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Peng J, Feng F, Zhang G, Zou L. Transcriptome Analysis Reveals the Inhibitory Effect of Cu 2+ on Polyferric Sulfate Floc Reduction by Shewanella putrefaciens CN32. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2024; 196:4862-4873. [PMID: 37979084 DOI: 10.1007/s12010-023-04787-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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Polyferric sulfate (PFS), an economical coagulant widely used for removing heavy metal contaminants from water, is susceptible to reduction and transformation by iron-reducing bacteria prevalent in sediments. However, the effect of heavy metal ions adsorbed in PFS flocs on this biological process remains unclear. According to our results, compared with other heavy metal cations (e.g., Cu2+, Cd2+, Zn2+, Ni2+, Pb2+, and Co2+), Cu2+ had a stronger inhibitory effect on PFS floc reduction by Shewanella putrefaciens CN32, a typical dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium. The presence of Cu2+ remarkably influenced the global transcription of CN32, resulting in 782 upregulated genes and 713 downregulated genes that are mainly annotated in energy production, amino acid metabolism, protein biosynthesis, and oxidation‒reduction processes. The anaerobic TCA cycle for energy (electron) production was significantly activated in the presence of Cu2+, while the transcription of many genes related to the extracellular electron transfer pathway was downregulated, which is responsible for the decreased Fe3+ reduction. Moreover, the pathways of assimilatory sulfate reduction and subsequent cysteine biosynthesis were significantly enriched, which is hypothesized to result in the consumption of abundant energy produced from the enhanced anaerobic TCA cycle, revealing a strategy to address the oxidative stress caused by Cu2+. This work elucidates the unusual suppressive effects of Cu2+ on the microbial reduction of PFS flocs, which reveals the high resistance of PFS flocs to microbial destruction when used to treat Cu2+ pollution in water, thus demonstrating their tremendous practical prospects.
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- Jiaxin Peng
- Nanchang Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources Exploitation & Utilization from Poyang Lake Wetland, College of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China
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- Nanchang Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources Exploitation & Utilization from Poyang Lake Wetland, College of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China
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- Nanchang Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources Exploitation & Utilization from Poyang Lake Wetland, College of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China
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- Nanchang Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources Exploitation & Utilization from Poyang Lake Wetland, College of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China.
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Ikeda S, Tomita K, Nakagawa G, Kouzuma A, Watanabe K. Supplementation with Amino Acid Sources Facilitates Fermentative Growth of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 in Defined Media. Appl Environ Microbiol 2023; 89:e0086823. [PMID: 37367298 PMCID: PMC10370299 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00868-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is a facultative anaerobe that grows by respiration using a variety of electron acceptors. This organism serves as a model to study how bacteria thrive in redox-stratified environments. A glucose-utilizing engineered derivative of MR-1 has been reported to be unable to grow in glucose minimal medium (GMM) in the absence of electron acceptors, despite this strain having a complete set of genes for reconstructing glucose to lactate fermentative pathways. To gain insights into why MR-1 is incapable of fermentative growth, this study examined a hypothesis that this strain is programmed to repress the expression of some carbon metabolic genes in the absence of electron acceptors. Comparative transcriptomic analyses of the MR-1 derivative were conducted in the presence and absence of fumarate as an electron acceptor, and these found that the expression of many genes involved in carbon metabolism required for cell growth, including several tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle genes, was significantly downregulated in the absence of fumarate. This finding suggests a possibility that MR-1 is unable to grow fermentatively on glucose in minimal media owing to the shortage of nutrients essential for cell growth, such as amino acids. This idea was demonstrated in subsequent experiments that showed that the MR-1 derivative fermentatively grows in GMM containing tryptone or a defined mixture of amino acids. We suggest that gene regulatory circuits in MR-1 are tuned to minimize energy consumption under electron acceptor-depleted conditions, and that this results in defective fermentative growth in minimal media. IMPORTANCE It is an enigma why S. oneidensis MR-1 is incapable of fermentative growth despite having complete sets of genes for reconstructing fermentative pathways. Understanding the molecular mechanisms behind this defect will facilitate the development of novel fermentation technologies for the production of value-added chemicals from biomass feedstocks, such as electro-fermentation. The information provided in this study will also improve our understanding of the ecological strategies of bacteria living in redox-stratified environments.
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- Sota Ikeda
- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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Ding DW, Sun X. Relating Translation Efficiency to Protein Networks Provides Evolutionary Insights in Shewanella and Its Implications for Extracellular Electron Transfer. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2022; 19:605-613. [PMID: 32750850 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2020.2996295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Shewanella species are well-known for their extracellular electron transfer (EET) capacity, by which these microorganisms can transfer the electrons from intracellular environment to extracellular space for the reduction of the extracellular insoluble electron acceptors. Using a time-stamped data for the paired protein-mRNA, we investigate the impact of differential translation on the EET process of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. Firstly, differentially translated proteins when O2 levels are switched from high-O2 to low-O2 are identified by using a soft clustering method, 629 up-regulated translated proteins and 767 down-regulated translated proteins are considered to reflect the changes from inactivated to activated EET process. Then, we showed that the degrees of connectivity of differentially translated proteins were significantly larger than those of non-differentially translated proteins, and thereby these differentially translated proteins will be more important in the protein networks. After that, we networked these differentially translated proteins to construct the differentially translated sub-networks, and discussed the most important proteins that are involved in the EET process with the help of centralization analysis of these differentially translated networks. Furthermore, we also studied the differentially translated operonic genes. Taking together, this work searches the key proteins that potentially activated the EET process from a translational efficiency viewpoint.
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Zheng Y, Quan X, Zhuo M, Zhang X, Quan Y. In-situ formation and self-immobilization of biogenic Fe oxides in anaerobic granular sludge for enhanced performance of acidogenesis and methanogenesis. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 787:147400. [PMID: 33989863 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2021] [Revised: 04/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Addition of ferric oxides into flocculent anaerobic sludge was reported to enhance methanogenesis due to accelerated direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) between syntrophic microbial communities. However, it is generally hard to incorporate Fe oxides into already matured anaerobic granular sludge (AGS) due to its special aggregated structure. In this study, a novel method was attempted to fast incorporate Fe oxides into AGS through in-situ microbial formation and immobilization of biogenic Fe oxides. Factors influencing the formation of Fe oxides were investigated and effects of Fe oxides on the acidogenic and methanogenic performance of AGS were assessed. Results showed that AGS could form Fe oxides mainly in the form of magnetite and hematite through biological reduction of Fe(III) oxyhydroxide. A maximum loading amount of 83.9 mg Fe/g MLVSS was obtained at pH 7 after contacting with 60 mM Fe(III) oxyhydroxide. The efficiency of electron donors which supported Fe(III) reduction followed the order of pyruvate > propionate > glucose > acetate > lactate > formate. Addition of electron transfer mediators (ETMs) promoted the formation of Fe oxides and their performance followed the order of AQDS > AQC > humics > FMN > riboflavin. Presence of Fe oxides in AGS (134.6 Fe/g VSS) increased the production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and methane by 16.28% and 41.94% respectively, comparing to the control. The enhancement may be attributed to increased conductivity and stimulated growth of exoelectrogens (Clostridium and Anaerolinea) and methanogenic endoelectrogens Methanosaeta in granular sludge which may strengthen direct interspecies electron transfer between syntrophic microbial communities. Overall, this study provides an alternative strategy to improve the digestion performance of AGS through in-situ formation and immobilization of biogenic Fe oxides.
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- Yu Zheng
- Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- School of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Saito J, Deng X, Okamoto A. Single-Cell Mass Spectroscopic Analysis for Quantifying Active Metabolic Pathway Heterogeneity in a Bacterial Population on an Electrode. Anal Chem 2020; 92:15616-15623. [PMID: 33205944 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Microbial electrochemical catalysis based on respiratory reactions coupled with extracellular electron transport (EET), which is critical for bioenergy applications, strongly depends on the biocompatibility of the electrode material. However, the comparison of materials for such physiological responses has been difficult because of the lack of a quantitative assay for characterizing cellular metabolism at the electrode surface. Here, we developed a single-cell analysis method specific for the cells attached to the electrode to quantify active metabolic pathway heterogeneity as an index of physiological cell/electrode interaction, which generally increases with metabolic robustness in the microbial population. Nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry followed by microbial current production with model EET-capable bacteria, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 and its mutant strains lacking carbon assimilation pathways, showed that different active metabolic pathways resulted in nearly identical 13C/15N assimilation ratios for individual cells in the presence of isotopically labeled nutrients, demonstrating a correlation between the 13C/15N ratio and the active metabolic pathway. Compared to the nonelectrode conditions, the heterogeneity of the assimilated 13C/15N ratio was highly enhanced on the electrode surface, suggesting that the metabolic robustness of the microbial population increased through the electrochemical interaction with the electrode. The present methodology enables us to quantitatively compare and screen electrode materials that increase the robustness of microbial electrocatalysis.
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- Junki Saito
- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.,International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- Land and Water, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, 147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, Western Australia 6014, Australia
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.,Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, North 13 West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan
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Zeibich L, Guhl J, Drake HL. Impact of water content and dietary organic carbon richness on gut bacteria in the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris. FEMS MICROBES 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/femsmc/xtaa002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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ABSTRACTMany higher and lower animal gut ecosystems have complex resident microbial communities. In contrast, ingested soil is the primary source of the gut microbial diversity of earthworms, invertebrates of fundamental importance to the terrestrial biosphere. Earthworms also harbor a few endemic bacteria including Tenericutes-affiliated Candidatus Lumbricincola of unknown function. Gut microbes are subject to nutrient fluctuations due to dilution effects during gut passage, the nutrient richness of the anoxic gut, and dietary organic carbon, factors that could alter their activity/detection. This study's objective was to assess the potential impact of these factors on the occurrence and activity of ingested and endemic bacteria in gut content of Lumbricus terrestris. Fermentation product profiles of anoxic undiluted and diluted gut content treatments were similar, suggesting that experimental increase in water content and nutrient dilution had marginal impact on fermentation. However, 16S ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid (16S rRNA) sequence abundances indicated that stimulated bacterial taxa were not identical in undiluted and diluted treatments, with dominate potentially functionally redundant phylotypes being affiliated to the Firmicutes, Fusobacteria and Proteobacteria. Although the earthworm-associated Tenericutes were not stimulated in these treatments, the occurrence of three Tenericutes-affiliated phylotypes varied with the organic carbon richness of the earthworm diet, with two phylotypes being associated with high organic carbon richness. 16S rRNA sequence abundances indicated that other dominant gut taxa also varied with dietary organic carbon richness. These findings illustrate that functionally redundant ingested bacteria and earthworm-associated Tenericutes might be influenced by nutrient fluctuations in the gut and organic carbon richness of the earthworm diet.
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- Lydia Zeibich
- Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Dr.-Hans-Frisch Strasse 1-3, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Dr.-Hans-Frisch Strasse 1-3, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Dr.-Hans-Frisch Strasse 1-3, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Involvement of Proton Transfer for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Coupled with Extracellular Electron Uptake in
Shewanella oneidensis
MR‐1. ELECTROANAL 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/elan.201900686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Ishiki K, Shiigi H. Kinetics of Intracellular Electron Generation in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. Anal Chem 2019; 91:14401-14406. [PMID: 31631651 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Efficient utilization of bacterial bioresources requires quantitative evaluation of metabolic activity in living bacterial cells. Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 transfers electrons generated within the cell to the extracellular environment via the cytochrome complex in the inner/outer membranes and is one of the most useful bacteria for the recovery of metals, treatment of wastewater, and preparation of microbial fuel cells. Here, we performed a quantitative evaluation of electron generation based on individual enzyme reactions in S. oneidensis MR-1. By using potentiometric measurements, we have examined intracellular electron generation in bacterial suspensions of S. oneidensis supplemented with different carbon sources (formate, lactate, pyruvate, or acetyl coenzyme A) or ferricyanide, which was almost completely reduced to ferrocyanide during the incubation without affecting bacterial cell viability. The amount of electron generation strongly depended on the nature of the carbon source. Analysis of the obtained kinetic parameters of intracellular electron generation demonstrated that formate was the most effective carbon source, as it enabled 2.5-fold faster electron generation rate than other sources. We established that the respective contributions of lactate dehydrogenase, pyruvate dehydrogenase/pyruvate-formate-lyase, and tricarboxylic acid cycle to lactate metabolism were 62%, 31%, and 7.4%, correspondingly. Furthermore, we clarified that electrons may be generated at 1.6 × 10-12 A s-1 by ideal metabolism in a single living cell. These findings establish the basis for biological strategies of electron production and facilitate the utilization of S. oneidensis as a bioresource in practical applications, including energy production, environmental purification, and recovery of useful materials.
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- Kengo Ishiki
- Department of Applied Chemistry , Osaka Prefecture University , 1-2 Gakuen, Naka , Sakai , Osaka 599-8570 , Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry , Osaka Prefecture University , 1-2 Gakuen, Naka , Sakai , Osaka 599-8570 , Japan
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Benaiges-Fernandez R, Palau J, Offeddu FG, Cama J, Urmeneta J, Soler JM, Dold B. Dissimilatory bioreduction of iron(III) oxides by Shewanella loihica under marine sediment conditions. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2019; 151:104782. [PMID: 31514974 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2019.104782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Revised: 08/30/2019] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Shewanella is a genus of marine bacteria capable of dissimilatory iron reduction (DIR). In the context of deep-sea mining activities or submarine mine tailings disposal, dissimilatory iron reducing bacteria may play an important role in biogeochemical reactions concerning iron oxides placed on the sea bed. In this study, batch experiments were performed to evaluate the capacity of Shewanella loihica PV-4 to bioreduce different iron oxides (ferrihydrite, magnetite, goethite and hematite) under conditions similar to those in anaerobic sea sediments. Results showed that bioreduction of structural Fe(III) via oxidation of labile organic matter occurred in all these iron oxides. Based on the aqueous Fe (II) released, derived Fe(II)/acetate ratios and bioreduction coefficients seem to be only up to about 4% of the theoretical ones, considering the ideal stoichiometry of the reaction. A loss of aqueous Fe (II) was caused by adsorption and mineral transformation processes. Scanning electron microscope images showed that Shewanella lohica was attached to the Fe(III)-oxide surfaces during bioreduction. Our findings suggest that DIR of Fe(III) oxides from mine waste placed in marine environments could result in adverse ecological impacts such as liberation of trace metals in the environment.
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- Robert Benaiges-Fernandez
- Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA, CSIC), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA, CSIC), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Applied Geology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA, CSIC), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA, CSIC), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA, CSIC), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden; Sustainable Mining Research & Consultancy EIRL, San Pedro de La Paz, Chile
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Aigle A, Bonin P, Fernandez-Nunez N, Loriod B, Guasco S, Bergon A, Armougom F, Iobbi-Nivol C, Imbert J, Michotey V. The nature of the electron acceptor (MnIV/NO3) triggers the differential expression of genes associated with stress and ammonium limitation responses in Shewanella algae C6G3. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2019; 365:4939474. [PMID: 29566166 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 03/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Shewanella algae C6G3 can dissimilatively reduce nitrate into ammonium and manganese oxide (MnIV) into MnII. It has the unusual ability to anaerobically produce nitrite from ammonium in the presence of MnIV. To gain insight into their metabolic capabilities, global mRNA expression patterns were investigated by RNA-seq and qRT-PCR in cells growing with lactate and ammonium as carbon and nitrogen sources, and with either MnIV or nitrate as electron acceptors. Genes exhibiting higher expression levels in the presence of MnIV belonged to functional categories of carbohydrate, coenzyme, lipid metabolisms and inorganic ion transport. The comparative transcriptomic pattern between MnIV and NO3 revealed that the strain presented an ammonium limitation status with MnIV, despite the presence of a non-limiting concentration of ammonium under both culture conditions. In addition, in the presence of MnIV, ntrB/nrtC regulators, ammonium channel, nitrogen regulatory protein P-II, glutamine synthetase and asparagine synthetase glutamine-dependent genes were over-represented. Under the nitrate condition, the expression of genes involved in the synthesis of several amino acids was increased. Finally, the expression level of genes associated with the general stress response was also amplified in both conditions and among them, katE, a putative catalase/peroxidase present on several Shewanella genomes, was highly expressed with a median value relatively higher in the MnIV condition.
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- Axel Aigle
- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France
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- UMR_S 1090, TGML/TAGC, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille F-13009, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France
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- UMR_S 1090, TGML/TAGC, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille F-13009, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, BIP Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines UMR 7281, 13402, Marseille, France
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- UMR_S 1090, TGML/TAGC, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille F-13009, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France
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A Novel Bioelectronic Reporter System in Living Cells Tested with a Synthetic Biological Comparator. Sci Rep 2019; 9:7275. [PMID: 31086248 PMCID: PMC6513987 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43771-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2018] [Accepted: 05/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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As the fields of biotechnology and synthetic biology expand, cheap and sensitive tools are needed to measure increasingly complicated genetic circuits. In order to bypass some drawbacks of optical fluorescent reporting systems, we have designed and created a co-culture microbial fuel cell (MFC) system for electronic reporting. This system leverages the syntrophic growth of Escheriachia. coli (E. coli) and an electrogenic bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (S. oneidensis). The fermentative products of E. coli provide a carbon and electron source for S. oneidensis MR-1, which then reports on such activity electrically at the anode of the MFC. To further test the capability of electrical reporting of complicated synthetic circuits, a novel synthetic biological comparator was designed and tested with both fluorescent and electrical reporting systems. The results suggest that the electrical reporting system is a good alternative to commonly used optical fluorescent reporter systems since it is a non-toxic reporting system with a much wider dynamic range.
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Pinck S, Jorand FPA, Xu M, Etienne M. Protamine Promotes Direct Electron Transfer Between Shewanella oneidensisCells and Carbon Nanomaterials in Bacterial Biocomposites. ChemElectroChem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.201801751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Stéphane Pinck
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME F-54000 Nancy France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME F-54000 Nancy France
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The Pathogenicity of Shewanella algae and Ability to Tolerate a Wide Range of Temperatures and Salinities. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES & MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 2018; 2018:6976897. [PMID: 30363620 PMCID: PMC6180972 DOI: 10.1155/2018/6976897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2018] [Revised: 07/31/2018] [Accepted: 08/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Shewanella algae is a rod-shaped Gram-negative marine bacterium frequently found in nonhuman sources such as aquatic ecosystems and has been shown to be the pathogenic agent in various clinical cases due to the ingestion of raw seafood. The results of this study showed that S. algae was present in approximately one in four samples, including water and shellfish samples. Positive reactions (API systems) in S. algae strains were seen for gelatinase (gelatin); however, negative reactions were found for indole production (tryptophan). S. algae is adapted to a wide range of temperatures (4°C, 25°C, 37°C, and 42°C) and salinity. Temperature is a key parameter in the pathogenicity of S. algae as it appears to induce hemolysis at 25°C and 37°C. S. algae exhibits pathogenic characteristics at widely varying temperatures, which suggests that it may have the ability to adapt to climate change.
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Using metabolic charge production in the tricarboxylic acid cycle (Q TCA) to evaluate the extracellular-electron-transfer performances of Shewanella spp. Bioelectrochemistry 2018; 124:119-126. [PMID: 30015268 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2018] [Revised: 06/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/03/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Using an electrochemical cell equipped with carbon felt electrodes (poised at +0.63 V vs. SHE), the current production capabilities of two Shewanella strains-NTOU1 and KR-12-were examined under various conditions with lactate as an electron donor. The metabolic charge produced in the tricarboxylic acid cycle (QTCA) was calculated by mass-balance. The data showed a linear relation between the electric coulomb production (QEL) and QTCA with an R2 of 0.65. In addition, a large amount of pyruvate accumulation was observed at pH = 6, rendering QTCA negative. The results indicate an occurrence of an undesired cataplerotic reaction. It was also found that QTCA provides important information showing the oxygen-boosting TCA cycle and anodic-current generation of Shewanella spp. Linear dependence of the change in charge for biomass growth (4.52FΔnCell) on QTCA was also found as expressed by 4.52FΔnCell = 1.0428 QTCA + 0.0442, indicating that these two charge quantities are inherently identical under most of the experimental conditions. In the mediator-spiked experiments, the external addition of the mediators (ferricyanide, anthraquinone-2, 6-disulfonate, and riboflavin) beyond certain concentrations inhibited the activity of the TCA cycle, indicating that the oxidative phosphorylation is deactivated by excessive amounts of mediators, yet Shewanella spp. are constrained with regard to carrying out the substrate-level phosphorylation.
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Oh YK, Hwang KR, Kim C, Kim JR, Lee JS. Recent developments and key barriers to advanced biofuels: A short review. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018. [PMID: 29523378 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.02.089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Biofuels are regarded as one of the most viable options for reduction of CO2 emissions in the transport sector. However, conventional plant-based biofuels (e.g., biodiesel, bioethanol)'s share of total transportation-fuel consumption in 2016 was very low, about 4%, due to several major limitations including shortage of raw materials, low CO2 mitigation effect, blending wall, and poor cost competitiveness. Advanced biofuels such as drop-in, microalgal, and electro biofuels, especially from inedible biomass, are considered to be a promising solution to the problem of how to cope with the growing biofuel demand. In this paper, recent developments in oxy-free hydrocarbon conversion via catalytic deoxygenation reactions, the selection of and lipid-content enhancement of oleaginous microalgae, electrochemical biofuel conversion, and the diversification of valuable products from biomass and intermediates are reviewed. The challenges and prospects for future development of eco-friendly and economically advanced biofuel production processes also are outlined herein.
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- You-Kwan Oh
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Biomass and Waste Energy Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon 34129, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Gwangju Bioenergy R&D Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Gwangju 61003, Republic of Korea.
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Butyrate-based n-butanol production from an engineered Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2018; 41:1195-1204. [PMID: 29737409 DOI: 10.1007/s00449-018-1948-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2018] [Accepted: 04/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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n-Butanol is considered as the next-generation biofuel, because its physiochemical properties are very similar to fossil fuels and it could be produced by Clostridia under anaerobic culture. Due to the difficulties of strict anaerobic culture, a host which can be used with facultative environment was being searched for n-butanol production. As an alternative, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, which is known as facultative bacteria, was selected as a host and studied. A plasmid containing adhE2 encoding alcohol dehydrogenase, various CoA transferases (ctfAB, atoAD, pct, and ACT), and acs encoding acetyl-CoA synthetase were introduced and examined to S. oneidensis MR-1 to produce n-butanol. As a result, ctfAB, acs, and adhE2 overexpression in S. oneidensis-pJM102 showed the highest n-butanol production in the presence of 2% of N-acetylglucosamine (NAG), 0.3% of butyrate, and 0.1 mM of IPTG for 96 h under microaerobic condition. When more NAG and butyrate were fed, n-butanol production was enhanced, producing up to 160 mg/L of n-butanol. When metal ions or extra electrons were added to S. oneidensis-pJM102 for n-butanol production, metal ion as electron acceptor or supply of extra electron showed no significant effect on n-butanol production. Overall, we made a newly engineered S. oneidensis that could utilize NAG and butyrate to produce n-butanol. It could be used in further microaerobic condition and electricity supply studies.
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Li F, Li Y, Sun L, Chen X, An X, Yin C, Cao Y, Wu H, Song H. Modular Engineering Intracellular NADH Regeneration Boosts Extracellular Electron Transfer of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. ACS Synth Biol 2018; 7:885-895. [PMID: 29429342 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Efficient extracellular electron transfer (EET) of exoelectrogens is essentially for practical applications of versatile bioelectrochemical systems. Intracellular electrons flow from NADH to extracellular electron acceptors via EET pathways. However, it was yet established how the manipulation of intracellular NADH impacted the EET efficiency. Strengthening NADH regeneration from NAD+, as a feasible approach for cofactor engineering, has been used in regulating the intracellular NADH pool and the redox state (NADH/NAD+ ratio) of cells. Herein, we first adopted a modular metabolic engineering strategy to engineer and drive the metabolic flux toward the enhancement of intracellular NADH regeneration. We systematically studied 16 genes related to the NAD+-dependent oxidation reactions for strengthening NADH regeneration in the four metabolic modules of S. oneidensis MR-1, i.e., glycolysis, C1 metabolism, pyruvate fermentation, and tricarboxylic acid cycle. Among them, three endogenous genes mostly responsible for increasing NADH regeneration were identified, namely gapA2 encoding a NAD+-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in the glycolysis module, mdh encoding a NAD+-dependent malate dehydrogenase in the TCA cycle, and pflB encoding a pyruvate-formate lyase that converted pyruvate to formate in the pyruvate fermentation module. An exogenous gene fdh* from Candida boidinii encoding a NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase to increase NADH regeneration in the pyruvate fermentation module was further identified. Upon assembling these four genes in S. oneidensis MR-1, ∼4.3-fold increase in NADH/NAD+ ratio, and ∼1.2-fold increase in intracellular NADH pool were obtained under anaerobic conditions without discharge, which elicited ∼3.0-fold increase in the maximum power output in microbial fuel cells, from 26.2 ± 2.8 (wild-type) to 105.8 ± 4.1 mW/m2 (recombinant S. oneidensis), suggesting a boost in the EET efficiency. This modular engineering method in controlling the intracellular reducing equivalents would be a general approach in tuning the EET efficiency of exoelectrogens.
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- Feng Li
- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Petrochemical Research Institute, PetroChina Company Limited, Beijing 102206, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Engineering of China National Light Industry Council, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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Hirose A, Kasai T, Aoki M, Umemura T, Watanabe K, Kouzuma A. Electrochemically active bacteria sense electrode potentials for regulating catabolic pathways. Nat Commun 2018; 9:1083. [PMID: 29540717 PMCID: PMC5852097 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03416-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Electrochemically active bacteria (EAB) receive considerable attention for their utility in bioelectrochemical processes. Although electrode potentials are known to affect the metabolic activity of EAB, it is unclear whether EAB are able to sense and respond to electrode potentials. Here, we show that, in the presence of a high-potential electrode, a model EAB Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 can utilize NADH-dependent catabolic pathways and a background formate-dependent pathway to achieve high growth yield. We also show that an Arc regulatory system is involved in sensing electrode potentials and regulating the expression of catabolic genes, including those for NADH dehydrogenase. We suggest that these findings may facilitate the use of EAB in biotechnological processes and offer the molecular bases for their ecological strategies in natural habitats.
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- Atsumi Hirose
- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0392, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0392, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0392, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0392, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0392, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0392, Japan.
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Jiang H, Ali MA, Xu Z, Halverson LJ, Dong L. Integrated Microfluidic Flow-Through Microbial Fuel Cells. Sci Rep 2017; 7:41208. [PMID: 28120875 PMCID: PMC5264610 DOI: 10.1038/srep41208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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This paper reports on a miniaturized microbial fuel cell with a microfluidic flow-through configuration: a porous anolyte chamber is formed by filling a microfluidic chamber with three-dimensional graphene foam as anode, allowing nutritional medium to flow through the chamber to intimately interact with the colonized microbes on the scaffolds of the anode. No nutritional media flow over the anode. This allows sustaining high levels of nutrient utilization, minimizing consumption of nutritional substrates, and reducing response time of electricity generation owing to fast mass transport through pressure-driven flow and rapid diffusion of nutrients within the anode. The device provides a volume power density of 745 μW/cm3 and a surface power density of 89.4 μW/cm2 using Shewanella oneidensis as a model biocatalyst without any optimization of bacterial culture. The medium consumption and the response time of the flow-through device are reduced by 16.4 times and 4.2 times, respectively, compared to the non-flow-through counterpart with its freeway space volume six times the volume of graphene foam anode. The graphene foam enabled microfluidic flow-through approach will allow efficient microbial conversion of carbon-containing bioconvertible substrates to electricity with smaller space, less medium consumption, and shorter start-up time.
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- Huawei Jiang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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Kim C, Kim MY, Michie I, Jeon BH, Premier GC, Park S, Kim JR. Anodic electro-fermentation of 3-hydroxypropionic acid from glycerol by recombinant Klebsiella pneumoniae L17 in a bioelectrochemical system. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2017; 10:199. [PMID: 28824709 PMCID: PMC5561608 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-017-0886-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2017] [Accepted: 08/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND 3-Hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) is an important platform chemical which can be produced biologically from glycerol. Klebsiella pneumoniae is an ideal biocatalyst for 3-HP because it can grow well on glycerol and naturally synthesize the essential coenzyme B12. On the other hand, if higher yields and titers of 3-HP are to be achieved, the sustained regeneration of NAD+ under anaerobic conditions, where coenzyme B12 is synthesized sustainably, is required. RESULTS In this study, recombinant K. pneumoniae L17 overexpressing aldehyde dehydrogenase (AldH) was developed and cultured in a bioelectrochemical system (BES) with the application of an electrical potential to the anode using a chronoamperometric method (+0.5 V vs. Ag/AgCl). The BES operation resulted in 1.7-fold enhancement of 3-HP production compared to the control without the applied potential. The intracellular NADH/NAD+ ratio was significantly lower when the L17 cells were grown under an electric potential. The interaction between the electrode and overexpressed AldH was enhanced by electron shuttling mediated by HNQ (2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone). CONCLUSIONS Enhanced 3-HP production by the BES was achieved using recombinant K. pneumoniae L17. The quinone-based electron transference between the electrode and L17 was investigated by respiratory uncoupler experiments. This study provides a novel strategy to control the intracellular redox states to enhance the yield and titer of 3-HP production as well as other bioconversion processes.
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- Changman Kim
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735 Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735 Republic of Korea
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- Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC), Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan CF37 1DL UK
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 133-791 Republic of Korea
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- Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC), Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan CF37 1DL UK
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735 Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735 Republic of Korea
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Lian Y, Yang Y, Guo J, Wang Y, Li X, Fang Y, Gan L, Xu M. Electron acceptor redox potential globally regulates transcriptomic profiling in Shewanella decolorationis S12. Sci Rep 2016; 6:31143. [PMID: 27503002 PMCID: PMC4977559 DOI: 10.1038/srep31143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Electron acceptor redox potential (EARP) was presumed to be a determining factor for microbial metabolism in many natural and engineered processes. However, little is known about the potentially global effects of EARP on bacteria. In this study, we compared the physiological and transcriptomic properties of Shewanella decolorationis S12 respiring with different EARPs in microbial electrochemical systems to avoid the effects caused by the other physicochemical properties of real electron acceptor. Results showed that the metabolic activities of strain S12 were nonlinear responses to EARP. The tricarboxylic acid cycle for central carbon metabolism was down-regulated while glyoxylate shunt was up-regulated at 0.8 V compared to 0.2 and -0.2 V, which suggested that EARP is an important but not the only determinant for metabolic pathways of strain S12. Moreover, few cytochrome c genes were differentially expressed at different EARPs. The energy intensive flagella assembly and assimilatory sulfur metabolism pathways were significantly enriched at 0.8 V, which suggested strain S12 had stronger electrokinesis behavior and oxidative stress-response at high EARP. This study provides the first global information of EARP regulations on microbial metabolism, which will be helpful for understanding microorganism respiration.
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- Yingli Lian
- School of Bioscience and Bioengineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Science and Technology Library of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China
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Kim C, Ainala SK, Oh YK, Jeon BH, Park S, Kim JR. Metabolic flux change in Klebsiella pneumoniae L17 by anaerobic respiration in microbial fuel cell. BIOTECHNOL BIOPROC E 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s12257-015-0777-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Luo S, Guo W, Nealson KH, Feng X, He Z. ¹³C Pathway Analysis for the Role of Formate in Electricity Generation by Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 Using Lactate in Microbial Fuel Cells. Sci Rep 2016; 6:20941. [PMID: 26868848 PMCID: PMC4751489 DOI: 10.1038/srep20941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2015] [Accepted: 01/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a promising technology for direct electricity generation from organics by microorganisms. The type of electron donors fed into MFCs affects the electrical performance, and mechanistic understanding of such effects is important to optimize the MFC performance. In this study, we used a model organism in MFCs, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, and (13)C pathway analysis to investigate the role of formate in electricity generation and the related microbial metabolism. Our results indicated a synergistic effect of formate and lactate on electricity generation, and extra formate addition on the original lactate resulted in more electrical output than using formate or lactate as a sole electron donor. Based on the (13)C tracer analysis, we discovered decoupled cell growth and electricity generation in S. oneidensis MR-1 during co-utilization of lactate and formate (i.e., while the lactate was mainly metabolized to support the cell growth, the formate was oxidized to release electrons for higher electricity generation). To our best knowledge, this is the first time that (13)C tracer analysis was applied to study microbial metabolism in MFCs and it was demonstrated to be a valuable tool to understand the metabolic pathways affected by electron donors in the selected electrochemically-active microorganisms.
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- Shuai Luo
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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He L, Wang Y, You L, Khin Y, Tang JKH, Tang YJ. Glycine Cleavage Powers Photoheterotrophic Growth of Chloroflexus aurantiacus in the Absence of H 2. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:1467. [PMID: 26732979 PMCID: PMC4686737 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2015] [Accepted: 12/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Chloroflexus aurantiacus is an anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium. Its unique CO2 fixation pathway and primitive light-harvesting antenna complexes have attracted extensive research attentions. In this work, we investigated the photoheterotrophic growth of C. aurantiacus J-10-fl using acetate [at 55°C and without H2(g)]. The results indicate that glycine can promote anaerobic biomass production in a minimal medium by threefold to fivefold. Via 13C-metabolite analysis, we observed that glycine was involved in serine synthesis. Instead of being used as a major carbon source, glycine was degraded to produce C1 units and NAD(P)H. Tracer experiments also suggest that photoheterotrophic cultures growing with a exogenous glycine source exhibited capabilities of assimilating CO2 via multiple routes (including the 3-hydroxypropionate pathway). Finally, glycylglycine, a commonly used culture buffer, also significantly enhanced photoheterotrophic growth of C. aurantiacus, probably due to its thermal or enzymatic breakdown to glycine.
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- Lian He
- Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Clark University Worcester, MA, USA
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- Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Clark University Worcester, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Clark UniversityWorcester, MA, USA; The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State UniversityTempe, AZ, USA
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- Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University St. Louis, MO, USA
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Two pathways for glutamate biosynthesis in the syntrophic bacterium Syntrophus aciditrophicus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:8434-44. [PMID: 26431966 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02323-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2015] [Accepted: 09/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The anaerobic metabolism of crotonate, benzoate, and cyclohexane carboxylate by Syntrophus aciditrophicus grown syntrophically with Methanospirillum hungatei provides a model to study syntrophic cooperation. Recent studies revealed that S. aciditrophicus contains Re-citrate synthase but lacks the common Si-citrate synthase. To establish whether the Re-citrate synthase is involved in glutamate synthesis via the oxidative branch of the Krebs cycle, we have used [1-(13)C]acetate and [1-(14)C]acetate as well as [(13)C]bicarbonate as additional carbon sources during axenic growth of S. aciditrophicus on crotonate. Our analyses showed that labeled carbons were detected in at least 14 amino acids, indicating the global utilization of acetate and bicarbonate. The labeling patterns of alanine and aspartate verified that pyruvate and oxaloacetate were synthesized by consecutive carboxylations of acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA). The isotopomer profile and (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of the obtained [(13)C]glutamate, as well as decarboxylation of [(14)C]glutamate, revealed that this amino acid was synthesized by two pathways. Unexpectedly, only the minor route used Re-citrate synthase (30 to 40%), whereas the majority of glutamate was synthesized via the reductive carboxylation of succinate. This symmetrical intermediate could have been formed from two acetates via hydration of crotonyl-CoA to 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA. 4-Hydroxybutyrate was detected in the medium of S. aciditrophicus when grown on crotonate, but an active hydratase could not be measured in cell extracts, and the annotated 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydratase (SYN_02445) lacks key amino acids needed to catalyze the hydration of crotonyl-CoA. Besides Clostridium kluyveri, this study reveals the second example of a microbial species to employ two pathways for glutamate synthesis.
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Metabolic Characteristics of a Glucose-Utilizing Shewanella oneidensis Strain Grown under Electrode-Respiring Conditions. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0138813. [PMID: 26394222 PMCID: PMC4579138 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 09/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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In bioelectrochemical systems, the electrode potential is an important parameter affecting the electron flow between electrodes and microbes and microbial metabolic activities. Here, we investigated the metabolic characteristics of a glucose-utilizing strain of engineered Shewanella oneidensis under electrode-respiring conditions in electrochemical reactors for gaining insight into how metabolic pathways in electrochemically active bacteria are affected by the electrode potential. When an electrochemical reactor was operated with its working electrode poised at +0.4 V (vs. an Ag/AgCl reference electrode), the engineered S. oneidensis strain, carrying a plasmid encoding a sugar permease and glucose kinase of Escherichia coli, generated current by oxidizing glucose to acetate and produced D-lactate as an intermediate metabolite. However, D-lactate accumulation was not observed when the engineered strain was grown with a working electrode poised at 0 V. We also found that transcription of genes involved in pyruvate and D-lactate metabolisms was upregulated at a high electrode potential compared with their transcription at a low electrode potential. These results suggest that the carbon catabolic pathway of S. oneidensis can be modified by controlling the potential of a working electrode in an electrochemical bioreactor.
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Kouzuma A, Kasai T, Hirose A, Watanabe K. Catabolic and regulatory systems in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 involved in electricity generation in microbial fuel cells. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:609. [PMID: 26136738 PMCID: PMC4468914 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Accepted: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is a facultative anaerobe that respires using a variety of inorganic and organic compounds. MR-1 is also capable of utilizing extracellular solid materials, including anodes in microbial fuel cells (MFCs), as electron acceptors, thereby enabling electricity generation. As MFCs have the potential to generate electricity from biomass waste and wastewater, MR-1 has been extensively studied to identify the molecular systems that are involved in electricity generation in MFCs. These studies have demonstrated the importance of extracellular electron-transfer (EET) pathways that electrically connect the quinone pool in the cytoplasmic membrane to extracellular electron acceptors. Electricity generation is also dependent on intracellular catabolic pathways that oxidize electron donors, such as lactate, and regulatory systems that control the expression of genes encoding the components of catabolic and electron-transfer pathways. In addition, recent findings suggest that cell-surface polymers, e.g., exopolysaccharides, and secreted chemicals, which function as electron shuttles, are also involved in electricity generation. Despite these advances in our knowledge on the EET processes in MR-1, further efforts are necessary to fully understand the underlying intra- and extracellular molecular systems for electricity generation in MFCs. We suggest that investigating how MR-1 coordinates these systems to efficiently transfer electrons to electrodes and conserve electrochemical energy for cell proliferation is important for establishing the biological basis for MFCs.
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- Atsushi Kouzuma
- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences , Hachioji, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences , Hachioji, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences , Hachioji, Japan
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- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences , Hachioji, Japan
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Grobbler C, Virdis B, Nouwens A, Harnisch F, Rabaey K, Bond PL. Use of SWATH mass spectrometry for quantitative proteomic investigation of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 biofilms grown on graphite cloth electrodes. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:135-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2014.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2014] [Revised: 11/17/2014] [Accepted: 11/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Guo W, Luo S, He Z, Feng X. 13C pathway analysis of biofilm metabolism of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra05573c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Biofilm metabolism ofShewanellawas analyzedvia13C tracing experiments for the first time.
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- Weihua Guo
- Department of Biological Systems Engineering
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Blacksburg
- USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Blacksburg
- USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Blacksburg
- USA
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Blacksburg
- USA
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Subramanian V, Dubini A, Astling DP, Laurens LML, Old WM, Grossman AR, Posewitz MC, Seibert M. Profiling Chlamydomonas metabolism under dark, anoxic H2-producing conditions using a combined proteomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic approach. J Proteome Res 2014; 13:5431-51. [PMID: 25333711 DOI: 10.1021/pr500342j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is well adapted to survive under different environmental conditions due to the unique flexibility of its metabolism. Here we report metabolic pathways that are active during acclimation to anoxia, but were previously not thoroughly studied under dark, anoxic H2-producing conditions in this model green alga. Proteomic analyses, using 2D-differential in-gel electrophoresis in combination with shotgun mass fingerprinting, revealed increased levels of proteins involved in the glycolytic pathway downstream of 3-phosphoglycerate, the glyoxylate pathway, and steps of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) reactions. Upregulation of the enzyme, isocitrate lyase (ICL), was observed, which was accompanied by increased intracellular succinate levels, suggesting the functioning of glyoxylate pathway reactions. The ICL-inhibitor study revealed presence of reverse TCA reactions under these conditions. Contributions of the serine-isocitrate lyase pathway, glycine cleavage system, and c1-THF/serine hydroxymethyltransferase pathway in the acclimation to dark anoxia were found. We also observed increased levels of amino acids (AAs) suggesting nitrogen reorganization in the form of de novo AA biosynthesis during anoxia. Overall, novel routes for reductant utilization, in combination with redistribution of carbon and nitrogen, are used by this alga during acclimation to O2 deprivation in the dark.
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Zomorrodi AR, Islam MM, Maranas CD. d-OptCom: Dynamic multi-level and multi-objective metabolic modeling of microbial communities. ACS Synth Biol 2014; 3:247-57. [PMID: 24742179 DOI: 10.1021/sb4001307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Most microbial communities change with time in response to changes and/or perturbations in environmental conditions. Temporal variations in interspecies metabolic interactions within these communities can significantly affect their structure and function. Here, we introduce d-OptCom, an extension of the OptCom procedure, for the dynamic metabolic modeling of microbial communities. It enables capturing the temporal dynamics of biomass concentration of the community members and extracellular concentration of the shared metabolites, while integrating species- and community-level fitness functions. The applicability of d-OptCom was demonstrated by modeling the dynamic co-growth of auxotrophic mutant pairs of E. coli and by computationally assessing the dynamics and composition of a uranium-reducing community comprised of Geobacter sulfurreducens, Rhodoferax ferrireducens, and Shewanella oneidensis. d-OptCom was also employed to examine the impact of lactate vs acetate addition on the relative abundance of uranium-reducing species. These studies highlight the importance of simultaneously accounting for both species- and community-level fitness functions when modeling microbial communities, and demonstrate that the incorporation of uptake kinetic information can substantially improve the prediction of interspecies flux trafficking. Overall, this study paves the way for the dynamic multi-level and multi-objective analysis of microbial ecosystems.
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- Ali R. Zomorrodi
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Heath BS, Marshall MJ, Laskin J. The characterization of living bacterial colonies using nanospray desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1151:199-208. [PMID: 24838888 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0554-6_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Nanospray desorption electrospray ionization (nano-DESI) coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry (MS) and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) enable detailed molecular characterization of living bacterial colonies directly from nutrient agar. The ability to detect molecular signatures of living microbial communities is important for investigating metabolic exchange between species without affecting the viability of the colonies. We describe the protocol for bacterial growth, sample preparation, ambient profiling, and data analysis of microbial communities using nano-DESI MS.
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- Brandi S Heath
- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 999, MSIN K8-88, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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Matsuda S, Liu H, Kouzuma A, Watanabe K, Hashimoto K, Nakanishi S. Electrochemical gating of tricarboxylic acid cycle in electricity-producing bacterial cells of Shewanella. PLoS One 2013; 8:e72901. [PMID: 23977370 PMCID: PMC3748093 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2013] [Accepted: 07/16/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Energy-conversion systems mediated by bacterial metabolism have recently attracted much attention, and therefore, demands for tuning of bacterial metabolism are increasing. It is widely recognized that intracellular redox atmosphere which is generally tuned by dissolved oxygen concentration or by appropriate selection of an electron acceptor for respiration is one of the important factors determining the bacterial metabolism. In general, electrochemical approaches are valuable for regulation of redox-active objects. However, the intracellular redox conditions are extremely difficult to control electrochemically because of the presence of insulative phospholipid bilayer membranes. In the present work, the limitation can be overcome by use of the bacterial genus Shewanella, which consists of species that are able to respire via cytochromes abundantly expressed in their outer-membrane with solid-state electron acceptors, including anodes. The electrochemical characterization and the gene expression analysis revealed that the activity of tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle in Shewanella cells can be reversibly gated simply by changing the anode potential. Importantly, our present results for Shewanella cells cultured in an electrochemical system under poised potential conditions showed the opposite relationship between the current and electron acceptor energy level, and indicate that this unique behavior originates from deactivation of the TCA cycle in the (over-)oxidative region. Our result obtained in this study is the first demonstration of the electrochemical gating of TCA cycle of living cells. And we believe that our findings will contribute to a deeper understanding of redox-dependent regulation systems in living cells, in which the intracellular redox atmosphere is a critical factor determining the regulation of various metabolic and genetic processes.
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- Shoichi Matsuda
- Department of Applied Chemistry, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology/Japan Science and Technology Agency, HASHIMOTO Light Energy Conversion Project, Tokyo, Japan
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- Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology/Japan Science and Technology Agency, HASHIMOTO Light Energy Conversion Project, Tokyo, Japan
- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology/Japan Science and Technology Agency, HASHIMOTO Light Energy Conversion Project, Tokyo, Japan
- School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology/Japan Science and Technology Agency, HASHIMOTO Light Energy Conversion Project, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology/Japan Science and Technology Agency, HASHIMOTO Light Energy Conversion Project, Tokyo, Japan
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Tong W, Chen Z, Cao Z, Wang Q, Zhang J, Bai X, Wang R, Liu S. Robustness analysis of a constraint-based metabolic model links cell growth and proteomics of Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis under temperature perturbation. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2013; 9:713-22. [PMID: 23396507 DOI: 10.1039/c3mb25278g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The integration of omic data with metabolic networks has been demonstrated to be an effective approach to elucidate the underlying metabolic mechanisms in life. Because the metabolic pathways of Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis (T. tengcongensis) are incomplete, we used a 1-(13)C-glucose culture to monitor intracellular isotope-labeled metabolites by GC/MS and identified the gap gene in glucose catabolism, Re-citrate synthase. Based on genome annotation and biochemical information, we reconstructed the metabolic network of glucose metabolism and amino acid synthesis in T. tengcongensis, including 253 reactions, 227 metabolites, and 236 genes. Furthermore, we performed constraint based modeling (CBM)-derived robustness analysis on the model to study the dynamic changes of the metabolic network. By perturbing the culture temperature from 75 to 55 °C, we collected the bacterial growth rates and differential proteomes. Assuming that protein abundance changes represent metabolic flux variations, we proposed that the robustness analysis of the CBM model could decipher the effect of proteome change on the bacterial growth under perturbation. For approximately 73% of the reactions, the predicted cell growth changes due to such reaction flux variations matched the observed cell growth data. Our study, therefore, indicates that differential proteome data can be integrated with metabolic network modeling and that robustness analysis is a strong method for representing the dynamic change in cell phenotypes under perturbation.
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- Wei Tong
- Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101300, China
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Mordkovich NN, Voeikova TA, Novikova LM, Smirnov IA, Il’in VK, Soldatov PE, Tyurin-Kuz’min AY, Smolenskaya TS, Veiko VP, Shakulov RS, Debabov VG. Effect of NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase on anaerobic respiration of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. Microbiology (Reading) 2013. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026261713040061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Shewanella spp. Use acetate as an electron donor for denitrification but not ferric iron or fumarate reduction. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:2818-22. [PMID: 23396327 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03872-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Lactate but not acetate oxidation was reported to support electron acceptor reduction by Shewanella spp. under anoxic conditions. We demonstrate that the denitrifiers Shewanella loihica strain PV-4 and Shewanella denitrificans OS217 utilize acetate as an electron donor for denitrification but not for fumarate or ferric iron reduction.
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Brutinel ED, Gralnick JA. Anomalies of the anaerobic tricarboxylic acid cycle inShewanella oneidensisrevealed by Tn-seq. Mol Microbiol 2012; 86:273-83. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08196.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Evan D. Brutinel
- BioTechnology Institute and Department of Microbiology; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; St Paul; MN; 55108; USA
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- BioTechnology Institute and Department of Microbiology; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; St Paul; MN; 55108; USA
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Cao B, Majors PD, Ahmed B, Renslow RS, Silvia CP, Shi L, Kjelleberg S, Fredrickson JK, Beyenal H. Biofilm shows spatially stratified metabolic responses to contaminant exposure. Environ Microbiol 2012; 14:2901-10. [PMID: 22925136 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02850.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2012] [Revised: 07/16/2012] [Accepted: 07/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Biofilms are core to a range of biological processes, including the bioremediation of environmental contaminants. Within a biofilm population, cells with diverse genotypes and phenotypes coexist, suggesting that distinct metabolic pathways may be expressed based on the local environmental conditions in a biofilm. However, metabolic responses to local environmental conditions in a metabolically active biofilm interacting with environmental contaminants have never been quantitatively elucidated. In this study, we monitored the spatiotemporal metabolic responses of metabolically active Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 biofilms to U(VI) (uranyl, UO(2)(2+)) and Cr(VI) (chromate, CrO(4) (2-)) using non-invasive nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) approaches to obtain insights into adaptation in biofilms during biofilm-contaminant interactions. While overall biomass distribution was not significantly altered upon exposure to U(VI) or Cr(VI), MRI and spatial mapping of the diffusion revealed localized changes in the water diffusion coefficients in the biofilms, suggesting significant contaminant-induced changes in structural or hydrodynamic properties during bioremediation. Finally, we quantitatively demonstrated that the metabolic responses of biofilms to contaminant exposure are spatially stratified, implying that adaptation in biofilms is custom-developed based on local microenvironments.
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- Bin Cao
- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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Voeikova TA, Emel’yanova LK, Novikova LM, Mordkovich NN, Shakulov RS, Debabov VG. Mutants of an electrogenic bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 with increased reducing activity. Microbiology (Reading) 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026261712030162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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You L, Page L, Feng X, Berla B, Pakrasi HB, Tang YJ. Metabolic pathway confirmation and discovery through (13)C-labeling of proteinogenic amino acids. J Vis Exp 2012:e3583. [PMID: 22314852 PMCID: PMC3462576 DOI: 10.3791/3583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Microbes have complex metabolic pathways that can be investigated using biochemistry and functional genomics methods. One important technique to examine cell central metabolism and discover new enzymes is (13)C-assisted metabolism analysis 1. This technique is based on isotopic labeling, whereby microbes are fed with a (13)C labeled substrates. By tracing the atom transition paths between metabolites in the biochemical network, we can determine functional pathways and discover new enzymes. As a complementary method to transcriptomics and proteomics, approaches for isotopomer-assisted analysis of metabolic pathways contain three major steps (2). First, we grow cells with (13)C labeled substrates. In this step, the composition of the medium and the selection of labeled substrates are two key factors. To avoid measurement noises from non-labeled carbon in nutrient supplements, a minimal medium with a sole carbon source is required. Further, the choice of a labeled substrate is based on how effectively it will elucidate the pathway being analyzed. Because novel enzymes often involve different reaction stereochemistry or intermediate products, in general, singly labeled carbon substrates are more informative for detection of novel pathways than uniformly labeled ones for detection of novel pathways(3, 4). Second, we analyze amino acid labeling patterns using GC-MS. Amino acids are abundant in protein and thus can be obtained from biomass hydrolysis. Amino acids can be derivatized by N-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-N-methyltrifluoroacetamide (TBDMS) before GC separation. TBDMS derivatized amino acids can be fragmented by MS and result in different arrays of fragments. Based on the mass to charge (m/z) ratio of fragmented and unfragmented amino acids, we can deduce the possible labeled patterns of the central metabolites that are precursors of the amino acids. Third, we trace 13C carbon transitions in the proposed pathways and, based on the isotopomer data, confirm whether these pathways are active (2). Measurement of amino acids provides isotopic labeling information about eight crucial precursor metabolites in the central metabolism. These metabolic key nodes can reflect the functions of associated central pathways. (13)C-assisted metabolism analysis via proteinogenic amino acids can be widely used for functional characterization of poorly-characterized microbial metabolism(1). In this protocol, we will use Cyanothece 51142 as the model strain to demonstrate the use of labeled carbon substrates for discovering new enzymatic functions.
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- Le You
- Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University, USA
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Feng X, Zhuang WQ, Colletti P, Tang YJ. Metabolic pathway determination and flux analysis in nonmodel microorganisms through 13C-isotope labeling. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 881:309-30. [PMID: 22639218 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-827-6_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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C-isotope labeling is a commonly used technique for determining and quantifying pathways in microorganisms under various growth conditions. The experimental protocol consists of feeding the cell with a composition-defined substrate and measuring isotopic labeling patterns in the synthesized metabolites (often the amino acids). Not only can the labeling information be cross-referenced with genomic information to identify the novel pathways, but it can also be used to decipher absolute carbon fluxes through the metabolic network of interest. This technique can be widely used for functional characterization of nonmodel microbial species, and thus we provide a (13)C-pathway and flux analysis protocol. The five key procedures are: (1) growing cells using labeled substrates, (2) measuring extracellular metabolite and biomass component, (3) analyzing isotopic labeling patterns in amino acids and central metabolites using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, (4) tracing (13)C carbon transitions in metabolites and discovering new pathways, and (5) estimating flux distributions based on isotopomer constraints. This protocol provides complementary information to the recently published protocol for (13)C-based metabolic flux analysis of the model species Escherichia coli (Nat Protoc 4:878-892, 2009).
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- Xueyang Feng
- Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Hsu L, Masuda SA, Nealson KH, Pirbazari M. Evaluation of microbial fuel cell Shewanella biocathodes for treatment of chromate contamination. RSC Adv 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2ra20478a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Kumar BS, Chung BC, Kwon OS, Jung BH. Discovery of common urinary biomarkers for hepatotoxicity induced by carbon tetrachloride, acetaminophen and methotrexate by mass spectrometry-based metabolomics. J Appl Toxicol 2011; 32:505-20. [PMID: 22131085 DOI: 10.1002/jat.1746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2011] [Revised: 08/25/2011] [Accepted: 08/26/2011] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Liver toxicity represents an important healthcare issue because it causes significant morbidity and mortality and can be difficult to predict before symptoms appear owing to drug therapy or exposure to toxicants. Using metabolomic techniques, we discovered common biomarkers for the prediction of hepatotoxicity in rat urine using mass spectrometry. For this purpose, liver toxicity was induced by 5 days of oral administration of carbon tetrachloride (1 ml kg(-1) per day), acetaminophen (1000 mg kg(-1) per day) and methotrexate (50 mg kg(-1) per day). Serum levels of alkaline phosphatase aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase and histopathology in liver tissue were then checked to demonstrate liver toxicity. Global metabolic profiling with UPLC-TOF-MS (ultraperformance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry), multivariate analysis (partial least square-discriminant analysis, hierarchical analysis) and database searching were performed to discover common biomarkers for liver toxicity induced by these three compounds. Urinary concentrations of the newly discovered biomarkers were then quantified to confirm them as biomarkers of hepatotoxicity with targeted metabolic profiling using GC (gas chromatography)-MS and CE (capillary electrophoresis)-MS. In the results, steroids, amino acids and bile acids were metabolically changed between the control and drug-treated groups in global metabolic profiling; 11β-hydroxyandrosterone, epiandrosterone, estrone, 11-dehydrocorticosterone, glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, dl-ornithine, 3-methylhistidine, cholic acid and lithocholic acid were selected as liver toxicity biomarkers after performing targeted metabolic profiling. In conclusion, we discovered metabolite biomarkers belonging to three different metabolic pathways to check for liver toxicity with mass spectrometry from a metabolomics study that could be used to evaluate hepatotoxicity induced by drugs or other toxic compounds.
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- Bhowmik Salil Kumar
- Biomolecular Functional Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Cheongryang, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Binnenkade L, Lassak J, Thormann KM. Analysis of the BarA/UvrY two-component system in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. PLoS One 2011; 6:e23440. [PMID: 21931597 PMCID: PMC3171408 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2011] [Accepted: 07/18/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The BarA/UvrY two-component system is well conserved in species of the γ-proteobacteria and regulates numerous processes predominantly by controlling the expression of a subset of noncoding small RNAs. In this study, we identified and characterized the BarA/UvrY two-component system in the gammaproteobacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. Functional interaction of sensor kinase BarA and the cognate response regulator UvrY was indicated by in vitro phosphotransfer studies. The expression of two predicted small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs), CsrB1 and CsrB2, was dependent on UvrY. Transcriptomic analysis by microarrays revealed that UvrY is a global regulator and directly or indirectly affects transcript levels of more than 200 genes in S. oneidensis. Among these are genes encoding key enzymes of central carbon metabolism such as ackA, aceAB, and pflAB. As predicted of a signal transduction pathway that controls aspects of central metabolism, mutants lacking UvrY reach a significantly higher OD than the wild type during aerobic growth on N-acetylglucosamine (NAG) while under anaerobic conditions the mutant grew more slowly. A shorter lag phase occurred with lactate as carbon source. In contrast, significant growth phenotypes were absent in complex medium. Based on these studies we hypothesize that, in S. oneidensis MR-1, the global BarA/UvrY/Csr regulatory pathway is involved in central carbon metabolism processes.
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- Lucas Binnenkade
- Department of Ecophysiology, Max-Planck-Institut für Terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Ecophysiology, Max-Planck-Institut für Terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Ecophysiology, Max-Planck-Institut für Terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg, Germany
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Shibanuma T, Nakamura R, Hirakawa Y, Hashimoto K, Ishii K. Observation of In Vivo Cytochrome-Based Electron-Transport Dynamics Using Time-Resolved Evanescent Wave Electroabsorption Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201101810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Shibanuma T, Nakamura R, Hirakawa Y, Hashimoto K, Ishii K. Observation of in vivo cytochrome-based electron-transport dynamics using time-resolved evanescent wave electroabsorption spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2011; 50:9137-40. [PMID: 21812075 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201101810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2011] [Revised: 05/02/2011] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Toshihiko Shibanuma
- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Qian F, He Z, Thelen MP, Li Y. A microfluidic microbial fuel cell fabricated by soft lithography. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2011; 102:5836-5840. [PMID: 21421307 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.02.095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2010] [Revised: 02/22/2011] [Accepted: 02/23/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Here we report a new microfluidic microbial fuel cell (MFC) platform built by soft-lithography techniques. The MFC design includes a unique sub-5 μL polydimethylsiloxane soft chamber featuring carbon cloth electrodes and microfluidic delivery of electrolytes. Bioelectricity was generated using Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 cultivated on either complex organic substrates or lactate-based minimal medium. These micro-MFCs exhibited fast start-ups, reproducible current generation, and enhanced power densities up to 62.5 W m(-3) that represents the best result for sub-100 μL MFCs. Systematic comparisons of custom-made MFC reactors having different chamber sizes indicate volumetric power density is inversely correlated with chamber size in our systems: i.e., the smaller the chamber, the higher the power density is achieved.
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- Fang Qian
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
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Kan J, Hsu L, Cheung ACM, Pirbazari M, Nealson KH. Current production by bacterial communities in microbial fuel cells enriched from wastewater sludge with different electron donors. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2011; 45:1139-1146. [PMID: 21171663 DOI: 10.1021/es102645v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Electricity production by bacterial communities enriched from wastewater sludge with lactate, succinate, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (NAG), acetate, formate, and uridine were monitored in dual-chamber microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Stable electricity production was observed after 300 h for communities enriched from lactate, acetate, and formate, while communities enriched with succinate, NAG, and uridine stabilized only after 700 h. The average peak current densities and maximum power densities generated from bacterial consortia were significantly higher than those generated from pure cultures of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. Microbial assemblages were analyzed by DGGE, and planktonic and anode-attached bacterial communities varied as a function of electron donors: Firmicutes, β-Proteobacteria, and Bacteroidetes dominated the planktonic bacterial communities while anode-attached communities consisted mainly of δ-Proteobacteria, β-Proteobacteria, and Firmicutes. Similar bacterial populations were enriched in MFCs fed with lactate, NAG, and uridine and with succinate, acetate, and formate. Cross-feeding experiments with different fuels indicated that enriched microbial consortia were able to utilize a variety of fuel sources and displayed considerable stability, efficiency, and robustness of power generation in comparison to pure cultures. In addition, characterizations of cultivated Shewanella strains suggested that DGGE analysis likely missed active members of exoelectrogenic populations.
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- Jinjun Kan
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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Mori S, Ishii K, Hirakawa Y, Nakamura R, Hashimoto K. In Vivo Participation of Artificial Porphyrins in Electron-Transport Chains: Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Analyses of Microbial Metabolism. Inorg Chem 2011; 50:2037-9. [DOI: 10.1021/ic100342k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Shigeki Mori
- HASHIMOTO Light Energy Conversion Project, ERATO/JST, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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- HASHIMOTO Light Energy Conversion Project, ERATO/JST, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- HASHIMOTO Light Energy Conversion Project, ERATO/JST, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Wu B, Shao H, Wang Z, Hu Y, Tang YJ, Jun YS. Viability and metal reduction of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 under CO2 stress: implications for ecological effects of CO2 leakage from geologic CO2 sequestration. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2010; 44:9213-9218. [PMID: 21058700 DOI: 10.1021/es102299j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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To study potential ecological impacts of CO(2) leakage to shallow groundwater and soil/sediments from geologic CO(2) sequestration (GCS) sites, this work investigated the viability and metal reduction of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 under CO(2) stress. While MR-1 could grow under high-pressure nitrogen gas (500 psi), the mix of 1% CO(2) with N(2) at total pressures of 15 or 150 psi significantly suppressed the growth of MR-1, compared to the N(2) control. When CO(2) partial pressures were over 15 psi, the growth of MR-1 stopped. The reduced bacterial viability was consistent with the pH decrease and cellular membrane damage under high pressure CO(2). After exposure to 150 psi CO(2) for 5 h, no viable cells survived, the cellular contents were released, and microscopy images confirmed significant cell structure deformation. However, after a relatively short exposure (25 min) to 150 psi CO(2), MR-1 could fully recover their growth within 24 h after the stress was removed, and the reduction of MnO(2) by MR-1 was observed right after the stress was removed. Furthermore, MR-1 survived better if the cells were aggregated rather than suspended, or if pH buffering minerals, such as calcite, were present. To predict the cell viability under different CO(2) pressures and exposure times, a two-parameter mathematical model was developed.
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- Bing Wu
- Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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