Cell-free synthesis system-assisted pathway bottleneck diagnosis and engineering in Bacillus subtilis
Autor: | Long Liu, Guocheng Du, Yanfeng Liu, Jian Chen, Rongzhen Tian, Xuanjie Jia, Jianghua Li, Xiaolong Qin, Haoyu Guo, Minghu Wang, Jintian Shi |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
lcsh:Biotechnology Biomedical Engineering Computational biology Bacillus subtilis 01 natural sciences Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Bottleneck Article Metabolic engineering 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Biosynthesis Structural Biology In vivo 010608 biotechnology lcsh:TP248.13-248.65 Genetics Cell-free synthesis system lcsh:QH301-705.5 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences biology food and beverages biology.organism_classification Pathway bottleneck diagnosis De novo synthesis chemistry lcsh:Biology (General) Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase Pyruvate kinase |
Zdroj: | Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 131-136 (2020) |
ISSN: | 2405-805X |
Popis: | Metabolic engineering is a key technology for cell factories construction by rewiring cellular resources to achieve efficient production of target chemicals. However, the existence of bottlenecks in synthetic pathway can seriously affect production efficiency, which is also one of the core issues for metabolic engineers to solve. Therefore, developing an approach for diagnosing potential metabolic bottlenecks in a faster and simpler manner is of great significance to accelerate cell factories construction. The cell-free reaction system based on cell lysates can transfer metabolic reactions from in vivo to in vitro, providing a flexible access to directly change protein and metabolite variables, thus provides a potential solution for rapid identification of bottlenecks. Here, bottleneck diagnosis of the N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuAc) biosynthesis pathway in industrially important chassis microorganism Bacillus subtilis was performed using cell-free synthesis system. Specifically, a highly efficient B. subtilis cell-free system for NeuAc de novo synthesis was firstly constructed, which had a 305-fold NeuAc synthesis rate than that in vivo and enabled fast pathway dynamics analysis. Next, through the addition of all potential key intermediates in combination with substrate glucose respectively, it was found that insufficient phosphoenolpyruvate supply was one of the NeuAc pathway bottlenecks. Rational in vivo metabolic engineering of NeuAc-producing B. subtilis was further performed to eliminate the bottleneck. By down-regulating the expression level of pyruvate kinase throughout the growth phase or only in the stationary phase using inhibitory N-terminal coding sequences (NCSs) and growth-dependent regulatory NCSs respectively, the maximal NeuAc titer increased 2.0-fold. Our study provides a rapid method for bottleneck diagnosis, which may help to accelerate the cycle of design, build, test and learn cycle for metabolic engineering. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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