of ROSs by repressing the activities of the TCA cycle and respiration (via carbon catabolite repression). Thus, we discuss about the mechanisms (basic strategies) that modulate the metabolism from respiration to respiro-fermentative metabolism causing overflow, based on the role of Pyk activity, affecting the NADPH production at the oxidative pentose phosphate (PP) pathway, and the roles of αketoacids for the change in the source of energy generation from the oxidative phosphorylation to the substrate level phosphorylation.
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- Kazuyuki Shimizu
- Kyushu institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan; Institute of Advanced Biosciences, Keio university, Tsuruoka, Yamagata 997-0017, Japan.
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- Kyushu institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan.
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Free-living bacteria can assemble into multicellular structures called biofilms. Biofilms help bacteria tolerate multiple stresses, including antibiotics and the host immune system. Nontuberculous mycobacteria are a group of emerging opportunistic pathogens that utilize biofilms to adhere to household plumbing and showerheads and to avoid phagocytosis by host immune cells. Typically, bacteria regulate biofilm formation by controlling expression of adhesive structures to attach to surfaces and other bacterial cells. Mycobacteria harbor a unique cell wall built chiefly of long-chain mycolic acids that confers hydrophobicity and has been thought to cause constitutive aggregation in liquid media. Here we show that aggregation is instead a regulated process dictated by the balance of available carbon and nitrogen. Understanding that mycobacteria utilize metabolic cues to regulate the transition between planktonic and aggregated cells reveals an inroad to controlling biofilm formation through targeted therapeutics. Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are emerging opportunistic pathogens that colonize household water systems and cause chronic lung infections in susceptible patients. The ability of NTM to form surface-attached biofilms in the nonhost environment and corded aggregates in vivo is important to their ability to persist in both contexts. Underlying the development of these multicellular structures is the capacity of mycobacterial cells to adhere to one another. Unlike most other bacteria, NTM spontaneously and constitutively aggregate in vitro, hindering our ability to understand the transition between planktonic and aggregated cells. While culturing a model NTM, Mycobacterium smegmatis, in rich medium, we fortuitously discovered that planktonic cells accumulate after ∼3 days of growth. By providing selective pressure for bacteria that disperse earlier, we isolated a strain with two mutations in the oligopeptide permease operon (opp). A mutant lacking the opp operon (Δopp) disperses earlier than wild type (WT) due to a defect in nutrient uptake. Experiments with WT M. smegmatis revealed that growth as aggregates is favored when carbon is replete, but under conditions of low available carbon relative to available nitrogen, M. smegmatis grows as planktonic cells. By adjusting carbon and nitrogen sources in defined medium, we tuned the cellular C/N ratio such that M. smegmatis grows either as aggregates or as planktonic cells. C/N-mediated aggregation regulation is widespread among NTM with the possible exception of rough-colony Mycobacterium abscessus isolates. Altogether, we show that NTM aggregation is a controlled process that is governed by the relative availability of carbon and nitrogen for metabolism.
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Cristiano-Fajardo SA, Flores C, Flores N, Tinoco-Valencia R, Serrano-Carreón L, Galindo E. Glucose limitation and glucose uptake rate determines metabolite production and sporulation in high cell density continuous cultures of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens 83. J Biotechnol 2019; 299:57-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2019.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2018] [Revised: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 04/29/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Leupold S, Hubmann G, Litsios A, Meinema AC, Takhaveev V, Papagiannakis A, Niebel B, Janssens G, Siegel D, Heinemann M. Saccharomyces cerevisiae goes through distinct metabolic phases during its replicative lifespan. eLife 2019; 8:e41046. [PMID: 30963997 PMCID: PMC6467564 DOI: 10.7554/elife.41046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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A comprehensive description of the phenotypic changes during cellular aging is key towards unraveling its causal forces. Previously, we mapped age-related changes in the proteome and transcriptome (Janssens et al., 2015). Here, employing the same experimental procedure and model-based inference, we generate a comprehensive account of metabolic changes during the replicative life of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. With age, we found decreasing metabolite levels, decreasing growth and substrate uptake rates accompanied by a switch from aerobic fermentation to respiration, with glycerol and acetate production. The identified metabolic fluxes revealed an increase in redox cofactor turnover, likely to combat increased production of reactive oxygen species. The metabolic changes are possibly a result of the age-associated decrease in surface area per cell volume. With metabolism being an important factor of the cellular phenotype, this work complements our recent mapping of the transcriptomic and proteomic changes towards a holistic description of the cellular phenotype during aging.
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- Simeon Leupold
- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- European Research Institute for the Biology of AgeingUniversity of Groningen, University Medical Centre GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Analytical Biochemistry, Groningen Research Institute of PharmacyUniversity of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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Chromosome engineering of the TCA cycle in Halomonas bluephagenesis for production of copolymers of 3-hydroxybutyrate and 3-hydroxyvalerate (PHBV). Metab Eng 2019; 54:69-82. [PMID: 30914380 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2019.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Revised: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/16/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) is a promising biopolyester with good mechanical properties and biodegradability. Large-scale production of PHBV is still hindered by the high production cost. CRISPR/Cas9 method was used to engineer the TCA cycle in Halomonas bluephagenesis on its chromosome for production of PHBV from glucose as a sole carbon source. Two TCA cycle related genes sdhE and icl encoding succinate dehydrogenase assembly factor 2 and isocitrate lysase were deleted, respectively, in H. bluephagenesis TD08AB containing PHBV synthesis genes on the chromosome, to channel more flux to increase the 3-hydroxyvalerate (3HV) ratio of PHBV. Due to a poor growth behavior of the mutant strains, H. bluephagenesis TY194 equipped with a medium strength Pporin-194 promoter was selected for further studies. The sdhE and/or icl mutant strains of H. bluephagenesis TY194 were constructed to show enhanced cell growth, PHBV synthesis and 3HV molar ratio. Gluconate was used to activate ED pathway and thus TCA cycle to increase 3HV content. H. bluephagenesis TY194 (ΔsdhEΔicl) was found to synthesize 17mol% 3HV in PHBV. Supported by the synergetic function of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and Vitreoscilla hemoglobin encoded by genes ppc and vgb inserted into the chromosome of H. bluephagenesis TY194 (ΔsdhE) serving to enhance TCA cycle activity, a series of strains were generated that could produce PHBV containing 3-18mol% 3HV using glucose as a sole carbon source. Shake flask studies showed that H. bluephagenesis TY194 (ΔsdhE, G7::Pporin-ppc) produced 6.3 g/L cell dry weight (CDW), 65% PHBV in CDW and 25mol% 3HV in PHBV when grown in glucose and gluconate. 25mol% 3HV was the highest reported via chromosomal expression system. PHBV copolymers with different 3HV molar ratios were extracted and characterized. Next-generation industrial biotechnology (NGIB) based on recombinant H. bluephagenesis grown under unsterile and continuous conditions, allows production of P(3HB-0∼25mol% 3HV) in a convenient way with reduced production complexity and cost.
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Shimizu K, Matsuoka Y. Regulation of glycolytic flux and overflow metabolism depending on the source of energy generation for energy demand. Biotechnol Adv 2018; 37:284-305. [PMID: 30576718 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2018.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2018] [Revised: 11/06/2018] [Accepted: 12/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Overflow metabolism is a common phenomenon observed at higher glycolytic flux in many bacteria, yeast (known as Crabtree effect), and mammalian cells including cancer cells (known as Warburg effect). This phenomenon has recently been characterized as the trade-offs between protein costs and enzyme efficiencies based on coarse-graining approaches. Moreover, it has been recognized that the glycolytic flux increases as the source of energy generation changes from energetically efficient respiration to inefficient respiro-fermentative or fermentative metabolism causing overflow metabolism. It is highly desired to clarify the metabolic regulation mechanisms behind such phenomena. Metabolic fluxes are located on top of the hierarchical regulation systems, and represent the outcome of the integrated response of all levels of cellular regulation systems. In the present article, we discuss about the different levels of regulation systems for the modulation of fluxes depending on the growth rate, growth condition such as oxygen limitation that alters the metabolism towards fermentation, and genetic perturbation affecting the source of energy generation from respiration to respiro-fermentative metabolism in relation to overflow metabolism. The intracellular metabolite of the upper glycolysis such as fructose 1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) plays an important role not only for flux sensing, but also for the regulation of the respiratory activity either directly or indirectly (via transcription factors) at higher growth rate. The glycolytic flux regulation is backed up (enhanced) by unphosphorylated EIIA and HPr of the phosphotransferase system (PTS) components, together with the sugar-phosphate stress regulation, where the transcriptional regulation is further modulated by post-transcriptional regulation via the degradation of mRNA (stability of mRNA) in Escherichia coli. Moreover, the channeling may also play some role in modulating the glycolytic cascade reactions.
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- Kazuyuki Shimizu
- Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan; Institute of Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata 997-0017, Japan.
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- Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan
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The novel EHEC gene asa overlaps the TEGT transporter gene in antisense and is regulated by NaCl and growth phase. Sci Rep 2018; 8:17875. [PMID: 30552341 PMCID: PMC6294744 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35756-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2018] [Accepted: 11/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Only a few overlapping gene pairs are known in the best-analyzed bacterial model organism Escherichia coli. Automatic annotation programs usually annotate only one out of six reading frames at a locus, allowing only small overlaps between protein-coding sequences. However, both RNAseq and RIBOseq show signals corresponding to non-trivially overlapping reading frames in antisense to annotated genes, which may constitute protein-coding genes. The transcription and translation of the novel 264 nt gene asa, which overlaps in antisense to a putative TEGT (Testis-Enhanced Gene Transfer) transporter gene is detected in pathogenic E. coli, but not in two apathogenic E. coli strains. The gene in E. coli O157:H7 (EHEC) was further analyzed. An overexpression phenotype was identified in two stress conditions, i.e. excess in salt or arginine. For this, EHEC overexpressing asa was grown competitively against EHEC with a translationally arrested asa mutant gene. RT-qPCR revealed conditional expression dependent on growth phase, sodium chloride, and arginine. Two potential promoters were computationally identified and experimentally verified by reporter gene expression and determination of the transcription start site. The protein Asa was verified by Western blot. Close homologues of asa have not been found in protein databases, but bioinformatic analyses showed that it may be membrane associated, having a largely disordered structure.
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Yang L, Yurkovich JT, King ZA, Palsson BO. Modeling the multi-scale mechanisms of macromolecular resource allocation. Curr Opin Microbiol 2018; 45:8-15. [PMID: 29367175 PMCID: PMC6419967 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2018.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Revised: 01/04/2018] [Accepted: 01/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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As microbes face changing environments, they dynamically allocate macromolecular resources to produce a particular phenotypic state. Broad 'omics' data sets have revealed several interesting phenomena regarding how the proteome is allocated under differing conditions, but the functional consequences of these states and how they are achieved remain open questions. Various types of multi-scale mathematical models have been used to elucidate the genetic basis for systems-level adaptations. In this review, we outline several different strategies by which microbes accomplish resource allocation and detail how mathematical models have aided in our understanding of these processes. Ultimately, such modeling efforts have helped elucidate the principles of proteome allocation and hold promise for further discovery.
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- Laurence Yang
- Bioengineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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- Bioengineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Bioengineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Bioengineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Metabolic heterogeneity in clonal microbial populations. Curr Opin Microbiol 2018; 45:30-38. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2018.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2018] [Revised: 02/07/2018] [Accepted: 02/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Bley Folly B, Ortega AD, Hubmann G, Bonsing-Vedelaar S, Wijma HJ, van der Meulen P, Milias-Argeitis A, Heinemann M. Assessment of the interaction between the flux-signaling metabolite fructose-1,6-bisphosphate and the bacterial transcription factors CggR and Cra. Mol Microbiol 2018; 109:278-290. [DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Brenda Bley Folly
- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute; University of Groningen; Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute; University of Groningen; Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology; Complutense University of Madrid; José Antonio Nováis 12 28040 Madrid Spain
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute; University of Groningen; Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute; University of Groningen; Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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- Biotechnology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute; University of Groningen; Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry; University of Groningen; Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute; University of Groningen; Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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- Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute; University of Groningen; Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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Chavarría M, de Lorenzo V. The imbroglio of the physiological Cra effector clarified at last. Mol Microbiol 2018; 109:273-277. [PMID: 30019355 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Owing to its role in controlling carbon and energy metabolism, the catabolite repressor/activator protein Cra has been one of the most studied prokaryotic regulators of the last 30 years. Yet, a key mechanistic detail of its biological function - i.e. the nature of the metabolic effector that rules its DNA-binding ability - has remained controversial. Despite the high affinity of Cra for fructose-1-phosphate (F1P), the prevailing view claimed that fructose-1,6-biphosphate (FBP) was the key physiological effector. Building on such responsiveness to FBP, Cra was proposed to act as a glycolytic flux sensor and central regulator of critical metabolic transactions. At the same time, data raised on the Cra protein of Pseudomonas putida ruled out that FBP could be an effector - but instead suggested that it was the unintentional carrier of a small contamination by F1P, the actual signal molecule. While these data on the P. putida Cra were received with skepticism - if not dismissal - by the community of the time, the paper by (Bley-Folly et al, 2018) now demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that the one and only effector of E. coli Cra is F1P and that every action of FBP on this regulator can be traced to its systematic mix with the authentic binder.
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- Max Chavarría
- Escuela de Química & CIPRONA, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, 11501-2060, Costa Rica.,Centro Nacional de Innovaciones Biotecnológicas (CENIBiot), CeNAT-CONARE, San José, 1174-1200, Costa Rica
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- Systems and Synthetic Biology Program, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain
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Veening JW, Tamayo R. Editorial overview: Bacterial cell regulation: from genes to complex environments. Curr Opin Microbiol 2018; 42:110-114. [PMID: 29444492 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2018.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Jan-Willem Veening
- Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Biophore Building, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Molecular Genetics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
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