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Gasser C, Faurie JM, Rul F. Regulation of lactose, glucose and sucrose metabolisms in S. thermophilus. Food Microbiol 2024; 121:104487. [PMID: 38637064 DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2024.104487] [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: 06/07/2023] [Revised: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 02/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
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Streptococcus thermophilus is a bacterium widely used in the production of yogurts and cheeses, where it efficiently ferments lactose, the saccharide naturally present in milk. It is also employed as a starter in dairy- or plant-based fermented foods that contain saccharides other than lactose (e.g., sucrose, glucose). However, little is known about how saccharide use is regulated, in particular when saccharides are mixed. Here, we determine the effect of the 5 sugars that S. thermophilus is able to use, at different concentration and when they are mixed on the promoter activities of the C-metabolism genes. Using a transcriptional fusion approach, we discovered that lactose and glucose modulated the activity of the lacS and scrA promoters in a concentration-dependent manner. When mixed with lactose, glucose also repressed the two promoter activities; when mixed with sucrose, lactose still repressed scrA promoter activity. We determined that catabolite control protein A (CcpA) played a key role in these dynamics. We also showed that promoter activity was linked with glycolytic flux, which varied depending on saccharide type and concentration. Overall, this study identified key mechanisms in carbohydrate metabolism - autoregulation and partial hierarchical control - and demonstrated that they are partly mediated by CcpA.
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- C Gasser
- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, 78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France; Danone Nutricia Research, Avenue de la Vauve, 91120, Palaiseau, France; Yeasty, 4 rue Pierre Fontaine Génopole, 91000, Évry Courcouronnes, France
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- Danone Nutricia Research, Avenue de la Vauve, 91120, Palaiseau, France; Procelys by Lesaffre, 103 Rue Jean Jaurès, 94704, Maisons-Alfort Cedex, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, 78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
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Application of Endoxylanases of Bacillus halodurans for Producing Xylooligosaccharides from Empty Fruit Bunch. Catalysts 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/catal13010039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Endo-1,4-β-xylanase catalyzes the random hydrolysis of β-1,4-D-xylosidic bonds in xylan, resulting in the formation of oligomers of xylose. This study aims to demonstrate the promise of endoxylanases from alkaliphilic Bacillus halodurans for the production of xylooligosaccharides (XOS) from oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) at high pH. Two enzyme preparations were employed: recombinant endoxylanase Xyn45 (GH10 xylanase) and nonrecombinant endoxylanases, a mixture of two extracellular endo-1,4-β-xylanases Xyn45 and Xyn23 (GH11 xylanase) produced by B. halodurans. EFB was first treated with an alkaline solution. Then, the dissolved xylan-containing fraction was retained, and a prepared enzyme was added to react at pH 8 to convert xylan into XOS. Compared with the use of only Xyn45, the combined use of Xyn45 and Xyn23 resulted in a higher yield of XOS, suggesting the synergistic effect of the two endoxylanases. The yield of XOS obtained from EFB was as high as 46.77% ± 1.64% (w/w), with the xylobiose-to-xylotriose ratio being 6:5. However, when the enzyme activity dose was low, the product contained more xylotriose than xylobiose. Four probiotic lactobacilli and bifidobacteria grew well on a medium containing XOS from EFB. The presence of XOS increased cell mass and reduced pH, suggesting that XOS promoted the growth of probiotics.
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Liang J, van Kranenburg R, Bolhuis A, Leak DJ. Removing carbon catabolite repression in Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius DSM 2542. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:985465. [PMID: 36338101 PMCID: PMC9631020 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.985465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius is a thermophilic bacterium of interest for lignocellulosic biomass fermentation. However, carbon catabolite repression (CCR) hinders co-utilization of pentoses and hexoses in the biomass substrate. Hence, to optimize the fermentation process, it is critical to remove CCR in the fermentation strains with minimal fitness cost. In this study, we investigated whether CCR could be removed from P. thermoglucosidasius DSM 2542 by mutating the Ser46 regulatory sites on HPr and Crh to a non-reactive alanine residue. It was found that neither the ptsH1 (HPr-S46A) nor the crh1 (Crh-S46A) mutation individually eliminated CCR in P. thermoglucosidasius DSM 2542. However, it was not possible to generate a ptsH1 crh1 double mutant. While the Crh-S46A mutation had no obvious fitness effect in DSM 2542, the ptsH1 mutation had a negative impact on cell growth and sugar utilization under fermentative conditions. Under these conditions, the ptsH1 mutation was associated with the production of a brown pigment, believed to arise from methylglyoxal production, which is harmful to cells. Subsequently, a less directed adaptive evolution approach was employed, in which DSM 2542 was grown in a mixture of 2-deoxy-D-glucose(2-DG) and xylose. This successfully removed CCR from P. thermoglucosidasius DSM 2542. Two selection strategies were applied to optimize the phenotypes of evolved strains. Genome sequencing identified key mutations affecting the PTS components PtsI and PtsG, the ribose operon repressor RbsR and adenine phosphoribosyltransferase APRT. Genetic complementation and bioinformatics analysis revealed that the presence of wild type rbsR and apt inhibited xylose uptake or utilization, while ptsI and ptsG might play a role in the regulation of CCR in P. thermoglucosidasius DSM 2542.
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- Jinghui Liang
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
- Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT), University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
- Corbion, Gorinchem, Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Centre for Therapeutic Innovation, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
- Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT), University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
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Liang J, Roberts A, van Kranenburg R, Bolhuis A, Leak DJ. Relaxed control of sugar utilization in Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius DSM 2542. Microbiol Res 2021; 256:126957. [PMID: 35032723 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2021.126957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2021] [Revised: 11/22/2021] [Accepted: 12/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Though carbon catabolite repression (CCR) has been intensively studied in some more characterised organisms, there is a lack of information of CCR in thermophiles. In this work, CCR in the thermophile, Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius DSM 2542 has been studied during growth on pentose sugars in the presence of glucose. Physiological studies under fermentative conditions revealed a loosely controlled CCR when DSM 2542 was grown in minimal medium supplemented with a mixture of glucose and xylose. This atypical CCR pattern was also confirmed by studying xylose isomerase expression level by qRT-PCR. Fortuitously, the pheB gene, which encodes catechol 2, 3-dioxygenase was found to have a cre site highly similar to the consensus catabolite-responsive element (cre) at its 3' end and was used to confirm that expression of pheB from a plasmid was under stringent CCR control. Bioinformatic analysis suggested that the CCR regulation of xylose metabolism in P. thermoglucosidasius DSM 2542 might occur primarily via control of expression of pentose transporter operons. Relaxed control of sugar utilization might reflect a lower affinity of the CcpA-HPr (Ser46-P) or CcpA-Crh (Ser46-P) complexes to the cre(s) in these operons.
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- Jinghui Liang
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK.
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- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; Corbion, Arkelsedijk 46, 4206 AC, Gorinchem, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, UK
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- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK
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Lu H, Li R, Yang P, Luo W, Chen S, Bilal M, Xu H, Gu C, Liu S, Zhao Y, Geng C, Zhao L. iTRAQ-BASED Proteomic Analysis of the Mechanism of Fructose on Improving Fengycin Biosynthesis in Bacillus Amyloliquefaciens. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26206309. [PMID: 34684889 PMCID: PMC8539540 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26206309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Fengycin, as a lipopeptide produced by Bacillus subtilis, displays potent activity against filamentous fungi, including Aspergillus flavus and Soft-rot fungus, which exhibits a wide range of potential applications in food industries, agriculture, and medicine. To better clarify the regulatory mechanism of fructose on fengycin biosynthesis, the iTRAQ-based proteomic analysis was utilized to investigate the differentially expressed proteins of B. amyloliquefaciens fmb-60 cultivated in ML (without fructose) and MLF (with fructose) medium. The results indicated that a total of 811 proteins, including 248 proteins with differential expression levels (162 which were upregulated (fold > 2) and 86, which were downregulated (fold < 0.5) were detected, and most of the proteins are associated with cellular metabolism, biosynthesis, and biological regulation process. Moreover, the target genes’ relative expression was conducted using quantitative real-time PCR to validate the proteomic analysis results. Based on the results of proteome analysis, the supposed pathways of fructose enhancing fengycin biosynthesis in B. amyloliquefaciens fmb-60 can be summarized as improvement of the metabolic process, including cellular amino acid and amide, fatty acid biosynthesis, peptide and protein, nucleotide and nucleobase-containing compound, drug/toxin, cofactor, and vitamin; reinforcement of peptide/protein translation, modification, biological process, and response to a stimulus. In conclusion, this study represents a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the fructose mechanism on improving fengycin biosynthesis in B. amyloliquefaciens, which will provide a road map to facilitate the potential application of fengycin or its homolog in defending against filamentous fungi.
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- Hedong Lu
- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China; (H.L.); (P.Y.); (M.B.); (H.X.); (C.G.); (S.L.); (Y.Z.)
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 250003, China;
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China; (H.L.); (P.Y.); (M.B.); (H.X.); (C.G.); (S.L.); (Y.Z.)
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- Institute of Food and Marine Bio-Resources, College of Biological Science and Technology, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China; (W.L.); (S.C.)
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- Institute of Food and Marine Bio-Resources, College of Biological Science and Technology, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China; (W.L.); (S.C.)
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China; (H.L.); (P.Y.); (M.B.); (H.X.); (C.G.); (S.L.); (Y.Z.)
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China; (H.L.); (P.Y.); (M.B.); (H.X.); (C.G.); (S.L.); (Y.Z.)
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China; (H.L.); (P.Y.); (M.B.); (H.X.); (C.G.); (S.L.); (Y.Z.)
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China; (H.L.); (P.Y.); (M.B.); (H.X.); (C.G.); (S.L.); (Y.Z.)
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China; (H.L.); (P.Y.); (M.B.); (H.X.); (C.G.); (S.L.); (Y.Z.)
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China; (H.L.); (P.Y.); (M.B.); (H.X.); (C.G.); (S.L.); (Y.Z.)
- Correspondence: (C.G.); (L.Z.); Tel.: +86-517-83559107 (C.G.); +86-517-83559216 (L.Z.)
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China; (H.L.); (P.Y.); (M.B.); (H.X.); (C.G.); (S.L.); (Y.Z.)
- Correspondence: (C.G.); (L.Z.); Tel.: +86-517-83559107 (C.G.); +86-517-83559216 (L.Z.)
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Regulation of β-amylase synthesis: a brief overview. Mol Biol Rep 2021; 48:6503-6511. [PMID: 34379288 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-021-06613-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND The major activity of β-amylase (BMY) is the production of maltose by the hydrolytic degradation of starch. BMY is found to be produced by some plants and few microorganisms only. The industrial importance of the enzyme warrants its application in a larger scale with the help of genetic engineering, for which the regulatory mechanism is to be clearly understood. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION In plants, the activities of BMY are regulated by various environmental stimuli including stress of drought, cold and heat. In vascular plant, Arabidopsis sp. the enzyme is coded by nine BAM genes, whereas in most bacteria, BMY enzymes are coded by the spoII gene family. The activities of these genes are in turn controlled by various compounds. Production and inhibition of the microbial BMY is regulated by the activation and inactivation of various BAM genes. Various types of transcriptional regulators associated with the plant- BMYs regulate the production of BMY enzyme. The enhancement in the expression of such genes reflects evolutionary significance. Bacterial genes, on the other hand, as exemplified by Bacillus sp and Clostridium sp, clearly depict the importance of a single regulatory gene, the absence or mutation of which totally abolishes the BMY activity.
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Bacterial-induced pH shifts link individual cell physiology to macroscale collective behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2014346118. [PMID: 33795512 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2014346118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Bacteria have evolved a diverse array of signaling pathways that enable them to quickly respond to environmental changes. Understanding how these pathways reflect environmental conditions and produce an orchestrated response is an ongoing challenge. Herein, we present a role for collective modifications of environmental pH carried out by microbial colonies living on a surface. We show that by collectively adjusting the local pH value, Paenibacillus spp., specifically, regulate their swarming motility. Moreover, we show that such pH-dependent regulation can converge with the carbon repression pathway to down-regulate flagellin expression and inhibit swarming in the presence of glucose. Interestingly, our results demonstrate that the observed glucose-dependent swarming repression is not mediated by the glucose molecule per se, as commonly thought to occur in carbon repression pathways, but rather is governed by a decrease in pH due to glucose metabolism. In fact, modification of the environmental pH by neighboring bacterial species could override this glucose-dependent repression and induce swarming of Paenibacillus spp. away from a glucose-rich area. Our results suggest that bacteria can use local pH modulations to reflect nutrient availability and link individual bacterial physiology to macroscale collective behavior.
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Su L, Sun F, Liu Z, Zhang K, Wu J. Highly efficient production of Clostridium cellulolyticum H10 D-psicose 3-epimerase in Bacillus subtilis and use of these cells to produce D-psicose. Microb Cell Fact 2018; 17:188. [PMID: 30486886 PMCID: PMC6260708 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-018-1037-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Background d-Psicose 3-epimerase (DPEase) catalyzes the isomerization of d-fructose to the rare sugar d-psicose, which may help prevent obesity, reduce blood sugar and blood fat, and inhibit intra-abdominal fat accumulation. Results In this study, the DPEase of Clostridium cellulolyticum H10 was expressed in the food-grade host Bacillus subtilis. Optimization of the culture medium during shake-flask experiments yielded a DPEase activity of 314 U/mL. The optimal medium included 20 g/L peptone, 15 g/L corn steep powder, 5 g/L glycerol, and 1 mM Ca2+. Controlling the carbon source concentration was important because elevated concentrations can result in catabolite metabolic suppression (CCR). To avoid CCR and increase DPEase expression, we developed a fed-batch strategy in a 3.6-L fermenter. We altered the ratio of carbon source to nitrogen source (C/N) in the feeding medium and employed a constant feeding rate (6 g/L/h). This strategy improved the DPEase activity to 2246 U/mL (7.8 g/L), which is almost 15 times higher than that observed in the original shake-flask cultures. Finally, we used the DPEase-expressing B. subtilis cells to produce d-psicose from d-fructose, and a 28% conversion yield was achieved with these cells, demonstrating their potential use in d-psicose production. Conclusions This is the first report to enhance recombinant DPEase production in B. subtilis using efficient and convenient fermentation strategy, and the DPEase yield is three times higher than the highest yield reported to date. The recombinant B. subtilis cells were further used in the efficient synthesis of d-psicose. This study provides a basis for the industrial production of d-psicose.
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- Lingqia Su
- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China.,School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China.,International Joint Laboratory on Food Safety, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China.,School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China.,International Joint Laboratory on Food Safety, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China.,School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China.,International Joint Laboratory on Food Safety, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China.,School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China.,International Joint Laboratory on Food Safety, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China. .,School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China. .,International Joint Laboratory on Food Safety, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China.
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Aleksandrzak-Piekarczyk T, Szatraj K, Kosiorek K. GlaR (YugA)-a novel RpiR-family transcription activator of the Leloir pathway of galactose utilization in Lactococcus lactis IL1403. Microbiologyopen 2018; 8:e00714. [PMID: 30099846 PMCID: PMC6528599 DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Revised: 07/12/2018] [Accepted: 07/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Bacteria can utilize diverse sugars as carbon and energy source, but the regulatory mechanisms directing the choice of the preferred substrate are often poorly understood. Here, we analyzed the role of the YugA protein (now designated GlaR—Galactose–lactose operon Regulatory protein) of the RpiR family as a transcriptional activator of galactose (gal genes) and lactose (lac genes) utilization genes in Lactococcus lactis IL1403. In this bacterium, gal genes forming the Leloir operon are combined with lac genes in a single so‐called gal–lac operon. The first gene of this operon is the lacS gene encoding galactose permease. The glaR gene encoding GlaR lies directly upstream of the gal–lac gene cluster and is transcribed in the same direction. This genetic layout and the presence of glaR homologues in the closest neighborhood to the Leloir or gal–lac operons are highly conserved only among Lactococcus species. Deletion of glaR disabled galactose utilization and abrogated or decreased expression of the gal–lac genes. The GlaR‐dependent regulation of the gal–lac operon depends on its specific binding to a DNA region upstream of the lacS gene activating lacS expression and increasing the expression of the operon genes localized downstream. Notably, expression of lacS‐downstream genes, namely galMKTE, thgA and lacZ, is partially independent of the GlaR‐driven activation likely due to the presence of additional promoters. The glaR transcription itself is not subject to catabolite control protein A (CcpA) carbon catabolite repression (CRR) and is induced by galactose. Up to date, no similar mechanism has been reported in other lactic acid bacteria species. These results reveal a novel regulatory protein and shed new light on the regulation of carbohydrate catabolism in L. lactis IL1403, and by similarity, probably also in other lactococci.
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IBB PAS), Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IBB PAS), Warsaw, Poland
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Galinier A. La répression catabolique ou comment les bactéries choisissent leurs sucres préférés. Med Sci (Paris) 2018; 34:531-539. [DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20183406012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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La répression catabolique permet aux bactéries, mais aussi aux levures ou champignons, une utilisation préférentielle des sources de carbone. Ce phénomène se traduit par une croissance diauxique durant laquelle les bactéries assimilent d’abord les sources de carbone rapidement métabolisables, puis les sources de carbone non préférentielles. Divers mécanismes moléculaires sont responsables de la répression catabolique et contrôlent non seulement l’expression de gènes impliqués dans l’utilisation de sources de carbone alternatives, mais aussi l’expression de plusieurs gènes impliqués dans des processus cellulaires variés. Cette synthèse décrit les principaux mécanismes moléculaires retrouvés chez les entérobactéries et chez les firmicutes, ainsi que l’importance du système des phosphotransférases dans cette régulation.
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Chen C, Lu Y, Wang L, Yu H, Tian H. CcpA-Dependent Carbon Catabolite Repression Regulates Fructooligosaccharides Metabolism in Lactobacillus plantarum. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1114. [PMID: 29896178 PMCID: PMC5986886 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2018] [Accepted: 05/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Fructooligosaccharides (FOSs) metabolism in Lactobacillus plantarum is controlled by two gene clusters, and the global regulator catabolite control protein A (CcpA) may be involved in the regulation. To understand the mechanism, this study focused on the regulation relationships of CcpA toward target genes and the binding effects on the catabolite responsive element (cre). First, reverse transcription-PCR analysis of the transcriptional organization of the FOS-related gene clusters showed that they were organized in three independent polycistronic units. Diauxic growth, hierarchical utilization of carbohydrates and repression of FOS-related genes were observed in cultures containing FOS and glucose, suggesting carbon catabolite repression (CCR) control in FOS utilization. Knockout of ccpA gene eliminated these phenomena, indicating the principal role of this gene in CCR of FOS metabolism. Furthermore, six potential cre sites for CcpA binding were predicted in the regions of putative promoters of the two clusters. Direct binding was confirmed by electrophoretic mobility shift assays in vitro and chromatin immunoprecipitation in vivo. The results of the above studies suggest that CcpA is a vital regulator of FOS metabolism in L. plantarum and that CcpA-dependent CCR regulates FOS metabolism through the direct binding of CcpA toward the cre sites in the promoter regions of FOS-related clusters.
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- Chen Chen
- Department of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, China
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van der Stel AX, van de Lest CHA, Huynh S, Parker CT, van Putten JPM, Wösten MMSM. Catabolite repression in Campylobacter jejuni correlates with intracellular succinate levels. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:1374-1388. [PMID: 29318721 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Accepted: 01/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Bacteria have evolved different mechanisms to catabolize carbon sources from nutrient mixtures. They first consume their preferred carbon source, before others are used. Regulatory mechanisms adapt the metabolism accordingly to maximize growth and to outcompete other organisms. The human pathogen Campylobacter jejuni is an asaccharolytic Gram-negative bacterium that catabolizes amino acids and organic acids for growth. It prefers serine and aspartate as carbon sources, however it lacks all regulators known to be involved in regulating carbon source utilization in other organisms. In which manner C. jejuni adapts its metabolism towards the presence or absence of preferred carbon sources is unknown. In this study, we show with transcriptomic analysis and enzyme assays how C. jejuni adapts its metabolism in response to its preferred carbon sources. In the presence of serine as well as lactate and pyruvate C. jejuni inhibits the utilization of other carbon sources, by repressing the expression of a number of central metabolic enzymes. The regulatory proteins RacR, Cj1000 and CsrA play a role in the regulation of these metabolic enzymes. This metabolism dependent transcriptional repression correlates with an accumulation of intracellular succinate. Hence, we propose a demand-based catabolite repression mechanism in C. jejuni, depended on intracellular succinate levels.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Albany, CA, USA
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- Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Albany, CA, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Sarian FD, Janeček Š, Pijning T, Ihsanawati, Nurachman Z, Radjasa OK, Dijkhuizen L, Natalia D, van der Maarel MJEC. A new group of glycoside hydrolase family 13 α-amylases with an aberrant catalytic triad. Sci Rep 2017; 7:44230. [PMID: 28287181 PMCID: PMC5347038 DOI: 10.1038/srep44230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2016] [Accepted: 01/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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α-Amylases are glycoside hydrolase enzymes that act on the α(1→4) glycosidic linkages in glycogen, starch, and related α-glucans, and are ubiquitously present in Nature. Most α-amylases have been classified in glycoside hydrolase family 13 with a typical (β/α)8-barrel containing two aspartic acid and one glutamic acid residue that play an essential role in catalysis. An atypical α-amylase (BmaN1) with only two of the three invariant catalytic residues present was isolated from Bacillus megaterium strain NL3, a bacterial isolate from a sea anemone of Kakaban landlocked marine lake, Derawan Island, Indonesia. In BmaN1 the third residue, the aspartic acid that acts as the transition state stabilizer, was replaced by a histidine. Three-dimensional structure modeling of the BmaN1 amino acid sequence confirmed the aberrant catalytic triad. Glucose and maltose were found as products of the action of the novel α-amylase on soluble starch, demonstrating that it is active in spite of the peculiar catalytic triad. This novel BmaN1 α-amylase is part of a group of α-amylases that all have this atypical catalytic triad, consisting of aspartic acid, glutamic acid and histidine. Phylogenetic analysis showed that this group of α-amylases comprises a new subfamily of the glycoside hydrolase family 13.
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- Fean D Sarian
- Biochemistry Research Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia.,Aquatic Biotechnology and Bioproduct Engineering, Engineering and Technology institute Groningen (ENTEG), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Protein Evolution, Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 21, SK-84551 Bratislava, Slovakia.,Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of SS. Cyril and Mehtodius, Nam. J. Herdu 2, SK-91701 Trnava, Slovakia
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- X-Ray Crystallography, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Biochemistry Research Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia
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- Biochemistry Research Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia
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- Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Fishery and Marine Science, Diponegoro University, Semarang 50275, Central Java, Indonesia
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- Microbial Physiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Biochemistry Research Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia
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- Aquatic Biotechnology and Bioproduct Engineering, Engineering and Technology institute Groningen (ENTEG), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Aleksandrzak-Piekarczyk T, Koryszewska-Bagińska A, Grynberg M, Nowak A, Cukrowska B, Kozakova H, Bardowski J. Genomic and Functional Characterization of the Unusual pLOCK 0919 Plasmid Harboring the spaCBA Pili Cluster in Lactobacillus casei LOCK 0919. Genome Biol Evol 2015; 8:202-17. [PMID: 26637469 PMCID: PMC4758243 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Here, we report the extensive bioinformatic and functional analyses of the unusual pLOCK 0919, a plasmid originating from the probiotic Lactobacillus casei LOCK 0919 strain. This plasmid is atypical because it harbors the spaCBA-srtC gene cluster encoding SpaCBA pili. We show that all other spaCBA-srtC sequences of the Lactobacillus genus that have been previously described and deposited in GenBank are present in the chromosomal DNA. Another important observation for pLOCK 0919 is that the spaCBA-srtC gene cluster and its surrounding genes are highly similar to the respective DNA region that is present in the most well-known and active SpaCBA pili producer, the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG strain. Our results demonstrate that the spaCBA-srtC clusters of pLOCK 0919 and L. rhamnosus GG are genealogically similar, located in DNA regions that are rich in transposase genes and are poorly conserved among the publicly available sequences of Lactobacillus sp. In contrast to chromosomally localized pilus gene clusters from L. casei and Lactobacillus paracasei, the plasmidic spaC of L. casei LOCK 0919 is expressed and undergoes a slight glucose-induced repression. Moreover, results of series of in vitro tests demonstrate that L. casei LOCK 0919 has an adhesion potential, which is largely determined by the presence of the pLOCK 0919 plasmid. In particular, the plasmid occurrence positively influenced the hydrophobicity and aggregation abilities of L. casei LOCK 0919. Moreover, in vivo studies indicate that among the three Lactobacillus strains used to colonize the gastrointestinal tract of germ-free mice, already after 2 days of colonization, L. casei LOCK 0919 became the dominant strain and persisted there for at least 48 days.
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Fermentation Technology and Microbiology, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Pathology, The Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Gnotobiology, Institute of Microbiology of the CAS, v. v. i., Novy Hradek, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Morabbi Heravi K, Rigi G, Rezaei Arjomand M, Rostami A, Ahmadian G. An Alternative Bacterial Expression System Using Bacillus pumilus SG2 Chitinase Promoter. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY 2015; 13:17-24. [PMID: 28959305 DOI: 10.15171/ijb.1175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND Chitin is an abundant natural polysaccharide found in fungi, algae, and exoskeleton of insects. Several bacterial species are capable of utilizing chitin as their carbon source. These bacteria produce chitinases for degradation of chitin into N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. So far, regulation of the chitinase encoding genes has been studied in different bacterial species. Among Bacillus species, B. pumilus strain SG2 encodes two chitinases, ChiS and ChiL. The promoter region of chiSL genes (P chiS ) is mainly regulated by the general carbon catabolite repression (CCR) system in B. subtilis due to the presence of a catabolite responsive element (cre). OBJECTIVES Use of P chiS in constructing an inducible expression system in B. subtilis was investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS In the first step, complete and shortened versions of P chiS were inserted upstream of the lacZ on a pBS72/pUC18 shuttle plasmid. The β-galactosidase activity of B. subtilis carrying one of the relevant plasmids was measured in the presence of different carbon sources. RESULTS An expression system based on the chitinase promoter of B. pumilus SG2 was established. Modification of P chiS and the culture medium resulted in production of β-galactosidase in B. subtilis up to 1,800 Miller unit (MU) activity. CONCLUSIONS The chitinase promoter developed in this study, has potential to be used in an expression vector that could be induced by chitin. In addition, compared to the other inducers like IPTG and lactose, chitin is definitely cheaper and more available as an inducer.
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- Kambiz Morabbi Heravi
- Institut für Industrielle Genetik, Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Behbahan Khatam Alanbia University of Technology, Behbahan, Iran
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- Department of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran
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Boyarskiy S, Davis López S, Kong N, Tullman-Ercek D. Transcriptional feedback regulation of efflux protein expression for increased tolerance to and production of n-butanol. Metab Eng 2015; 33:130-137. [PMID: 26656942 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2015.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2015] [Revised: 10/28/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Microorganisms can be engineered to produce a variety of biofuels and commodity chemicals. The accumulation of these products, however, is often toxic to the cells and subsequently lowers production yields. Efflux pumps are a natural mechanism for alleviating toxicity through secretion of the product; unfortunately, pump overexpression also often inhibits growth. Tuning expression levels with inducible promoters is time-consuming and the reliance on small-molecule inducers is cost-prohibitive in industry. We design an expression regulation system utilizing a native Escherichia coli stress promoter, PgntK, to provide negative feedback to regulate transporter expression levels. We test the promoter in the context of the efflux pump AcrB and its butanol-secreting variant, AcrBv2. PgntK-driven AcrBv2 confers increased tolerance to n-butanol and increased titers of n-butanol in production. Furthermore, the system is responsive to stress from toxic overexpression of other membrane-associated proteins. Our results suggest a use for feedback regulation networks in membrane protein expression.
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- Sergey Boyarskiy
- Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UCSF, 306 Stanley Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, 201 Gilman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, 142 LSA #3200, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UCSF, 306 Stanley Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, 201 Gilman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley, 201 Gilman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.
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Zhu M, Lu Y, Wang J, Li S, Wang X. Carbon Catabolite Repression and the Related Genes of ccpA, ptsH and hprK in Thermoanaerobacterium aotearoense. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0142121. [PMID: 26540271 PMCID: PMC4634974 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2015] [Accepted: 10/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The strictly anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium, Thermoanaerobacterium aotearoense SCUT27, is capable of producing ethanol, hydrogen and lactic acid by directly fermenting glucan, xylan and various lignocellulosically derived sugars. By using non-metabolizable and metabolizable sugars as substrates, we found that cellobiose, galactose, arabinose and starch utilization was strongly inhibited by the existence of 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG). However, the xylose and mannose consumptions were not markedly affected by 2-DG at the concentration of one-tenth of the metabolizable sugar. Accordingly, T. aotearoense SCUT27 could consume xylose and mannose in the presence of glucose. The carbon catabolite repression (CCR) related genes, ccpA, ptsH and hprK were confirmed to exist in T. aotearoense SCUT27 through gene cloning and protein characterization. The highly purified Histidine-containing Protein (HPr) could be specifically phosphorylated at Serine 46 by HPr kinase/phosphatase (HPrK/P) with no need to add fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) or glucose-6-phosphate (Glc-6-P) in the reaction mixture. The specific protein-interaction of catabolite control protein A (CcpA) and phosphorylated HPr was proved via affinity chromatography in the absence of formaldehyde. The equilibrium binding constant (KD) of CcpA and HPrSerP was determined as 2.22 ± 0.36 nM by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analysis, indicating the high affinity between these two proteins.
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- Muzi Zhu
- Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, School of Bioscience and Bioengineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, School of Bioscience and Bioengineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, School of Bioscience and Bioengineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, School of Bioscience and Bioengineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Kidney, the Institute of Life Sciences, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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Bruder M, Moo-Young M, Chung DA, Chou CP. Elimination of carbon catabolite repression in Clostridium acetobutylicum—a journey toward simultaneous use of xylose and glucose. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 99:7579-88. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6611-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Revised: 04/09/2015] [Accepted: 04/12/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Wu Y, Yang Y, Ren C, Yang C, Yang S, Gu Y, Jiang W. Molecular modulation of pleiotropic regulator CcpA for glucose and xylose coutilization by solvent-producing Clostridium acetobutylicum. Metab Eng 2015; 28:169-179. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2015.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2014] [Revised: 11/05/2014] [Accepted: 01/16/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The yesN gene encodes a carbohydrate utilization regulatory protein in Lactobacillus plantarum. ANN MICROBIOL 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s13213-014-0842-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Many pathways of carbon and energy metabolism are conserved across the phylogeny, but the networks that regulate their expression or activity often vary considerably among organisms. In this work, we show that two previously uncharacterized transcription factors (TFs) are direct regulators of genes encoding enzymes of central carbon and energy metabolism in the alphaproteobacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The LacI family member CceR (RSP_1663) directly represses genes encoding enzymes in the Entner-Doudoroff pathway, while activating those encoding the F1F0 ATPase and enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle and gluconeogenesis, providing a direct transcriptional network connection between carbon and energy metabolism. We identified bases that are important for CceR DNA binding and showed that DNA binding by this TF is inhibited by 6-phosphogluconate. We also showed that the GntR family TF AkgR (RSP_0981) directly activates genes encoding several TCA cycle enzymes, and we identified conditions where its activity is increased. The properties of single and double ΔCceR and ΔAkgR mutants illustrate that these 2 TFs cooperatively regulate carbon and energy metabolism. Comparative genomic analysis indicates that CceR and AkgR orthologs are found in other alphaproteobacteria, where they are predicted to have a conserved function in regulating central carbon metabolism. Our characterization of CceR and AkgR has provided important new insight into the networks that control central carbon and energy metabolism in alphaproteobacteria that can be exploited to modify or engineer new traits in these widespread and versatile bacteria. IMPORTANCE To extract and conserve energy from nutrients, cells coordinate a set of metabolic pathways into integrated networks. Many pathways that conserve energy or interconvert metabolites are conserved across cells, but the networks regulating these processes are often highly variable. In this study, we characterize two previously unknown transcriptional regulators of carbon and energy metabolism that are conserved in alphaproteobacteria, a group of abundant, environmentally and biotechnologically important organisms. We identify the genes they regulate, the DNA sequences they recognize, the metabolite that controls the activity of one of the regulators, and conditions where they are required for growth. We provide important new insight into conserved cellular networks that can also be used to improve a variety of hosts for converting feedstock into valuable products.
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Faustoferri RC, Hubbard CJ, Santiago B, Buckley AA, Seifert TB, Quivey RG. Regulation of fatty acid biosynthesis by the global regulator CcpA and the local regulator FabT in Streptococcus mutans. Mol Oral Microbiol 2014; 30:128-46. [PMID: 25131436 DOI: 10.1111/omi.12076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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SMU.1745c, encoding a putative transcriptional regulator of the MarR family, maps to a location proximal to the fab gene cluster in Streptococcus mutans. Deletion of the SMU.1745c (fabTS m ) coding region resulted in a membrane fatty acid composition comprised of longer-chained, unsaturated fatty acids (UFA), compared with the parent strain. Previous reports have indicated a role for FabT in regulation of genes in the fab gene cluster in other organisms, through binding to a palindromic DNA sequence. Consensus FabT motif sequences were identified in S. mutans in the intergenic regions preceding fabM, fabTSm and fabK in the fab gene cluster. Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (cat) reporter fusions, using the fabM promoter, revealed elevated transcription in a ∆fabTS m background. Transcription of fabTS m was dramatically elevated in cells grown at pH values of 5 and 7 in the ∆ fabTS m background. Transcription of fabTS m was also elevated in a strain carrying a deletion for the carbon catabolite repressor CcpA. Purified FabTS m and CcpA bound to the promoter regions of fabTS m and fabM. Hence, the data indicate that FabTS m acts as a repressor of fabM and fabTS m itself and the global regulator CcpA acts as a repressor for fabTS m .
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- R C Faustoferri
- Center for Oral Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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Chiu KC, Lin CJ, Shaw GC. Transcriptional regulation of the l-lactate permease gene lutP by the LutR repressor of Bacillus subtilis RO-NN-1. Microbiology (Reading) 2014; 160:2178-2189. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.079806-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Bacillus subtilis lutABC operon encodes three iron–sulfur-containing proteins required for l-lactate utilization and involved in biofilm formation. The transcriptional regulator LutR of the GntR family negatively controls lutABC expression. The lutP gene, which is situated immediately upstream of lutR, encodes an l-lactate permease. Here, we show that lutP expression can be strongly induced by l-lactate and is subject to partial catabolite repression by glucose. Disruption of the lutR gene led to a strong derepression of lutP and no further induction by l-lactate, suggesting that the LutR repressor can also negatively control lutP expression. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay revealed a LutR-binding site located downstream of the promoter of lutA or lutP and containing a consensus inverted repeat sequence 5′-TCATC-N1-GATGA-3′. Reporter gene analysis showed that deletion of each LutR-binding site caused a strong derepression of lutA or lutP. These results indicated that these two LutR-binding sites can function as operators in vivo. Moreover, deletion analysis identified a DNA segment upstream of the lutP promoter to be important for lutP expression. In contrast to the truncated LutR of laboratory strains 168 and PY79, the full-length LutR of the undomesticated strain RO-NN-1, and probably many other B. subtilis strains, can directly and negatively regulate lutP transcription. The absence or presence of the N-terminal 21 aa of the full-length LutR, which encompass a small part of the predicted winged helix–turn–helix DNA-binding motif, may probably alter the DNA-binding specificity or affinity of LutR.
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- Kuo-Chin Chiu
- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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ClaR--a novel key regulator of cellobiose and lactose metabolism in Lactococcus lactis IL1403. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 99:337-47. [PMID: 25239037 PMCID: PMC4286628 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-6067-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2014] [Revised: 08/11/2014] [Accepted: 08/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In a number of previous studies, our group has discovered an alternative pathway for lactose utilization in Lactococcus lactis that, in addition to a sugar-hydrolyzing enzyme with both P-β-glucosidase and P-β-galactosidase activity (BglS), engages chromosomally encoded components of cellobiose-specific PTS (PTSCel-Lac), including PtcA, PtcB, and CelB. In this report, we show that this system undergoes regulation via ClaR, a novel activator protein from the RpiR family of transcriptional regulators. Although RpiR proteins are widely distributed among lactic acid bacteria, their roles have yet to be confirmed by functional assays. Here, we show that ClaR activity depends on intracellular cellobiose-6-phosphate availability, while other sugars such as glucose or galactose have no influence on it. We also show that ClaR is crucial for activation of the bglS and celB expression in the presence of cellobiose, with some limited effects on ptcA and ptcB activation. Among 190 of carbon sources tested, the deletion of claR reduces L. lactis growth only in lactose- and/or cellobiose-containing media, suggesting a narrow specificity of this regulator within the context of sugar metabolism.
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Shulami S, Shenker O, Langut Y, Lavid N, Gat O, Zaide G, Zehavi A, Sonenshein AL, Shoham Y. Multiple regulatory mechanisms control the expression of the Geobacillus stearothermophilus gene for extracellular xylanase. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:25957-75. [PMID: 25070894 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.592873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Geobacillus stearothermophilus T-6 produces a single extracellular xylanase (Xyn10A) capable of producing short, decorated xylo-oligosaccharides from the naturally branched polysaccharide, xylan. Gel retardation assays indicated that the master negative regulator, XylR, binds specifically to xylR operators in the promoters of xylose and xylan-utilization genes. This binding is efficiently prevented in vitro by xylose, the most likely molecular inducer. Expression of the extracellular xylanase is repressed in medium containing either glucose or casamino acids, suggesting that carbon catabolite repression plays a role in regulating xynA. The global transcriptional regulator CodY was shown to bind specifically to the xynA promoter region in vitro, suggesting that CodY is a repressor of xynA. The xynA gene is located next to an uncharacterized gene, xynX, that has similarity to the NIF3 (Ngg1p interacting factor 3)-like protein family. XynX binds specifically to a 72-bp fragment in the promoter region of xynA, and the expression of xynA in a xynX null mutant appeared to be higher, indicating that XynX regulates xynA. The specific activity of the extracellular xylanase increases over 50-fold during early exponential growth, suggesting cell density regulation (quorum sensing). Addition of conditioned medium to fresh and low cell density cultures resulted in high expression of xynA, indicating that a diffusible extracellular xynA density factor is present in the medium. The xynA density factor is heat-stable, sensitive to proteases, and was partially purified using reverse phase liquid chromatography. Taken together, these results suggest that xynA is regulated by quorum-sensing at low cell densities.
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- Smadar Shulami
- From the Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel and
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- From the Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel and
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- From the Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel and
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- From the Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel and
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- From the Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel and
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- From the Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel and
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- From the Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel and
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- the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111
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- From the Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel and
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Deng C, Peng Q, Song F, Lereclus D. Regulation of cry gene expression in Bacillus thuringiensis. Toxins (Basel) 2014; 6:2194-209. [PMID: 25055802 PMCID: PMC4113751 DOI: 10.3390/toxins6072194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2014] [Revised: 07/11/2014] [Accepted: 07/15/2014] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Bacillus thuringiensis differs from the closely related Bacillus cereus group species by its ability to produce crystalline inclusions. The production of these crystals mainly results from the expression of the cry genes, from the stability of their transcripts and from the synthesis, accumulation and crystallization of large amounts of insecticidal Cry proteins. This process normally coincides with sporulation and is regulated by various factors operating at the transcriptional, post-transcriptional, metabolic and post-translational levels.
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- Chao Deng
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China.
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- INRA, UMR1319 Micalis, La Minière, Guyancourt 78280, France.
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Characterization of cis-acting elements residing in the chitinase promoter of Bacillus pumilus SG2. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 30:1491-9. [PMID: 24293243 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-013-1569-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2012] [Accepted: 11/27/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Bacillus pumilus SG2 is a chitinolytic bacterium that produces two chitinases, namely ChiS and ChiL. The chiS and chiL genes are consecutively expressed under a common promoter. Regulation of the chiS and chiL genes is under the control of carbon catabolite repression (CCR) in B. pumilus. This study aimed to investigate the cis-acting elements of the chitinase promoter. For this purpose, we transferred the chiS gene along with its specific promoter to Bacillus subtilis as a host. Primer extension analysis revealed two transcription start sites located 287 and 65 bp upstream of the chiS start codon. The distal promoter was highly compatible with the consensus sequence of the σ(A)-type promoters in B. subtilis, whereas the proximal promoter sequence showed less similarity to the σ(A)-type consensus sequence. A catabolite responsive element (cre), which is required for CCR in Bacillus species, was found to be 136 to 123 bp upstream of the chiS start codon. Interestingly, this cre site was located upstream of the -35 of the proximal promoter and downstream of the distal promoter. Deletion of this cre site sequence rendered the chiS expression constitutive.
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Nho SW, Hikima JI, Park SB, Jang HB, Cha IS, Yasuike M, Nakamura Y, Fujiwara A, Sano M, Kanai K, Kondo H, Hirono I, Takeyama H, Aoki T, Jung TS. Comparative genomic characterization of three Streptococcus parauberis strains in fish pathogen, as assessed by wide-genome analyses. PLoS One 2013; 8:e80395. [PMID: 24260382 PMCID: PMC3832376 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2013] [Accepted: 09/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Streptococcus parauberis, which is the main causative agent of streptococcosis among olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) in northeast Asia, can be distinctly divided into two groups (type I and type II) by an agglutination test. Here, the whole genome sequences of two Japanese strains (KRS-02083 and KRS-02109) were determined and compared with the previously determined genome of a Korean strain (KCTC 11537). The genomes of S. parauberis are intermediate in size and have lower GC contents than those of other streptococci. We annotated 2,236 and 2,048 genes in KRS-02083 and KRS-02109, respectively. Our results revealed that the three S. parauberis strains contain different genomic insertions and deletions. In particular, the genomes of Korean and Japanese strains encode different factors for sugar utilization; the former encodes the phosphotransferase system (PTS) for sorbose, whereas the latter encodes proteins for lactose hydrolysis, respectively. And the KRS-02109 strain, specifically, was the type II strain found to be able to resist phage infection through the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas system and which might contribute valuably to serologically distribution. Thus, our genome-wide association study shows that polymorphisms can affect pathogen responses, providing insight into biological/biochemical pathways and phylogenetic diversity.
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- Seong-Won Nho
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Gyeongnam, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Applied Bioscience, Faculty of Agriculture, Univeristy of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Gyeongnam, South Korea
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Gyeongnam, South Korea
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Gyeongnam, South Korea
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- National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Laboratory of Genome Science, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Genome Science, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Gyeongnam, South Korea
- Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Gyeongnam, South Korea
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Nuxoll AS, Halouska SM, Sadykov MR, Hanke ML, Bayles KW, Kielian T, Powers R, Fey PD. CcpA regulates arginine biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus through repression of proline catabolism. PLoS Pathog 2012; 8:e1003033. [PMID: 23209408 PMCID: PMC3510247 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2012] [Accepted: 10/01/2012] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of community-associated and nosocomial infections. Imperative to the success of S. aureus is the ability to adapt and utilize nutrients that are readily available. Genomic sequencing suggests that S. aureus has the genes required for synthesis of all twenty amino acids. However, in vitro experimentation demonstrates that staphylococci have multiple amino acid auxotrophies, including arginine. Although S. aureus possesses the highly conserved anabolic pathway that synthesizes arginine via glutamate, we demonstrate here that inactivation of ccpA facilitates the synthesis of arginine via the urea cycle utilizing proline as a substrate. Mutations within putA, rocD, arcB1, argG and argH abolished the ability of S. aureus JE2 ccpA::tetL to grow in the absence of arginine, whereas an interruption in argJBCF, arcB2, or proC had no effect. Furthermore, nuclear magnetic resonance demonstrated that JE2 ccpA::ermB produced 13C5 labeled arginine when grown with 13C5 proline. Taken together, these data support the conclusion that S. aureus synthesizes arginine from proline during growth on secondary carbon sources. Furthermore, although highly conserved in all sequenced S. aureus genomes, the arginine anabolic pathway (ArgJBCDFGH) is not functional under in vitro growth conditions. Finally, a mutation in argH attenuated virulence in a mouse kidney abscess model in comparison to wild type JE2 demonstrating the importance of arginine biosynthesis in vivo via the urea cycle. However, mutations in argB, argF, and putA did not attenuate virulence suggesting both the glutamate and proline pathways are active and they, or their pathway intermediates, can complement each other in vivo. Although Staphylococcus aureus encodes the highly conserved arginine biosynthesis pathway via glutamate, arginine is an essential amino acid. We found that a mutation in ccpA, a gene encoding a protein facilitating carbon catabolite repression, mediates arginine biosynthesis under in vitro growth conditions. However, both genetic and biochemical evidence suggested that a S. aureus ccpA mutant synthesizes arginine via proline and the urea cycle, a pathway not demonstrated in bacteria before. Furthermore, an animal model of S. aureus infection demonstrated the importance of arginine biosynthesis in vivo. This new pathway sheds light on important host-pathogen interactions and suggests S. aureus has evolved to address arginine depletion in the host by synthesizing arginine from a readily available substrate such as proline.
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- Austin S. Nuxoll
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
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Zahoor A, Lindner SN, Wendisch VF. Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum aimed at alternative carbon sources and new products. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2012; 3:e201210004. [PMID: 24688664 PMCID: PMC3962153 DOI: 10.5936/csbj.201210004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2012] [Revised: 10/19/2012] [Accepted: 10/24/2012] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Corynebacterium glutamicum is well known as the amino acid-producing workhorse of fermentation industry, being used for multi-million-ton scale production of glutamate and lysine for more than 60 years. However, it is only recently that extensive research has focused on engineering it beyond the scope of amino acids. Meanwhile, a variety of corynebacterial strains allows access to alternative carbon sources and/or allows production of a wide range of industrially relevant compounds. Some of these efforts set new standards in terms of titers and productivities achieved whereas others represent a proof-of-principle. These achievements manifest the position of C. glutamicum as an important industrial microorganism with capabilities far beyond the traditional amino acid production. In this review we focus on the state of the art of metabolic engineering of C. glutamicum for utilization of alternative carbon sources, (e.g. coming from wastes and unprocessed sources), and construction of C. glutamicum strains for production of new products such as diamines, organic acids and alcohols
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- Ahmed Zahoor
- Genetics of Prokaryotes, Faculty of Biology & CeBiTec, University of Bielefeld, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Genetics of Prokaryotes, Faculty of Biology & CeBiTec, University of Bielefeld, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Genetics of Prokaryotes, Faculty of Biology & CeBiTec, University of Bielefeld, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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Zhao XH, Wang W, Wang FQ, Wei DZ. A comparative study of β-1, 4-endoglucanase (possessing β-1, 4-exoglucanase activity) from Bacillus subtilis LH expressed in Pichia pastoris GS115 and Escherichia coli Rosetta (DE3). BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2012; 110:539-545. [PMID: 22336741 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.12.086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2011] [Revised: 12/15/2011] [Accepted: 12/17/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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β-1, 4-Endoglucanase (EG) from Bacillus subtilis LH was expressed in Escherichia coli Rosetta (DE3) and Pichia pastoris GS115, respectively. The CMCase activity of EG (EGE) from the cell lysate of DE3 reached 20,010U/ml, and that of EG (EGP) from the supernatant of GS115 was only 2008U/ml. EGE and EGP were bifunctional cellulases excluding β-1, 4-glucosidase (BGL). The CMCases of them, optimally active at 65°C and pH 6.8, exhibited more than 80% residual activity at pH 5-10 and 60% activity at 40-70°C and pH 5-9. EGE (EGP) mixed with BGL had more than 1.5-fold higher CMCase and filter paperase activities compared to EGE (EGP). N-glycosylation protected EGP from immobilized-papain attack and accounted for 30kDa and a higher thermostability, whereas EGE was decomposed into a 33kDa active truncated EG (EGT) and two 18kDa fragments. EGE and EGP performed much better than EGT in denim biostoning.
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- Xi-Hua Zhao
- State Key Lab of Bioreactor Engineering, Newworld Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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Cabrera-Valladares N, Martínez LM, Flores N, Hernández-Chávez G, Martínez A, Bolívar F, Gosset G. Physiologic Consequences of Glucose Transport and Phosphoenolpyruvate Node Modifications inBacillus subtilis168. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 2012; 22:177-97. [DOI: 10.1159/000339973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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de la Paz Santangelo M, Gest PM, Guerin ME, Coinçon M, Pham H, Ryan G, Puckett SE, Spencer JS, Gonzalez-Juarrero M, Daher R, Lenaerts AJ, Schnappinger D, Therisod M, Ehrt S, Sygusch J, Jackson M. Glycolytic and non-glycolytic functions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase, an essential enzyme produced by replicating and non-replicating bacilli. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:40219-31. [PMID: 21949126 PMCID: PMC3220552 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.259440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2011] [Revised: 09/09/2011] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The search for antituberculosis drugs active against persistent bacilli has led to our interest in metallodependent class II fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA-tb), a key enzyme of gluconeogenesis absent from mammalian cells. Knock-out experiments at the fba-tb locus indicated that this gene is required for the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on gluconeogenetic substrates and in glucose-containing medium. Surface labeling and enzymatic activity measurements revealed that this enzyme was exported to the cell surface of M. tuberculosis and produced under various axenic growth conditions including oxygen depletion and hence by non-replicating bacilli. Importantly, FBA-tb was also produced in vivo in the lungs of infected guinea pigs and mice. FBA-tb bound human plasmin(ogen) and protected FBA-tb-bound plasmin from regulation by α(2)-antiplasmin, suggestive of an involvement of this enzyme in host/pathogen interactions. The crystal structures of FBA-tb in the native form and in complex with a hydroxamate substrate analog were determined to 2.35- and 1.9-Å resolution, respectively. Whereas inhibitor attachment had no effect on the plasminogen binding activity of FBA-tb, it competed with the natural substrate of the enzyme, fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, and substantiated a previously unknown reaction mechanism associated with metallodependent aldolases involving recruitment of the catalytic zinc ion by the substrate upon active site binding. Altogether, our results highlight the potential of FBA-tb as a novel therapeutic target against both replicating and non-replicating bacilli.
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- Maria de la Paz Santangelo
- From the Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1682
- Instituto de Biotecnología, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas-Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, 1686 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- From the Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1682
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- Unidad de Biofísica, Centro Mixto Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, Leioa, 48940 Bizkaia, Spain
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidad del País Vasco, Aptdo. 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Spain
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- Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal, CP 6128, Station centre-ville, Montréal PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
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- From the Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1682
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- From the Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1682
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065
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- From the Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1682
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- From the Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1682
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Bioorganique et Bioinorganique-Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay, UMR 8182, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay, France and
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- From the Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1682
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Bioorganique et Bioinorganique-Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay, UMR 8182, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay, France and
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065
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- Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal, CP 6128, Station centre-ville, Montréal PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
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- From the Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1682
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CcpA mediates proline auxotrophy and is required for Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis. J Bacteriol 2010; 192:3883-92. [PMID: 20525824 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00237-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Human clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, for example, strains Newman and N315, cannot grow in the absence of proline, albeit their sequenced genomes harbor genes for two redundant proline synthesis pathways. We show here that under selective pressure, S. aureus Newman generates proline-prototrophic variants at a frequency of 3 x 10(-6), introducing frameshift and missense mutations in ccpA or IS1811 insertions in ptsH, two regulatory genes that carry out carbon catabolite repression (CCR) in staphylococci and other Gram-positive bacteria. S. aureus Newman variants with mutations in rocF (arginase), rocD (ornithine aminotransferase), and proC (Delta(1)-pyrroline 5-carboxylate [P5C] reductase) are unable to generate proline-prototrophic variants, whereas a variant with a mutation in ocd (ornithine cyclodeaminase) is unaffected. Transposon insertion in ccpA also restored proline prototrophy. CcpA was shown to repress transcription of rocF and rocD, encoding the first two enzymes, but not of proC, encoding the third and final enzyme in the P5C reductase pathway. CcpA bound to the upstream regions of rocF and rocD but not to that of proC. CcpA's binding to the upstream regions was greatly enhanced by phosphorylated HPr. The CCR-mediated proline auxotrophy was lifted when nonpreferred carbohydrates were used as the sole carbon source. The ccpA mutant displayed reduced staphylococcal load and replication in a murine model of staphylococcal abscess formation, indicating that carbon catabolite repression presents an important pathogenesis strategy of S. aureus infections.
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Crystal structure of TTHA0807, a CcpA regulator, from Thermus thermophilusHB8. Proteins 2009; 77:747-51. [DOI: 10.1002/prot.22552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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CcpA and LacD.1 affect temporal regulation of Streptococcus pyogenes virulence genes. Infect Immun 2009; 78:241-52. [PMID: 19841076 DOI: 10.1128/iai.00746-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Production of H(2)O(2) follows a growth phase-dependent pattern that mimics that of many virulence factors of Streptococcus pyogenes. To gain greater insight into mechanisms coupling virulence factor expression to growth phase, we investigated the molecular basis for H(2)O(2) generation and its regulation. Deletion of the gene encoding lactate oxidase (lctO) or culture in the presence of glucose eliminated H(2)O(2) production, implicating carbohydrate regulation of lctO as a key element of growth phase control. In examining known carbohydrate-responsive regulators, deletion of the gene encoding CcpA but not that encoding LacD.1 resulted in both derepression and an uncoupling of lctO transcription from its growth phase pattern. Expanding this analysis to additional virulence factors demonstrated both negative (cfa, encoding CAMP factor) and positive (speB, encoding a cysteine protease) regulation by CcpA and that CcpA mutants were highly cytotoxic for cultured macrophages. This latter property resulted from enhanced transcription of the streptolysin S biogenesis operon. Examination of CcpA-promoter interactions using a DNA pull-down assay mimicking physiological conditions showed direct binding to the promoters of lctO and speB but not those of sagA. CcpA but not LacD.1 mutants were attenuated in a murine model of soft-tissue infection, and analysis of gene expression in infected tissue indicated that CcpA mutants had altered expression of lctO, cfa, and speB but not the indirectly regulated sagA gene. Taken together, these data show that CcpA regulates virulence genes via at least three distinct mechanisms and that disruption of growth phase regulation alters transcriptional patterns in infected tissues.
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Schinko E, Schad K, Eys S, Keller U, Wohlleben W. Phosphinothricin-tripeptide biosynthesis: an original version of bacterial secondary metabolism? PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2009; 70:1787-1800. [PMID: 19878959 DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2009.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2009] [Revised: 09/03/2009] [Accepted: 09/04/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tü494 produces the herbicide phosphinothricyl-alanyl-alanine (phosphinothricin-tripeptide=PTT; bialaphos). Its bioactive moiety phosphinothricin competitively inhibits bacterial and plant glutamine synthetases. The biosynthesis of PTT includes the synthesis of the unusual amino acid N-acetyl-demethyl-phosphinothricin and a three step condensation via non-ribosomal peptide synthetases. Two characteristics within the PTT biosynthesis make it suitable to study the evolution of secondary metabolism biosynthesis. First, PTT biosynthesis represents the only known system where all peptide synthetase modules are located on separate proteins. This 'single enzyme system' might be an archetype of the multimodular and multienzymatic non-ribosomal peptide synthetases in evolutionary terms. The second interesting feature of PTT biosynthesis is the pathway-specific aconitase Pmi that is involved in the supply of N-acetyl-demethyl-phosphinothricin. Pmi is highly similar to the tricarboxylic acid aconitase AcnA. They share 64% identity at the DNA level and both belong to the Iron-Regulatory-Protein/AcnA family. Despite their high sequence similarity, AcnA and Pmi catalyze different reactions and are not able to substitute for each other. Thus, the enzyme pair AcnA/Pmi presents an example of the evolution of a secondary metabolite-specific enzyme from a primary metabolism enzyme.
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- Mikrobiologie/Biotechnologie, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Zhan Y, Yu H, Yan Y, Ping S, Lu W, Zhang W, Chen M, Lin M. Benzoate catabolite repression of the phenol degradation in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus PHEA-2. Curr Microbiol 2009; 59:368-73. [PMID: 19597885 PMCID: PMC2744803 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-009-9446-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2009] [Revised: 05/11/2009] [Accepted: 06/16/2009] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Acinetobacter calcoaceticus PHEA-2 exhibited a delayed utilization of phenol in the presence of benzoate. Benzoate supplementation completely inhibited phenol degradation in a benzoate 1,2-dioxygenase knockout mutant. The mphR encoding the transcriptional activator and mphN encoding the largest subunit of multi-component phenol hydroxylase in the benA mutant were significantly downregulated (about 7- and 70-fold) on the basis of mRNA levels when benzoate was added to the medium. The co-transformant assay of E. coli JM109 with mphK::lacZ fusion and the plasmid pETR carrying mphR gene showed that MphR did not activate the mph promoter in the presence of benzoate. These results suggest that catabolite repression of phenol degradation by benzoate in A. calcoaceticus PHEA-2 is mediated by the inhibition of the activator protein MphR.
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- Yuhua Zhan
- College of Biological Sciences, China Agriculture University, Beijing, PR China
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Doern CD, Holder RC, Reid SD. Point mutations within the streptococcal regulator of virulence (Srv) alter protein-DNA interactions and Srv function. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2008; 154:1998-2007. [PMID: 18599828 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/013466-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Group A Streptococcus (GAS) possesses a complex regulatory system enabling the organism to colonize a range of physiologically distinct host sites. Within this network of regulators is the streptococcal regulator of virulence (Srv). Srv is a member of the CRP/FNR family of transcriptional regulators and is most similar to pleiotropic regulatory factor A (PrfA), a positive regulator of virulence in Listeria monocytogenes. Members of this family possess a characteristic C-terminal helix-turn-helix motif (HTH) that facilitates binding to DNA targets. Genome scanning identified four targets in GAS that were similar to the consensus DNA target recognized by PrfA. Furthermore, previous amino acid sequence alignments identified conserved residues within the Srv HTH which are necessary for function in PrfA and CRP. Here we investigated the ability of Srv to interact with DNA and evaluated the role of the HTH in this interaction. Purified recombinant Srv (rSrv) was found to co-purify with an untagged form of Srv. Glutaraldehyde cross-linking and gel-filtration chromatography indicated that this co-purification is likely due to the ability of Srv to oligomerize. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs) demonstrated that rSrv retarded the mobility of DNA targets and a supershift analysis confirmed the observation was rSrv-dependent. Competition EMSA indicated that rSrv had a higher relative affinity for the DNA targets studied than non-specific DNA. Site-directed mutagenesis of residues predicted to be in or near the HTH resulted in a decrease or abrogation of DNA binding. Complementation of MGAS5005Deltasrv with one of these site-directed mutants failed to restore wild-type SpeB activity. Taken together, these data suggest that the Srv HTH is necessary for DNA binding and Srv function.
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- Christopher D Doern
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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Hydrogenomics of the extremely thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2008; 74:6720-9. [PMID: 18776029 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00968-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus is an extremely thermophilic, gram-positive anaerobe which ferments cellulose-, hemicellulose- and pectin-containing biomass to acetate, CO(2), and hydrogen. Its broad substrate range, high hydrogen-producing capacity, and ability to coutilize glucose and xylose make this bacterium an attractive candidate for microbial bioenergy production. Here, the complete genome sequence of C. saccharolyticus, consisting of a 2,970,275-bp circular chromosome encoding 2,679 predicted proteins, is described. Analysis of the genome revealed that C. saccharolyticus has an extensive polysaccharide-hydrolyzing capacity for cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, and starch, coupled to a large number of ABC transporters for monomeric and oligomeric sugar uptake. The components of the Embden-Meyerhof and nonoxidative pentose phosphate pathways are all present; however, there is no evidence that an Entner-Doudoroff pathway is present. Catabolic pathways for a range of sugars, including rhamnose, fucose, arabinose, glucuronate, fructose, and galactose, were identified. These pathways lead to the production of NADH and reduced ferredoxin. NADH and reduced ferredoxin are subsequently used by two distinct hydrogenases to generate hydrogen. Whole-genome transcriptome analysis revealed that there is significant upregulation of the glycolytic pathway and an ABC-type sugar transporter during growth on glucose and xylose, indicating that C. saccharolyticus coferments these sugars unimpeded by glucose-based catabolite repression. The capacity to simultaneously process and utilize a range of carbohydrates associated with biomass feedstocks is a highly desirable feature of this lignocellulose-utilizing, biofuel-producing bacterium.
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Shelburne SA, Keith DB, Davenport MT, Horstmann N, Brennan RG, Musser JM. Molecular characterization of group A Streptococcus maltodextrin catabolism and its role in pharyngitis. Mol Microbiol 2008; 69:436-52. [PMID: 18485073 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06290.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We previously demonstrated that the cell-surface lipoprotein MalE contributes to GAS maltose/maltodextrin utilization, but MalE inactivation does not completely abrogate GAS catabolism of maltose or maltotriose. Using a genome-wide approach, we identified the GAS phosphotransferase system (PTS) responsible for non-MalE maltose/maltotriose transport. This PTS is encoded by an open reading frame (M5005_spy1692) previously annotated as ptsG based on homology with the glucose PTS in Bacillus subtilis. Genetic inactivation of M5005_spy1692 significantly reduced transport rates of radiolabelled maltose and maltotriose, but not glucose, leading us to propose its reannotation as malT for maltose transporter. The DeltamalT, DeltamalE and DeltamalE:malT strains were significantly attenuated in their growth in human saliva and in their ability to catabolize alpha-glucans digested by purified human salivary alpha-amylase. Compared with wild-type, the three isogenic mutant strains were significantly impaired in their ability to colonize the mouse oropharynx. Finally, we discovered that the transcript levels of maltodextrin utilization genes are regulated by competitive binding of the maltose repressor MalR and catabolite control protein A. These data provide novel insights into regulation of the GAS maltodextrin genes and their role in GAS host-pathogen interaction, thereby increasing the understanding of links between nutrient acquisition and virulence in common human pathogens.
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- Samuel A Shelburne
- Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Sanchez S, Demain AL. Metabolic regulation and overproduction of primary metabolites. Microb Biotechnol 2008; 1:283-319. [PMID: 21261849 PMCID: PMC3815394 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2007.00015.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2007] [Revised: 10/04/2007] [Accepted: 10/23/2007] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Overproduction of microbial metabolites is related to developmental phases of microorganisms. Inducers, effectors, inhibitors and various signal molecules play a role in different types of overproduction. Biosynthesis of enzymes catalysing metabolic reactions in microbial cells is controlled by well-known positive and negative mechanisms, e.g. induction, nutritional regulation (carbon or nitrogen source regulation), feedback regulation, etc. The microbial production of primary metabolites contributes significantly to the quality of life. Fermentative production of these compounds is still an important goal of modern biotechnology. Through fermentation, microorganisms growing on inexpensive carbon and nitrogen sources produce valuable products such as amino acids, nucleotides, organic acids and vitamins which can be added to food to enhance its flavour, or increase its nutritive values. The contribution of microorganisms goes well beyond the food and health industries with the renewed interest in solvent fermentations. Microorganisms have the potential to provide many petroleum-derived products as well as the ethanol necessary for liquid fuel. Additional applications of primary metabolites lie in their impact as precursors of many pharmaceutical compounds. The roles of primary metabolites and the microbes which produce them will certainly increase in importance as time goes on. In the early years of fermentation processes, development of producing strains initially depended on classical strain breeding involving repeated random mutations, each followed by screening or selection. More recently, methods of molecular genetics have been used for the overproduction of primary metabolic products. The development of modern tools of molecular biology enabled more rational approaches for strain improvement. Techniques of transcriptome, proteome and metabolome analysis, as well as metabolic flux analysis. have recently been introduced in order to identify new and important target genes and to quantify metabolic activities necessary for further strain improvement.
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- Sergio Sanchez
- Departamento de Biologia Molecular y Biotecnologia, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Research Institute for Scientists Emeriti (RISE), Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940, USA
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Stenfors Arnesen LP, Fagerlund A, Granum PE. From soil to gut:Bacillus cereusand its food poisoning toxins. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2008; 32:579-606. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00112.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 676] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Shelburne SA, Davenport MT, Keith DB, Musser JM. The role of complex carbohydrate catabolism in the pathogenesis of invasive streptococci. Trends Microbiol 2008; 16:318-25. [PMID: 18508271 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2008.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2008] [Revised: 04/03/2008] [Accepted: 04/11/2008] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Historically, the study of bacterial catabolism of complex carbohydrates has contributed to understanding basic bacterial physiology. Recently, however, genome-wide screens of streptococcal pathogenesis have identified genes encoding proteins involved in complex carbohydrate catabolism as participating in pathogen infectivity. Subsequent studies have focused on specific mechanisms by which carbohydrate utilization proteins might contribute to the ability of streptococci to colonize and infect the host. Moreover, transcriptome and biochemical analyses have uncovered novel regulatory pathways by which streptococci link environmental carbohydrate availability to virulence factor production. Herein we review new insights into the role of complex carbohydrates in streptococcal host-pathogen interaction.
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- Samuel A Shelburne
- Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Streptococcal antagonism in oral biofilms: Streptococcus sanguinis and Streptococcus gordonii interference with Streptococcus mutans. J Bacteriol 2008; 190:4632-40. [PMID: 18441055 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00276-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 295] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Biofilms are polymicrobial, with diverse bacterial species competing for limited space and nutrients. Under healthy conditions, the different species in biofilms maintain an ecological balance. This balance can be disturbed by environmental factors and interspecies interactions. These perturbations can enable dominant growth of certain species, leading to disease. To model clinically relevant interspecies antagonism, we studied three well-characterized and closely related oral species, Streptococcus gordonii, Streptococcus sanguinis, and cariogenic Streptococcus mutans. S. sanguinis and S. gordonii used oxygen availability and the differential production of hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) to compete effectively against S. mutans. Interspecies antagonism was influenced by glucose with reduced production of H(2)O(2). Furthermore, aerobic conditions stimulated the competence system and the expression of the bacteriocin mutacin IV of S. mutans, as well as the H(2)O(2)-dependent release of heterologous DNA from mixed cultures of S. sanguinis and S. gordonii. These data provide new insights into ecological factors that determine the outcome of competition between pioneer colonizing oral streptococci and the survival mechanisms of S. mutans in the oral biofilm.
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Transcriptional regulation of the Clostridium cellulolyticum cip-cel operon: a complex mechanism involving a catabolite-responsive element. J Bacteriol 2007; 190:1499-506. [PMID: 18156277 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01160-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The cip-cel cluster of genes plays an important role in the catabolism of the substrate cellulose by Clostridium cellulolyticum. It encodes several key components of the cellulosomes, including the scaffolding protein CipC and the major cellulase Cel48F. All the genes of this cluster display linked transcription, focusing attention on the promoter upstream from the first gene, cipC. We analyzed the regulation of the cipC promoter using a transcriptional fusion approach. A single promoter is located between nucleotides -671 and -643 with respect to the ATG start codon, and the large mRNA leader sequence is processed at position -194. A catabolite-responsive element (CRE) 414 nucleotides downstream from the transcriptional start site has been shown to be involved in regulating this operon by a carbon catabolite repression mechanism. This CRE is thought to bind a CcpA-like regulator complexed with a P-Ser-Crh-like protein. Sequences surrounding the promoter sequence may also be involved in direct (sequence-dependent DNA curvature) or indirect (unknown regulator binding) regulation.
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Ramos-Montañez S, Tsui HCT, Wayne KJ, Morris JL, Peters LE, Zhang F, Kazmierczak KM, Sham LT, Winkler ME. Polymorphism and regulation of the spxB (pyruvate oxidase) virulence factor gene by a CBS-HotDog domain protein (SpxR) in serotype 2 Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mol Microbiol 2007; 67:729-46. [PMID: 18179423 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06082.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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spxB-encoded pyruvate oxidase is a major virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae. During aerobic growth, SpxB synthesizes H2O2 and acetyl phosphate, which play roles in metabolism, signalling, and oxidative stress. We report here the first cis- and trans-acting regulatory elements for spxB transcription. These elements were identified in a genetic screen for spontaneous mutations that caused colonies of strain D39 to change from a semitransparent to an opaque appearance. Six of the seven opaque colonies recovered (frequency approximately 3 x 10(-5)) were impaired for SpxB function or expression. Two mutations changed amino acids in SpxB likely required for cofactor or subunit binding. One mutation defined a cis-acting adjacent direct repeat required for optimal spxB transcription. The other three spontaneous mutations created the same frameshift near the start of the trans-acting spxR regulatory gene. The SpxR protein contains helix-turn-helix, CBS and HotDog domains implicated in binding DNA, adenosyl compounds, and CoA-containing compounds respectively, and suggest that SpxR positively regulates spxB transcription in response to energy and metabolic state. Microarray analyses unexpectedly demonstrated that SpxR also positively regulates the strH exoglycosidase gene, which, like spxB, has been implicated in colonization. Finally, SpxR is required for full virulence in a murine model of infection.
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Ahmadian G, Degrassi G, Venturi V, Zeigler DR, Soudi M, Zanguinejad P. Bacillus pumilusSG2 isolated from saline conditions produces and secretes two chitinases. J Appl Microbiol 2007; 103:1081-9. [PMID: 17897213 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2007.03340.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS Isolation and characterization of chitinases from a halotolerant Bacillus pumilus. METHODS AND RESULTS Bacillus pumilus strain SG2 was isolated from saline conditions. It is able to produce chitinase activity at high salt concentration. SDS-PAGE analysis of the B. pumilus SG2 culture supernatant showed two major bands that were induced by chitin. The amino acid sequence of the two proteins, designated ChiS and ChiL, showed a high homology with the chitinase of B. subtilis CHU26, and chitinase A of B. licheniformis, respectively. N-terminal signal peptide of both proteins was also determined. The molecular weight and isoelectric point of the chitinases were determined to be 63 and 74 kDa, and 4.5 and 5.1, for ChiS and ChiL respectively. The genes encoding for both chitinases were isolated and their sequence determined. The regulation of the chitinase genes is under the control of the catabolite repression system. CONCLUSIONS Secreted chitinase genes and their flanking region on the genome of B. pumilus SG2 have been identified and sequenced. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY This is the first report of a multiple chitinases-producing B. pumilus halotolerant strain. We have identified two chitinases by using a reverse genetics approach. The chitinases show resistance to salt.
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- Department of Molecular Genetic, National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran.
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Acetoin is an important physiological metabolite excreted by many microorganisms. The excretion of acetoin, which can be diagnosed by the Voges Proskauer test and serves as a microbial classification marker, has its vital physiological meanings to these microbes mainly including avoiding acification, participating in the regulation of NAD/NADH ratio, and storaging carbon. The well-known anabolism of acetoin involves alpha-acetolactat synthase and alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase; yet its catabolism still contains some differing views, although much attention has been focused on it and great advances have been achieved. Current findings in catabolite control protein A (CcpA) mediated carbon catabolite repression may provide a fuller understanding of the control mechanism in bacteria. In this review, we first examine the acetoin synthesis pathways and its physiological meanings and relevancies; then we discuss the relationship between the two conflicting acetoin cleavage pathways, the enzymes of the acetoin dehydrogenase enzyme system, major genes involved in acetoin degradation, and the CcpA mediated acetoin catabolite repression pathway; in the end we discuss the genetic engineering progresses concerning applications. To date, this is the first integrated review on acetoin metabolism in bacteria, especially with regard to catabolic aspects. The apperception of the generation and dissimilation of acetoin in bacteria will help provide a better understanding of microbial strategies in the struggle for resources, which will consequently better serve the utilization of these microbes.
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- Zijun Xiao
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, People's Republic of China
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