Cross-regulation among arabinose, xylose and rhamnose utilization systems inE. coli
| Autor: | Supreet Saini, Debika Choudhury |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Arabinose Rhamnose Bioconversion 030106 microbiology Pentose Xylose Biology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Escherichia coli Hemicellulose Biomass Sugar chemistry.chemical_classification Metabolism Plants Glucose 030104 developmental biology chemistry Biochemistry Fermentation |
| Zdroj: | Letters in Applied Microbiology. 66:132-137 |
| ISSN: | 0266-8254 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/lam.12827 |
| Popis: | Bacteria frequently encounter multiple sugars in their natural surroundings. While the dynamics of utilization of glucose-containing sugar mixtures have been well investigated, there are few reports addressing regulation of utilization of glucose-free mixtures particularly pentoses. These sugars comprise a considerable fraction in hemicellulose which can be converted by suitable biocatalysts to biofuels and other value-added products. Hence, understanding of transcriptional cross-regulation among different pentose sugar utilization systems is essential for successful development of industrial strains. In this work, we study mixed-sugar utilization with respect to three secondary carbon sources - arabinose, xylose and rhamnose at single-cell resolution in Escherichia coli. Our results reveal that hierarchical utilization among these systems is not strict but rather can be eliminated or reversed by altering the relative ratios of the preferred and nonpreferred sugars. Since transcriptional cross-regulation among pentose sugar systems operates through competitive binding of noncognate sugar-regulator complex, altering sugar concentrations is thought to eliminate nonspecific binding by affecting concentration of the regulator - sugar complexes.Plant biomass comprises of hexose and pentose sugar mixtures. These sugars are processed by micro-organisms to form products like biofuels, polymers etc. One of the major challenges with mixed-sugar processing by micro-organisms is hierarchical utilization of sugars due to cross-regulation among sugar systems. In this work, we discuss cross-regulation among three secondary carbon sources - arabinose, xylose and rhamnose. Our results show that cross-regulation between pentose sugars is complex with multiple layers of regulation. These aspects need to be addressed for effective design of processes to extract energy from biomass. |
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