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Rodriguez A, Martínez JA, Millard P, Gosset G, Portais JC, Létisse F, Bolivar F. Plasmid-encoded biosynthetic genes alleviate metabolic disadvantages while increasing glucose conversion to shikimate in an engineeredEscherichia colistrain. Biotechnol Bioeng 2017; 114:1319-1330. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.26264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2016] [Revised: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 02/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Alberto Rodriguez
- Instituto de Biotecnología; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico
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- Instituto de Biotecnología; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico
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- LISBP, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INRA; INSA; Toulouse France
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- Instituto de Biotecnología; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico
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- LISBP, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INRA; INSA; Toulouse France
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- Instituto de Biotecnología; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico
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Metabolic selective pressure stabilizes plasmids carrying biosynthetic genes for reduced biochemicals in Escherichia coli redox mutants. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2010; 88:563-73. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2774-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2010] [Revised: 07/07/2010] [Accepted: 07/08/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Ow DSW, Lee DY, Yap MGS, Oh SKW. Identification of cellular objective for elucidating the physiological state of plasmid-bearing Escherichia coli using genome-scale in silico analysis. Biotechnol Prog 2009; 25:61-7. [PMID: 19224555 DOI: 10.1002/btpr.51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The presence of multiple copies of plasmids in Escherichia coli could induce a complex cascade of physiological changes known as the metabolic burden response. In this work, the physiological effect of such plasmid metabolic burden on E. coli metabolism was investigated by constraint-based genome-scale flux modeling. We systematically applied three cellular objectives: (a) maximizing growth rate, (b) maximizing plasmid production, and (c) maximizing maintenance energy expenditure to quantify in silico flux distributions. These simulated results were compared with experimental flux information to identify which of these cellular objectives best describes the physiological and metabolic states of plasmid-bearing (P+) E. coli. Unlike the wild-type E. coli cells that have directed the metabolism toward an optimum growth rate under the nutrient-limited condition, the maximum growth rate objective could not correctly predict the metabolic state of recombinant P+ cells. Instead, flux simulations by maximizing maintenance energy expenditure showed good consistency with experimental observation, indicating that the P+ cells are energetically less efficient and could require higher maintenance energy. This study demonstrates that the cellular objective of maximizing maintenance energy expenditure provides a better description of the underlying physiological state in recombinant microorganisms relevant to biotechnological applications.
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- Dave Siak-Wei Ow
- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Biopolis, Singapore 138668
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Lee JH, Sung BH, Kim MS, Blattner FR, Yoon BH, Kim JH, Kim SC. Metabolic engineering of a reduced-genome strain of Escherichia coli for L-threonine production. Microb Cell Fact 2009; 8:2. [PMID: 19128451 PMCID: PMC2634754 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2008] [Accepted: 01/07/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background Deletion of large blocks of nonessential genes that are not needed for metabolic pathways of interest can reduce the production of unwanted by-products, increase genome stability, and streamline metabolism without physiological compromise. Researchers have recently constructed a reduced-genome Escherichia coli strain MDS42 that lacks 14.3% of its chromosome. Results Here we describe the reengineering of the MDS42 genome to increase the production of the essential amino acid L-threonine. To this end, we over-expressed a feedback-resistant threonine operon (thrA*BC), deleted the genes that encode threonine dehydrogenase (tdh) and threonine transporters (tdcC and sstT), and introduced a mutant threonine exporter (rhtA23) in MDS42. The resulting strain, MDS-205, shows an ~83% increase in L-threonine production when cells are grown by flask fermentation, compared to a wild-type E. coli strain MG1655 engineered with the same threonine-specific modifications described above. And transcriptional analysis revealed the effect of the deletion of non-essential genes on the central metabolism and threonine pathways in MDS-205. Conclusion This result demonstrates that the elimination of genes unnecessary for cell growth can increase the productivity of an industrial strain, most likely by reducing the metabolic burden and improving the metabolic efficiency of cells.
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- Jun Hyoung Lee
- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea.
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Wang Z, Xiang L, Shao J, Węgrzyn A, Węgrzyn G. Effects of the presence of ColE1 plasmid DNA in Escherichia coli on the host cell metabolism. Microb Cell Fact 2006; 5:34. [PMID: 17112383 PMCID: PMC1664580 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-5-34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2006] [Accepted: 11/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background Although understanding of physiological interactions between plasmid DNA and its host is important for vector design and host optimization in many biotechnological applications, to our knowledge, global studies on plasmid-host interactions have not been performed to date even for well-characterized plasmids. Results Escherichia coli cells, either devoid of plasmid DNA or bearing plasmid pOri1 (with a single ColE1 replication origin) or plasmid pOri2 (with double ColE1 replication origins), were cultured in a chemostat. We used a combination of metabolic flux analysis, DNA microarray and enzyme activity analysis methods to explore differences in the metabolism between these strains. We found that the presence of plasmids significantly influenced various metabolic pathways in the host cells, e.g. glycolysis, the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle and the pentose phosphate (PP) pathway. Expression of rpiA, a gene coding for ribose-5-phosphate isomerase A, was considerably decreased in E. coli carrying a high copy number plasmid relative to E. coli carrying a low copy number plasmid and plasmid-free E. coli. The rpiA gene was cloned into an expression vector to construct plasmid pETrpiA. Following induction of pETrpiA-bearing E. coli, which harbored either pOri1 or pOri2, with isopropyl-β-D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG), the copy number of pOri1 and pOri2 was sigificantly higher than that measured in a host devoid of pETrpiA. Conclusion The presence of plasmids can significantly influence some metabolic pathways in the host cell. We believe that the results of detailed metabolic analysis may be useful in optimizing host strains, vectors and cultivation conditions for various biotechnological purposes.
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- Zhijun Wang
- Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, 200032, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, 14853, NY, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, 200032, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, 200032, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology (affiliated with the University of Gdańsk), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdańsk, Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland
- Department of Genetics and Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Św. Wojciecha 5, 81-347 Gdynia, Poland
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Ow DSW, Nissom PM, Philp R, Oh SKW, Yap MGS. Global transcriptional analysis of metabolic burden due to plasmid maintenance in Escherichia coli DH5α during batch fermentation. Enzyme Microb Technol 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2005.11.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Abromaitis S, Faucher S, Béland M, Curtiss R, Daigle F. The presence of thetetgene from cloning vectors impairsSalmonellasurvival in macrophages. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2005; 242:305-12. [PMID: 15621452 DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.11.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2004] [Accepted: 11/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Cloning, mutagenesis and complementation of virulence factors are key steps to understand the mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and cloning vectors are routinely utilized for these processes. We have investigated the effect of the presence of commonly used cloning vectors on the survival of the intracellular bacterial pathogen Salmonella during macrophage infection. We demonstrate that the presence of the pSC101 derived tetracycline resistance gene on plasmids causes a lower survival rate of Salmonella in macrophages. The decrease in survival caused by the presence of the tet gene was not due to a higher susceptibility to gentamicin, a growth defect, or to increased sensitivity to acid. Higher susceptibility to hydrogen peroxide was observed in vitro for strain containing plasmid with the tet gene when the strains were grown at high densities but not when they were grown at low densities. Our findings demonstrate that the use of the tet gene for mutation or complementation can have deleterious effects and should thus be carefully considered.
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Vemuri GN, Eiteman MA, Altman E. Effects of growth mode and pyruvate carboxylase on succinic acid production by metabolically engineered strains of Escherichia coli. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:1715-27. [PMID: 11916689 PMCID: PMC123851 DOI: 10.1128/aem.68.4.1715-1727.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli NZN111, which lacks activities for pyruvate-formate lyase and lactate dehydrogenase, and AFP111, a derivative which contains an additional mutation in ptsG (a gene encoding an enzyme of the glucose phophotransferase system), accumulate significant levels of succinic acid (succinate) under anaerobic conditions. Plasmid pTrc99A-pyc, which expresses the Rhizobium etli pyruvate carboxylase enzyme, was introduced into both strains. We compared growth, substrate consumption, product formation, and activities of seven key enzymes (acetate kinase, fumarate reductase, glucokinase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, isocitrate lyase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, and pyruvate carboxylase) from glucose for NZN111, NZN111/pTrc99A-pyc, AFP111, and AFP111/pTrc99A-pyc under both exclusively anaerobic and dual-phase conditions (an aerobic growth phase followed by an anaerobic production phase). The highest succinate mass yield was attained with AFP111/pTrc99A-pyc under dual-phase conditions with low pyruvate carboxylase activity. Dual-phase conditions led to significant isocitrate lyase activity in both NZN111 and AFP111, while under exclusively anaerobic conditions, an absence of isocitrate lyase activity resulted in significant pyruvate accumulation. Enzyme assays indicated that under dual-phase conditions, carbon flows not only through the reductive arm of the tricarboxylic acid cycle for succinate generation but also through the glyoxylate shunt and thus provides the cells with metabolic flexibility in the formation of succinate. Significant glucokinase activity in AFP111 compared to NZN111 similarly permits increased metabolic flexibility of AFP111. The differences between the strains and the benefit of pyruvate carboxylase under both exclusively anaerobic and dual-phase conditions are discussed in light of the cellular constraint for a redox balance.
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- G N Vemuri
- Center for Molecular BioEngineering, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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George SE, Nelson GM. Effectiveness of Chromosomal and Plasmid-linked Genes for Enumerating Biotechnology Agents In Vivo. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 2002. [DOI: 10.1080/089106002760002711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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- S. Elizabeth George
- From the Of. ce of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Environmental Carcinogenesis Division, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
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The idea that plasmids replicate within hosts at the expense of cell metabolic energy and preformed cellular blocks depicts plasmids as a kind of molecular parasites that, even when they may eventually provide plasmid-carrying strains with growth advantages over plasmid-free strains, doom hosts to bear an unavoidable metabolic burden. Due to the consistency with experimental data, this idea was rapidly adopted and used as a basis of different hypotheses to explain plasmid-host interactions. In this article we critically discuss current ideas about plasmid effects on host metabolism, and present evidence suggesting that the complex interaction between plasmids and hosts is related to the alteration of the cellular regulatory status.
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- J C Diaz Ricci
- Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (UNT-CONICET), Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia, Tucuman, Argentina.
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Rhee JI, Schügerl K. Continuous cultivation of recombinant Escherichia coli JM109 in a two-stage cascade reactor and production of the fusion protein EcoRI::SPA. Process Biochem 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0032-9592(97)00097-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Rhee JI, Bode J, Diaz-Ricci JC, Poock D, Weigel B, Kretzmer G, Schügler K. Influence of the medium composition and plasmid combination on the growth of recombinant Escherichia coli JM109 and on the production of the fusion protein EcoRI::SPA. J Biotechnol 1997; 55:69-83. [PMID: 9232030 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1656(97)00058-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Plasmid-free and plasmid-harbouring E. coli JM109 strains were investigated in shaken flasks, stirred tanks in batch and continuous operation. The shaken flask cultivations were performed in M9 minimal medium and in media with various protein supplements. The host hardly grows on M9 minimal medium as opposed to the plasmid-harbouring cells, which grow well on this medium. All of the investigated cells propagate well on protein-containing media. The influence of the combinations of repressor plasmid pRK248cI, the protection plasmid EcoR4 and the production plasmid pMTC48 were determined on the initial specific growth rate of the E. coli JM109 without gene expression, on the yield coefficient of cell growth, acetate concentration and acetate yield coefficient in the yeast extract-containing (HM) medium. The influence of various media on the induction of the gene expression were evaluated. In cultivation media with protein supplement, the growth rate and yield coefficient increased. The variation of the volumetric and specific beta-lactamase activities with the cultivation time were determined in a stirred tank reactor in HM medium. With increasing dilution rate the process performance decreased. Simple relationships exist between the substrate uptake rate and the specific growth rate of the continuous cultivated cells in M9 and HM media. The influence of the dilution rate on the cell mass concentration, colony forming units, acetate formation, yield coefficients of growth and acetate formation, substrate uptake rate, CO2 production rate, ammonium formation rate and beta-lactamase activity in M9 and HM media were determined as well. Carbon balances of the batch and continuous cultivations indicated high carbon recoveries. On account of the higher growth rate of plasmid-harbouring cells than than of the plasmid-free cells, the behaviour of the investigated plasmid-free and plasmid-harbouring E. coli JM109 cells deviates from the published properties of other plasmid-free and plasmid-harbouring E. coli cells.
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- J I Rhee
- Institut für Technische Chemie, Universität Hannover, Germany
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