Adaptive Laboratory Evolution of Cupriavidus necator H16 for Carbon Co-Utilization with Glycerol

Autor: Hemanshi Galaiya, Tuck Seng Wong, Kang Lan Tee, Miriam Gonzalez-Villanueva, Paul Staniland, Ian Savill, Jessica Staniland
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Volume 20
Issue 22
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 20, Iss 22, p 5737 (2019)
ISSN: 1422-0067
1661-6596
DOI: 10.3390/ijms20225737
Popis: Cupriavidus necator H16 is a non-pathogenic Gram-negative betaproteobacterium that can utilize a broad range of renewable heterotrophic resources to produce chemicals ranging from polyhydroxybutyrate (biopolymer) to alcohols, alkanes, and alkenes. However, C. necator H16 utilizes carbon sources to different efficiency, for example its growth in glycerol is 11.4 times slower than a favorable substrate like gluconate. This work used adaptive laboratory evolution to enhance the glycerol assimilation in C. necator H16 and identified a variant (v6C6) that can co-utilize gluconate and glycerol. The v6C6 variant has a specific growth rate in glycerol 9.5 times faster than the wild-type strain and grows faster in mixed gluconate&ndash
glycerol carbon sources compared to gluconate alone. It also accumulated more PHB when cultivated in glycerol medium compared to gluconate medium while the inverse is true for the wild-type strain. Through genome sequencing and expression studies, glycerol kinase was identified as the key enzyme for its improved glycerol utilization. The superior performance of v6C6 in assimilating pure glycerol was extended to crude glycerol (sweetwater) from an industrial fat splitting process. These results highlight the robustness of adaptive laboratory evolution for strain engineering and the versatility and potential of C. necator H16 for industrial waste glycerol valorization.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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