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Brown JL, Perisin MA, Swift CL, Benyamin M, Liu S, Singan V, Zhang Y, Savage E, Pennacchio C, Grigoriev IV, O'Malley MA. Co‑cultivation of anaerobic fungi with Clostridium acetobutylicum bolsters butyrate and butanol production from cellulose and lignocellulose. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2022; 49:6823545. [PMID: 36367297 PMCID: PMC9923384 DOI: 10.1093/jimb/kuac024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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A system for co-cultivation of anaerobic fungi with anaerobic bacteria was established based on lactate cross-feeding to produce butyrate and butanol from plant biomass. Several co-culture formulations were assembled that consisted of anaerobic fungi (Anaeromyces robustus, Neocallimastix californiae, or Caecomyces churrovis) with the bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum. Co-cultures were grown simultaneously (e.g., 'one pot'), and compared to cultures where bacteria were cultured in fungal hydrolysate sequentially. Fungal hydrolysis of lignocellulose resulted in 7-11 mM amounts of glucose and xylose, as well as acetate, formate, ethanol, and lactate to support clostridial growth. Under these conditions, one-stage simultaneous co-culture of anaerobic fungi with C. acetobutylicum promoted the production of butyrate up to 30 mM. Alternatively, two-stage growth slightly promoted solventogenesis and elevated butanol levels (∼4-9 mM). Transcriptional regulation in the two-stage growth condition indicated that this cultivation method may decrease the time required to reach solventogenesis and induce the expression of cellulose-degrading genes in C. acetobutylicum due to relieved carbon-catabolite repression. Overall, this study demonstrates a proof of concept for biobutanol and bio-butyrate production from lignocellulose using an anaerobic fungal-bacterial co-culture system.
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- Jennifer L Brown
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Rm 3357 Engineering II, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, USA
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- Biological and Biotechnology Sciences Division, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD 20783, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Rm 3357 Engineering II, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, USA
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- Biological and Biotechnology Sciences Division, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD 20783, USA
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- Biological and Biotechnology Sciences Division, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD 20783, USA
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA,Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Re A, Mazzoli R. Current progress on engineering microbial strains and consortia for production of cellulosic butanol through consolidated bioprocessing. Microb Biotechnol 2022; 16:238-261. [PMID: 36168663 PMCID: PMC9871528 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.14148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Revised: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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In the last decades, fermentative production of n-butanol has regained substantial interest mainly owing to its use as drop-in-fuel. The use of lignocellulose as an alternative to traditional acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation feedstocks (starchy biomass and molasses) can significantly increase the economic competitiveness of biobutanol over production from non-renewable sources (petroleum). However, the low cost of lignocellulose is offset by its high recalcitrance to biodegradation which generally requires chemical-physical pre-treatment and multiple bioreactor-based processes. The development of consolidated processing (i.e., single-pot fermentation) can dramatically reduce lignocellulose fermentation costs and promote its industrial application. Here, strategies for developing microbial strains and consortia that feature both efficient (hemi)cellulose depolymerization and butanol production will be depicted, that is, rational metabolic engineering of native (hemi)cellulolytic or native butanol-producing or other suitable microorganisms; protoplast fusion of (hemi)cellulolytic and butanol-producing strains; and co-culture of (hemi)cellulolytic and butanol-producing microbes. Irrespective of the fermentation feedstock, biobutanol production is inherently limited by the severe toxicity of this solvent that challenges process economic viability. Hence, an overview of strategies for developing butanol hypertolerant strains will be provided.
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- Angela Re
- Centre for Sustainable Future TechnologiesFondazione Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaTorinoItaly,Department of Applied Science and TechnologyPolitecnico di TorinoTurinItaly
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- Structural and Functional Biochemistry, Laboratory of Proteomics and Metabolic Engineering of Prokaryotes, Department of Life Sciences and Systems BiologyUniversity of TorinoTorinoItaly
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Vamsi Krishna K, Bharathi N, George Shiju S, Alagesan Paari K, Malaviya A. An updated review on advancement in fermentative production strategies for biobutanol using Clostridium spp. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:47988-48019. [PMID: 35562606 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-20637-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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A significant concern of our fuel-dependent era is the unceasing exhaustion of petroleum fuel supplies. In parallel to this, environmental issues such as the greenhouse effect, change in global climate, and increasing global temperature must be addressed on a priority basis. Biobutanol, which has fuel characteristics comparable to gasoline, has attracted global attention as a viable green fuel alternative among the many biofuel alternatives. Renewable biomass could be used for the sustainable production of biobutanol by the acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) pathway. Non-extinguishable resources, such as algal and lignocellulosic biomass, and starch are some of the most commonly used feedstock for fermentative production of biobutanol, and each has its particular set of advantages. Clostridium, a gram-positive endospore-forming bacterium that can produce a range of compounds, along with n-butanol is traditionally known for its biobutanol production capabilities. Clostridium fermentation produces biobased n-butanol through ABE fermentation. However, low butanol titer, a lack of suitable feedstock, and product inhibition are the primary difficulties in biobutanol synthesis. Critical issues that are essential for sustainable production of biobutanol include (i) developing high butanol titer producing strains utilizing genetic and metabolic engineering approaches, (ii) renewable biomass that could be used for biobutanol production at a larger scale, and (iii) addressing the limits of traditional batch fermentation by integrated bioprocessing technologies with effective product recovery procedures that have increased the efficiency of biobutanol synthesis. Our paper reviews the current progress in all three aspects of butanol production and presents recent data on current practices in fermentative biobutanol production technology.
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- Kondapalli Vamsi Krishna
- Applied and Industrial Biotechnology Laboratory, CHRIST (Deemed-to-Be University), Hosur road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Bengaluru, India
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- Applied and Industrial Biotechnology Laboratory, CHRIST (Deemed-to-Be University), Hosur road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Applied and Industrial Biotechnology Laboratory, CHRIST (Deemed-to-Be University), Hosur road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
- Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Bengaluru, India.
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Levi Hevroni B, Moraïs S, Ben-David Y, Morag E, Bayer EA. Minimalistic Cellulosome of the Butanologenic Bacterium Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum. mBio 2020; 11:e00443-20. [PMID: 32234813 PMCID: PMC7157769 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00443-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum is a mesophilic, anaerobic, butanol-producing bacterium, originally isolated from soil. It was recently reported that C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum possesses multiple cellulosomal elements and would potentially form the smallest cellulosome known in nature. Its genome contains only eight dockerin-bearing enzymes, and its unique scaffoldin bears two cohesins (Cohs), three X2 modules, and two carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs). In this study, all of the cellulosome-related modules were cloned, expressed, and purified. The recombinant cohesins, dockerins, and CBMs were tested for binding activity using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based techniques. All the enzymes were tested for their comparative enzymatic activity on seven different cellulosic and hemicellulosic substrates, thus revealing four cellulases, a xylanase, a mannanase, a xyloglucanase, and a lichenase. All dockerin-containing enzymes interacted similarly with the second cohesin (Coh2) module, whereas Coh1 was more restricted in its interaction pattern. In addition, the polysaccharide-binding properties of the CBMs within the scaffoldin were examined by two complementary assays, affinity electrophoresis and affinity pulldown. The scaffoldin of C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum exhibited high affinity for cellulosic and hemicellulosic substrates, specifically to microcrystalline cellulose and xyloglucan. Evidence that supports substrate-dependent in vivo secretion of cellulosomes is presented. The results of our analyses contribute to a better understanding of simple cellulosome systems by identifying the key players in this minimalistic system and the binding pattern of its cohesin-dockerin interaction. The knowledge gained by our study will assist further exploration of similar minimalistic cellulosomes and will contribute to the significance of specific sets of defined cellulosomal enzymes in the degradation of cellulosic biomass.IMPORTANCE Cellulosome-producing bacteria are considered among the most important bacteria in both mesophilic and thermophilic environments, owing to their capacity to deconstruct recalcitrant plant-derived polysaccharides (and notably cellulose) into soluble saccharides for subsequent processing. In many ecosystems, the cellulosome-producing bacteria are particularly effective "first responders." The massive amounts of sugars produced are potentially amenable in industrial settings to further fermentation by appropriate microbes to biofuels, notably ethanol and butanol. Among the solvent-producing bacteria, Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum has the smallest cellulosome system known thus far. The importance of investigating the building blocks of such a small, multifunctional nanomachine is crucial to understanding the fundamental activities of this efficient enzymatic complex.
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- Bosmat Levi Hevroni
- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Wen Z, Li Q, Liu J, Jin M, Yang S. Consolidated bioprocessing for butanol production of cellulolytic Clostridia: development and optimization. Microb Biotechnol 2020; 13:410-422. [PMID: 31448546 PMCID: PMC7017829 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Revised: 08/02/2019] [Accepted: 08/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Butanol is an important bulk chemical, as well as a promising renewable gasoline substitute, that is commonly produced by solventogenic Clostridia. The main cost of cellulosic butanol fermentation is caused by cellulases that are required to saccharify lignocellulose, since solventogenic Clostridia cannot efficiently secrete cellulases. However, cellulolytic Clostridia can natively degrade lignocellulose and produce ethanol, acetate, butyrate and even butanol. Therefore, cellulolytic Clostridia offer an alternative to develop consolidated bioprocessing (CBP), which combines cellulase production, lignocellulose hydrolysis and co-fermentation of hexose/pentose into butanol in one step. This review focuses on CBP advances for butanol production of cellulolytic Clostridia and various synthetic biotechnologies that drive these advances. Moreover, the efforts to optimize the CBP-enabling cellulolytic Clostridia chassis are also discussed. These include the development of genetic tools, pentose metabolic engineering and the improvement of butanol tolerance. Designer cellulolytic Clostridia or consortium provide a promising approach and resource to accelerate future CBP for butanol production.
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- Zhiqiang Wen
- School of Environmental and Biological EngineeringNanjing University of Science and TechnologyNanjing210094China
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- College of Life SciencesSichuan Normal UniversityLongquan, Chengdu610101China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic BiologyCAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant SciencesShanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and EcologyChinese Academy of SciencesShanghai200032China
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- School of Environmental and Biological EngineeringNanjing University of Science and TechnologyNanjing210094China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic BiologyCAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant SciencesShanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and EcologyChinese Academy of SciencesShanghai200032China
- Huzhou Center of Industrial BiotechnologyShanghai Institutes of Biological SciencesChinese Academy of SciencesShanghai200032China
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Bhatt SM, Bhat S. Role of Solid-State Fermentation to Improve Cost Economy of Cellulase Production. Fungal Biol 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14726-6_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ibrahim MF, Kim SW, Abd-Aziz S. Advanced bioprocessing strategies for biobutanol production from biomass. RENEWABLE AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS 2018; 91:1192-1204. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2018.04.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Qureshi N, Saha BC, Klasson KT, Liu S. Butanol production from sweet sorghum bagasse with high solids content: Part I-comparison of liquid hot water pretreatment with dilute sulfuric acid. Biotechnol Prog 2018; 34:960-966. [PMID: 29693794 DOI: 10.1002/btpr.2639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Revised: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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In these studies, we pretreated sweet sorghum bagasse (SSB) using liquid hot water (LHW) or dilute H2 SO4 (2 g L-1 ) at 190°C for zero min (as soon as temperature reached 190°C, cooling was started) to reduce generation of sugar degradation fermentation inhibiting products such as furfural and hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF). The solids loading were 250-300 g L-1 . This was followed by enzymatic hydrolysis. After hydrolysis, 89.0 g L-1 sugars, 7.60 g L-1 acetic acid, 0.33 g L-1 furfural, and 0.07 g L-1 HMF were released. This pretreatment and hydrolysis resulted in the release of 57.9% sugars. This was followed by second hydrolysis of the fibrous biomass which resulted in the release of 43.64 g L-1 additional sugars, 2.40 g L-1 acetic acid, zero g L-1 furfural, and zero g L-1 HMF. In both the hydrolyzates, 86.3% sugars present in SSB were released. Fermentation of the hydrolyzate I resulted in poor acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation. However, fermentation of the hydrolyzate II was successful and produced 13.43 g L-1 ABE of which butanol was the main product. Use of 2 g L-1 H2 SO4 as a pretreatment medium followed by enzymatic hydrolysis resulted in the release of 100.6-93.8% (w/w) sugars from 250 to 300 g L-1 SSB, respectively. LHW or dilute H2 SO4 were used to economize production of cellulosic sugars from SSB. © 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 34:960-966, 2018.
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- Nasib Qureshi
- USDA, ARS, NCAUR, Bioenergy Research Unit, 1815 N University Street, Peoria, IL, 61604, USA
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- USDA, ARS, NCAUR, Bioenergy Research Unit, 1815 N University Street, Peoria, IL, 61604, USA
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- USDA, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center (SRRC), Commodity Utilization Research Unit, 1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd, New Orleans, LA, 70124, USA
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- USDA, ARS, NCAUR, Renewable Product Technology Research Unit, 1815 N University Street, Peoria, IL, 61604, USA
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Irfan M, Mushtaq Q, Tabssum F, Shakir HA, Qazi JI. Carboxymethyl cellulase production optimization from newly isolated thermophilic Bacillus subtilis K-18 for saccharification using response surface methodology. AMB Express 2017; 7:29. [PMID: 28138939 PMCID: PMC5302012 DOI: 10.1186/s13568-017-0331-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Accepted: 01/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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In this study, a novel thermophilic strain was isolated from soil and
used for cellulase production in submerged fermentation using potato peel as sole
carbon source. The bacterium was identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing technology.
Central composite design was applied for enhanced production using substrate
concentration, inoculum size, yeast extract and pH as dependent variables. Highest
enzyme titer of 3.50 ± 0.11 IU/ml was obtained at 2% substrate concentration, 2%
inoculum size, 1% yeast extract, pH 5.0, incubation temperature of 50 °C for 24 h of
fermentation period. The crude enzyme was characterized having optimum pH and
temperature of 7.0 and 50 °C, respectively. The efficiency of enzyme was checked by
enzymatic hydrolysis of acid/alkali treated pine needles which revealed that 54.389%
saccharification was observed in acid treated pine needles. These results indicated
that the cellulase produced by the Bacillus
subtilis K-18 (KX881940) could be effectively used for industrial
processes particularly for bioethanol production.
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Yin YR, Meng ZH, Hu QW, Jiang Z, Xian WD, Li LH, Hu W, Zhang F, Zhou EM, Zhi XY, Li WJ. The Hybrid Strategy of Thermoactinospora rubra YIM 77501 T for Utilizing Cellulose as a Carbon Source at Different Temperatures. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:942. [PMID: 28611745 PMCID: PMC5447088 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Accepted: 05/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Thermoactinospora rubra YIM 77501T is an aerobic, Gram-positive, spore-forming and cellulose degrading thermophilic actinomycete isolated from a sandy soil sample of a volcano. Its growth temperature range is 28–60°C. The genomic sequence of this strain revealed that there are 27 cellulase genes belonging to six glycoside hydrolase families. To understand the strategy that this strain uses to utilize carbon sources such as cellulose at different temperatures, comparative transcriptomics analysis of T. rubra YIM 77501T was performed by growing it with cellulose (CMC) and without cellulose (replaced with glucose) at 30, 40, and 50°C, respectively. Transcriptomic analyses showed four cellulase genes (TrBG2, TrBG3, TrBG4, and ThrCel6B) were up-regulated at 30, 40, and 50°C. The rate of gene expression of TrBG2, TrBG3, TrBG4, and ThrCel6B were 50°C > 30°C > 40°C. One cellulase gene (TrBG1) and two cellulase genes (TrBG5 and ThrCel6A) were up-regulated only at 30 and 50°C, respectively. These up-regulated cellulase genes were cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The enzymatic properties of up-regulated cellulases showed a variety of responses to temperature. Special up-regulated cellulases TrBG1 and ThrCel6A displayed temperature acclimation for each growth condition. These expression patterns revealed that a hybrid strategy was used by T. rubra to utilize carbon sources at different temperatures. This study provides genomic, transcriptomics, and experimental data useful for understanding how microorganisms respond to environmental changes and their application in enhancing cellulose hydrolysis for animal feed and bioenergy production.
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- Yi-Rui Yin
- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan UniversityKunming, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical UniversityKunming, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan UniversityKunming, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan UniversityKunming, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical UniversityKunming, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical UniversityKunming, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan UniversityKunming, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan UniversityKunming, China.,State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen UniversityGuangzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of SciencesÜrümqi, China
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Dang L, Van Damme EJM. Genome-wide identification and domain organization of lectin domains in cucumber. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2016; 108:165-176. [PMID: 27434144 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2016.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2016] [Revised: 07/04/2016] [Accepted: 07/09/2016] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Lectins are ubiquitous proteins in plants and play important roles in a diverse set of biological processes, such as plant defense and cell signaling. Despite the availability of the Cucumis sativus L. genome sequence since 2009, little is known with respect to the occurrence of lectins in cucumber. In this study, a total of 146 putative lectin genes belonging to 10 different lectin families were identified and localized in the cucumber genome. Domain architecture analysis revealed that most of these lectin gene sequences contain multiple domains, where lectin domains are linked with other domains, as such creating chimeric lectin sequences encoding proteins with dual activities. This study provides an overview of lectin motifs in cucumber and will help to understand their potential biological role(s).
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- Liuyi Dang
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Glycobiology, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Glycobiology, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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Imran M, Anwar Z, Irshad M, Asad MJ, Ashfaq H. Cellulase Production from Species of Fungi and Bacteria from Agricultural Wastes and Its Utilization in Industry: A Review. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.4236/aer.2016.42005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Reducing values: dinitrosalicylate gives over-oxidation and invalid results whereas copper bicinchoninate gives no over-oxidation and valid results. Carbohydr Res 2013; 380:118-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2013.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2013] [Revised: 06/06/2013] [Accepted: 06/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Kovács K, Willson BJ, Schwarz K, Heap JT, Jackson A, Bolam DN, Winzer K, Minton NP. Secretion and assembly of functional mini-cellulosomes from synthetic chromosomal operons in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2013; 6:117. [PMID: 23962085 PMCID: PMC3765823 DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-6-117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2013] [Accepted: 08/02/2013] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) is reliant on the simultaneous enzyme production, saccharification of biomass, and fermentation of released sugars into valuable products such as butanol. Clostridial species that produce butanol are, however, unable to grow on crystalline cellulose. In contrast, those saccharolytic species that produce predominantly ethanol, such as Clostridium thermocellum and Clostridium cellulolyticum, degrade crystalline cellulose with high efficiency due to their possession of a multienzyme complex termed the cellulosome. This has led to studies directed at endowing butanol-producing species with the genetic potential to produce a cellulosome, albeit by localising the necessary transgenes to unstable autonomous plasmids. Here we have explored the potential of our previously described Allele-Coupled Exchange (ACE) technology for creating strains of the butanol producing species Clostridium acetobutylicum in which the genes encoding the various cellulosome components are stably integrated into the genome. RESULTS We used BioBrick2 (BB2) standardised parts to assemble a range of synthetic genes encoding C. thermocellum cellulosomal scaffoldin proteins (CipA variants) and glycoside hydrolases (GHs, Cel8A, Cel9B, Cel48S and Cel9K) as well as synthetic cellulosomal operons that direct the synthesis of Cel8A, Cel9B and a truncated form of CipA. All synthetic genes and operons were integrated into the C. acetobutylicum genome using the recently developed ACE technology. Heterologous protein expression levels and mini-cellulosome self-assembly were assayed by western blot and native PAGE analysis. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrate the successful expression, secretion and self-assembly of cellulosomal subunits by the recombinant C. acetobutylicum strains, providing a platform for the construction of novel cellulosomes.
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- Katalin Kovács
- Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC Sustainable BioEnergy Centre, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC Sustainable BioEnergy Centre, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC Sustainable BioEnergy Centre, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC Sustainable BioEnergy Centre, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
- Current address: Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC Sustainable BioEnergy Centre, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC Sustainable BioEnergy Centre, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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Assessment of the biomass hydrolysis potential in bacterial isolates from a volcanic environment: biosynthesis of the corresponding activities. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2012; 28:2889-902. [DOI: 10.1007/s11274-012-1100-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2012] [Accepted: 06/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Caldicellulosiruptor core and pangenomes reveal determinants for noncellulosomal thermophilic deconstruction of plant biomass. J Bacteriol 2012; 194:4015-28. [PMID: 22636774 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00266-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Extremely thermophilic bacteria of the genus Caldicellulosiruptor utilize carbohydrate components of plant cell walls, including cellulose and hemicellulose, facilitated by a diverse set of glycoside hydrolases (GHs). From a biofuel perspective, this capability is crucial for deconstruction of plant biomass into fermentable sugars. While all species from the genus grow on xylan and acid-pretreated switchgrass, growth on crystalline cellulose is variable. The basis for this variability was examined using microbiological, genomic, and proteomic analyses of eight globally diverse Caldicellulosiruptor species. The open Caldicellulosiruptor pangenome (4,009 open reading frames [ORFs]) encodes 106 GHs, representing 43 GH families, but only 26 GHs from 17 families are included in the core (noncellulosic) genome (1,543 ORFs). Differentiating the strongly cellulolytic Caldicellulosiruptor species from the others is a specific genomic locus that encodes multidomain cellulases from GH families 9 and 48, which are associated with cellulose-binding modules. This locus also encodes a novel adhesin associated with type IV pili, which was identified in the exoproteome bound to crystalline cellulose. Taking into account the core genomes, pangenomes, and individual genomes, the ancestral Caldicellulosiruptor was likely cellulolytic and evolved, in some cases, into species that lost the ability to degrade crystalline cellulose while maintaining the capacity to hydrolyze amorphous cellulose and hemicellulose.
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Hii KL, Yeap SP, Mashitah MD. Cellulase production from palm oil mill effluent in Malaysia: Economical and technical perspectives. Eng Life Sci 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201000228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Jang YS, Lee J, Malaviya A, Seung DY, Cho JH, Lee SY. Butanol production from renewable biomass: rediscovery of metabolic pathways and metabolic engineering. Biotechnol J 2011; 7:186-98. [PMID: 21818859 DOI: 10.1002/biot.201100059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2011] [Revised: 06/21/2011] [Accepted: 07/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Biofuel from renewable biomass is one of the answers to help solve the problems associated with limited fossil resources and climate change. Butanol has superior liquid-fuel characteristics, with similar properties to gasoline, and thus, has the potential to be used as a substitute for gasoline. Clostridia are recognized as a good butanol producers and are employed in the industrial-scale production of solvents. Due to the difficulty of performing genetic manipulations on clostridia, however, strain improvement has been rather slow. Furthermore, complex metabolic characteristics of acidogenesis followed by solventogenesis in this strain have hampered the development of engineered clostridia strains with highly efficient and selective butanol-production capabilities. In recent years, the butanol-producing characteristics in clostridia have been further characterized and alternative pathways discovered. More recently, systems-level metabolic engineering approaches were taken to develop superior strains. Herein, we review recent discoveries of metabolic pathways for butanol production and the metabolic engineering strategies being developed.
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- Yu-Sin Jang
- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 Program), BioProcess Engineering Research Center, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology, Institute for the BioCentury, KAIST, Republic of Korea
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Janssen H, Döring C, Ehrenreich A, Voigt B, Hecker M, Bahl H, Fischer RJ. A proteomic and transcriptional view of acidogenic and solventogenic steady-state cells of Clostridium acetobutylicum in a chemostat culture. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2010; 87:2209-26. [PMID: 20617312 PMCID: PMC3227527 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2741-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2010] [Revised: 06/15/2010] [Accepted: 06/15/2010] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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The complex changes in the life cycle of Clostridium acetobutylicum, a promising biofuel producer, are not well understood. During exponential growth, sugars are fermented to acetate and butyrate, and in the transition phase, the metabolism switches to the production of the solvents acetone and butanol accompanied by the initiation of endospore formation. Using phosphate-limited chemostat cultures at pH 5.7, C. acetobutylicum was kept at a steady state of acidogenic metabolism, whereas at pH 4.5, the cells showed stable solvent production without sporulation. Novel proteome reference maps of cytosolic proteins from both acidogenesis and solventogenesis with a high degree of reproducibility were generated. Yielding a 21% coverage, 15 protein spots were specifically assigned to the acidogenic phase, and 29 protein spots exhibited a significantly higher abundance in the solventogenic phase. Besides well-known metabolic proteins, unexpected proteins were also identified. Among these, the two proteins CAP0036 and CAP0037 of unknown function were found as major striking indicator proteins in acidogenic cells. Proteome data were confirmed by genome-wide DNA microarray analyses of the identical cultures. Thus, a first systematic study of acidogenic and solventogenic chemostat cultures is presented, and similarities as well as differences to previous studies of batch cultures are discussed.
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- Holger Janssen
- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Abteilung Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Abteilung Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München, Am Hochanger 4, 85350 Freising, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Straße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Straße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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la Grange DC, den Haan R, van Zyl WH. Engineering cellulolytic ability into bioprocessing organisms. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2010; 87:1195-208. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2660-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2010] [Revised: 05/02/2010] [Accepted: 05/02/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Metabolic pathways of clostridia for producing butanol. Biotechnol Adv 2009; 27:764-781. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2009.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2008] [Revised: 06/04/2009] [Accepted: 06/05/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Lee SY, Park JH, Jang SH, Nielsen LK, Kim J, Jung KS. Fermentative butanol production by clostridia. Biotechnol Bioeng 2008; 101:209-28. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.22003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 773] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Papoutsakis ET. Engineering solventogenic clostridia. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2008; 19:420-9. [PMID: 18760360 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2008.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2008] [Revised: 07/23/2008] [Accepted: 08/01/2008] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Solventogenic clostridia are strictly anaerobic, endospore forming bacteria that produce a large array of primary metabolites, like butanol, by anaerobically degrading simple and complex carbohydrates, including cellulose and hemicellulose. Two genomes have been sequenced and some genetic tools have been developed, but more are now urgently needed. Genomic tools for designing, and assessing the impact of, genetic modifications are well developed. Early efforts to metabolically engineer these organisms suggest that they are promising organisms for biorefinery applications. Pathway engineering efforts have resulted in interesting strains, but global engineering of their transcriptional machinery has produced better outcomes. Future efforts are expected to undertake the development of complex multigenic phenotypes, such as aerotolerance, solvent tolerance, high-cell density fermentations, abolished sporulation without impacting product formation, and genetic stability for continuous bioprocessing.
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- Eleftherios T Papoutsakis
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE 19711, USA.
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Sullivan L, Paredes CJ, Papoutsakis ET, Bennett GN. Analysis of the clostridial hydrophobic with a conserved tryptophan family (ChW) of proteins in Clostridium acetobutylicum with emphasis on ChW14 and ChW16/17. Enzyme Microb Technol 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2007.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Ezeji TC, Qureshi N, Blaschek HP. Bioproduction of butanol from biomass: from genes to bioreactors. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2007; 18:220-7. [PMID: 17462877 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2007.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 449] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2007] [Revised: 02/20/2007] [Accepted: 04/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Butanol is produced chemically using either the oxo process starting from propylene (with H2 and CO over a rhodium catalyst) or the aldol process starting from acetaldehyde. The key problems associated with the bioproduction of butanol are the cost of substrate and butanol toxicity/inhibition of the fermenting microorganisms, resulting in a low butanol titer in the fermentation broth. Recent interest in the production of biobutanol from biomass has led to the re-examination of acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation, including strategies for reducing or eliminating butanol toxicity to the culture and for manipulating the culture to achieve better product specificity and yield. Advances in integrated fermentation and in situ product removal processes have resulted in a dramatic reduction of process streams, reduced butanol toxicity to the fermenting microorganisms, improved substrate utilization, and overall improved bioreactor performance.
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- Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji
- University of Illinois, Biotechnology & Bioengineering Group, Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition, 1207 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Carbon metabolism in anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria has been investigated essentially in Clostridium thermocellum, Clostridium cellulolyticum, Fibrobacter succinogenes, Ruminococcus flavefaciens, and Ruminococcus albus. While cellulose depolymerization into soluble sugars by various cellulases is undoubtedly the first step in bacterial metabolisation of cellulose, it is not the only one to consider. Among anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria, C. cellulolyticum has been investigated metabolically the most in the past few years. Summarizing metabolic flux analyses in continuous culture using either cellobiose (a soluble cellodextrin resulting from cellulose hydrolysis) or cellulose (an insoluble biopolymer), this review aims to stress the importance of the insoluble nature of a carbon source on bacterial metabolism. Furthermore, some general and specific traits of anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria trends, namely, the importance and benefits of (i) cellodextrins with degree of polymerization higher than 2, (ii) intracellular phosphorolytic cleavage, (iii) glycogen cycling on cell bioenergetics, and (iv) carbon overflows in regulation of carbon metabolism, as well as detrimental effects of (i) soluble sugars and (ii) acidic environment on bacterial growth. Future directions for improving bacterial cellulose degradation are discussed.
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- Mickaël Desvaux
- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Centre de Clermont-Ferrand, UR454 Unité de Microbiologie, Site de Theix, Saint-Genès Champanelle, F-63122 France.
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Zverlov VV, Berezina O, Velikodvorskaya GA, Schwarz WH. Bacterial acetone and butanol production by industrial fermentation in the Soviet Union: use of hydrolyzed agricultural waste for biorefinery. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2006; 71:587-97. [PMID: 16685494 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-006-0445-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2006] [Revised: 03/24/2006] [Accepted: 03/27/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Clostridial acetone-butanol fermentation from renewable carbohydrates used to be the largest biotechnological process second only to yeast ethanol fermentation and the largest process ever run under sterile conditions. With the rising prices for mineral oil, it has now the economical and technological potential to replace petrochemistry for the production of fuels from renewable resources. Various methods for using non-food biomass such as cellulose and hemicellulose in agricultural products and wastes have been developed at laboratory scale. To our knowledge, the AB plants in Russia were the only full-scale industrial plants which used hydrolyzates of lignocellosic waste for butanol fermentation. These plants were further developed into the 1980s, and the process was finally run in a continual mode different from plants in Western countries. A biorefinery concept for the use of all by-products has been elaborated and was partially put into practice. The experience gained in the Soviet Union forms a promising basis for the development of modern large-scale processes to replace a considerable fraction of the current chemical production of fuel for our future needs on a sustainable basis.
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- V V Zverlov
- Institute for Microbiology, Technische Universität München, Am Hochanger 4, 85350 Freising, Germany.
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