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Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 Utilizes an NADP +-Dependent Acetaldehyde Dehydrogenase To Produce Acetate. J Bacteriol 2022; 204:e0056321. [PMID: 35258321 PMCID: PMC9017298 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00563-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Zymomonas mobilis is a promising bacterial host for biofuel production, but further improvement has been hindered because some aspects of its metabolism remain poorly understood. For example, one of the main by-products generated by Z. mobilis is acetate, but the pathway for acetate production is unknown. Acetaldehyde oxidation has been proposed as the major source of acetate, and an acetaldehyde dehydrogenase was previously isolated from Z. mobilis via activity guided fractionation, but the corresponding gene has never been identified. We determined that the locus ZMO1754 (also known as ZMO_RS07890) encodes an NADP+-dependent acetaldehyde dehydrogenase that is responsible for acetate production by Z. mobilis. Deletion of this gene from the chromosome resulted in a growth defect in oxic conditions, suggesting that acetaldehyde detoxification is an important role of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase. The deletion strain also exhibited a near complete abolition of acetate production, both in typical laboratory conditions and during lignocellulosic hydrolysate fermentation. Our results show that ZMO1754 encodes the major acetate-forming acetaldehyde dehydrogenase in Z. mobilis, and we therefore rename the gene aldB based on functional similarity to the Escherichia coli acetaldehyde dehydrogenase. IMPORTANCE Biofuel production from nonfood crops is an important strategy for reducing carbon emissions from the transportation industry, but it has not yet become commercially viable. An important avenue to improve biofuel production is to enhance the characteristics of fermentation organisms by decreasing by-product formation via genetic engineering. Here, we identified and deleted a metabolic pathway and associated gene that lead to acetate formation in Zymomonas mobilis. Acetate is one of the major by-products generated during ethanol production by Z. mobilis, so this information may be used in the future to develop better strains for commercial biofuel production.
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Kaewchana A, Techaparin A, Boonchot N, Thanonkeo P, Klanrit P. Improved high-temperature ethanol production from sweet sorghum juice using Zymomonas mobilis overexpressing groESL genes. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 105:9419-9431. [PMID: 34787692 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-021-11686-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Zymomonas mobilis may encounter various types of stress during ethanol fermentation, which reduces ethanol production efficiency. This situation may be mitigated by molecular chaperones, including the chaperonin GroESL, which confers enhanced protection against various stresses. In this study, we successfully developed a Z. mobilis strain R301 that harbors groESL genes and can be used for high-temperature ethanol production from sweet sorghum juice. Sequence analyses of GroES and GroEL from Z. mobilis TISTR548 demonstrated conserved residues at specific positions within GroES and conserved glycine-glycine-methionine (GGM) repeats at the C-terminus of GroEL. The Z. mobilis wild-type and R301 strains were then evaluated for their tolerance to stresses, including high temperatures, high sugar concentrations, and high ethanol concentrations up to 40°C, 300 g/L, and 13% (v/v), respectively. Z. mobilis R301 exhibited better growth performance than the wild-type strain under all stress conditions. This is the first report on ethanol production at 40°C by recombinant Z. mobilis using sweet sorghum juice; this strain produced an ethanol concentration of 41.66 g/L, with a productivity of 0.87 g/L/h and a theoretical ethanol yield of 88.9%. Overexpression of groESL resulted in increased ethanol production, with values approximately 11% higher than those of the wild type at 40°C. Additionally, at 37°C, Z. mobilis R301 gave a higher theoretical ethanol yield (92.6%) than that shown in previous research. This work illustrates the potential for future enhancement of industrial-scale ethanol production at high temperatures utilizing Z. mobilis R301 in the bioconversion of sweet sorghum juice, a promising energy crop. KEY POINTS: • The groESL-overexpressing Z. mobilis strain was successfully constructed. • The recombinant Z. mobilis exhibited higher stress tolerance than the wild-type strain. • Overexpression of groESL genes improved ethanol production efficiency at high temperatures.
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- Anchittha Kaewchana
- Graduate School, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand.,Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Technology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Technology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Technology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Technology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand.,Fermentation Research Center for Value Added Agricultural Products (FerVAAP), Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Technology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand. .,Fermentation Research Center for Value Added Agricultural Products (FerVAAP), Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand.
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Fuchino K, Wasser D, Soppa J. Genome Copy Number Quantification Revealed That the Ethanologenic Alpha-Proteobacterium Zymomonas mobilis Is Polyploid. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:705895. [PMID: 34408736 PMCID: PMC8365228 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.705895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The alpha-proteobacterium Zymomonas mobilis is a promising biofuel producer, based on its native metabolism that efficiently converts sugars to ethanol. Therefore, it has a high potential for industrial-scale biofuel production. Two previous studies suggested that Z. mobilis strain Zm4 might not be monoploid. However, a systematic analysis of the genome copy number is still missing, in spite of the high potential importance of Z. mobilis. To get a deep insight into the ploidy level of Z. mobilis and its regulation, the genome copy numbers of three strains were quantified. The analyses revealed that, during anaerobic growth, the lab strain Zm6, the Zm6 type strain obtained from DSMZ (German Collection of Microorganisms), and the lab strain Zm4, have copy numbers of 18.9, 22.3 and 16.2, respectively, of an origin-adjacent region. The copy numbers of a terminus-adjacent region were somewhat lower with 9.3, 15.8, and 12.9, respectively. The values were similar throughout the growth curves, and they were only slightly downregulated in late stationary phase. During aerobic growth, the copy numbers of the lab strain Zm6 were much higher with around 40 origin-adjacent copies and 17 terminus-adjacent copies. However, the cells were larger during aerobic growth, and the copy numbers per μm3 cell volume were rather similar. Taken together, this first systematic analysis revealed that Z. mobilis is polyploid under regular laboratory growth conditions. The copy number is constant during growth, in contrast to many other polyploid bacteria. This knowledge should be considered in further engineering of the strain for industrial applications.
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- Katsuya Fuchino
- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.,Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
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Felczak MM, Bowers RM, Woyke T, TerAvest MA. Zymomonas diversity and potential for biofuel production. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2021; 14:112. [PMID: 33933155 PMCID: PMC8088579 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-021-01958-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Zymomonas mobilis is an aerotolerant α-proteobacterium, which has been genetically engineered for industrial purposes for decades. However, a comprehensive comparison of existing strains on the genomic level in conjunction with phenotype analysis has yet to be carried out. We here performed whole-genome comparison of 17 strains including nine that were sequenced in this study. We then compared 15 available Zymomonas strains for their natural abilities to perform under conditions relevant to biofuel synthesis. We tested their growth in anaerobic rich media, as well as growth, ethanol production and xylose utilization in lignocellulosic hydrolysate. We additionally compared their tolerance to isobutanol, flocculation characteristics, and ability to uptake foreign DNA by electroporation and conjugation. RESULTS Using clustering based on 99% average nucleotide identity (ANI), we classified 12 strains into four clusters based on sequence similarity, while five strains did not cluster with any other strain. Strains belonging to the same 99% ANI cluster showed similar performance while significant variation was observed between the clusters. Overall, conjugation and electroporation efficiencies were poor across all strains, which was consistent with our finding of coding potential for several DNA defense mechanisms, such as CRISPR and restriction-modification systems, across all genomes. We found that strain ATCC31821 (ZM4) had a more diverse plasmid profile than other strains, possibly leading to the unique phenotypes observed for this strain. ZM4 also showed the highest growth of any strain in both laboratory media and lignocellulosic hydrolysate and was among the top 3 strains for isobutanol tolerance and electroporation and conjugation efficiency. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that strain ZM4 has a unique combination of genetic and phenotypic traits that are beneficial for biofuel production and propose investing future efforts in further engineering of ZM4 for industrial purposes rather than exploring new Zymomonas isolates.
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- Magdalena M Felczak
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
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The Ethanologenic Bacterium Zymomonas mobilis Divides Asymmetrically and Exhibits Heterogeneity in DNA Content. Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:AEM.02441-20. [PMID: 33452021 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02441-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The alphaproteobacterium Zymomonas mobilis exhibits extreme ethanologenic physiology, making this species a promising biofuel producer. Numerous studies have investigated its biology relevant to industrial applications and mostly at the population level. However, the organization of single cells in this industrially important polyploid species has been largely uncharacterized. In the present study, we characterized basic cellular behavior of Z. mobilis strain Zm6 under anaerobic conditions at the single-cell level. We observed that growing Z. mobilis cells often divided at a nonmidcell position, which contributed to variant cell size at birth. However, the cell size variance was regulated by a modulation of cell cycle span, mediated by a correlation of bacterial tubulin homologue FtsZ ring accumulation with cell growth. The Z. mobilis culture also exhibited heterogeneous cellular DNA content among individual cells, which might have been caused by asynchronous replication of chromosome that was not coordinated with cell growth. Furthermore, slightly angled divisions might have resulted in temporary curvatures of attached Z. mobilis cells. Overall, the present study uncovers a novel bacterial cell organization in Z. mobilis IMPORTANCE With increasing environmental concerns about the use of fossil fuels, development of a sustainable biofuel production platform has been attracting significant public attention. Ethanologenic Z. mobilis species are endowed with an efficient ethanol fermentation capacity that surpasses, in several respects, that of baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), the most-used microorganism for ethanol production. For development of a Z. mobilis culture-based biorefinery, an investigation of its uncharacterized cell biology is important, because bacterial cellular organization and metabolism are closely associated with each other in a single cell compartment. In addition, the current work demonstrates that the polyploid bacterium Z. mobilis exhibits a distinctive mode of bacterial cell organization, likely reflecting its unique metabolism that does not prioritize incorporation of nutrients for cell growth. Thus, another significant result of this work is to advance our general understanding in the diversity of bacterial cell architecture.
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Chacón-Vargas K, Torres J, Giles-Gómez M, Escalante A, Gibbons JG. Genomic profiling of bacterial and fungal communities and their predictive functionality during pulque fermentation by whole-genome shotgun sequencing. Sci Rep 2020; 10:15115. [PMID: 32934253 PMCID: PMC7493934 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-71864-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Pulque is a culturally important 4,000-year-old traditional Mexican fermented drink. Pulque is produced by adding fresh aguamiel (agave sap) to mature pulque, resulting in a mixture of microbial communities and chemical compositions. We performed shotgun metagenomic sequencing of five stages of pulque fermentation to characterize organismal and functional diversity. We identified 6 genera (Acinetobacter, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Leuconostoc, Saccharomyces and Zymomonas) and 10 species (Acinetobacter boissieri, Acinetobacter nectaris, Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis, Lactococcus lactis, Lactococcus piscium, Lactococcus plantarum, Leuconostoc citreum, Leuconostoc gelidum, Zymomonas mobilis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae) that were present ≥ 1% in at least one stage of pulque fermentation. The abundance of genera and species changed during fermentation and was associated with a decrease in sucrose and increases in ethanol and lactic acid, suggesting that resource competition shapes organismal diversity. We also predicted functional profiles, based on organismal gene content, for each fermentation stage and identified an abundance of genes associated with the biosynthesis of folate, an essential B-vitamin. Additionally, we investigated the evolutionary relationships of S. cerevisiae and Z. mobilis, two of the major microbial species found in pulque. For S. cerevisiae, we used a metagenomics assembly approach to identify S. cerevisiae scaffolds from pulque, and performed phylogenetic analysis of these sequences along with a collection of 158 S. cerevisiae strains. This analysis suggests that S. cerevisiae from pulque is most closely related to Asian strains isolated from sake and bioethanol. Lastly, we isolated and sequenced the whole-genomes of three strains of Z. mobilis from pulque and compared their relationship to seven previously sequenced isolates. Our results suggest pulque strains may represent a distinct lineage of Z. mobilis.
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- Katherine Chacón-Vargas
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
- Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.
- Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.
- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.
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Fuchino K, Bruheim P. An assessment of serial co-cultivation approach for generating novel Zymomonas mobilis strains. BMC Res Notes 2020; 13:422. [PMID: 32894180 PMCID: PMC7487726 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-020-05261-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Objective The alphaproteobacterium Zymomonas mobilis is an efficient ethanol producer, and Z. mobilis-based biorefinery shows great potential for biofuel production. Serial co-cultivation is an emerging approach that promotes inter-species interactions which can improve or rewire the metabolic features in industrially useful microorganisms by inducing frequent mutations. We applied this method to assess if it improves or rewires the desirable physiological features of Z. mobilis, especially ethanol production. Results We performed serial co-culture of Z. mobilis with the baker’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We observed filamentation of Z. mobilis cells in the co-culture, indicating that the Z. mobilis cells were exposed to stress due to the presence of a competitor. After 50 times of serial transfers, we characterized the generated Z. mobilis strains, showing that long term co-culture did not drive significant changes in either the growth or profile of excreted metabolites in the generated strains. In line with this, whole genome sequencing of the generated Z. mobilis strains revealed only minor genetic variations from the parental strain. 50 generations of Z. mobilis monoculture did not induce morphological changes or any significant genetic variations. The result indicates that the method needs to be carefully optimized for Z. mobilis strain improvement.
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- Katsuya Fuchino
- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Fuchino K, Bruheim P. Increased salt tolerance in Zymomonas mobilis strain generated by adaptative evolution. Microb Cell Fact 2020; 19:147. [PMID: 32690090 PMCID: PMC7372843 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-020-01406-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Ethanologenic alphaproteobacterium Zymomonas mobilis has been acknowledged as a promising biofuel producer. There have been numerous efforts to engineer this species applicable for an industrial-scale bioethanol production. Although Z. mobilis is robustly resilient to certain abiotic stress such as ethanol, the species is known to be sensitive to saline stress at a mild concentration, which hampers its industrial use as an efficient biocatalyst. To overcome this issue, we implemented a laboratory adaptive evolution approach to obtain salt tolerant Z. mobilis strain. RESULTS During an adaptive evolution, we biased selection by cell morphology to exclude stressed cells. The evolved strains significantly improved growth and ethanol production in the medium supplemented with 0.225 M NaCl. Furthermore, comparative metabolomics revealed that the evolved strains did not accumulate prototypical osmolytes, such as proline, to counter the stress during their growth. The sequenced genomes of the studied strains suggest that the disruption of ZZ6_1149 encoding carboxyl-terminal protease was likely responsible for the improved phenotype. CONCLUSIONS The present work successfully generated strains able to grow and ferment glucose under the saline condition that severely perturbs parental strain physiology. Our approach to generate strains, cell shape-based diagnosis and selection, might be applicable to other kinds of strain engineering in Z. mobilis.
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- Katsuya Fuchino
- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Zymomonas mobilis metabolism: Novel tools and targets for its rational engineering. Adv Microb Physiol 2020; 77:37-88. [PMID: 34756211 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2020.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Zymomonas mobilis is an α-proteobacterium that interests the biofuel industry due to its perfect ethanol fermentation yields. From its first description as a bacterial isolate in fermented alcoholic beverages to date, Z. mobilis has been rigorously studied in directions basic and applied. The Z. mobilis powerful Entner-Doudoroff glycolytic pathway has been the center of rigorous biochemical studies and, aside from ethanol, it has attracted interest in terms of high-added-value chemical manufacturing. Energetic balances and the effects of respiration have been explored in fundamental directions as also in applications pursuing strain enhancement and the utilization of alternative carbon sources. Metabolic modeling has addressed the optimization of the biochemical circuitry at various conditions of growth and/or substrate utilization; it has been also critical in predicting desirable end-product yields via flux redirection. Lastly, stress tolerance has received particular attention, since it directly determines biocatalytical performance at challenging bioreactor conditions. At a genetic level, advances in the genetic engineering of the organism have brought forth beneficial manipulations in the Z. mobilis gene pool, e.g., knock-outs, knock-ins and gene stacking, aiming to broaden the metabolic repertoire and increase robustness. Recent omic and expressional studies shed light on the genomic content of the most applied strains and reveal landscapes of activity manifested at ambient or reactor-based conditions. Studies such as those reviewed in this work, contribute to the understanding of the biology of Z. mobilis, enable insightful strain development, and pave the way for the transformation of Z. mobilis into a consummate organism for biomass conversion.
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Genome comparison of different Zymomonas mobilis strains provides insights on conservation of the evolution. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0195994. [PMID: 29694430 PMCID: PMC5919020 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Accepted: 04/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Zymomonas mobilis has the special Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway and it has excellent industrial characteristics, including low cell mass formation, high-specific productivity,ethanol yield, notable ethanol tolerance and wide pH range, a relatively small genome size. In this study, the genome sequences of NRRL B-14023 and NRRL B-12526 were sequenced and compared with other strains to explore their evolutionary relationships and the genetic basis of Z. mobilis. The comparative genomic analyses revealed that the 8 strains share a conserved core chromosomal backbone. ZM4, NRRL B-12526, NRRL B-14023, NCIMB 11163 and NRRL B-1960 share 98% sequence identity across the whole genome sequences. Highly similar plasmids and CRISPR repeats were detected in these strains. A whole-genome phylogenetic tree of the 8 strains indicated that NRRL B-12526, NRRL B-14023 and ATCC 10988 had a close evolutionary relationship with the strain ZM4. Furthermore, strains ATCC29191 and ATCC29192 had distinctive CRISPR with a far distant relationship. The size of the pan-genome was 1945 genes, including 1428 core genes and 517 accessory genes. The genomes of Z. mobilis were highly conserved; particularly strains ZM4, NRRL B-12526, NRRL B-14023, NCIMB 11163 and NRRL B-1960 had a close genomic relationship. This comparative study of Z. mobilis presents a foundation for future functional analyses and applications.
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Wang X, He Q, Yang Y, Wang J, Haning K, Hu Y, Wu B, He M, Zhang Y, Bao J, Contreras LM, Yang S. Advances and prospects in metabolic engineering of Zymomonas mobilis. Metab Eng 2018; 50:57-73. [PMID: 29627506 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2018.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2018] [Revised: 03/31/2018] [Accepted: 04/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Biorefinery of biomass-based biofuels and biochemicals by microorganisms is a competitive alternative of traditional petroleum refineries. Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen with many desirable characteristics, which makes it an ideal industrial microbial biocatalyst for commercial production of desirable bioproducts through metabolic engineering. In this review, we summarize the metabolic engineering progress achieved in Z. mobilis to expand its substrate and product ranges as well as to enhance its robustness against stressful conditions such as inhibitory compounds within the lignocellulosic hydrolysates and slurries. We also discuss a few metabolic engineering strategies that can be applied in Z. mobilis to further develop it as a robust workhorse for economic lignocellulosic bioproducts. In addition, we briefly review the progress of metabolic engineering in Z. mobilis related to the classical synthetic biology cycle of "Design-Build-Test-Learn", as well as the progress and potential to develop Z. mobilis as a model chassis for biorefinery practices in the synthetic biology era.
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- Xia Wang
- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.
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- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, South Renmin Road, Chengdu 610041, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, South Renmin Road, Chengdu 610041, China.
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.
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Yang S, Vera JM, Grass J, Savvakis G, Moskvin OV, Yang Y, McIlwain SJ, Lyu Y, Zinonos I, Hebert AS, Coon JJ, Bates DM, Sato TK, Brown SD, Himmel ME, Zhang M, Landick R, Pappas KM, Zhang Y. Complete genome sequence and the expression pattern of plasmids of the model ethanologen Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 and its xylose-utilizing derivatives 8b and 2032. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2018; 11:125. [PMID: 29743953 PMCID: PMC5930841 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-018-1116-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 04/11/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen being developed and deployed as an industrial biofuel producer. To date, eight Z. mobilis strains have been completely sequenced and found to contain 2-8 native plasmids. However, systematic verification of predicted Z. mobilis plasmid genes and their contribution to cell fitness has not been hitherto addressed. Moreover, the precise number and identities of plasmids in Z. mobilis model strain ZM4 have been unclear. The lack of functional information about plasmid genes in ZM4 impedes ongoing studies for this model biofuel-producing strain. RESULTS In this study, we determined the complete chromosome and plasmid sequences of ZM4 and its engineered xylose-utilizing derivatives 2032 and 8b. Compared to previously published and revised ZM4 chromosome sequences, the ZM4 chromosome sequence reported here contains 65 nucleotide sequence variations as well as a 2400-bp insertion. Four plasmids were identified in all three strains, with 150 plasmid genes predicted in strain ZM4 and 2032, and 153 plasmid genes predicted in strain 8b due to the insertion of heterologous DNA for expanded substrate utilization. Plasmid genes were then annotated using Blast2GO, InterProScan, and systems biology data analyses, and most genes were found to have apparent orthologs in other organisms or identifiable conserved domains. To verify plasmid gene prediction, RNA-Seq was used to map transcripts and also compare relative gene expression under various growth conditions, including anaerobic and aerobic conditions, or growth in different concentrations of biomass hydrolysates. Overall, plasmid genes were more responsive to varying hydrolysate concentrations than to oxygen availability. Additionally, our results indicated that although all plasmids were present in low copy number (about 1-2 per cell), the copy number of some plasmids varied under specific growth conditions or due to heterologous gene insertion. CONCLUSIONS The complete genome of ZM4 and two xylose-utilizing derivatives is reported in this study, with an emphasis on identifying and characterizing plasmid genes. Plasmid gene annotation, validation, expression levels at growth conditions of interest, and contribution to host fitness are reported for the first time.
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- Shihui Yang
- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062 China
- DOE-National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- Department of Genetics & Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Panepistimiopolis, 15701 Athens, Greece
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062 China
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
- Present Address: China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002 Hubei China
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- Department of Genetics & Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Panepistimiopolis, 15701 Athens, Greece
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- DOE-BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
- DOE-Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
- Present Address: LanzaTech, Inc., Skokie, IL 60077 USA
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- DOE-Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- DOE-National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- Department of Genetics & Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Panepistimiopolis, 15701 Athens, Greece
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- DOE-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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RecET recombination system driving chromosomal target gene replacement in Zymomonas mobilis. ELECTRON J BIOTECHN 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejbt.2017.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Zymomonas mobilis subsp. mobilis is an efficient ethanol producer with application for industrial production of biofuel. To supplement existing Z. mobilis genomic resources and to facilitate genomic research, we used Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing to assemble the complete genome of the beer spoilage isolate Z. mobilis subsp. mobilis strain NRRL B-1960.
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Gliessman JR, Kremer TA, Sangani AA, Jones-Burrage SE, McKinlay JB. Pantothenate auxotrophy in Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 is due to a lack of aspartate decarboxylase activity. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2017; 364:3888818. [DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2017] [Accepted: 06/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Panda SK, Ray RC, Mishra SS, Kayitesi E. Microbial processing of fruit and vegetable wastes into potential biocommodities: a review. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2017; 38:1-16. [PMID: 28462596 DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2017.1311295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The review focuses on some of the high value-end biocommodities, such as fermented beverages, single-cell proteins, single-cell oils, biocolors, flavors, fragrances, polysaccharides, biopesticides, plant growth regulators, bioethanol, biogas and biohydrogen, developed from the microbial processing of fruit and vegetable wastes. Microbial detoxification of fruit and vegetable processing effluents is briefly described. The advances in genetic engineering of microorganisms for enhanced yield of the above-mentioned biocommodities are elucidated with selected examples. The bottleneck in commercialization, integrated approach for improved production, techno-economical feasibility and real-life uses of some of these biocommodities, as well as research gaps and future directions are discussed.
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- Sandeep K Panda
- a Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Faculty of Science , University of Johannesburg , Johannesburg , South Africa
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- b Microbiology Research Laboratory, ICAR- Regional Centre of Central Tuber Crops Research Institute , Bhubaneswar , India
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- c Department of Biodiversity and Conservation of Natural Resources , Central University of Orissa , Koraput , India
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- a Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Faculty of Science , University of Johannesburg , Johannesburg , South Africa
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Charoensuk K, Sakurada T, Tokiyama A, Murata M, Kosaka T, Thanonkeo P, Yamada M. Thermotolerant genes essential for survival at a critical high temperature in thermotolerant ethanologenic Zymomonas mobilis TISTR 548. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2017; 10:204. [PMID: 28855965 PMCID: PMC5571576 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-017-0891-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2017] [Accepted: 08/18/2017] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND High-temperature fermentation (HTF) technology is expected to reduce the cost of bioconversion of biomass to fuels or chemicals. For stable HTF, the development of a thermotolerant microbe is indispensable. Elucidation of the molecular mechanism of thermotolerance would enable the thermal stability of microbes to be improved. RESULTS Thermotolerant genes that are essential for survival at a critical high temperature (CHT) were identified via transposon mutagenesis in ethanologenic, thermotolerant Zymomonas mobilis TISTR 548. Surprisingly, no genes for general heat shock proteins except for degP were included. Cells with transposon insertion in these genes showed a defect in growth at around 39 °C but grew normally at 30 °C. Of those, more than 60% were found to be sensitive to ethanol at 30 °C, indicating that the mechanism of thermotolerance partially overlaps with that of ethanol tolerance in the organism. Products of these genes were classified into nine categories of metabolism, membrane stabilization, transporter, DNA repair, tRNA modification, protein quality control, translation control, cell division, and transcriptional regulation. CONCLUSIONS The thermotolerant genes of Escherichia coli and Acetobacter tropicalis that had been identified can be functionally classified into 9 categories according to the classification of those of Z. mobilis, and the ratio of thermotolerant genes to total genomic genes in Z. mobilis is nearly the same as that in E. coli, though the ratio in A. tropicalis is relatively low. There are 7 conserved thermotolerant genes that are shared by these three or two microbes. These findings suggest that Z. mobilis possesses molecular mechanisms for its survival at a CHT that are similar to those in E. coli and A. tropicalis. The mechanisms may mainly contribute to membrane stabilization, protection and repair of damage of macromolecules and maintenance of cellular metabolism at a CHT. Notably, the contribution of heat shock proteins to such survival seems to be very low.
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- Kannikar Charoensuk
- Division of Product Development and Management Technology, Faculty of Agro-Industrial Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok, Chanthaburi Campus, Chanthaburi, 22100 Thailand
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- Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Ube, 755-8505 Japan
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, 1677-1 Yoshida, Yamaguchi, 753-8515 Japan
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- Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Ube, 755-8505 Japan
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- Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Ube, 755-8505 Japan
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, 1677-1 Yoshida, Yamaguchi, 753-8515 Japan
- Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, 753-8315 Japan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Technology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002 Thailand
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- Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Ube, 755-8505 Japan
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, 1677-1 Yoshida, Yamaguchi, 753-8515 Japan
- Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, 753-8315 Japan
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Yang S, Fei Q, Zhang Y, Contreras LM, Utturkar SM, Brown SD, Himmel ME, Zhang M. Zymomonas mobilis as a model system for production of biofuels and biochemicals. Microb Biotechnol 2016; 9:699-717. [PMID: 27629544 PMCID: PMC5072187 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2016] [Revised: 08/03/2016] [Accepted: 08/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen with many desirable industrial biocatalyst characteristics. In this review, we will discuss work to develop Z. mobilis as a model system for biofuel production from the perspectives of substrate utilization, development for industrial robustness, potential product spectrum, strain evaluation and fermentation strategies. This review also encompasses perspectives related to classical genetic tools and emerging technologies in this context.
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- Shihui Yang
- National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 80401, USA. .,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China.
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- National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 80401, USA.,School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Wisconsin Energy Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53726, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37919, USA
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- Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37919, USA.,BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.,Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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- National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 80401, USA.
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Rutkis R, Strazdina I, Balodite E, Lasa Z, Galinina N, Kalnenieks U. The Low Energy-Coupling Respiration in Zymomonas mobilis Accelerates Flux in the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0153866. [PMID: 27100889 PMCID: PMC4839697 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2015] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Performing oxidative phosphorylation is the primary role of respiratory chain both in bacteria and eukaryotes. Yet, the branched respiratory chains of prokaryotes contain alternative, low energy-coupling electron pathways, which serve for functions other than oxidative ATP generation (like those of respiratory protection, adaptation to low-oxygen media, redox balancing, etc.), some of which are still poorly understood. We here demonstrate that withdrawal of reducing equivalents by the energetically uncoupled respiratory chain of the bacterium Zymomonas mobilis accelerates its fermentative catabolism, increasing the glucose consumption rate. This is in contrast to what has been observed in other respiring bacteria and yeast. This effect takes place after air is introduced to glucose-consuming anaerobic cell suspension, and can be simulated using a kinetic model of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway in combination with a simple net reaction of NADH oxidation that does not involve oxidative phosphorylation. Although aeration hampers batch growth of respiring Z. mobilis culture due to accumulation of toxic byproducts, nevertheless under non-growing conditions respiration is shown to confer an adaptive advantage for the wild type over the non-respiring Ndh knock-out mutant. If cells get occasional access to limited amount of glucose for short periods of time, the elevated glucose uptake rate selectively improves survival of the respiring Z. mobilis phenotype.
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- Reinis Rutkis
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Jelgavas Street 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Jelgavas Street 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Jelgavas Street 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Jelgavas Street 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Jelgavas Street 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Jelgavas Street 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia
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Dong G, He M, Feng H. Functional Characterization of CRISPR-Cas System in the Ethanologenic Bacterium <i>Zymomonas mobilis</i> ZM4. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.4236/aim.2016.63018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Matsushita K, Azuma Y, Kosaka T, Yakushi T, Hoshida H, Akada R, Yamada M. Genomic analyses of thermotolerant microorganisms used for high-temperature fermentations. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2015; 80:655-68. [PMID: 26566045 DOI: 10.1080/09168451.2015.1104235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Environmental adaptation is considered as one of the most challenging subjects in biology to understand evolutionary or ecological diversification processes and in biotechnology to obtain useful microbial strains. Temperature is one of the important environmental stresses; however, microbial adaptation to higher temperatures has not been studied extensively. For industrial purposes, the use of thermally adapted strains is important, not only to reduce the cooling expenses of the fermentation system, but also to protect fermentation production from accidental failure of thermal management. Recent progress in next-generation sequencing provides a powerful tool to track the genomic changes of the adapted strains and allows us to compare genomic DNA sequences of conventional strains with those of their closely related thermotolerant strains. In this article, we have attempted to summarize our recent approaches to produce thermotolerant strains by thermal adaptation and comparative genomic analyses of Acetobacter pasteurianus for high-temperature acetic acid fermentations, and Zymomonas mobilis and Kluyveromyces marxianus for high-temperature ethanol fermentations. Genomic analysis of the adapted strains has found a large number of mutations and/or disruptions in highly diversified genes, which could be categorized into groups related to cell surface functions, ion or amino acid transporters, and some transcriptional factors. Furthermore, several phenotypic and genetic analyses revealed that the thermal adaptation could lead to decreased ROS generation in cells that produce higher ROS levels at higher temperatures. Thus, it is suggested that the thermally adapted cells could become robust and resistant to many stressors, and thus could be useful for high-temperature fermentations.
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- Kazunobu Matsushita
- a Faculty of Agriculture , Yamaguchi University , Yamaguchi , Japan.,d Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources , Yamaguchi University , Yamaguchi , Japan
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- b Biology-oriented Science and Technology , Kinki University , Kinokawa , Japan
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- a Faculty of Agriculture , Yamaguchi University , Yamaguchi , Japan.,d Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources , Yamaguchi University , Yamaguchi , Japan
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- a Faculty of Agriculture , Yamaguchi University , Yamaguchi , Japan.,d Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources , Yamaguchi University , Yamaguchi , Japan
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- c Department of Applied Molecular Bioscience, Graduate School of Medicine , Yamaguchi University , Ube , Japan.,d Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources , Yamaguchi University , Yamaguchi , Japan
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- c Department of Applied Molecular Bioscience, Graduate School of Medicine , Yamaguchi University , Ube , Japan.,d Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources , Yamaguchi University , Yamaguchi , Japan
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- a Faculty of Agriculture , Yamaguchi University , Yamaguchi , Japan.,d Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources , Yamaguchi University , Yamaguchi , Japan
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Hayashi T, Kato T, Watakabe S, Song W, Aikawa S, Furukawa K. The respiratory chain provides salt stress tolerance by maintaining a low NADH/NAD+ ratio in Zymomonas mobilis. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2015; 161:2384-94. [PMID: 26432557 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The respiratory chain of ethanol-producing Zymomonas mobilis shows an unusual physiological property in that it is not involved in energy conservation, even though this organism has a complete electron transport system. We reported previously that respiratory-deficient mutants (RDMs) of Z. mobilis exhibit higher growth rates and enhanced ethanol productivity under aerobic and high-temperature conditions. Here, we demonstrated that the salt tolerance of RDM strains was drastically decreased compared with the wild-type strain. We found that the NADH/NAD+ ratio was maintained at low levels in both the wild-type and the RDM strains under non-stress conditions. However, the ratio substantially increased in the RDM strains in response to salt stress. Complementation of the deficient respiratory-chain genes in the RDM strains resulted in a decrease in the NADH/NAD+ ratio and an increase in the growth rate. In contrast, expression of malate dehydrogenase, activity of which increases the supply of NADH, in the RDM strains led to an increased NADH/NAD+ ratio and resulted in poor growth. Taken together, these results suggest that the respiratory chain of Z. mobilis functions to maintain a low NADH/NAD+ ratio when the cells are exposed to environmental stresses, such as salinity.
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- Takeshi Hayashi
- 1Department of Food and Fermentation Science, Faculty of Food and Nutrition, Beppu University, Beppu, Oita 874-8501, Japan 2Food Science and Nutrition, Graduate School of Food Science and Nutrition, Beppu University, Beppu, Oita 874-8501, Japan
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- 2Food Science and Nutrition, Graduate School of Food Science and Nutrition, Beppu University, Beppu, Oita 874-8501, Japan
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- 1Department of Food and Fermentation Science, Faculty of Food and Nutrition, Beppu University, Beppu, Oita 874-8501, Japan
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- 1Department of Food and Fermentation Science, Faculty of Food and Nutrition, Beppu University, Beppu, Oita 874-8501, Japan
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- 1Department of Food and Fermentation Science, Faculty of Food and Nutrition, Beppu University, Beppu, Oita 874-8501, Japan
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- 1Department of Food and Fermentation Science, Faculty of Food and Nutrition, Beppu University, Beppu, Oita 874-8501, Japan
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Balodite E, Strazdina I, Galinina N, McLean S, Rutkis R, Poole RK, Kalnenieks U. Structure of the Zymomonas mobilis respiratory chain: oxygen affinity of electron transport and the role of cytochrome c peroxidase. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2014; 160:2045-2052. [PMID: 24980645 PMCID: PMC4148688 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.081612-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2014] [Accepted: 06/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The genome of the ethanol-producing bacterium Zymomonas mobilis encodes a bd-type terminal oxidase, cytochrome bc1 complex and several c-type cytochromes, yet lacks sequences homologous to any of the known bacterial cytochrome c oxidase genes. Recently, it was suggested that a putative respiratory cytochrome c peroxidase, receiving electrons from the cytochrome bc1 complex via cytochrome c552, might function as a peroxidase and/or an alternative oxidase. The present study was designed to test this hypothesis, by construction of a cytochrome c peroxidase mutant (Zm6-perC), and comparison of its properties with those of a mutant defective in the cytochrome b subunit of the bc1 complex (Zm6-cytB). Disruption of the cytochrome c peroxidase gene (ZZ60192) caused a decrease of the membrane NADH peroxidase activity, impaired the resistance of growing culture to exogenous hydrogen peroxide and hampered aerobic growth. However, this mutation did not affect the activity or oxygen affinity of the respiratory chain, or the kinetics of cytochrome d reduction. Furthermore, the peroxide resistance and membrane NADH peroxidase activity of strain Zm6-cytB had not decreased, but both the oxygen affinity of electron transport and the kinetics of cytochrome d reduction were affected. It is therefore concluded that the cytochrome c peroxidase does not terminate the cytochrome bc1 branch of Z. mobilis, and that it is functioning as a quinol peroxidase.
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- Elina Balodite
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda boulv. 4, 1586 Riga, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda boulv. 4, 1586 Riga, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda boulv. 4, 1586 Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda boulv. 4, 1586 Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda boulv. 4, 1586 Riga, Latvia
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Yang S, Pan C, Hurst GB, Dice L, Davison BH, Brown SD. Elucidation of Zymomonas mobilis physiology and stress responses by quantitative proteomics and transcriptomics. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:246. [PMID: 24904559 PMCID: PMC4033097 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Accepted: 05/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Zymomonas mobilis is an excellent ethanologenic bacterium. Biomass pretreatment and saccharification provides access to simple sugars, but also produces inhibitors such as acetate and furfural. Our previous work has identified and confirmed the genetic change of a 1.5-kb deletion in the sodium acetate tolerant Z. mobilis mutant (AcR) leading to constitutively elevated expression of a sodium proton antiporter encoding gene nhaA, which contributes to the sodium acetate tolerance of AcR mutant. In this study, we further investigated the responses of AcR and wild-type ZM4 to sodium acetate stress in minimum media using both transcriptomics and a metabolic labeling approach for quantitative proteomics the first time. Proteomic measurements at two time points identified about eight hundreds proteins, or about half of the predicted proteome. Extracellular metabolite analysis indicated AcR overcame the acetate stress quicker than ZM4 with a concomitant earlier ethanol production in AcR mutant, although the final ethanol yields and cell densities were similar between two strains. Transcriptomic samples were analyzed for four time points and revealed that the response of Z. mobilis to sodium acetate stress is dynamic, complex, and involved about one-fifth of the total predicted genes from all different functional categories. The modest correlations between proteomic and transcriptomic data may suggest the involvement of posttranscriptional control. In addition, the transcriptomic data of forty-four microarrays from four experiments for ZM4 and AcR under different conditions were combined to identify strain-specific, media-responsive, growth phase-dependent, and treatment-responsive gene expression profiles. Together this study indicates that minimal medium has the most dramatic effect on gene expression compared to rich medium followed by growth phase, inhibitor, and strain background. Genes involved in protein biosynthesis, glycolysis and fermentation as well as ATP synthesis and stress response play key roles in Z. mobilis metabolism with consistently strong expression levels under different conditions.
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- Shihui Yang
- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA ; BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA ; National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, CO, USA
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- Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA ; Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA ; BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA ; BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA ; BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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Kalnenieks U, Pentjuss A, Rutkis R, Stalidzans E, Fell DA. Modeling of Zymomonas mobilis central metabolism for novel metabolic engineering strategies. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:42. [PMID: 24550906 PMCID: PMC3914154 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2013] [Accepted: 01/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Mathematical modeling of metabolism is essential for rational metabolic engineering. The present work focuses on several types of modeling approach to quantitative understanding of central metabolic network and energetics in the bioethanol-producing bacterium Zymomonas mobilis. Combined use of Flux Balance, Elementary Flux Mode, and thermodynamic analysis of its central metabolism, together with dynamic modeling of the core catabolic pathways, can help to design novel substrate and product pathways by systematically analyzing the solution space for metabolic engineering, and yields insights into the function of metabolic network, hardly achievable without applying modeling tools.
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- Uldis Kalnenieks
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of LatviaRiga, Latvia
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- Department of Computer Systems, Latvia University of AgricultureJelgava, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of LatviaRiga, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of LatviaRiga, Latvia
- Department of Computer Systems, Latvia University of AgricultureJelgava, Latvia
- SIA TIBITJelgava, Latvia
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- Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes UniversityOxford, UK
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He MX, Wu B, Qin H, Ruan ZY, Tan FR, Wang JL, Shui ZX, Dai LC, Zhu QL, Pan K, Tang XY, Wang WG, Hu QC. Zymomonas mobilis: a novel platform for future biorefineries. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2014; 7:101. [PMID: 25024744 PMCID: PMC4094786 DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-7-101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2014] [Accepted: 06/20/2014] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Biosynthesis of liquid fuels and biomass-based building block chemicals from microorganisms have been regarded as a competitive alternative route to traditional. Zymomonas mobilis possesses a number of desirable characteristics for its special Entner-Doudoroff pathway, which makes it an ideal platform for both metabolic engineering and commercial-scale production of desirable bio-products as the same as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae based on consideration of future biomass biorefinery. Z. mobilis has been studied extensively on both fundamental and applied level, which will provide a basis for industrial biotechnology in the future. Furthermore, metabolic engineering of Z. mobilis for enhancing bio-ethanol production from biomass resources has been significantly promoted by different methods (i.e. mutagenesis, adaptive laboratory evolution, specific gene knock-out, and metabolic engineering). In addition, the feasibility of representative metabolites, i.e. sorbitol, bionic acid, levan, succinic acid, isobutanol, and isobutanol produced by Z. mobilis and the strategies for strain improvements are also discussed or highlighted in this paper. Moreover, this review will present some guidelines for future developments in the bio-based chemical production using Z. mobilis as a novel industrial platform for future biofineries.
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- Ming Xiong He
- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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Yang S, Franden MA, Brown SD, Chou YC, Pienkos PT, Zhang M. Insights into acetate toxicity in Zymomonas mobilis 8b using different substrates. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2014; 7:140. [PMID: 25298783 PMCID: PMC4189746 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-014-0140-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2014] [Accepted: 09/11/2014] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Lignocellulosic biomass is a promising renewable feedstock for biofuel production. Acetate is one of the major inhibitors liberated from hemicelluloses during hydrolysis. An understanding of the toxic effects of acetate on the fermentation microorganism and the efficient utilization of mixed sugars of glucose and xylose in the presence of hydrolysate inhibitors is crucial for economic biofuel production. RESULTS A new microarray was designed including both coding sequences and intergenic regions to investigate the acetate stress responses of Zymomonas mobilis 8b when using single carbon sources of glucose or xylose, or mixed sugars of both glucose and xylose. With the supplementation of exogenous acetate, 8b can utilize all the glucose with a similar ethanol yield, although the growth, final biomass, and ethanol production rate were reduced. However, xylose utilization was inhibited in both media containing xylose or a mixed sugar of glucose and xylose, although the performance of 8b was better in mixed sugar than xylose-only media. The presence of acetate caused genes related to biosynthesis, the flagellar system, and glycolysis to be downregulated, and genes related to stress responses and energy metabolism to be upregulated. Unexpectedly, xylose seems to pose more stress on 8b, recruiting more genes for xylose utilization, than does acetate. Several gene candidates based on transcriptome results were selected for genetic manipulation, and a TonB-dependent receptor knockout mutant was confirmed to have a slight advantage regarding acetate tolerance. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate Z. mobilis utilized a different mechanism for xylose utilization, with an even more severe impact on Z. mobilis than that caused by acetate treatment. Our study also suggests redox imbalance caused by stressful conditions may trigger a metabolic reaction leading to the accumulation of toxic intermediates such as xylitol, but Z. mobilis manages its carbon and energy metabolism through the control of individual reactions to mitigate the stressful conditions. We have thus provided extensive transcriptomic datasets and gained insights into the molecular responses of Z. mobilis to the inhibitor acetate when grown in different sugar sources, which will facilitate future metabolic modeling studies and strain improvement efforts for better xylose utilization and acetate tolerance.
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- Shihui Yang
- />National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- />National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- />Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
- />BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
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- />National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- />National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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- />National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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Rutkis R, Kalnenieks U, Stalidzans E, Fell DA. Kinetic modelling of the Zymomonas mobilis Entner-Doudoroff pathway: insights into control and functionality. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2013; 159:2674-2689. [PMID: 24085837 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.071340-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Zymomonas mobilis, an ethanol-producing bacterium, possesses the Entner-Doudoroff (E-D) pathway, pyruvate decarboxylase and two alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzymes for the fermentative production of ethanol and carbon dioxide from glucose. Using available kinetic parameters, we have developed a kinetic model that incorporates the enzymic reactions of the E-D pathway, both alcohol dehydrogenases, transport reactions and reactions related to ATP metabolism. After optimizing the reaction parameters within likely physiological limits, the resulting kinetic model was capable of simulating glycolysis in vivo and in cell-free extracts with good agreement with the fluxes and steady-state intermediate concentrations reported in previous experimental studies. In addition, the model is shown to be consistent with experimental results for the coupled response of ATP concentration and glycolytic flux to ATPase inhibition. Metabolic control analysis of the model revealed that the majority of flux control resides not inside, but outside the E-D pathway itself, predominantly in ATP consumption, demonstrating why past attempts to increase the glycolytic flux through overexpression of glycolytic enzymes have been unsuccessful. Co-response analysis indicates how homeostasis of ATP concentrations starts to deteriorate markedly at the highest glycolytic rates. This kinetic model has potential for application in Z. mobilis metabolic engineering and, since there are currently no E-D pathway models available in public databases, it can serve as a basis for the development of models for other micro-organisms possessing this type of glycolytic pathway.
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- Reinis Rutkis
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda Boulv. 4, Riga LV-1586, Latvia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Kronvalda Boulv. 4, Riga LV-1586, Latvia
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- Biosystems Group, Department of Computer Systems, Latvia University of Agriculture, Liela Iela 2, Jelgava LV-3001, Latvia
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- Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK
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