Simultaneous glucose and xylose utilization by an Escherichia coli catabolite repression mutant.

Autor:	Kaplan NA; Department of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA., Islam KN; Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA., Kanis FC; Department of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA., Verderber JR; Department of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA., Wang X; Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA., Jones JA; Department of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA., Koffas MAG; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Applied and environmental microbiology [Appl Environ Microbiol] 2024 Feb 21; Vol. 90 (2), pp. e0216923. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 30.
DOI:	10.1128/aem.02169-23
Abstrakt:	As advances are made toward the industrial feasibility of mass-producing biofuels and commodity chemicals with sugar-fermenting microbes, high feedstock costs continue to inhibit commercial application. Hydrolyzed lignocellulosic biomass represents an ideal feedstock for these purposes as it is cheap and prevalent. However, many microbes, including Escherichia coli , struggle to efficiently utilize this mixture of hexose and pentose sugars due to the regulation of the carbon catabolite repression (CCR) system. CCR causes a sequential utilization of sugars, rather than simultaneous utilization, resulting in reduced carbon yield and complex process implications in fed-batch fermentation. A mutant of the gene encoding the cyclic AMP receptor protein, crp* , has been shown to disable CCR and improve the co-utilization of mixed sugar substrates. Here, we present the strain construction and characterization of a site-specific crp* chromosomal mutant in E. coli BL21 star (DE3). The crp* mutant strain demonstrates simultaneous consumption of glucose and xylose, suggesting a deregulated CCR system. The proteomics further showed that glucose was routed to the C5 carbon utilization pathways to support both de novo nucleotide synthesis and energy production in the crp* mutant strain. Metabolite analyses further show that overflow metabolism contributes to the slower growth in the crp* mutant. This highly characterized strain can be particularly beneficial for chemical production by simultaneously utilizing both C5 and C6 substrates from lignocellulosic biomass.IMPORTANCEAs the need for renewable biofuel and biochemical production processes continues to grow, there is an associated need for microbial technology capable of utilizing cheap, widely available, and renewable carbon substrates. This work details the construction and characterization of the first B-lineage Escherichia coli strain with mutated cyclic AMP receptor protein, Crp*, which deregulates the carbon catabolite repression (CCR) system and enables the co-utilization of multiple sugar sources in the growth medium. In this study, we focus our analysis on glucose and xylose utilization as these two sugars are the primary components in lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysate, a promising renewable carbon feedstock for industrial bioprocesses. This strain is valuable to the field as it enables the use of mixed sugar sources in traditional fed-batch based approaches, whereas the wild-type carbon catabolite repression system leads to biphasic growth and possible buildup of non-preferential sugars, reducing process efficiency at scale. Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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