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Cha M, Kim JK, Lee WH, Song H, Lee TG, Kim SK, Kim SJ. Metabolic engineering of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii for hydrogen production. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2024; 108:65. [PMID: 38194138 PMCID: PMC10776719 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12974-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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Hydrogen is an alternative fuel for transportation vehicles because it is clean, sustainable, and highly flammable. However, the production of hydrogen from lignocellulosic biomass by microorganisms presents challenges. This microbial process involves multiple complex steps, including thermal, chemical, and mechanical treatment of biomass to remove hemicellulose and lignin, as well as enzymatic hydrolysis to solubilize the plant cell walls. These steps not only incur costs but also result in the production of toxic hydrolysates, which inhibit microbial growth. A hyper-thermophilic bacterium of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii can produce hydrogen by decomposing and fermenting plant biomass without the need for conventional pretreatment. It is considered as a consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) microorganism. This review summarizes the basic scientific knowledge and hydrogen-producing capacity of C. bescii. Its genetic system and metabolic engineering strategies to improve hydrogen production are also discussed. KEY POINTS: • Hydrogen is an alternative and eco-friendly fuel. • Caldicellulosiruptor bescii produces hydrogen with a high yield in nature. • Metabolic engineering can make C. bescii to improve hydrogen production.
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- Minseok Cha
- Research Center for Biological Cybernetics, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Animal Environment, National Institute of Animal Science, Wanju, 55365, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Integrative Food, Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Chung-Ang University, Gyeonggi, 17546, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Chung-Ang University, Gyeonggi, 17546, Republic of Korea
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- Research Center for Biological Cybernetics, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Integrative Food, Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea.
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Blumer-Schuette SE. Insights into Thermophilic Plant Biomass Hydrolysis from Caldicellulosiruptor Systems Biology. Microorganisms 2020; 8:E385. [PMID: 32164310 PMCID: PMC7142884 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8030385] [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: 02/01/2020] [Revised: 03/06/2020] [Accepted: 03/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Plant polysaccharides continue to serve as a promising feedstock for bioproduct fermentation. However, the recalcitrant nature of plant biomass requires certain key enzymes, including cellobiohydrolases, for efficient solubilization of polysaccharides. Thermostable carbohydrate-active enzymes are sought for their stability and tolerance to other process parameters. Plant biomass degrading microbes found in biotopes like geothermally heated water sources, compost piles, and thermophilic digesters are a common source of thermostable enzymes. While traditional thermophilic enzyme discovery first focused on microbe isolation followed by functional characterization, metagenomic sequences are negating the initial need for species isolation. Here, we summarize the current state of knowledge about the extremely thermophilic genus Caldicellulosiruptor, including genomic and metagenomic analyses in addition to recent breakthroughs in enzymology and genetic manipulation of the genus. Ten years after completing the first Caldicellulosiruptor genome sequence, the tools required for systems biology of this non-model environmental microorganism are in place.
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Thermophilic organisms hold great potential for industry due to their numerous advantages in biotechnological applications such as higher reaction rate, higher substrate loading, decreased susceptibility to reaction contamination, energy savings in industrial fermentations, and ability to express thermostable proteins that can be utilized in many important industrial processes. Bioprospecting for thermophiles will continue to reveal new enzymatic and metabolic paradigms with industrial applicability. In order to translate these paradigms to production scale, routine methods for microbial genetic engineering are needed, yet remain to be developed in many newly isolated thermophiles. Major challenges and recent developments in the establishment of reliable genetic systems in thermophiles are discussed. Here, we use a hyperthermophilic, cellulolytic bacterium, Caldicellulosiruptor bescii, as a case study to demonstrate the development of a genetic system for an industrially useful thermophile, describing in detail methods for transformation, genetic tool utilization, and chromosomal modification using targeted gene deletion and insertion techniques.
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- Daehwan Chung
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Groom J, Chung D, Kim SK, Guss A, Westpheling J. Deletion of the Clostridium thermocellum recA gene reveals that it is required for thermophilic plasmid replication but not plasmid integration at homologous DNA sequences. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 45:753-763. [PMID: 29808293 PMCID: PMC6483729 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-018-2049-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A limitation to the engineering of cellulolytic thermophiles is the availability of functional, thermostable (≥ 60 °C) replicating plasmid vectors for rapid expression and testing of genes that provide improved or novel fuel molecule production pathways. A series of plasmid vectors for genetic manipulation of the cellulolytic thermophile Caldicellulosiruptor bescii has recently been extended to Clostridium thermocellum, another cellulolytic thermophile that very efficiently solubilizes plant biomass and produces ethanol. While the C. bescii pBAS2 replicon on these plasmids is thermostable, the use of homologous promoters, signal sequences and genes led to undesired integration into the bacterial chromosome, a result also observed with less thermostable replicating vectors. In an attempt to overcome undesired plasmid integration in C. thermocellum, a deletion of recA was constructed. As expected, C. thermocellum ∆recA showed impaired growth in chemically defined medium and an increased susceptibility to UV damage. Interestingly, we also found that recA is required for replication of the C. bescii thermophilic plasmid pBAS2 in C. thermocellum, but it is not required for replication of plasmid pNW33N. In addition, the C. thermocellum recA mutant retained the ability to integrate homologous DNA into the C. thermocellum chromosome. These data indicate that recA can be required for replication of certain plasmids, and that a recA-independent mechanism exists for the integration of homologous DNA into the C. thermocellum chromosome. Understanding thermophilic plasmid replication is not only important for engineering of these cellulolytic thermophiles, but also for developing genetic systems in similar new potentially useful non-model organisms.
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- Joseph Groom
- Department of Genetics, Davison Life Sciences Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The Center for BioEnergy Innovation, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Biosciences Center, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The Center for BioEnergy Innovation, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Davison Life Sciences Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The Center for BioEnergy Innovation, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The Center for BioEnergy Innovation, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Davison Life Sciences Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The Center for BioEnergy Innovation, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
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Kim SK, Groom J, Chung D, Elkins J, Westpheling J. Expression of a heat-stable NADPH-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase from Thermoanaerobacter pseudethanolicus 39E in Clostridium thermocellum 1313 results in increased hydroxymethylfurfural resistance. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2017; 10:66. [PMID: 28331542 PMCID: PMC5353787 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-017-0750-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND Resistance to deconstruction is a major limitation to the use of lignocellulosic biomass as a substrate for the production of fuels and chemicals. Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP), the use of microbes for the simultaneous hydrolysis of lignocellulose into soluble sugars and fermentation of the resulting sugars to products of interest, is a potential solution to this obstacle. The pretreatment of plant biomass, however, releases compounds that are inhibitory to the growth of microbes used for CBP. RESULTS Heterologous expression of the Thermoanaerobacter pseudethanolicus 39E bdhA gene, that encodes an alcohol dehydrogenase, in Clostridium thermocellum significantly increased resistance to furan derivatives at concentrations found in acid-pretreated biomass. The mechanism of detoxification of hydroxymethylfurfural was shown to be primarily reduction using NADPH as the cofactor. In addition, we report the construction of new expression vectors for homologous and heterologous expression in C. thermocellum. These vectors use regulatory signals from both C. bescii (the S-layer promoter) and C. thermocellum (the enolase promoter) shown to efficiently drive expression of the BdhA enzyme. CONCLUSIONS Toxic compounds present in lignocellulose hydrolysates that inhibit cell growth and product formation are obstacles to the commercialization of fuels and chemicals from biomass. Expression of genes that reduce the effect of these inhibitors, such as furan derivatives, will serve to enable commercial processes using plant biomass for the production of fuels and chemicals.
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- Sun-Ki Kim
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA
- BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA
- BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO USA
- BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
- BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA
- BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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Groom J, Chung D, Olson DG, Lynd LR, Guss AM, Westpheling J. Promiscuous plasmid replication in thermophiles: Use of a novel hyperthermophilic replicon for genetic manipulation of Clostridium thermocellum at its optimum growth temperature. Metab Eng Commun 2016; 3:30-38. [PMID: 29468112 PMCID: PMC5779722 DOI: 10.1016/j.meteno.2016.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2015] [Revised: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 01/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Clostridium thermocellum is a leading candidate for the consolidated bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomass for the production of fuels and chemicals. A limitation to the engineering of this strain is the availability of stable replicating plasmid vectors for homologous and heterologous expression of genes that provide improved and/or novel pathways for fuel production. Current vectors relay on replicons from mesophilic bacteria and are not stable at the optimum growth temperature of C. thermocellum. To develop more thermostable genetic tools for C. thermocellum, we constructed vectors based on the hyperthermophilic Caldicellulosiruptor bescii replicon pBAS2. Autonomously replicating shuttle vectors based on pBAS2 reproducibly transformed C. thermocellum at 60 °C and were maintained in multiple copy. Promoters, selectable markers and plasmid replication proteins from C. bescii were functional in C. thermocellum. Phylogenetic analyses of the proteins contained on pBAS2 revealed that the replication initiation protein RepL is unique among thermophiles. These results suggest that pBAS2 may be a broadly useful replicon for other thermophilic Firmicutes.
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- Joseph Groom
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
- The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
- The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Biosciences Center, Golden, CO, USA
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- The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
- Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
- Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
- The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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Groom J, Chung D, Young J, Westpheling J. Heterologous complementation of a pyrF deletion in Caldicellulosiruptor hydrothermalis generates a new host for the analysis of biomass deconstruction. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2014; 7:132. [PMID: 25254074 PMCID: PMC4172971 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-014-0132-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2014] [Accepted: 08/28/2014] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Members of the thermophilic, anaerobic Gram-positive bacterial genus Caldicellulosiruptor grow optimally at 65 to 78°C and degrade lignocellulosic biomass without conventional pretreatment. Decomposition of complex cell wall polysaccharides is a major bottleneck in the conversion of plant biomass to biofuels and chemicals, and conventional biomass pretreatment includes exposure to high temperatures, acids, or bases as well as enzymatic digestion. Members of this genus contain a variety of glycosyl hydrolases, pectinases, and xylanases, but the contribution of these individual enzymes to biomass deconstruction is largely unknown. C. hydrothermalis is of special interest because it is the least cellulolytic of all the Caldicellulosiruptor species so far characterized, making it an ideal naïve system to study key cellulolytic enzymes from these bacteria. RESULTS To develop methods for genetic manipulation of C. hydrothermalis, we selected a spontaneous deletion of pyrF, a gene in the pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway, resulting in a strain that was a uracil auxotroph resistant to 5-fluoroorotic acid (5-FOA). This strain allowed the selection of prototrophic transformants with either replicating or non-replicating plasmids containing the wild-type pyrF gene. Counter-selection of the pyrF wild-type allele on non-replicating vectors allowed the construction of chromosomal deletions. To eliminate integration of the non-replicating plasmid at the pyrF locus in the C. hydrothermalis chromosome, we used the non-homologous Clostridium thermocellum wild-type pyrF allele to complement the C. hydrothermalis pyrF deletion. The autonomously replicating shuttle vector was maintained at 25 to 115 copies per chromosome. Deletion of the ChyI restriction enzyme in C. hydrothermalis increased the transformation efficiency by an order of magnitude and demonstrated the ability to construct deletions and insertions in the genome of this new host. CONCLUSIONS The use of C. hydrothermalis as a host for homologous and heterologous expression of enzymes important for biomass deconstruction will enable the identification of enzymes that contribute to the special ability of these bacteria to degrade complex lignocellulosic substrates as well as facilitate the construction of strains to improve and extend their substrate utilization capabilities.
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- Joseph Groom
- />Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
- />The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- />Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
- />The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- />Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
- />The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- />Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
- />The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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Chung D, Farkas J, Westpheling J. Overcoming restriction as a barrier to DNA transformation in Caldicellulosiruptor species results in efficient marker replacement. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2013; 6:82. [PMID: 23714229 PMCID: PMC3679861 DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-6-82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2013] [Accepted: 05/21/2013] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Thermophilic microorganisms have special advantages for the conversion of plant biomass to fuels and chemicals. Members of the genus Caldicellulosiruptor are the most thermophilic cellulolytic bacteria known. They have the ability to grow on a variety of non-pretreated biomass substrates at or near ~80°C and hold promise for converting biomass to bioproducts in a single step. As for all such relatively uncharacterized organisms with desirable traits, the ability to genetically manipulate them is a prerequisite for making them useful. Metabolic engineering of pathways for product synthesis is relatively simple compared to engineering the ability to utilize non-pretreated biomass. RESULTS Here we report the construction of a deletion of cbeI (Cbes2438), which encodes a restriction endonuclease that is as a major barrier to DNA transformation of C. bescii. This is the first example of a targeted chromosomal deletion generated by homologous recombination in this genus and the resulting mutant, JWCB018 (ΔpyrFA ΔcbeI), is readily transformed by DNA isolated from E. coli without in vitro methylation. PCR amplification and sequencing suggested that this deletion left the adjacent methyltransferase (Cbes2437) intact. This was confirmed by the fact that DNA isolated from JWCB018 was protected from digestion by CbeI and HaeIII. Plasmid DNA isolated from C. hydrothermalis transformants were readily transformed into C. bescii. Digestion analysis of chromosomal DNA isolated from seven Caldicellulosiruptor species by using nine different restriction endonucleases was also performed to identify the functional restriction-modification activities in this genus. CONCLUSION Deletion of the cbeI gene removes a substantial barrier to routine DNA transformation and chromosomal modification of C. bescii. This will facilitate the functional analyses of genes as well as metabolic engineering for the production of biofuels and bioproducts from biomass. An analysis of restriction-modification activities in members of this genus suggests a way forward to eliminating restriction as a barrier to DNA transformation and efficient genetic manipulation of this important group of hyperthermophiles.
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- Daehwan Chung
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
- The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
- The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
- The BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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Construction of a stable replicating shuttle vector for Caldicellulosiruptor species: use for extending genetic methodologies to other members of this genus. PLoS One 2013; 8:e62881. [PMID: 23658781 PMCID: PMC3643907 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2012] [Accepted: 03/26/2013] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The recalcitrance of plant biomass is the most important barrier to its economic conversion by microbes to products of interest. Thermophiles have special advantages for biomass conversion and members of the genus Caldicellulosiruptor are the most thermophilic cellulolytic microbes known. In this study, we report the construction of a replicating shuttle vector for Caldicellulosiruptor species based on pBAS2, the smaller of two native C. bescii plasmids. The entire plasmid was cloned into an E. coli cloning vector containing a pSC101 origin of replication and an apramycin resistance cassette for selection in E. coli. The wild-type C. bescii pyrF locus was cloned under the transcriptional control of the regulatory region of the ribosomal protein S30EA (Cbes2105), and the resulting vector was transformed into a new spontaneous deletion mutant in the pyrFA locus of C. bescii that allowed complementation with the pyrF gene alone. Plasmid DNA was methylated in vitro with a recently described cognate methyltransferase, M.CbeI, and transformants were selected for uracil prototrophy. The plasmid was stably maintained in low copy with selection but rapidly lost without selection. There was no evidence of DNA rearrangement during transformation and replication in C. bescii. A similar approach was used to screen for transformability of other members of this genus using M.CbeI to overcome restriction as a barrier and was successful for transformation of C. hydrothermalis, an attractive species for many applications. Plasmids containing a carbohydrate binding domain (CBM) and linker region from the C. bescii celA gene were maintained with selection and were structurally stable through transformation and replication in C. bescii and E. coli.
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Cai Y, Lai C, Li S, Liang Z, Zhu M, Liang S, Wang J. Disruption of lactate dehydrogenase through homologous recombination to improve bioethanol production in Thermoanaerobacterium aotearoense. Enzyme Microb Technol 2011; 48:155-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2010.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2010] [Revised: 08/18/2010] [Accepted: 10/21/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Dam P, Kataeva I, Yang SJ, Zhou F, Yin Y, Chou W, Poole FL, Westpheling J, Hettich R, Giannone R, Lewis DL, Kelly R, Gilbert HJ, Henrissat B, Xu Y, Adams MWW. Insights into plant biomass conversion from the genome of the anaerobic thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii DSM 6725. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:3240-54. [PMID: 21227922 PMCID: PMC3082886 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Caldicellulosiruptor bescii DSM 6725 utilizes various polysaccharides and grows efficiently on untreated high-lignin grasses and hardwood at an optimum temperature of ∼80°C. It is a promising anaerobic bacterium for studying high-temperature biomass conversion. Its genome contains 2666 protein-coding sequences organized into 1209 operons. Expression of 2196 genes (83%) was confirmed experimentally. At least 322 genes appear to have been obtained by lateral gene transfer (LGT). Putative functions were assigned to 364 conserved/hypothetical protein (C/HP) genes. The genome contains 171 and 88 genes related to carbohydrate transport and utilization, respectively. Growth on cellulose led to the up-regulation of 32 carbohydrate-active (CAZy), 61 sugar transport, 25 transcription factor and 234 C/HP genes. Some C/HPs were overproduced on cellulose or xylan, suggesting their involvement in polysaccharide conversion. A unique feature of the genome is enrichment with genes encoding multi-modular, multi-functional CAZy proteins organized into one large cluster, the products of which are proposed to act synergistically on different components of plant cell walls and to aid the ability of C. bescii to convert plant biomass. The high duplication of CAZy domains coupled with the ability to acquire foreign genes by LGT may have allowed the bacterium to rapidly adapt to changing plant biomass-rich environments.
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- Phuongan Dam
- Institute of Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Complete genome sequences for the anaerobic, extremely thermophilic plant biomass-degrading bacteria Caldicellulosiruptor hydrothermalis, Caldicellulosiruptor kristjanssonii, Caldicellulosiruptor kronotskyensis, Caldicellulosiruptor owensensis, and Caldicellulosiruptor lactoaceticus. J Bacteriol 2011; 193:1483-4. [PMID: 21216991 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01515-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The genus Caldicellulosiruptor contains the most thermophilic, plant biomass-degrading bacteria isolated to date. Previously, genome sequences from three cellulolytic members of this genus were reported (C. saccharolyticus, C. bescii, and C. obsidiansis). To further explore the physiological and biochemical basis for polysaccharide degradation within this genus, five additional genomes were sequenced: C. hydrothermalis, C. kristjanssonii, C. kronotskyensis, C. lactoaceticus, and C. owensensis. Taken together, the seven completed and one draft-phase Caldicellulosiruptor genomes suggest that, while central metabolism is highly conserved, significant differences in glycoside hydrolase inventories and numbers of carbohydrate transporters exist, a finding which likely relates to variability observed in plant biomass degradation capacity.
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Genome sequence of the anaerobic, thermophilic, and cellulolytic bacterium "Anaerocellum thermophilum" DSM 6725. J Bacteriol 2009; 191:3760-1. [PMID: 19346307 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00256-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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"Anaerocellum thermophilum" DSM 6725 is a strictly anaerobic bacterium that grows optimally at 75 degrees C. It uses a variety of polysaccharides, including crystalline cellulose and untreated plant biomass, and has potential utility in biomass conversion. Here we report its complete genome sequence of 2.97 Mb, which is contained within one chromosome and two plasmids (of 8.3 and 3.6 kb). The genome encodes a broad set of cellulolytic enzymes, transporters, and pathways for sugar utilization and compared to those of other saccharolytic, anaerobic thermophiles is most similar to that of Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus DSM 8903.
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