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Rutkis R, Strazdina I, Lasa Z, Bruheim P, Kalnenieks U. Ethanologenesis and respiration in a pyruvate decarboxylase-deficient Zymomonas mobilis. BMC Res Notes 2021; 14:208. [PMID: 34049566 PMCID: PMC8161578 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-021-05625-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Objective Zymomonas mobilis is an alpha-proteobacterium with a rapid ethanologenic pathway, involving Entner–Doudoroff (E–D) glycolysis, pyruvate decarboxylase (Pdc) and two alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) isoenzymes. Pyruvate is the end-product of the E–D pathway and the substrate for Pdc. Construction and study of Pdc-deficient strains is of key importance for Z. mobilis metabolic engineering, because the pyruvate node represents the central branching point, most novel pathways divert from ethanol synthesis. In the present work, we examined the aerobic metabolism of a strain with partly inactivated Pdc. Results Relative to its parent strain the mutant produced more pyruvate. Yet, it also yielded more acetaldehyde, the product of the Pdc reaction and the substrate for ADH, although the bulk ADH activity was similar in both strains, while the Pdc activity in the mutant was reduced by half. Simulations with the kinetic model of Z. mobilis E-D pathway indicated that, for the observed acetaldehyde to ethanol production ratio in the mutant, the ratio between its respiratory NADH oxidase and ADH activities should be significantly higher, than the measured values. Implications of this finding for the directionality of the ADH isoenzyme operation in vivo and interactions between ADH and Pdc are discussed. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-021-05625-5.
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- Reinis Rutkis
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
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Yang S, Franden MA, Wang X, Chou YC, Hu Y, Brown SD, Pienkos PT, Zhang M. Transcriptomic Profiles of Zymomonas mobilis 8b to Furfural Acute and Long-Term Stress in Both Glucose and Xylose Conditions. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:13. [PMID: 32038596 PMCID: PMC6989614 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Zymomonas mobilis 8b is an ethanologenic bacterium engineered to utilize both glucose and xylose. The impacts of lignocellulosic hydrolyzate inhibitors on the growth of Zymomonas mobilis 8b have been investigated. However, the molecular responses of these inhibitors have not been completely elucidated yet. In this study, molecular responses to furfural were investigated using transcriptomic approaches of both chip-based microarray and a directional mRNA-Seq. Furfural acute shock time-course experiment with 3 g/L furfural supplemented when cells reached exponential phase and stress response experiment in the presence of 2 g/L furfural from the beginning of fermentation were carried out to study the physiological and transcriptional profiles of short-term and long-term effects of furfural on 8b. Furfural negatively affected 8b growth in terms of final biomass and the fermentation time. Transcriptomic studies indicated that the response of 8b to furfural was dynamic and complex, and differences existed between short-term shock and long-term stress responses. However, the gene function categories were similar with most down-regulated genes related to translation and biosynthesis, while the furfural up-regulated genes were mostly related to general stress responses. Several gene candidates have been identified and genetic studies indicated that expression of ZMO0465 and cysteine synthase operon ZMO0003-0006 driven by its native promoter in a shuttle vector enhanced the furfural tolerance of 8b. In addition, the relationship between microarray and mRNA-Seq was compared with good correlations. The directional mRNA-Seq data not only provided the gene expression profiling, but also can be applied for transcriptional architecture improvement to identify and confirm operons, novel transcripts, hypothetical gene functions, transcriptional start sites, and promoters with different strength.
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- Shihui Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China.,National Bioenergy and Biosciences Centers, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
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- National Bioenergy and Biosciences Centers, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- National Bioenergy and Biosciences Centers, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States.,BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
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- National Bioenergy and Biosciences Centers, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
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- National Bioenergy and Biosciences Centers, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
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Yang S, Franden MA, Brown SD, Chou YC, Pienkos PT, Zhang M. Insights into acetate toxicity in Zymomonas mobilis 8b using different substrates. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2014; 7:140. [PMID: 25298783 PMCID: PMC4189746 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-014-0140-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2014] [Accepted: 09/11/2014] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Lignocellulosic biomass is a promising renewable feedstock for biofuel production. Acetate is one of the major inhibitors liberated from hemicelluloses during hydrolysis. An understanding of the toxic effects of acetate on the fermentation microorganism and the efficient utilization of mixed sugars of glucose and xylose in the presence of hydrolysate inhibitors is crucial for economic biofuel production. RESULTS A new microarray was designed including both coding sequences and intergenic regions to investigate the acetate stress responses of Zymomonas mobilis 8b when using single carbon sources of glucose or xylose, or mixed sugars of both glucose and xylose. With the supplementation of exogenous acetate, 8b can utilize all the glucose with a similar ethanol yield, although the growth, final biomass, and ethanol production rate were reduced. However, xylose utilization was inhibited in both media containing xylose or a mixed sugar of glucose and xylose, although the performance of 8b was better in mixed sugar than xylose-only media. The presence of acetate caused genes related to biosynthesis, the flagellar system, and glycolysis to be downregulated, and genes related to stress responses and energy metabolism to be upregulated. Unexpectedly, xylose seems to pose more stress on 8b, recruiting more genes for xylose utilization, than does acetate. Several gene candidates based on transcriptome results were selected for genetic manipulation, and a TonB-dependent receptor knockout mutant was confirmed to have a slight advantage regarding acetate tolerance. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate Z. mobilis utilized a different mechanism for xylose utilization, with an even more severe impact on Z. mobilis than that caused by acetate treatment. Our study also suggests redox imbalance caused by stressful conditions may trigger a metabolic reaction leading to the accumulation of toxic intermediates such as xylitol, but Z. mobilis manages its carbon and energy metabolism through the control of individual reactions to mitigate the stressful conditions. We have thus provided extensive transcriptomic datasets and gained insights into the molecular responses of Z. mobilis to the inhibitor acetate when grown in different sugar sources, which will facilitate future metabolic modeling studies and strain improvement efforts for better xylose utilization and acetate tolerance.
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- Shihui Yang
- />National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- />National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- />Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
- />BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
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- />National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- />National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- />National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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Galinina N, Lasa Z, Strazdina I, Rutkis R, Kalnenieks U. Effect of ADH II deficiency on the intracellular redox homeostasis in Zymomonas mobilis. ScientificWorldJournal 2012; 2012:742610. [PMID: 22629192 PMCID: PMC3354707 DOI: 10.1100/2012/742610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2011] [Accepted: 12/07/2011] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Mutant strain of the facultatively anaerobic, ethanol-producing bacterium Zymomonas mobilis, deficient in the Fe-containing alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzyme (ADH II), showed impaired homeostasis of the intracellular NAD(P)H during transition from anaerobic to aerobic conditions, and also in steady-state continuous cultures at various oxygen supplies. At the same time, ADH II deficiency in aerobically grown cells was accompanied by a threefold increase of catalase activity and by about 50% increase of hydrogen peroxide excretion. It is concluded that ADH II under aerobic conditions functions to maintain intracellular redox homeostasis and to protect the cells from endogenous hydrogen peroxide.
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- Nina Galinina
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda Boulevard 4, 1586 Riga, Latvia
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The ethanol-producing bacterium Zymomonas mobilis can serve as a model organism for the study of rapid catabolism and inefficient energy conversion in bacteria. Some basic aspects of its physiology still remain poorly understood. Here, the energy-spilling pathways during uncoupled growth, the structure and function of electron transport chain, and the possible reasons for the inefficient oxidative phosphorylation are analysed. Also, the interaction between ethanol synthesis and respiration is considered. The search for mechanisms of futile transmembrane proton cycling, as well as identification of respiratory electron transport complexes, like the energy-coupling NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase and the cyanide-sensitive terminal oxidase(s), are outlined as the key problems for further research of Z. mobilis energy metabolism.
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- Uldis Kalnenieks
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Chair of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda boulv. 4, Riga, LV-1586, Latvia
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Kalnenieks U, Galinina N, Toma MM, Pickford JL, Rutkis R, Poole RK. Respiratory behaviour of aZymomonas mobilis adhB::kanrmutant supports the hypothesis of two alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzymes catalysing opposite reactions. FEBS Lett 2006; 580:5084-8. [PMID: 16950260 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.08.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2006] [Revised: 08/09/2006] [Accepted: 08/11/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Perturbation of the aerobic steady-state in a chemostat culture of the ethanol-producing bacterium Zymomonas mobilis with a small pulse of ethanol causes a burst of ethanol oxidation, although the reactant ratio of the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) reaction ([NADH][acetaldehyde][H(+)])/([ethanol][NAD(+)]) remains above the K(eq) value. Simultaneous catalysis of ethanol synthesis and oxidation by the two ADH isoenzymes, residing in different redox microenvironments, has been proposed previously. In the present study, this hypothesis is verified by construction of an ADH-deficient strain and by demonstration that it lacks the oxidative burst in response to perturbation of its aerobic steady-state with ethanol.
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- U Kalnenieks
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda Boulv. 4, LV-1586, Riga, Latvia.
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Altintas MM, Eddy CK, Zhang M, McMillan JD, Kompala DS. Kinetic modeling to optimize pentose fermentation inZymomonas mobilis. Biotechnol Bioeng 2006; 94:273-95. [PMID: 16570322 DOI: 10.1002/bit.20843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Zymomonas mobilis engineered to express four heterologous enzymes required for xylose utilization ferments xylose along with glucose. A network of pentose phosphate (PP) pathway enzymatic reactions interacting with the native glycolytic Entner Doudoroff (ED) pathway has been hypothesized. We have investigated this putative reaction network by developing a kinetic model incorporating all of the enzymatic reactions of the PP and ED pathways, including those catalyzed by the heterologous enzymes. Starting with the experimental literature on in vitro characterization of each enzymatic reaction, we have developed a kinetic model to enable dynamic simulation of intracellular metabolite concentrations along the network of interacting PP and ED metabolic pathways. This kinetic model is useful for performing in silico simulations to predict how varying the different enzyme concentrations will affect intracellular metabolite concentrations and ethanol production rate during continuous fermentation of glucose and xylose mixtures. Among the five enzymes whose concentrations were varied as inputs to the model, ethanol production in the continuous fermentor was optimized when xylose isomerase (XI) was present at the highest level, followed by transaldolase (TAL). Predictions of the model that the interconnecting enzyme phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) does not need to be overexpressed were recently confirmed through experimental investigations. Through such systematic analysis, we can develop efficient strategies for maximizing the fermentation of both glucose and xylose, while minimizing the expression of heterologous enzymes.
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- Mehmet M Altintas
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0424, USA
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Kalnenieks U, Galinina N, Toma MM. Physiological regulation of the properties of alcohol dehydrogenase II (ADH II) of Zymomonas mobilis: NADH renders ADH II resistant to cyanide and aeration. Arch Microbiol 2005; 183:450-6. [PMID: 16027951 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0023-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2005] [Revised: 05/10/2005] [Accepted: 06/17/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The variable cyanide-sensitivity of the iron-containing alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzyme (ADH II) of the ethanol-producing bacterium Zymomonas mobilis was studied. In aerobically grown permeabilized cells, cyanide caused gradual inhibition of ADH II, which was largely prevented by externally added NADH. Cyanide-sensitivity of ADH II was highest in cells grown under conditions of vigorous aeration, in which intracellular NADH concentration was low. Anaerobically grown bacteria, as well as those cultivated aerobically in the presence of cyanide, maintained higher intracellular NADH levels along with a more cyanide-resistant ADH II. It was demonstrated that cyanide acted as a competitive inhibitor of ADH II, competing with nicotinamide nucleotides. NADH increased both cyanide-resistance and oxygen-resistance of ADH II.
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- Uldis Kalnenieks
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda boulv. 4, 1586 Riga, Latvia.
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Kalnenieks U, Toma MM, Galinina N, Poole RK. The paradoxical cyanide-stimulated respiration of Zymomonas mobilis: cyanide sensitivity of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH II). MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2003; 149:1739-1744. [PMID: 12855725 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26073-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The respiratory inhibitor cyanide stimulates growth of the ethanologenic bacterium Zymomonas mobilis, perhaps by diverting reducing equivalents from respiration to ethanol synthesis, thereby minimizing accumulation of toxic acetaldehyde. This study sought to identify cyanide-sensitive components of respiration. In aerobically grown, permeabilized Z. mobilis cells, addition of 200 microM cyanide caused gradual inhibition of ADH II, the iron-containing alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzyme, which, in aerobic cultures, might be oxidizing ethanol and supplying NADH to the respiratory chain. In membrane preparations, NADH oxidase was inhibited more rapidly, but to a lesser extent, than ADH II. The time-course of inhibition of whole-cell respiration resembled that of NADH oxidase, yet the inhibition was almost complete, and was accompanied by an increase of intracellular NADH concentration. Cyanide did not significantly affect the activity of ADH I, the zinc-containing alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzyme. When an aerobic batch culture was grown in the presence of 200 microM cyanide, cyanide-resistant ADH II activity was observed, its appearance correlating with the onset of respiration. It is concluded that the membrane-associated respiratory chain, but not ADH II, is responsible for the whole-cell cyanide sensitivity, while the cyanide-resistant ADH II is needed for respiration in the presence of cyanide, and represents an adaptive response of Z. mobilis to cyanide, analogous to the induction of alternative terminal oxidases in other bacteria.
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- Uldis Kalnenieks
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda boulv. 4, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda boulv. 4, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda boulv. 4, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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