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Tadesse BT, Gu L, Solem C, Mijakovic I, Jers C. The Probiotic Enterococcus Lactis SF68 as a Potential Food Fermentation Microorganism for Safe Food Production. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2024. [PMID: 39102436 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.4c03644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/07/2024]
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Due to the reports describing virulent and multidrug resistant enterococci, their use has become a topic of controversy despite most of them being safe and commonly used in traditionally fermented foods worldwide. We have characterized Enterococcus lactis SF68, a probiotic strain approved by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for use in food and feed, and find that it has a remarkable potential in food fermentations. Genome analysis revealed the potential of SF68 to metabolize a multitude of carbohydrates, including lactose and sucrose, which was substantiated experimentally. Bacteriocin biosynthesis clusters were identified and SF68 was found to display a strong inhibitory effect against Listeria monocytogenes. Fermentation-wise, E. lactis SF68 was remarkably like Lactococcus lactis and displayed a clear mixed-acid shift on slowly fermented sugars. SF68 could produce the butter aroma compounds, acetoin and diacetyl, the production of which was enhanced under aerated conditions in a strain deficient in lactate dehydrogenase activity. Overall, E. lactis SF68 was found to be versatile, with a broad carbohydrate utilization capacity, a capacity for producing bacteriocins, and an ability to grow at elevated temperatures. This is key to eliminating pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms that are frequently associated with fermented foods.
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- Belay Tilahun Tadesse
- National Food Institute, Research Group for Microbial Biotechnology and Biorefining, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Bio- and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds vej 10, Aarhus 8000, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Research Group for Microbial Biotechnology and Biorefining, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
- Systems and Synthetic Biology Division, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg 412 96, Sweden
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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Kacaribu AA, Darwin. Biotechnological lactic acid production from low-cost renewable sources via anaerobic microbial processes. BIOTECHNOLOGIA 2024; 105:179-194. [PMID: 38988365 PMCID: PMC11232001 DOI: 10.5114/bta.2024.139757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024] Open
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Lactic acid (LA) production from microbial fermentation using low-cost renewable sources has emerged as an attractive alternative to the use of petroleum-based products. This approach not only offers sustainable solutions for waste management but also enables the production of value-added products in an eco-friendly manner. However, to make this approach economically viable, optimizing the production process for high yield, productivity, and purity while minimizing costs is crucial. To address these challenges, various approaches have been proposed, including the use of neutralizing agents, high cell density cultures, co-cultures, fed-batch fermentation, and product removal strategies. Overall, this review underscores the potential of microbial fermentation for LA production as a sustainable and cost-effective solution to meet the growing demand for eco-friendly products. Further optimization of fermentation processes and the development of new microbial strains and fermentation techniques are key to advancing this approach. The production of LA through microbial fermentation presents a sustainable and eco-friendly solution to the increasing demand for eco-friendly products. With continued innovation, we can expect to see a significant reduction in the environmental impact of industrial processes, coupled with a more cost-effective and high-purity source of lactic acid for various industries.
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- Andriy Anta Kacaribu
- Department of Agricultural Industrial Technology, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
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- Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
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Jin L, Zhang BW, Lu JW, Liao JA, Zhu QJ, Lin Y, Yu XQ. The mechanism of Cry41-related toxin against Myzus persicae based on its interaction with Buchnera-derived ATP-dependent 6-phosphofructokinase. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2023; 79:1684-1691. [PMID: 36602054 DOI: 10.1002/ps.7340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2022] [Revised: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 12/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is one of the most notorious pests of many crops worldwide. Most Cry toxins produced by Bacillus thuringiensis show very low toxicity to M. persicae; however, a study showed that Cry41-related toxin had moderate toxic activity against M. persicae. In our previous work, potential Cry41-related toxin-binding proteins in M. persicae were identified, including cathepsin B, calcium-transporting ATPase, and Buchnera-derived ATP-dependent 6-phosphofructokinase (PFKA). Buchnera is an endosymbiont present in almost all aphids and it provides necessary nutrients for aphid growth. This study investigated the role of Buchnera-derived PFKA in Cry41-related toxicity against M. persicae. RESULTS In this study, recombinant PFKA was expressed and purified, and in vitro assays revealed that PFKA bound to Cry41-related toxin, and Cry41-related toxin at 25 μg ml-1 significantly inhibited the activity of PFKA. In addition, when M. persicae was treated with 30 μg ml-1 of Cry41-related toxin for 24 h, the expression of dnak, a single-copy gene in Buchnera, was significantly decreased, indicating a decrease in the number of Buchnera. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that Cry41-related toxin interacts with Buchnera-derived PFKA to inhibit its enzymatic activity and likely impair cell viability, resulting in a decrease in the number of Buchnera, and finally leading to M. persicae death. These findings open up new perspectives in our understanding of the mode of action of Cry toxins and are useful in helping improve Cry toxicity for aphid control. © 2023 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Liang Jin
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Biochemical Technology (Huaqiao University), Department of Bioengineering & Biotechnology, College of Chemical Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Biochemical Technology (Huaqiao University), Department of Bioengineering & Biotechnology, College of Chemical Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Biochemical Technology (Huaqiao University), Department of Bioengineering & Biotechnology, College of Chemical Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Biochemical Technology (Huaqiao University), Department of Bioengineering & Biotechnology, College of Chemical Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental Biology and Applied Technology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Insect Development Regulation and Application Research, Institute of Insect Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Biochemical Technology (Huaqiao University), Department of Bioengineering & Biotechnology, College of Chemical Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental Biology and Applied Technology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Insect Development Regulation and Application Research, Institute of Insect Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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Gu L, Tadesse BT, Zhao S, Holck J, Zhao G, Solem C. Fermented butter aroma for plant-based applications. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2022; 369:6795930. [PMID: 36331038 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnac105] [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: 07/08/2022] [Revised: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Plant-based dairy alternatives are gaining increasing interest, e.g. alternatives to yoghurt, cheese, and butter. In all these products butter flavor (diacetyl + acetoin) plays an important role. We previously have reported efficient butter flavor formation from low value dairy side streams using a dairy isolate of Lactococcus lactis deficient in lactate dehydrogenase. Here, we have tested the ability of this strain, RD1M5, to form butter flavor in plant milks based on oat and soy. We found that oat milk, with its high sugar content, supported more efficient production of butter aroma, when compared to soy milk. When supplemented with glucose, efficient butter aroma production was achieved in soy milk as well. We also carried out an extended adaptive laboratory evolution of the dairy strain in oat milk. After two months of adaptation, we obtained a strain with enhanced capacity for producing butter aroma. Despite of its high sugar content, RD1M5 and its adapted version only metabolized approximately 10% of the fermentable sugars available in the oat milk, which we found was due to amino acid starvation and partly starvation for vitamins. The study demonstrates that dairy cultures have great potential for use in plant-based fermentations.
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- Liuyan Gu
- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Protein Chemistry and Enzyme Technology Section, DTU Bioengineering, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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Increasing the glucose metabolism enhances the bioelectricity generation in microbial fuel cells. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 2022; 54:1566-1567. [PMID: 36111746 PMCID: PMC9828298 DOI: 10.3724/abbs.2022129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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In Streptococcus thermophilus, Ammonia from Urea Hydrolysis Paradoxically Boosts Acidification and Reveals a New Regulatory Mechanism of Glycolysis. Microbiol Spectr 2022; 10:e0276021. [PMID: 35467410 PMCID: PMC9241937 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02760-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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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Streptococcus thermophilus is widely used in the dairy industry for the manufacturing of fermented milk and cheeses and probiotic formulations. S. thermophilus evolved from closely phylogenetically related pathogenic streptococci through loss-of-function events counterbalanced by the acquisition of relevant traits, such as lactose and urea utilization for the adaptation to the milk environment. In the context of regressive evolution, the urease gene cluster accounts for 0.9% of the total coding sequence belonging to known functional categories. The fate of ammonia and carbon dioxide derived by urea hydrolysis in several biosynthetic pathways have been depicted, and the positive effect of urease activity on S. thermophilus growth fitness and lactic acid fermentation in milk has been already addressed by several authors. However, the mechanistic effect of urea hydrolysis on the energetic metabolisms of S. thermophilus is still unclear. This study aimed to assess the effect of urease activity on the growth and energy metabolism of Streptococcus thermophilus in milk. In milk, 13C-urea was completely hydrolyzed in the first 150 min of S. thermophilus growth, and urea hydrolysis was accompanied by an increase in cell density and a reduction in the generation time. By using energetically discharged cells with gene transcription and translation blocked, we showed that in the presence of fermentable carbon sources, urease activity, specifically the production of ammonia, could dramatically boost glycolysis and, in cascade, homolactic fermentation. Furthermore, we showed that ammonia, specifically ammonium ions, were potent effectors of phosphofructokinase, a key glycolytic enzyme. IMPORTANCE Finding that ammonia-generating enzymes, such as urease, and exogenous ammonia act on phosphofructokinase activity shed new light on the regulatory mechanisms that govern glycolysis. Phosphofructokinase is the key enzyme known to exert a regulatory role on glycolytic flux and, therefore, ammonia as an effector of phosphofructokinase acts, in cascade, modulating the glycolytic pathway. Apart from S. thermophilus, due to the high conservation of glycolytic enzymes in all branches of the tree of life and being aware of the role of ammonia as an effector of phosphofructokinase, we propose to reevaluate the physiological role of the ammonia production pathways in all organisms whose energy metabolism is supported by glycolysis.
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Ekkers DM, Tusso S, Moreno-Gamez S, Rillo MC, Kuipers OP, van Doorn GS. Trade-offs predicted by metabolic network structure give rise to evolutionary specialization and phenotypic diversification. Mol Biol Evol 2022; 39:msac124. [PMID: 35679426 PMCID: PMC9206417 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac124] [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: 06/08/2021] [Revised: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Mitigating trade-offs between different resource-utilization functions is key to an organism's ecological and evolutionary success. These trade-offs often reflect metabolic constraints with a complex molecular underpinning; therefore, their consequences for evolutionary processes have remained elusive. Here, we investigate how metabolic architecture induces resource utilization constraints and how these constraints, in turn, elicit evolutionary specialization and diversification. Guided by the metabolic network structure of the bacterium Lactococcus cremoris, we selected two carbon sources (fructose and galactose) with predicted co-utilization constraints. By evolving L. cremoris on either fructose, galactose or a mix of both sugars, we imposed selection favoring divergent metabolic specializations or co-utilization of both resources, respectively. Phenotypic characterization revealed the evolution of either fructose or galactose specialists in the single-sugar treatments. In the mixed sugar regime, we observed adaptive diversification: both specialists coexisted, and no generalist evolved. Divergence from the ancestral phenotype occurred at key pathway junctions in the central carbon metabolism. Fructose specialists evolved mutations in the fbp and pfk genes that appear to balance anabolic and catabolic carbon fluxes. Galactose specialists evolved increased expression of pgmA (the primary metabolic bottleneck of galactose metabolism) and silencing of ptnABCD (the main glucose transporter) and ldh (regulator/enzyme of downstream carbon metabolism). Overall, our study shows how metabolic network architecture and historical contingency serve to predict targets of selection and inform the functional interpretation of evolved mutations. The elucidation of the relationship between molecular constraints and phenotypic trade-offs contributes to an integrative understanding of evolutionary specialization and diversification.
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- David M Ekkers
- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
- Molecular Genetics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich, Grosshaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Science for Life Laboratories and Department of Evolutionary Biology, Norbyvägen 18D, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Schleusenstr. 1, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany
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- Molecular Genetics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Probiotic Effects and Metabolic Products of Enterococcus faecalis LD33 with Respiration Capacity. Foods 2022; 11:foods11040606. [PMID: 35206082 PMCID: PMC8871233 DOI: 10.3390/foods11040606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Respiration metabolism could improve the long-term survival of lactic acid bacteria (LAB); however, its effect on potential probiotic traits of LAB was not reported. The difference made by Enterococcus faecalis LD33 that was cultured under respiration-permissive and fermentation conditions, such as the biomass, metabolites, antimicrobial activity, tolerance to acid and bile salt, adhesion capabilities, and the ability to inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells were studied. Under a respiration-permissive condition, the final biomass of the culture was about twice as compared to that of fermentation condition. When the metabolites were measured, glucose was exhausted within 8 h. Two-folds of acetic acid, triple of both acetoin and diacetyl, and less than half of lactic acid, were accumulated under the respiratory-permissive condition. No discrimination of growth inhibition on Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium ATCC 14028 and Shigella sonnei ATCC 25931 was observed when Enterococcus faecalis LD33 was cultured under both conditions; however, under respiration-permissive condition, the strain presented significant antimicrobial activities to Listeria monocytogenes ATCC19111 and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC6538P. Enterococcus faecalis LD33 displayed relatively strong bile salt tolerance and adherence capability but weaker acid tolerance when undergoing respiration metabolism. There was no significant difference in the anti-cancer effect of the viable bacterial cells on both growth modes; however, the supernatant showed a higher inhibition effect on HT-29 cells than the live bacteria, and there was no significant difference between the supernatant and the 5-Fluorouracil (7 μg/mL). Consequently, the Enterococcus faecalis LD33 undergoing respiration metabolism could bring higher biomass, more flavor metabolites, and better antimicrobial and anti-cancer activities. This study extends our knowledge of respiratory metabolism in LAB and its impact on probiotic traits. E. faecalis LD33 qualifies as a suitable strain against foodborne pathogens, cancer therapy, and eventual application in the food and pharmaceutical industries.
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Woo JKK, McIver KS, Federle MJ. Carbon catabolite repression on the Rgg2/3 quorum sensing system in Streptococcus pyogenes is mediated by PTS Man and Mga. Mol Microbiol 2022; 117:525-538. [PMID: 34923680 PMCID: PMC8844239 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2021] [Revised: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as group A Streptococcus or GAS, is a human-restricted pathogen causing a diverse array of infections. The ability to adapt to different niches requires GAS to adjust gene expression in response to environmental cues. We previously identified the abundance of biometals and carbohydrates led to natural induction of the Rgg2/3 cell-cell communication system (quorum sensing, QS). Here we determined the mechanism by which the Rgg2/3 QS system is stimulated exclusively by mannose and repressed by glucose, a phenomenon known as carbon catabolite repression (CCR). Instead of carbon catabolite protein A, the primary mediator of CCR in Gram-positive bacteria; CCR of Rgg2/3 requires the PTS regulatory domain (PRD)-containing transcriptional regulator Mga. Deletion of Mga led to carbohydrate-independent activation of Rgg2/3 by down-regulating rgg3, the QS repressor. Through phosphoablative and phosphomimetic substitutions within Mga PRDs, we demonstrated that selective phosphorylation of PRD1 conferred repression of the Rgg2/3 system. Moreover, given the carbohydrate specificity mediating Mga-dependent governance over Rgg2/3, we tested mannose-specific PTS components and found the EIIA/B subunit ManL was required for Mga-dependent repression. These findings provide newfound connections between PTSMan , Mga, and QS, and further demonstrate that Mga is a central regulatory nexus for integrating nutritional status and virulence.
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- Jerry K. K. Woo
- Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Center for Biomolecular Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Center for Biomolecular Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA,For correspondence. ; Tel. 312-413-0213; Fax. 312-413-9303
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Murai K, Sasaki D, Kobayashi S, Yamaguchi A, Uchikura H, Shirai T, Sasaki K, Kondo A, Tsuge Y. Optimal Ratio of Carbon Flux between Glycolysis and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway for Amino Acid Accumulation in Corynebacterium glutamicum. ACS Synth Biol 2020; 9:1615-1622. [PMID: 32602337 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Glucose is metabolized through central metabolic pathways such as glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) to synthesize downstream metabolites including amino acids. However, how the split ratio of carbon flux between glycolysis and PPP specifically affects the formation of downstream metabolites remains largely unclear. Here, we conducted a comprehensive metabolomic analysis to investigate the effect of the split ratio between glycolysis and the PPP on the intracellular concentration of amino acids and their derivatives in Corynebacterium glutamicum. The split ratio was varied by exchanging the promoter of a gene encoding glucose 6-phosphate isomerase (PGI). The ratio was correlated with the pgi transcription level and the enzyme activity. Concentrations of threonine and lysine-derivative 1,5-diaminopentane increased with an increase of the split ratio into the PPP. In contrast, concentrations of alanine, leucine, and valine were increased with an increase of the split ratio into glycolysis. These results could provide a new engineering target for improving the production of the amino acids and the derivatives.
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- Katsuki Murai
- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodaicho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Center for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodaicho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodaicho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
- Center for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
- Institute for Frontier Science Initiative, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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Gaudu P, Yamamoto Y, Jensen PR, Hammer K, Lechardeur D, Gruss A. Genetics of Lactococci. Microbiol Spectr 2019; 7:10.1128/microbiolspec.gpp3-0035-2018. [PMID: 31298208 PMCID: PMC10957224 DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.gpp3-0035-2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Lactococcus lactis is the best characterized species among the lactococci, and among the most consumed food-fermenting bacteria worldwide. Thanks to their importance in industrialized food production, lactococci are among the lead bacteria understood for fundamental metabolic pathways that dictate growth and survival properties. Interestingly, lactococci belong to the Streptococcaceae family, which includes food, commensal and virulent species. As basic metabolic pathways (e.g., respiration, metal homeostasis, nucleotide metabolism) are now understood to underlie virulence, processes elucidated in lactococci could be important for understanding pathogen fitness and synergy between bacteria. This chapter highlights major findings in lactococci and related bacteria, and covers five themes: distinguishing features of lactococci, metabolic capacities including the less known respiration metabolism in Streptococcaceae, factors and pathways modulating stress response and fitness, interbacterial dialogue via metabolites, and novel applications in health and biotechnology.
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- Laboratory of Cellular Microbiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Towada, 034-8628, Aomori Japan
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- DTU Bioengineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Liu J, Chan SHJ, Chen J, Solem C, Jensen PR. Systems Biology - A Guide for Understanding and Developing Improved Strains of Lactic Acid Bacteria. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:876. [PMID: 31114552 PMCID: PMC6503107 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 04/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) are extensively employed in the production of various fermented foods, due to their safe status, ability to affect texture and flavor and finally due to the beneficial effect they have on shelf-life. More recently, LAB have also gained interest as production hosts for various useful compounds, particularly compounds with sensitive applications, such as food ingredients and therapeutics. As for all industrial microorganisms, it is important to have a good understanding of the physiology and metabolism of LAB in order to fully exploit their potential, and for this purpose, many systems biology approaches are available. Systems metabolic engineering, an approach that combines optimization of metabolic enzymes/pathways at the systems level, synthetic biology as well as in silico model simulation, has been used to build microbial cell factories for production of biofuels, food ingredients and biochemicals. When developing LAB for use in foods, genetic engineering is in general not an accepted approach. An alternative is to screen mutant libraries for candidates with desirable traits using high-throughput screening technologies or to use adaptive laboratory evolution to select for mutants with special properties. In both cases, by using omics data and data-driven technologies to scrutinize these, it is possible to find the underlying cause for the desired attributes of such mutants. This review aims to describe how systems biology tools can be used for obtaining both engineered as well as non-engineered LAB with novel and desired properties.
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- Jianming Liu
- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Hatti-Kaul R, Chen L, Dishisha T, Enshasy HE. Lactic acid bacteria: from starter cultures to producers of chemicals. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2018; 365:5087731. [DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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- Rajni Hatti-Kaul
- Biotechnology, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Biotechnology, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, 62511 Beni-Suef, Egypt
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- Institute of Bioproduct Development (IBD), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81 310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
- City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications, New Burg Al Arab, Alexandria, Egypt
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Zheng L, Liu M, Sun J, Wu B, He B. Sodium ions activated phosphofructokinase leading to enhanced D-lactic acid production by Sporolactobacillus inulinus using sodium hydroxide as a neutralizing agent. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2017; 101:3677-3687. [PMID: 28190098 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-017-8120-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2016] [Revised: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Sporolactobacillus inulinus is a superior D-lactic acid-producing bacterium and proposed species for industrial production. The major pathway for D-lactic acid biosynthesis, glycolysis, is mainly regulated via the two irreversible steps catalyzed by the allosteric enzymes, phosphofructokinase (PFK) and pyruvate kinase. The activity level of PFK was significantly consistent with the cell growth and D-lactic acid production, indicating its vital role in control and regulation of glycolysis. In this study, the ATP-dependent PFK from S. inulinus was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to homogeneity. The PFK was allosterically activated by both GDP and ADP and inhibited by phosphoenolpyruvate; the addition of activators could partly relieve the inhibition by phosphoenolpyruvate. Furthermore, monovalent cations could enhance the activity, and Na+ was the most efficient one. Considering this kind activation, NaOH was investigated as the neutralizer instead of the traditional neutralizer CaCO3. In the early growth stage, the significant accelerated glucose consumption was achieved in the NaOH case probably for the enhanced activity of Na+-activated PFK. Using NaOH as the neutralizer at pH 6.5, the fermentation time was greatly shortened about 22 h; simultaneously, the glucose consumption rate and the D-lactic acid productivity were increased by 34 and 17%, respectively. This probably contributed to the increased pH and Na+-promoted activity of PFK. Thus, fermentations by S. inulinus using the NaOH neutralizer provide a green and highly efficient D-lactic acid production with easy subsequent purification.
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- Lu Zheng
- College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211816, China.,State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210008, China
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- Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210042, China
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- College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211816, China
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- College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211816, China
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- College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211816, China. .,School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211816, China.
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Jojima T, Inui M. Engineering the glycolytic pathway: A potential approach for improvement of biocatalyst performance. Bioengineered 2016; 6:328-34. [PMID: 26513591 DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2015.1111493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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The glycolytic pathway is a main driving force in the fermentation process as it produces energy, cell component precursors, and fermentation products. Given its importance, the glycolytic pathway can be considered as an attractive target for the metabolic engineering of industrial microorganisms. However, many attempts to enhance glycolytic flux, by overexpressing homologous or heterologous genes encoding glycolytic enzymes, have been unsuccessful. In contrast, significant enhancement in glycolytic flux has been observed in studies with bacteria, specifically, Corynebacterium glutamicum. Although there has been a recent increase in the number of successful applications of this technology, little is known about the mechanisms leading to the enhancement of glycolytic flux. To explore the rational applications of glycolytic pathway engineering in biocatalyst development, this review summarizes recent successful studies as well as past attempts.
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- Toru Jojima
- a Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth ; Kizugawa , Kyoto , Japan
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- a Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth ; Kizugawa , Kyoto , Japan
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Elucidation of the regulatory role of the fructose operon reveals a novel target for enhancing the NADPH supply in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Metab Eng 2016; 38:344-357. [PMID: 27553884 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2016.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2016] [Revised: 08/05/2016] [Accepted: 08/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The performance of Corynebacterium glutamicum cell factories producing compounds which rely heavily on NADPH has been reported to depend on the sugar being metabolized. While some aspects of this phenomenon have been elucidated, there are still many unresolved questions as to how sugar metabolism is linked to redox and to the general metabolism. We here provide new insights into the regulation of the metabolism of this important platform organism by systematically characterizing mutants carrying various lesions in the fructose operon. Initially, we found that a strain where the dedicated fructose uptake system had been inactivated (KO-ptsF) was hampered in growth on sucrose minimal medium, and suppressor mutants appeared readily. Comparative genomic analysis in conjunction with enzymatic assays revealed that suppression was linked to inactivation of the pfkB gene, encoding a fructose-1-phosphate kinase. Detailed characterization of KO-ptsF, KO-pfkB and double knock-out (DKO) derivatives revealed a strong role for sugar-phosphates, especially fructose-1-phosphate (F1P), in governing sugar as well as redox metabolism due to effects on transcriptional regulation of key genes. These findings allowed us to propose a simple model explaining the correlation between sugar phosphate concentration, gene expression and ultimately the observed phenotype. To guide us in our analysis and help us identify bottlenecks in metabolism we debugged an existing genome-scale model onto which we overlaid the transcriptome data. Based on the results obtained we managed to enhance the NADPH supply and transform the wild-type strain into delivering the highest yield of lysine ever obtained on sucrose and fructose, thus providing a good example of how regulatory mechanisms can be harnessed for bioproduction.
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Paixão L, Caldas J, Kloosterman TG, Kuipers OP, Vinga S, Neves AR. Transcriptional and metabolic effects of glucose on Streptococcus pneumoniae sugar metabolism. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:1041. [PMID: 26500614 PMCID: PMC4595796 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a strictly fermentative human pathogen that relies on carbohydrate metabolism to generate energy for growth. The nasopharynx colonized by the bacterium is poor in free sugars, but mucosa lining glycans can provide a source of sugar. In blood and inflamed tissues glucose is the prevailing sugar. As a result during progression from colonization to disease S. pneumoniae has to cope with a pronounced shift in carbohydrate nature and availability. Thus, we set out to assess the pneumococcal response to sugars found in glycans and the influence of glucose (Glc) on this response at the transcriptional, physiological, and metabolic levels. Galactose (Gal), N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), and mannose (Man) affected the expression of 8 to 14% of the genes covering cellular functions including central carbon metabolism and virulence. The pattern of end-products as monitored by in vivo13C-NMR is in good agreement with the fermentation profiles during growth, while the pools of phosphorylated metabolites are consistent with the type of fermentation observed (homolactic vs. mixed) and regulation at the metabolic level. Furthermore, the accumulation of α-Gal6P and Man6P indicate metabolic bottlenecks in the metabolism of Gal and Man, respectively. Glc added to cells actively metabolizing other sugar(s) was readily consumed and elicited a metabolic shift toward a homolactic profile. The transcriptional response to Glc was large (over 5% of the genome). In central carbon metabolism (most represented category), Glc exerted mostly negative regulation. The smallest response to Glc was observed on a sugar mix, suggesting that exposure to varied sugars improves the fitness of S. pneumoniae. The expression of virulence factors was negatively controlled by Glc in a sugar-dependent manner. Overall, our results shed new light on the link between carbohydrate metabolism, adaptation to host niches and virulence.
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- Laura Paixão
- Laboratory of Lactic Acid Bacteria and In Vivo NMR, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Oeiras, Portugal
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- Center of Intelligent Systems, Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands
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- Center of Intelligent Systems, Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal
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- Laboratory of Lactic Acid Bacteria and In Vivo NMR, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Oeiras, Portugal
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Loss of Antibiotic Tolerance in Sod-Deficient Mutants Is Dependent on the Energy Source and Arginine Catabolism in Enterococci. J Bacteriol 2015; 197:3283-93. [PMID: 26260456 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00389-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 07/31/2015] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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UNLABELLED Enterococci are naturally tolerant to typically bactericidal cell wall-active antibiotics, meaning that their growth is inhibited but they are not killed even when exposed to a high concentration of the drug. The molecular reasons for this extraordinary tolerance are still incompletely understood. Previous work showed that resistance to killing collapsed specifically in mutants affected in superoxide dismutase (Sod) activity, arguing that bactericidal antibiotic treatment led to induction of a superoxide burst. In the present work, we show that loss of antibiotic tolerance in ΔsodA mutants of pathogenic enterococci is dependent on the energy source present during antibiotic treatment. Hexoses induce greater killing than the pentose ribose, and no killing was observed with glycerol as the energy source. These results point to glycolytic reactions as crucial for antibiotic-mediated killing of ΔsodA mutants. A transposon mutant library was constructed in Enterococcus faecalis ΔsodA mutants and screened for restored tolerance of vancomycin. Partially restored tolerance was observed in mutants with transposon integrations into intergenic regions upstream of regulators implicated in arginine catabolism. In these mutants, the arginine deiminase operon was highly upregulated. A model for the action of cell wall-active antibiotics in tolerant and nontolerant bacteria is proposed. IMPORTANCE Antibiotic tolerance is a serious clinical concern, since tolerant bacteria have considerably increased abilities to resist killing by bactericidal drugs. Using enterococci as models for highly antibiotic-tolerant pathogens, we showed that tolerance of these bacteria is linked to their superoxide dismutase (Sod), arguing that bactericidal antibiotics induce generation of reactive oxygen species inside cells. Wild-type strains are tolerant because they detoxify these deleterious molecules by the activity of Sod, whereas Sod-deficient strains are killed. This study showed that killing depends on the energy source present during treatment and that an increase in arginine catabolism partially restored tolerance of the Sod mutants. These results are used to propose a mode-of-action model of cell wall-active antibiotics in tolerant and nontolerant bacteria.
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Molecular and metabolic adaptations of Lactococcus lactis at near-zero growth rates. Appl Environ Microbiol 2014; 81:320-31. [PMID: 25344239 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02484-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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This paper describes the molecular and metabolic adaptations of Lactococcus lactis during the transition from a growing to a near-zero growth state by using carbon-limited retentostat cultivation. Transcriptomic analyses revealed that metabolic patterns shifted between lactic- and mixed-acid fermentations during retentostat cultivation, which appeared to be controlled at the level of transcription of the corresponding pyruvate dissipation-encoding genes. During retentostat cultivation, cells continued to consume several amino acids but also produced specific amino acids, which may derive from the conversion of glycolytic intermediates. We identify a novel motif containing CTGTCAG in the upstream regions of several genes related to amino acid conversion, which we propose to be the target site for CodY in L. lactis KF147. Finally, under extremely low carbon availability, carbon catabolite repression was progressively relieved and alternative catabolic functions were found to be highly expressed, which was confirmed by enhanced initial acidification rates on various sugars in cells obtained from near-zero-growth cultures. The present integrated transcriptome and metabolite (amino acids and previously reported fermentation end products) study provides molecular understanding of the adaptation of L. lactis to conditions supporting low growth rates and expands our earlier analysis of the quantitative physiology of this bacterium at near-zero growth rates toward gene regulation patterns involved in zero-growth adaptation.
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Papagianni M, Legiša M. Increased mannitol production in Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC 55730 production strain with a modified 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase. J Biotechnol 2014; 181:20-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2013] [Revised: 04/03/2014] [Accepted: 04/07/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Sohoni SV, Fazio A, Workman CT, Mijakovic I, Lantz AE. Synthetic promoter library for modulation of actinorhodin production in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). PLoS One 2014; 9:e99701. [PMID: 24963940 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2014] [Accepted: 05/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The objective of this study was the application of the synthetic promoter library (SPL) technology for modulation of actinorhodin production in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). The SPL technology was used to optimize the expression of a pathway specific positive transcriptional regulator ActII orf4, which activates the transcription of the S. coelicolor actinorhodin biosynthetic gene cluster. The native actII orf4 promoter was replaced with synthetic promoters, generating a S. coelicolor library with a broad range of expression levels of actII orf4. The resulting library was screened based on the yield of actinorhodin. Selected strains were further physiologically characterized. One of the strains from the library, ScoSPL20, showed considerably higher yield of actinorhodin and final actinorhodin titer, compared to S. coelicolor wild type and S. coelicolor with actII orf4 expressed from a strong constitutive promoter. ScoSPL20 demonstrated exceptional productivity despite having a comparatively weak expression from the promoter. Interestingly, the ScoSPL20 promoter was activated at a much earlier stage of growth compared to the wild type, demonstrating the advantage of fine-tuning and temporal tuning of gene expression in metabolic engineering. Transcriptome studies were performed in exponential and actinorhodin-producing phase of growth to compare gene expression between ScoSPL20 and the wild type. To our knowledge, this is the first successful application of the SPL technology for secondary metabolite production in filamentous bacteria.
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- Sujata Vijay Sohoni
- Department of Systems Biology, Denmark Technical University, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Systems Biology, Denmark Technical University, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Systems Biology, Denmark Technical University, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Systems and Synthetic Biology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Systems Biology, Denmark Technical University, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Chan SHJ, Nørregaard L, Solem C, Jensen PR. Acetate kinase isozymes confer robustness in acetate metabolism. PLoS One 2014; 9:e92256. [PMID: 24638105 PMCID: PMC3956926 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2013] [Accepted: 02/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Acetate kinase (ACK) (EC no: 2.7.2.1) interconverts acetyl-phosphate and acetate to either catabolize or synthesize acetyl-CoA dependent on the metabolic requirement. Among all ACK entries available in UniProt, we found that around 45% are multiple ACKs in some organisms including more than 300 species but surprisingly, little work has been done to clarify whether this has any significance. In an attempt to gain further insight we have studied the two ACKs (AckA1, AckA2) encoded by two neighboring genes conserved in Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis) by analyzing protein sequences, characterizing transcription structure, determining enzyme characteristics and effect on growth physiology. The results show that the two ACKs are most likely individually transcribed. AckA1 has a much higher turnover number and AckA2 has a much higher affinity for acetate in vitro. Consistently, growth experiments of mutant strains reveal that AckA1 has a higher capacity for acetate production which allows faster growth in an environment with high acetate concentration. Meanwhile, AckA2 is important for fast acetate-dependent growth at low concentration of acetate. The results demonstrate that the two ACKs have complementary physiological roles in L. lactis to maintain a robust acetate metabolism for fast growth at different extracellular acetate concentrations. The existence of ACK isozymes may reflect a common evolutionary strategy in bacteria in an environment with varying concentrations of acetate.
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
- * E-mail: (CS); (PRJ)
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
- * E-mail: (CS); (PRJ)
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Costa RS, Hartmann A, Gaspar P, Neves AR, Vinga S. An extended dynamic model of Lactococcus lactis metabolism for mannitol and 2,3-butanediol production. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2014; 10:628-39. [PMID: 24413179 DOI: 10.1039/c3mb70265k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Biomedical research and biotechnological production are greatly benefiting from the results provided by the development of dynamic models of microbial metabolism. Although several kinetic models of Lactococcus lactis (a Lactic Acid Bacterium (LAB) commonly used in the dairy industry) have been developed so far, most of them are simplified and focus only on specific metabolic pathways. Therefore, the application of mathematical models in the design of an engineering strategy for the production of industrially important products by L. lactis has been very limited. In this work, we extend the existing kinetic model of L. lactis central metabolism to include industrially relevant production pathways such as mannitol and 2,3-butanediol. In this way, we expect to study the dynamics of metabolite production and make predictive simulations in L. lactis. We used a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with approximate Michaelis-Menten-like kinetics for each reaction, where the parameters were estimated from multivariate time-series metabolite concentrations obtained by our team through in vivo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). The results show that the model captures observed transient dynamics when validated under a wide range of experimental conditions. Furthermore, we analyzed the model using global perturbations, which corroborate experimental evidence about metabolic responses upon enzymatic changes. These include that mannitol production is very sensitive to lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the wild type (W.T.) strain, and to mannitol phosphoenolpyruvate: a phosphotransferase system (PTS(Mtl)) in a LDH mutant strain. LDH reduction has also a positive control on 2,3-butanediol levels. Furthermore, it was found that overproduction of mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase (MPD) in a LDH/PTS(Mtl) deficient strain can increase the mannitol levels. The results show that this model has prediction capability over new experimental conditions and offers promising possibilities to elucidate the effect of alterations in the main metabolism of L. lactis, with application in strain optimization.
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- Rafael S Costa
- Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigacão e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), R Alves Redol 9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal.
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Papagianni M. Metabolic engineering of lactic acid bacteria for the production of industrially important compounds. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2012; 3:e201210003. [PMID: 24688663 PMCID: PMC3962192 DOI: 10.5936/csbj.201210003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2012] [Revised: 09/10/2012] [Accepted: 09/15/2012] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are receiving increased attention for use as cell factories for the production of metabolites with wide use by the food and pharmaceutical industries. The availability of efficient tools for genetic modification of LAB during the past decade permitted the application of metabolic engineering strategies at the levels of both the primary and the more complex secondary metabolism. The recent developments in the area with a focus on the production of industrially important metabolites will be discussed in this review.
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- Maria Papagianni
- Department of Hygiene and Technology of Food of Animal Origin, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54 124, Greece
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Metabolic Flux and Nodes Control Analysis of Brewer’s Yeasts Under Different Fermentation Temperature During Beer Brewing. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2012; 168:1938-52. [PMID: 23065402 DOI: 10.1007/s12010-012-9909-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2012] [Accepted: 10/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Engineering the central pathways in Lactococcus lactis: Functional expression of the phosphofructokinase (pfk) and alternative oxidase (aox1) genes from Aspergillus niger in Lactococcus lactis facilitates improved carbon conversion rates under oxidizing conditions. Enzyme Microb Technol 2012; 51:125-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2012.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2012] [Revised: 04/23/2012] [Accepted: 04/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Borić M, Danevčič T, Stopar D. Viscosity dictates metabolic activity of Vibrio ruber. Front Microbiol 2012; 3:255. [PMID: 22826705 PMCID: PMC3399222 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2012] [Accepted: 06/29/2012] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Little is known about metabolic activity of bacteria, when viscosity of their environment changes. In this work, bacterial metabolic activity in media with viscosity ranging from 0.8 to 29.4 mPas was studied. Viscosities up to 2.4 mPas did not affect metabolic activity of Vibrio ruber. On the other hand, at 29.4 mPas respiration rate and total dehydrogenase activity increased 8 and 4-fold, respectively. The activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPD) increased up to 13-fold at higher viscosities. However, intensified metabolic activity did not result in faster growth rate. Increased viscosity delayed the onset as well as the duration of biosynthesis of prodigiosin. As an adaptation to viscous environment V. ruber increased metabolic flux through the pentose phosphate pathway and reduced synthesis of a secondary metabolite. In addition, V. ruber was able to modify the viscosity of its environment.
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- Chair of Microbiology, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia
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A specific mutation in the promoter region of the silent cel cluster accounts for the appearance of lactose-utilizing Lactococcus lactis MG1363. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012; 78:5612-21. [PMID: 22660716 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00455-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The Lactococcus lactis laboratory strain MG1363 has been described to be unable to utilize lactose. However, in a rich medium supplemented with lactose as the sole carbon source, it starts to grow after prolonged incubation periods. Transcriptome analyses showed that L. lactis MG1363 Lac(+) cells expressed celB, encoding a putative cellobiose-specific phosphotransferase system (PTS) IIC component, which is normally silent in MG1363 Lac(-) cells. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the cel cluster of a Lac(+) isolate revealed a change from one of the guanines to adenine in the promoter region. We showed here that one particular mutation, taking place at increased frequency, accounts for the lactose-utilizing phenotype occurring in MG1363 cultures. The G-to-A transition creates a -10 element at an optimal distance from the -35 element. Thus, a fully active promoter is created, allowing transcription of the otherwise cryptic cluster. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy results show that MG1363 Lac(+) uses a novel pathway of lactose utilization.
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Recent advances in engineering the central carbon metabolism of industrially important bacteria. Microb Cell Fact 2012; 11:50. [PMID: 22545791 PMCID: PMC3461431 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-11-50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2012] [Accepted: 04/30/2012] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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This paper gives an overview of the recent advances in engineering the central carbon metabolism of the industrially important bacteria Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Corynobacterium glutamicum, Streptomyces spp., Lactococcus lactis and other lactic acid bacteria. All of them are established producers of important classes of products, e.g. proteins, amino acids, organic acids, antibiotics, high-value metabolites for the food industry and also, promising producers of a large number of industrially or therapeutically important chemicals. Optimization of existing or introduction of new cellular processes in these microorganisms is often achieved through manipulation of targets that reside at major points of central metabolic pathways, such as glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, the pentose phosphate pathway and the tricarboxylic acid cycle with the glyoxylate shunt. Based on the huge progress made in recent years in biochemical, genetic and regulatory studies, new fascinating engineering approaches aim at ensuring an optimal carbon and energy flow within central metabolism in order to achieve optimized metabolite production.
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Price CE, Zeyniyev A, Kuipers OP, Kok J. From meadows to milk to mucosa - adaptation of Streptococcus and Lactococcus species to their nutritional environments. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2012; 36:949-71. [PMID: 22212109 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00323.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2011] [Revised: 12/20/2011] [Accepted: 12/21/2011] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are indigenous to food-related habitats as well as associated with the mucosal surfaces of animals. The LAB family Streptococcaceae consists of the genera Lactococcus and Streptococcus. Members of the family include the industrially important species Lactococcus lactis, which has a long history safe use in the fermentative food industry, and the disease-causing streptococci Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus pyogenes. The central metabolic pathways of the Streptococcaceae family have been extensively studied because of their relevance in the industrial use of some species, as well as their influence on virulence of others. Recent developments in high-throughput proteomic and DNA-microarray techniques, in in vivo NMR studies, and importantly in whole-genome sequencing have resulted in new insights into the metabolism of the Streptococcaceae family. The development of cost-effective high-throughput sequencing has resulted in the publication of numerous whole-genome sequences of lactococcal and streptococcal species. Comparative genomic analysis of these closely related but environmentally diverse species provides insight into the evolution of this family of LAB and shows that the relatively small genomes of members of the Streptococcaceae family have been largely shaped by the nutritionally rich environments they inhabit.
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- Claire E Price
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Biochemistry Department, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, Delft, The Netherlands; Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Synthetic and systems biologists need standardized, modular and orthogonal tools yielding predictable functions in vivo. In systems biology such tools are needed to quantitatively analyze the behavior of biological systems while the efficient engineering of artificial gene networks is central in synthetic biology. A number of tools exist to manipulate the steps in between gene sequence and functional protein in living cells, but out of these the most straight-forward approach is to alter the gene expression level by manipulating the promoter sequence. Some of the promoter tuning tools available for accomplishing such altered gene expression levels are discussed here along with examples of their use, and ideas for new tools are described. The road ahead looks very promising for synthetic and systems biologists as tools to achieve just about anything in terms of tuning and timing multiple gene expression levels using libraries of synthetic promoters now exist.
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- Tore Dehli
- Center for Systems Microbiology, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Matematiktorvet 301/242, 2800, Lyngby, Denmark,
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Carvalho SM, Kloosterman TG, Kuipers OP, Neves AR. CcpA ensures optimal metabolic fitness of Streptococcus pneumoniae. PLoS One 2011; 6:e26707. [PMID: 22039538 PMCID: PMC3198803 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2011] [Accepted: 10/03/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In gram-positive bacteria, the transcriptional regulator CcpA is at the core of catabolite control mechanisms. In the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae, links between CcpA and virulence have been established, but its role as a master regulator in different nutritional environments remains to be elucidated. Thus, we performed whole-transcriptome and metabolic analyses of S. pneumoniae D39 and its isogenic ccpA mutant during growth on glucose or galactose, rapidly and slowly metabolized carbohydrates presumably encountered by the bacterium in different host niches. CcpA affected the expression of up to 19% of the genome covering multiple cellular processes, including virulence, regulatory networks and central metabolism. Its prevalent function as a repressor was observed on glucose, but unexpectedly also on galactose. Carbohydrate-dependent CcpA regulation was also observed, as for the tagatose 6-phosphate pathway genes, which were activated by galactose and repressed by glucose. Metabolite analyses revealed that two pathways for galactose catabolism are functionally active, despite repression of the Leloir genes by CcpA. Surprisingly, galactose-induced mixed-acid fermentation apparently required CcpA, since genes involved in this type of metabolism were mostly under CcpA-repression. These findings indicate that the role of CcpA extends beyond transcriptional regulation, which seemingly is overlaid by other regulatory mechanisms. In agreement, CcpA influenced the level of many intracellular metabolites potentially involved in metabolic regulation. Our data strengthen the view that a true understanding of cell physiology demands thorough analyses at different cellular levels. Moreover, integration of transcriptional and metabolic data uncovered a link between CcpA and the association of surface molecules (e.g. capsule) to the cell wall. Hence, CcpA may play a key role in mediating the interaction of S. pneumoniae with its host. Overall, our results support the hypothesis that S. pneumoniae optimizes basic metabolic processes, likely enhancing in vivo fitness, in a CcpA-mediated manner.
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- Sandra M. Carvalho
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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Papagianni M, Avramidis N. Lactococcus lactis as a cell factory: A twofold increase in phosphofructokinase activity results in a proportional increase in specific rates of glucose uptake and lactate formation. Enzyme Microb Technol 2011; 49:197-202. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2011.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2011] [Accepted: 05/09/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Danevčič T, Stopar D. Asymmetric response of carbon metabolism at high and low salt stress in Vibrio sp. DSM14379. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2011; 62:198-204. [PMID: 21573760 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9870-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2011] [Accepted: 04/28/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Energy redistribution between growth and maintenance in salt-stressed cells is especially important for bacteria living in estuarine environments. In this study, Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio sp. DSM14379, isolated from the estuarine waters of the northern Adriatic Sea, was grown aerobically in a peptone-yeast extract medium with different salt concentrations (ranging from 0.3% to 10% (w/v) NaCl). Carbon flux through the central metabolic pathways was determined at low and high salt concentrations. At low salt concentrations, total endogenous respiration, dehydrogenase activity, and net intracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) concentration significantly increased, the phosphofructokinase and pyruvate kinase activity decreased, whereas glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity remained unchanged. The carrying capacity of bacterial culture decreased dramatically, indicating a severe metabolic imbalance at low salt concentrations. At high salt concentrations, carrying capacity decreased gradually. There was a large increase in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity, which correlated with a 10-fold increase in concentration of osmoprotectant L-proline. There was no significant change of net intracellular ATP concentration, phosphofructokinase, or pyruvate kinase activity. The results indicate that Vibrio sp. DSM14379 central metabolic pathways respond to low and high salt concentrations asymmetrically; cells are better adapted to high salt concentrations. In addition, cells in the stationary phase can tolerate induced salt stress without a significant change in dehydrogenase activity or endogenous respiration for at least 1 h, but need to alter their macromolecular composition and carbon flux distribution for long-term survival.
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- Tjaša Danevčič
- Department of Food Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 111, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Muñoz-Márquez ME, Ponce-Rivas E. Effect of pfkA chromosomal interruption on growth, sporulation, and production of organic acids in Bacillus subtilis. J Basic Microbiol 2010; 50:232-40. [PMID: 20473954 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.200900236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Phosphofructokinase (Pfk) plays a key role in the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism. Its activity can be used as an indicator of glycolytic flux in a microorganism. We have cloned and characterized the pfkA gene from Bacillus subtilis, which encodes the enzyme phosphofructokinase. This gene was insertionally inactivated at the chromosomal level in a wild type strain and in strains lacking the PEP:sugar phosphotranferase system (PTS). Although the pykA gene is immediately downstream of the pfkA gene, forming a constitutive operon in B. subtilis, the pyruvate kinase activity was not altered in the pfkA mutant. The inactivation of the pfkA gene had a strong impact on the growth of the B. subtilis wild type strain and PTS mutants in Spizizen's minimal media and Schaeffer's sporulation media. Pfk inactivation was also reflected by the timing and percentage of sporulation of the wild type and PTS mutants in sporulation media as well as in the production of organic by-products (pyruvate, lactate, and acetate).
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Plasmid pCS1966, a new selection/counterselection tool for lactic acid bacterium strain construction based on the oroP gene, encoding an orotate transporter from Lactococcus lactis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2008; 74:4772-5. [PMID: 18539798 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00134-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In this paper we describe the new selection/counterselection vector pCS1966, which is suitable for both sequence-specific integration based on homologous recombination and integration in a bacteriophage attachment site. This plasmid harbors oroP, which encodes a dedicated orotate transporter, and can replicate only in Escherichia coli. Selection for integration is performed primarily by resistance to erythromycin; alternatively, the ability to utilize orotate as a pyrimidine source in a pyrimidine auxotrophic mutant could be utilized. Besides allowing the cell to utilize orotate, the transporter renders the cell sensitive to 5-fluoroorotate. This sensitivity is used to select for loss of the plasmid. When expressed from its own promoter, oroP was toxic to E. coli, whereas in Lactococcus lactis the level of expression of oroP from a chromosomal copy was too low to confer 5-fluoroorotate sensitivity. In order to obtain a plasmid that confers 5-fluoroorotate sensitivity when it is integrated into the chromosome of L. lactis and at the same time can be stably maintained in E. coli, the expression of the oroP gene was controlled from a synthetic promoter conferring these traits. To demonstrate its use, a number of L. lactis strains expressing triosephosphate isomerase (tpiA) at different levels were constructed.
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Rud I, Solem C, Jensen PR, Axelsson L, Naterstad K. Co-factor engineering in lactobacilli: effects of uncoupled ATPase activity on metabolic fluxes in Lactobacillus (L.) plantarum and L. sakei. Metab Eng 2008; 10:207-15. [PMID: 18582592 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2008.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2007] [Revised: 04/28/2008] [Accepted: 06/02/2008] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The hydrolytic F(1)-part of the F(1)F(0)-ATPase was over-expressed in Lactobacillus (L.) plantarum NC8 and L. sakei Lb790x during fermentation of glucose or ribose, in order to study how changes in the intracellular levels of ATP and ADP affect the metabolic fluxes. The uncoupled ATPase activity resulted in a decrease in intracellular energy level (ATP/ADP ratio), biomass yield and growth rate. Interestingly, the glycolytic and ribolytic flux increased in L. plantarum with uncoupled ATPase activity compared to the reference strain by up to 20% and 50%, respectively. The ATP demand was estimated to have approximately 80% control on both the glycolytic and ribolytic flux in L. plantarum under these conditions. In contrast, the glycolytic and ribolytic flux decreased in L. sakei with uncoupled ATPase activity.
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- Ida Rud
- Matforsk, Nofima Food, Osloveien 1, N-1430 As, Norway; Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, N-1432 As, Norway
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Gaspar P, Neves AR, Shearman CA, Gasson MJ, Baptista AM, Turner DL, Soares CM, Santos H. The lactate dehydrogenases encoded by the ldh and ldhB genes in Lactococcus lactis exhibit distinct regulation and catalytic properties - comparative modeling to probe the molecular basis. FEBS J 2007; 274:5924-36. [PMID: 17944947 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06115.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Lactococcus lactis FI9078, a construct carrying a disruption of the ldh gene, converted approximately 90% of glucose into lactic acid, like the parental strain MG1363. This unexpected lactate dehydrogenase activity was purified, and ldhB was identified as the gene encoding this protein. The activation of ldhB was explained by the insertion of an IS905-like element that created a hybrid promoter in the intergenic region upstream of ldhB. The biochemical and kinetic properties of this alternative lactate dehydrogenase (LDHB) were compared to those of the ldh-encoded enzyme (LDH), purified from the parental strain. In contrast to LDH, the affinity of LDHB for NADH and the activation constant for fructose 1,6-bisphosphate were strongly dependent on pH. The activation constant increased 700-fold, whereas the K(m) for NADH increased more than 10-fold, in the pH range 5.5-7.2. The two enzymes also exhibited different pH profiles for maximal activity. Moreover, inorganic phosphate acted as a strong activator of LDHB. The impact of replacing LDH by LDHB on the physiology of L. lactis was assessed by monitoring the evolution of the pools of glycolytic intermediates and cofactors during the metabolism of glucose by in vivo NMR. Structural analysis by comparative modeling of the two proteins showed that LDH has a slightly larger negative charge than LDHB and a greater concentration of positive charges at the interface between monomers. The calculated pH titration curves of the catalytic histidine residues explain why LDH maintains its activity at low pH as compared to LDHB, the histidines in LDH showing larger pH titration ranges.
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- Paula Gaspar
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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The increasing number of genomic and post-genomic studies on Gram-positive organisms and especially on lactic acid bacteria brings a lot of information on sugar catabolism in these bacteria. Like for many other bacteria, glucose is the most preferred source of carbon and energy for Lactococcus lactis. Other carbon sources can induce their own utilization in the absence of well-metabolized sugar. These processes engage numbers of genes and undergo complex mechanisms of regulation. In this review, we discuss various biochemical and genetic control mechanisms involved in sugar catabolism, like regulation by repressors, activators, antiterminators or carbon catabolite repression control.
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- Magdalena Kowalczyk
- Department of Microbial Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS, Pawinskiego, Warszawa, Poland.
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Solem C, Koebmann B, Yang F, Jensen PR. The las enzymes control pyruvate metabolism in Lactococcus lactis during growth on maltose. J Bacteriol 2007; 189:6727-30. [PMID: 17616595 PMCID: PMC2045170 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00902-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The fermentation pattern of Lactococcus lactis with altered activities of the las enzymes was examined on maltose. The wild type converted 65% of the maltose to mixed acids. An increase in phosphofructokinase or lactate dehydrogenase expression shifted the fermentation towards homolactic fermentation, and with a high level of expression of the las operon the fermentation was homolactic.
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- Christian Solem
- Systems Microbiology, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Building 301, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
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Papagianni M, Avramidis N, Filiousis G. Glycolysis and the regulation of glucose transport in Lactococcus lactis spp. lactis in batch and fed-batch culture. Microb Cell Fact 2007; 6:16. [PMID: 17521452 PMCID: PMC1890298 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-6-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2007] [Accepted: 05/24/2007] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Despite the fact that many reports deal with glycolysis in Lactococcus lactis, there is not much information on the regulation of uptake of glucose itself. The aim of the present work was to investigate the effect of the glucose level on its specific uptake rate. Results Studies on aeration levels in pH controlled L. lactis spp. lactis batch cultures on glucose (55 mM) showed that product formation is extremely homolactic and the highest yield of lactate on glucose is obtained under microaerobic conditions (5% dissolved oxygen). Microaerobic conditions were therefore applied in experiments carried out to investigate the regulation of the uptake of glucose. The tool of glucostat fed-batch culture was employed, in which glucose was added at a rate suitable to maintain a stable concentration throughout the runs with glucose concentration ranging from 13.75 to 555 mM. The glucostat experiments showed that the concentration of glucose influences its specific uptake rate and consequently the glycolytic flux, as well as the fermentation pattern. The highest specific activities of the key glycolytic enzymes PFK, PYK and the LDH were obtained at 55 mM glucose, the area of the highest observed glycolytic flux. Reduction of the glycolytic flux by 55% in the 277 mM glucostat corresponded to an almost identical reduction in PFK activity, indicating a certain controlling influence of this enzyme on the flux, through the glucose effect. Conclusion Determination of intracellular metabolites' pools showed that FBP cannot be regarded as a direct regulator of product formation, since almost identical concentrations were obtained at both low (13.75 mM) and high (138 mM) glucose levels, at which neither the glucose uptake rates and the glycolytic flux, nor the fermentation patterns were similar (mixed acids vs homolactic, respectively). Glucostat data showed instead that the control of the flux through the glycolytic pathway under the examined conditions, resides to a large extent in processes outside the pathway, like the ATP consuming reactions and glucose transport. A regulation mechanism is proposed governed by the energy state of the cell by which L. lactis can handle the glycolytic flux through the allosteric properties of key enzymes, with PFK having a significant influence on the control.
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- Maria Papagianni
- Department of Hygiene and Technology of Food of Animal Origin, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece
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- Department of Hygiene and Technology of Food of Animal Origin, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece
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- Department of Hygiene and Technology of Food of Animal Origin, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece
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Mercade M, Cocaign-Bousquet M, Loubière P. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase regulation in Lactococcus lactis ssp. cremoris MG1363 or relA mutant at low pH. J Appl Microbiol 2006; 100:1364-72. [PMID: 16696685 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2006.02867.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIMS To analyse the phenotype of a relA acid-resistant mutant of Lactococcus lactis ssp. cremoris MG1363, and to compare the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase regulation in both strains. METHODS AND RESULTS Lactococcus lactis ssp. cremoris MG1363 and the relA mutant affected in the (p)ppGpp synthetase were grown in a series of batch-mode fermentation at different pH-regulated conditions with glucose as carbon substrate. All the determinants of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) regulation were quantified. In L. lactis MG1363, the GAPDH was strongly inhibited in vitro by decreased pH values, but this inhibition was totally compensated in vivo by the lower NADH/NAD+ ratio and more efficiently by the important increase in the intracellular amount of GAPDH. In contrast to the wild type, GAPDH activity of the relA strain was not increased when grown at low pH but the level of GAPDH remained constitutively high. However, pH homeostasis was not improved in the relA mutant and it grew slower and exhibited a lower glycolytic flux than the wild-type strain at low pH. CONCLUSIONS Despite a better resistance to acid stress, the increased survival in L. lactis relA mutant at low pH was not related with an improved pH homeostasis but was associated with a diminished capacity to maintain a high flux through glycolysis. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY The phenotype of a strong acid-resistant L. lactis strain was established in acid conditions and some key metabolic parameters compared with the wild type. This analysis led to the conclusion that growth and survival seem to be antinomic parameters, since improving one of them leads to a decrease in the other one.
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- M Mercade
- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie-Bioprocédés, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, UMR INSA/CNRS 5504 & UMR INSA/INKA 792 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
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Raynaud S, Perrin R, Cocaign-Bousquet M, Loubiere P. Metabolic and transcriptomic adaptation of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis Biovar diacetylactis in response to autoacidification and temperature downshift in skim milk. Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 71:8016-23. [PMID: 16332781 PMCID: PMC1317463 DOI: 10.1128/aem.71.12.8016-8023.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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For the first time, a combined genome-wide transcriptome and metabolic analysis was performed with a dairy Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis strain under dynamic conditions similar to the conditions encountered during the cheese-making process. A culture was grown in skim milk in an anaerobic environment without pH regulation and with a controlled temperature downshift. Fermentation kinetics, as well as central metabolism enzyme activities, were determined throughout the culture. Based on the enzymatic analysis, a type of glycolytic control was postulated, which was shared by most of the enzymes during the growth phase; in particular, the phosphofructokinase and some enzymes of the phosphoglycerate pathway during the postacidification phase were implicated. These conclusions were reinforced by whole-genome transcriptomic data. First, limited enzyme activities relative to the carbon flux were measured for most of the glycolytic enzymes; second, transcripts and enzyme activities exhibited similar changes during the culture; and third, genes involved in alternative metabolic pathways derived from some glycolytic metabolites were induced just upstream of the postulated glycolytic bottlenecks, as a consequence of accumulation of these metabolites. Other transcriptional responses to autoacidification and a decrease in temperature were induced at the end of the growth phase and were partially maintained during the stationary phase. If specific responses to acid and cold stresses were identified, this exhaustive analysis also enabled induction of unexpected pathways to be shown.
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- Sandy Raynaud
- Laboratoire Biotechnologie-Bioprocédés, UMR 5504 INSA/CNRS & UMR 792 INSA/INRA, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, 135 Avenue de Rangueil, 31077 Toulouse cedex 4, France
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Koebmann B, Solem C, Jensen PR. Control analysis as a tool to understand the formation of the las operon in Lactococcus lactis. FEBS J 2005; 272:2292-303. [PMID: 15853813 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04656.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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In Lactococcus lactis the enzymes phosphofructokinase (PFK), pyruvate kinase (PK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) are uniquely encoded in the las operon. We used metabolic control analysis to study the role of this organization. Earlier studies have shown that, at wild-type levels, LDH has no control over glycolysis and growth rate, but high negative control over formate production (C(Jformate)LDH=-1.3). We found that PFK and PK exert no control over glycolysis and growth rate at wild-type enzyme levels but both enzymes exert strong positive control on the glycolytic flux at reduced activities. PK exerts high positive control over formate (C(Jformate)PK=0.9-1.1) and acetate production (C(Jacetate)PK=0.8-1.0), whereas PFK exerts no control over these fluxes at increased expression. Decreased expression of the entire las operon resulted in a strong decrease in the growth rate and glycolytic flux; at 53% expression of the las operon glycolytic flux was reduced to 44% and the flux control coefficient increased towards 3. Increased las expression resulted in a slight decrease in the glycolytic flux. At wild-type levels, control was close to zero on both glycolysis and the pyruvate branches. The sum of control coefficients for the three enzymes individually was comparable with the control coefficient found for the entire operon; the strong positive control exerted by PK almost cancels out the negative control exerted by LDH on formate production. Our analysis suggests that coregulation of PFK and PK provides a very efficient way to regulate glycolysis, and coregulating PK and LDH allows cells to maintain homolactic fermentation during glycolysis regulation.
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- Brian Koebmann
- Microbial Physiology and Genetics, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark
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Alvarez-Añorve LI, Calcagno ML, Plumbridge J. Why does Escherichia coli grow more slowly on glucosamine than on N-acetylglucosamine? Effects of enzyme levels and allosteric activation of GlcN6P deaminase (NagB) on growth rates. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:2974-82. [PMID: 15838023 PMCID: PMC1082822 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.9.2974-2982.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Wild-type Escherichia coli grows more slowly on glucosamine (GlcN) than on N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) as a sole source of carbon. Both sugars are transported by the phosphotransferase system, and their 6-phospho derivatives are produced. The subsequent catabolism of the sugars requires the allosteric enzyme glucosamine-6-phosphate (GlcN6P) deaminase, which is encoded by nagB, and degradation of GlcNAc also requires the nagA-encoded enzyme, N-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate (GlcNAc6P) deacetylase. We investigated various factors which could affect growth on GlcN and GlcNAc, including the rate of GlcN uptake, the level of induction of the nag operon, and differential allosteric activation of GlcN6P deaminase. We found that for strains carrying a wild-type deaminase (nagB) gene, increasing the level of the NagB protein or the rate of GlcN uptake increased the growth rate, which showed that both enzyme induction and sugar transport were limiting. A set of point mutations in nagB that are known to affect the allosteric behavior of GlcN6P deaminase in vitro were transferred to the nagB gene on the Escherichia coli chromosome, and their effects on the growth rates were measured. Mutants in which the substrate-induced positive cooperativity of NagB was reduced or abolished grew even more slowly on GlcN than on GlcNAc or did not grow at all on GlcN. Increasing the amount of the deaminase by using a nagC or nagA mutation to derepress the nag operon improved growth. For some mutants, a nagA mutation, which caused the accumulation of the allosteric activator GlcNAc6P and permitted allosteric activation, had a stronger effect than nagC. The effects of the mutations on growth in vivo are discussed in light of their in vitro kinetics.
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Wisselink HW, Moers APHA, Mars AE, Hoefnagel MHN, de Vos WM, Hugenholtz J. Overproduction of heterologous mannitol 1-phosphatase: a key factor for engineering mannitol production by Lactococcus lactis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2005; 71:1507-14. [PMID: 15746354 PMCID: PMC1065179 DOI: 10.1128/aem.71.3.1507-1514.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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To achieve high mannitol production by Lactococcus lactis, the mannitol 1-phosphatase gene of Eimeria tenella and the mannitol 1-phosphate dehydrogenase gene mtlD of Lactobacillus plantarum were cloned in the nisin-dependent L. lactis NICE overexpression system. As predicted by a kinetic L. lactis glycolysis model, increase in mannitol 1-phosphate dehydrogenase and mannitol 1-phosphatase activities resulted in increased mannitol production. Overexpression of both genes in growing cells resulted in glucose-mannitol conversions of 11, 21, and 27% by the L. lactis parental strain, a strain with reduced phosphofructokinase activity, and a lactate dehydrogenase-deficient strain, respectively. Improved induction conditions and increased substrate concentrations resulted in an even higher glucose-to-mannitol conversion of 50% by the lactate dehydrogenase-deficient L. lactis strain, close to the theoretical mannitol yield of 67%. Moreover, a clear correlation between mannitol 1-phosphatase activity and mannitol production was shown, demonstrating the usefulness of this metabolic engineering approach.
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Matthies C, Gössner A, Acker G, Schramm A, Drake HL. Lactovum miscens gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerotolerant, psychrotolerant, mixed-fermentative anaerobe from acidic forest soil. Res Microbiol 2004; 155:847-54. [PMID: 15567280 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2004.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2004] [Accepted: 06/15/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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An aerotolerant, psychrotolerant anaerobe, anNAG3, was isolated from an acidic forest floor solution (in situ pH of 4.5). Cells of anNAG3 stained Gram-positive did not form spores, and were not motile. Cells were ovoid, approximately 1 microm long and 0.7 microm wide, mostly in pairs, and contained a multi-layered cell wall and intracytoplasmic membranes. Growth was observed at pH 3.5-7.5 and 0-35 degrees C. Glucose, galactose, fructose, mannitol, glucosamine, N-acetylglucosamine, cellobiose, and maltose supported growth. Lactate, ethanol, formate, and acetate were end products. H(2) and CH(4) were not detected, and only very minor amounts of CO(2) were produced. The relative amount of a particular product was dependent on the substrate utilized, and product profiles indicated that (i) sugars were initially metabolized to pyruvate via glycolysis, and (ii) lactate dehydrogenase and pyruvate-formate lyase were responsible for the subsequent metabolism of pyruvate. O(2) was not significantly utilized and was not toxic to growth. anNAG3 did not contain detectable membranous or cytoplasmic cytochromes. Nitrate, sulfate, and Fe(III) were not dissimilated. Thus, anNAG3 was characterized as an aerotolerant, non-acetogenic chemoorganotroph with a mixed-fermentative metabolism. The G + C content of the DNA was 37.6 mol%. The similarity of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of anNAG3 to that of its closest phylogenetic relatives (which were in the genera Lactococcus and Streptococcus) approximated 88-89%, indicating that anNAG3 constitutes the type species of a new genus. Based on the collective properties of anNAG3, it is proposed that anNAG3 be termed Lactovum miscens.
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- Carola Matthies
- Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Wisselink HW, Mars AE, van der Meer P, Eggink G, Hugenholtz J. Metabolic engineering of mannitol production in Lactococcus lactis: influence of overexpression of mannitol 1-phosphate dehydrogenase in different genetic backgrounds. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:4286-92. [PMID: 15240312 PMCID: PMC444806 DOI: 10.1128/aem.70.7.4286-4292.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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To obtain a mannitol-producing Lactococcus lactis strain, the mannitol 1-phosphate dehydrogenase gene (mtlD) from Lactobacillus plantarum was overexpressed in a wild-type strain, a lactate dehydrogenase(LDH)-deficient strain, and a strain with reduced phosphofructokinase activity. High-performance liquid chromatography and (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance analysis revealed that small amounts (<1%) of mannitol were formed by growing cells of mtlD-overexpressing LDH-deficient and phosphofructokinase-reduced strains, whereas resting cells of the LDH-deficient transformant converted 25% of glucose into mannitol. Moreover, the formed mannitol was not reutilized upon glucose depletion. Of the metabolic-engineering strategies investigated in this work, mtlD-overexpressing LDH-deficient L. lactis seemed to be the most promising strain for mannitol production.
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- H Wouter Wisselink
- Wageningen Centre for Food Sciences, Wageningen University and Research Centre-Agrotechnology and Food Innovations, Ede, The Netherlands
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Ramos A, Neves AR, Ventura R, Maycock C, López P, Santos H. Effect of pyruvate kinase overproduction on glucose metabolism of Lactococcus lactis. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2004; 150:1103-1111. [PMID: 15073320 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26695-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Lactococcus lactis strain NZ9000(pNZpyk), which overproduces pyruvate kinase (PK), was constructed. The pNZpyk plasmid carries the P(nisA)-pyk transcriptional fusion, and the overexpression of its pyk gene was accomplished by using the nisin-inducible expression system of the NZ9000 strain. In vivo (13)C- and (31)P-NMR spectroscopy was used to evaluate the effect of this modification on the metabolism of glucose in non-growing cells. A detailed description of the kinetics of glucose, end products, glycolytic intermediates, NAD(+) and NADH was obtained. A 15-fold increase in the level of PK did not increase the overall glycolytic flux, which, on the contrary, was slightly reduced. Significant differences were observed in (i) the level of 3-phosphoglycerate (3-PGA) and phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), metabolites associated with starvation; (ii) the rate of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) depletion upon glucose exhaustion; and (iii) the NAD(+)/NADH ratio during glucose catabolism. In the mutant, the rate of FBP consumption after glucose depletion was notably accelerated under anaerobic conditions, whereas 3-PGA and PEP decreased to undetectable levels. Furthermore, the level of NAD(+) decreased steadily during the utilization of glucose, probably due to the unanticipated reduction in the lactate dehydrogenase activity in comparison with the control strain, NZ9000(pNZ8020). The results show that PK is an important bottleneck to carbon flux only when glucose becomes limiting; in the overproducer this constriction was no longer present, as evidenced by the faster FBP consumption and lack of accumulation of 3-PGA and PEP in anaerobic as well as aerobic conditions. Despite these clear changes, the PK-overproducing strain showed typical homolactic metabolism under anaerobic conditions, as did the strain harbouring the vector plasmid without the pyk insert. However, under an oxygen atmosphere, there was increased channelling of carbon to the production of acetate and acetoin, to the detriment of lactate production.
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- Ana Ramos
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica/Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, Apt 127, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica/Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, Apt 127, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica/Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, Apt 127, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica/Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, Apt 127, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Velazquez 144, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica/Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, Apt 127, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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de Vos WM, Hugenholtz J. Engineering metabolic highways in Lactococci and other lactic acid bacteria. Trends Biotechnol 2004; 22:72-9. [PMID: 14757041 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2003.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are widely used in industrial food fermentations and are receiving increased attention for use as cell factories for the production of food and pharmaceutical products. Glycolytic conversion of sugars into lactic acid is the main metabolic highway in these Gram-positive bacteria and Lactococcus lactis has become the model organism because of its small genome, genetic accessibility and simple metabolism. Here we discuss the metabolic engineering of L. lactis and the value of metabolic models compared with other LAB, with a particular focus on the food-grade production of metabolites involved in flavour, texture and health.
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- Willem M de Vos
- Wageningen Center for Food Sciences, P.O. Box 557, 6700 AN, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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