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Cachera P, Kurt NC, Røpke A, Strucko T, Mortensen UH, Jensen MK. Genome-wide host-pathway interactions affecting cis-cis-muconic acid production in yeast. Metab Eng 2024; 83:75-85. [PMID: 38428729 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.015] [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: 11/01/2023] [Revised: 02/11/2024] [Accepted: 02/23/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024]
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The success of forward metabolic engineering depends on a thorough understanding of the behaviour of a heterologous metabolic pathway within its host. We have recently described CRI-SPA, a high-throughput gene editing method enabling the delivery of a metabolic pathway to all strains of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae knock-out library. CRI-SPA systematically quantifies the effect of each modified gene present in the library on product synthesis, providing a complete map of host:pathway interactions. In its first version, CRI-SPA relied on the colour of the product betaxanthins to quantify strains synthesis ability. However, only a few compounds produce a visible or fluorescent phenotype limiting the scope of our approach. Here, we adapt CRI-SPA to onboard a biosensor reporting the interactions between host genes and the synthesis of the colourless product cis-cis-muconic acid (CCM). We phenotype >9,000 genotypes, including both gene knock-out and overexpression, by quantifying the fluorescence of yeast colonies growing in high-density agar arrays. We identify novel metabolic targets belonging to a broad range of cellular functions and confirm their positive impact on CCM biosynthesis. In particular, our data suggests a new interplay between CCM biosynthesis and cytosolic redox through their common interaction with the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway. Our genome-wide exploration of host:pathway interaction opens novel strategies for improved production of CCM in yeast cell factories.
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- Paul Cachera
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
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Heinisch JJ, Murra A, Fernández Murillo L, Schmitz HP. The Role of Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase in the Wine Yeast Hanseniaspora uvarum. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:2395. [PMID: 38397078 PMCID: PMC10889316 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25042395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Revised: 02/13/2024] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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Hanseniaspora uvarum is the predominant yeast species in the majority of wine fermentations, which has only recently become amenable to directed genetic manipulation. The genetics and metabolism of H. uvarum have been poorly studied as compared to other yeasts of biotechnological importance. This work describes the construction and characterization of homozygous deletion mutants in the HuZWF1 gene, encoding glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), which provides the entrance into the oxidative part of the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) and serves as a major source of NADPH for anabolic reactions and oxidative stress response. Huzwf1 deletion mutants grow more slowly on glucose medium than wild-type and are hypersensitive both to hydrogen peroxide and potassium bisulfite, indicating that G6PDH activity is required to cope with these stresses. The mutant also requires methionine for growth. Enzyme activity can be restored by the expression of heterologous G6PDH genes from other yeasts and humans under the control of a strong endogenous promoter. These findings provide the basis for a better adaptation of H. uvarum to conditions used in wine fermentations, as well as its use for other biotechnological purposes and as an expression organism for studying G6PDH functions in patients with hemolytic anemia.
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- Jürgen J. Heinisch
- AG Genetik, Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie, Universität Osnabrück, Barbarastr. 11, D-49076 Osnabrück, Germany; (A.M.); (L.F.M.); (H.-P.S.)
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Assa D, Voorhies M, Sil A. Chemical stimuli override a temperature-dependent morphological program by reprogramming the transcriptome of a fungal pathogen. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.04.21.537729. [PMID: 37131633 PMCID: PMC10153268 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.21.537729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The human fungal pathogen Histoplasma changes its morphology in response to temperature. At 37°C it grows as a budding yeast whereas at room temperature it transitions to hyphal growth. Prior work has demonstrated that 15-20% of transcripts are temperature-regulated, and that transcription factors Ryp1-4 are necessary to establish yeast growth. However, little is known about transcriptional regulators of the hyphal program. To identify TFs that regulate filamentation, we utilize chemical inducers of hyphal growth. We show that addition of cAMP analogs or an inhibitor of cAMP breakdown overrides yeast morphology, yielding inappropriate hyphal growth at 37°C. Additionally, butyrate supplementation triggers hyphal growth at 37°C. Transcriptional profiling of cultures filamenting in response to cAMP or butyrate reveals that a limited set of genes respond to cAMP while butyrate dysregulates a larger set. Comparison of these profiles to previous temperature- or morphology-regulated gene sets identifies a small set of morphology-specific transcripts. This set contains 9 TFs of which we characterized three, STU1 , FBC1 , and PAC2 , whose orthologs regulate development in other fungi. We found that each of these TFs is individually dispensable for room-temperature (RT) induced filamentation but each is required for other aspects of RT development. FBC1 and PAC2 , but not STU1 , are necessary for filamentation in response to cAMP at 37°C. Ectopic expression of each of these TFs is sufficient to induce filamentation at 37°C. Finally, PAC2 induction of filamentation at 37°C is dependent on STU1 , suggesting these TFs form a regulatory circuit that, when activated at RT, promotes the hyphal program. Importance Fungal illnesses pose a significant disease burden. However, the regulatory circuits that govern the development and virulence of fungi remain largely unknown. This study utilizes chemicals that can override the normal growth morphology of the human pathogen Histoplasma . Using transcriptomic approaches, we identify novel regulators of hyphal morphology and refine our understanding of the transcriptional circuits governing morphology in Histoplasma .
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Li J, Sun Y, Liu F, Zhou Y, Yan Y, Zhou Z, Wang P, Zhou S. Increasing NADPH impairs fungal H 2O 2 resistance by perturbing transcriptional regulation of peroxiredoxin. BIORESOUR BIOPROCESS 2022; 9:1. [PMID: 38647831 PMCID: PMC10992141 DOI: 10.1186/s40643-021-00489-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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NADPH provides the reducing power for decomposition of reactive oxygen species (ROS), making it an indispensable part during ROS defense. It remains uncertain, however, if living cells respond to the ROS challenge with an elevated intracellular NADPH level or a more complex NADPH-mediated manner. Herein, we employed a model fungus Aspergillus nidulans to probe this issue. A conditional expression of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)-strain was constructed to manipulate intracellular NADPH levels. As expected, turning down the cellular NADPH concentration drastically lowered the ROS response of the strain; it was interesting to note that increasing NADPH levels also impaired fungal H2O2 resistance. Further analysis showed that excess NADPH promoted the assembly of the CCAAT-binding factor AnCF, which in turn suppressed NapA, a transcriptional activator of PrxA (the key NADPH-dependent ROS scavenger), leading to low antioxidant ability. In natural cell response to oxidative stress, we noticed that the intracellular NADPH level fluctuated "down then up" in the presence of H2O2. This might be the result of a co-action of the PrxA-dependent NADPH consumption and NADPH-dependent feedback of G6PD. The fluctuation of NADPH is well correlated to the formation of AnCF assembly and expression of NapA, thus modulating the ROS defense. Our research elucidated how A. nidulans precisely controls NADPH levels for ROS defense.
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- Jingyi Li
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology (Ministry of Education), School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin cities, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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The Pentose Phosphate Pathway in Yeasts-More Than a Poor Cousin of Glycolysis. Biomolecules 2021; 11:biom11050725. [PMID: 34065948 PMCID: PMC8151747 DOI: 10.3390/biom11050725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) is a route that can work in parallel to glycolysis in glucose degradation in most living cells. It has a unidirectional oxidative part with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase as a key enzyme generating NADPH, and a non-oxidative part involving the reversible transketolase and transaldolase reactions, which interchange PPP metabolites with glycolysis. While the oxidative branch is vital to cope with oxidative stress, the non-oxidative branch provides precursors for the synthesis of nucleic, fatty and aromatic amino acids. For glucose catabolism in the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where its components were first discovered and extensively studied, the PPP plays only a minor role. In contrast, PPP and glycolysis contribute almost equally to glucose degradation in other yeasts. We here summarize the data available for the PPP enzymes focusing on S. cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces lactis, and describe the phenotypes of gene deletions and the benefits of their overproduction and modification. Reference to other yeasts and to the importance of the PPP in their biotechnological and medical applications is briefly being included. We propose future studies on the PPP in K. lactis to be of special interest for basic science and as a host for the expression of human disease genes.
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Xu C, Yang H, Xiao Z, Zhang T, Guan Z, Chen J, Lai H, Xu X, Huang Y, Huang Z, Zhao C. Reduction-responsive dehydroepiandrosterone prodrug nanoparticles loaded with camptothecin for cancer therapy by enhancing oxidation therapy and cell replication inhibition. Int J Pharm 2021; 603:120671. [PMID: 33961957 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2021.120671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2021] [Revised: 04/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) plays a critical role by providing ribulose-5-phosphate (Ru5P) and NADPH for nucleotide synthesis and reduction energy, respectively. Accordingly, blocking the PPP process may be an effective strategy for enhancing oxidation therapy and inhibiting cell replication. Here, we designed a novel reduction-responsive PEGylated prodrug and constructed nanoparticles PsD@CPT to simultaneously deliver a PPP blocker, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and chemotherapeutic camptothecin (CPT) to integrate amplification of oxidation therapy and enhance cell replication inhibition. Following cellular uptake, DHEA and CPT were released from PsD@CPT in the presence of high glutathione (GSH) levels. As expected, DHEA-mediated reduction level decreases and CPT-induced oxidation level increases synergistically, breaking the redox balance to aggravate cancer oxidative stress. In addition, suppressing nucleotide synthesis by DHEA through the reduction of Ru5P and blocking DNA replication by CPT further motivates a synergistic inhibition effect on tumor cell proliferation. The results showed that PsD@CPT featuring multimodal treatment has satisfactory antitumor activity both in vitro and in vivo. This study provides a new tumor treatment strategy, which combines the amplification of oxidative stress and enhancement of inhibition of cell proliferation based on inhibition of the PPP process.
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- Congjun Xu
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China.
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The Impact of Oxidative Stress in Human Pathology: Focus on Gastrointestinal Disorders. Antioxidants (Basel) 2021; 10:antiox10020201. [PMID: 33573222 PMCID: PMC7910878 DOI: 10.3390/antiox10020201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Accumulating evidence shows that oxidative stress plays an essential role in the pathogenesis and progression of many diseases. The imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the antioxidant systems has been extensively studied in pulmonary, neurodegenerative cardiovascular disorders; however, its contribution is still debated in gastrointestinal disorders. Evidence suggests that oxidative stress affects gastrointestinal motility in obesity, and post-infectious disorders by favoring the smooth muscle phenotypic switch toward a synthetic phenotype. The aim of this review is to gain insight into the role played by oxidative stress in gastrointestinal pathologies (GIT), and the involvement of ROS in the signaling underlying the muscular alterations of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). In addition, potential therapeutic strategies based on the use of antioxidants for the treatment of inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases are reviewed and discussed. Although substantial progress has been made in identifying new techniques capable of assessing the presence of oxidative stress in humans, the biochemical-molecular mechanisms underlying GIT mucosal disorders are not yet well defined. Therefore, further studies are needed to clarify the mechanisms through which oxidative stress-related signaling can contribute to the alteration of the GIT mucosa in order to devise effective preventive and curative therapeutic strategies
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Bhatia M, Thakur J, Suyal S, Oniel R, Chakraborty R, Pradhan S, Sharma M, Sengupta S, Laxman S, Masakapalli SK, Bachhawat AK. Allosteric inhibition of MTHFR prevents futile SAM cycling and maintains nucleotide pools in one-carbon metabolism. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:16037-16057. [PMID: 32934008 PMCID: PMC7681022 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.015129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Revised: 09/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) links the folate cycle to the methionine cycle in one-carbon metabolism. The enzyme is known to be allosterically inhibited by SAM for decades, but the importance of this regulatory control to one-carbon metabolism has never been adequately understood. To shed light on this issue, we exchanged selected amino acid residues in a highly conserved stretch within the regulatory region of yeast MTHFR to create a series of feedback-insensitive, deregulated mutants. These were exploited to investigate the impact of defective allosteric regulation on one-carbon metabolism. We observed a strong growth defect in the presence of methionine. Biochemical and metabolite analysis revealed that both the folate and methionine cycles were affected in these mutants, as was the transsulfuration pathway, leading also to a disruption in redox homeostasis. The major consequences, however, appeared to be in the depletion of nucleotides. 13C isotope labeling and metabolic studies revealed that the deregulated MTHFR cells undergo continuous transmethylation of homocysteine by methyltetrahydrofolate (CH3THF) to form methionine. This reaction also drives SAM formation and further depletes ATP reserves. SAM was then cycled back to methionine, leading to futile cycles of SAM synthesis and recycling and explaining the necessity for MTHFR to be regulated by SAM. The study has yielded valuable new insights into the regulation of one-carbon metabolism, and the mutants appear as powerful new tools to further dissect out the intersection of one-carbon metabolism with various pathways both in yeasts and in humans.
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- Muskan Bhatia
- Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, India
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- BioX Center, School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, India
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- Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), NCBS-TIFR Campus, Bangalore, India
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- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
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- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, India
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- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
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- Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), NCBS-TIFR Campus, Bangalore, India
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- BioX Center, School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, India.
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Almasri H, Tavares DA, Pioz M, Sené D, Tchamitchian S, Cousin M, Brunet JL, Belzunces LP. Mixtures of an insecticide, a fungicide and a herbicide induce high toxicities and systemic physiological disturbances in winter Apis mellifera honey bees. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2020; 203:111013. [PMID: 32888588 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Multiple pesticides originating from plant protection treatments and the treatment of pests infecting honey bees are frequently detected in beehive matrices. Therefore, winter honey bees, which have a long life span, could be exposed to these pesticides for longer periods than summer honey bees. In this study, winter honey bees were exposed through food to the insecticide imidacloprid, the fungicide difenoconazole and the herbicide glyphosate, alone or in binary and ternary mixtures, at environmental concentrations (0 (controls), 0.1, 1 and 10 μg/L) for 20 days. The survival of the honey bees was significantly reduced after exposure to these 3 pesticides individually and in combination. Overall, the combinations had a higher impact than the pesticides alone with a maximum mortality of 52.9% after 20 days of exposure to the insecticide-fungicide binary mixture at 1 μg/L. The analyses of the surviving bees showed that these different pesticide combinations had a systemic global impact on the physiological state of the honey bees, as revealed by the modulation of head, midgut and abdomen glutathione-S-transferase, head acetylcholinesterase, abdomen glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and midgut alkaline phosphatase, which are involved in the detoxification of xenobiotics, the nervous system, defenses against oxidative stress, metabolism and immunity, respectively. These results demonstrate the importance of studying the effects of chemical cocktails based on low realistic exposure levels and developing long-term tests to reveal possible lethal and adverse sublethal interactions in honey bees and other insect pollinators.
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- Hanine Almasri
- INRAE, UR 406 A&E, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, 84914, Avignon, France
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- INRAE, UR 406 A&E, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, 84914, Avignon, France
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- INRAE, UR 406 A&E, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, 84914, Avignon, France
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- INRAE, UR 406 A&E, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, 84914, Avignon, France
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- INRAE, UR 406 A&E, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, 84914, Avignon, France
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- INRAE, UR 406 A&E, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, 84914, Avignon, France
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- INRAE, UR 406 A&E, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, 84914, Avignon, France.
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Functional analysis of PGI1 and ZWF1 in thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2020; 104:7991-8006. [PMID: 32776206 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-020-10808-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) are two basic metabolic pathways that are simultaneously present in yeasts. As the main pathway in most species, the glycolysis provides ATP and NADH for cell metabolism while PPP, as a complementary pathway, supplies NADPH. In this study, the performance of Kluyveromyces marxianus using glycolysis or PPP were studied through the disruption of PGI1 or ZWF1 gene, respectively. K. marxianus using glycolysis as the only pathway showed higher ethanol production ability than that of the Kluyveromyces lactis zwf1Δ mutant; K. marxianus using only PPP showed more robustness than that of Saccharomyces cerevisiae pgi1Δ mutant. Additionally, K. marxianus pgi1Δ strain accumulated much more intracellular NADPH than the wild type strain and co-utilized glucose and xylose more effectively. These findings suggest that phosphoglucose isomerase participates in the regulation of the repression of glucose on xylose utilization in K. marxianus. The NADPH/NADP+ ratio, dependent on the activity of the PPP, regulated the expression of multiple genes related to NADPH metabolism in K. marxianus (including NDE1, NDE2, GLR1, and GDP1). Since K. marxianus is considered a promising host in industrial biotechnology to produce renewable chemicals from plant biomass feedstocks, our research showed the potential of the thermotolerant K. marxianus to produce NADP(H)-dependent chemical synthesis from multiple feedstocks. KEY POINTS: • The function of PGI1 and ZWF1 in K. marxianus has been analyzed in this study. • K. marxianus zwf1Δ strain produced ethanol but with decreased productivity. • K. marxianus pgi1Δ strain grew with glucose and accumulated NADPH. • K. marxianus pgi1Δ strain released glucose repression on xylose utilization.
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Zou K, Rouskin S, Dervishi K, McCormick MA, Sasikumar A, Deng C, Chen Z, Kaeberlein M, Brem RB, Polymenis M, Kennedy BK, Weissman JS, Zheng J, Ouyang Q, Li H. Life span extension by glucose restriction is abrogated by methionine supplementation: Cross-talk between glucose and methionine and implication of methionine as a key regulator of life span. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eaba1306. [PMID: 32821821 PMCID: PMC7406366 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba1306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Caloric restriction (CR) is known to extend life span across species; however, the molecular mechanisms are not well understood. We investigate the mechanism by which glucose restriction (GR) extends yeast replicative life span, by combining ribosome profiling and RNA-seq with microfluidic-based single-cell analysis. We discovered a cross-talk between glucose sensing and the regulation of intracellular methionine: GR down-regulated the transcription and translation of methionine biosynthetic enzymes and transporters, leading to a decreased intracellular methionine concentration; external supplementation of methionine cancels the life span extension by GR. Furthermore, genetic perturbations that decrease methionine synthesis/uptake extend life span. These observations suggest that intracellular methionine mediates the life span effects of various nutrient and genetic perturbations, and that the glucose-methionine cross-talk is a general mechanism for coordinating the nutrient status and the translation/growth of a cell. Our work also implicates proteasome as a downstream effector of the life span extension by GR.
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- Ke Zou
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- The State Key Laboratory for Artificial Microstructures and Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
- Autophagy Inflammation and Metabolism Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA 94945, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA 94945, USA
- Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University Health System, Singapore
- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A*STAR, Singapore
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- The State Key Laboratory for Artificial Microstructures and Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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Investigation of Heterologously Expressed Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Genes in a Yeast zwf1 Deletion. Microorganisms 2020; 8:microorganisms8040546. [PMID: 32283834 PMCID: PMC7232176 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8040546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Revised: 04/03/2020] [Accepted: 04/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is a key enzyme of the oxidative part of the pentose phosphate pathway and serves as the major source of NADPH for metabolic reactions and oxidative stress response in pro- and eukaryotic cells. We here report on a strain of the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae which lacks the G6PD-encoding ZWF1 gene and displays distinct growth retardation on rich and synthetic media, as well as a strongly reduced chronological lifespan. This strain was used as a recipient to introduce plasmid-encoded heterologous G6PD genes, synthesized in the yeast codon usage and expressed under the control of the native PFK2 promotor. Complementation of the hypersensitivity of the zwf1 mutant towards hydrogen peroxide to different degrees was observed for the genes from humans (HsG6PD1), the milk yeast Kluyveromyces lactis (KlZWF1), the bacteria Escherichia coli (EcZWF1) and Leuconostoc mesenteroides (LmZWF1), as well as the genes encoding three different plant G6PD isoforms from Arabidopsis thaliana (AtG6PD1, AtG6PD5, AtG6PD6). The plastidic AtG6PD1 isoform retained its redox-sensitive activity when produced in the yeast as a cytosolic enzyme, demonstrating the suitability of this host for determination of its physiological properties. Mutations precluding the formation of a disulfide bridge in AtG6PD1 abolished its redox-sensitivity but improved its capacity to complement the yeast zwf1 deletion. Given the importance of G6PD in human diseases and plant growth, this heterologous expression system offers a broad range of applications.
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Keshavarz M, Solaymani-Mohammadi F, Namdari H, Arjeini Y, Mousavi MJ, Rezaei F. Metabolic host response and therapeutic approaches to influenza infection. Cell Mol Biol Lett 2020; 25:15. [PMID: 32161622 PMCID: PMC7059726 DOI: 10.1186/s11658-020-00211-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2020] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Based on available metabolomic studies, influenza infection affects a variety of cellular metabolic pathways to ensure an optimal environment for its replication and production of viral particles. Following infection, glucose uptake and aerobic glycolysis increase in infected cells continually, which results in higher glucose consumption. The pentose phosphate shunt, as another glucose-consuming pathway, is enhanced by influenza infection to help produce more nucleotides, especially ATP. Regarding lipid species, following infection, levels of triglycerides, phospholipids, and several lipid derivatives undergo perturbations, some of which are associated with inflammatory responses. Also, mitochondrial fatty acid β-oxidation decreases significantly simultaneously with an increase in biosynthesis of fatty acids and membrane lipids. Moreover, essential amino acids are demonstrated to decline in infected tissues due to the production of large amounts of viral and cellular proteins. Immune responses against influenza infection, on the other hand, could significantly affect metabolic pathways. Mainly, interferon (IFN) production following viral infection affects cell function via alteration in amino acid synthesis, membrane composition, and lipid metabolism. Understanding metabolic alterations required for influenza virus replication has revealed novel therapeutic methods based on targeted inhibition of these cellular metabolic pathways.
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- Mohsen Keshavarz
- The Persian Gulf Tropical Medicine Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- Iranian Tissue Bank and Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Immunology and Allergy, Faculty of Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- Department of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- National Influenza Center, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Yang J, Liang J, Shao L, Liu L, Gao K, Zhang JL, Sun Z, Xu W, Lin P, Yu R, Zi J. Green production of silybin and isosilybin by merging metabolic engineering approaches and enzymatic catalysis. Metab Eng 2020; 59:44-52. [PMID: 32004707 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2020.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Silymarin extracted from milk thistle seeds, is used for treating hepatic diseases. Silybin and isosilybin are its main components, and synthesized from coupling of taxifolin and coniferyl alcohol. Here, the biosynthetic pathways of taxifolin and coniferyl alcohol were reconstructed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the first time. To alleviate substantial burden caused by a great deal of genetic manipulation, expression of the enzymes (e.g. ZWF1, TYR1 and ARO8) playing multiple roles in the relevant biosynthetic pathways was selectively optimized. The strain YT1035 overexpressing seven heterologous enzymes and five native enzymes and the strain YC1053 overexpressing seven heterologous enzymes and four native enzymes, respectively produce 336.8 mg/L taxifolin and 201.1 mg/L coniferyl alcohol. Silybin and isosilybin are synthesized from taxifolin and coniferyl alcohol under catalysis of APX1t (the truncated milk thistle peroxidase), with a yield of 62.5%. This study demonstrates an approach for producing silybin and isosilybin from glucose for the first time.
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- Jiazeng Yang
- Biotechnological Institute of Chinese Materia Medic, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- Biotechnological Institute of Chinese Materia Medic, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- Microbial Pharmacology Laboratory, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, 201318, China
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- Biotechnological Institute of Chinese Materia Medic, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- Biotechnological Institute of Chinese Materia Medic, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- State Key Laboratory of New Drug and Pharmaceutical Process, Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Shanghai, 200040, China
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- Guangdong Qingyunshan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shaoguan, 512600, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Modernization of Extraction and Separation Process of TCM/Guangzhou Hanfang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, 510240, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Qinghai Nationalities University, Xining, 810007, China
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- Biotechnological Institute of Chinese Materia Medic, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- Biotechnological Institute of Chinese Materia Medic, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
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Walvekar AS, Laxman S. Methionine at the Heart of Anabolism and Signaling: Perspectives From Budding Yeast. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2624. [PMID: 31798560 PMCID: PMC6874139 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Studies using a fungal model, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, have been instrumental in advancing our understanding of sulfur metabolism in eukaryotes. Sulfur metabolites, particularly methionine and its derivatives, induce anabolic programs in yeast, and drive various processes integral to metabolism (one-carbon metabolism, nucleotide synthesis, and redox balance). Thereby, methionine also connects these processes with autophagy and epigenetic regulation. The direct involvement of methionine-derived metabolites in diverse chemistries such as transsulfuration and methylation reactions comes from the elegant positioning and safe handling of sulfur through these molecules. In this mini-review, we highlight studies from yeast that reveal how this amino acid holds a unique position in both metabolism and cell signaling, and illustrate cell fate decisions that methionine governs. We further discuss the interconnections between sulfur and NADPH metabolism, and highlight critical nodes around methionine metabolism that are promising for antifungal drug development.
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- Regulation of Cell Fate, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bangalore, India
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Gupta R, Walvekar AS, Liang S, Rashida Z, Shah P, Laxman S. A tRNA modification balances carbon and nitrogen metabolism by regulating phosphate homeostasis. eLife 2019; 8:e44795. [PMID: 31259691 PMCID: PMC6688859 DOI: 10.7554/elife.44795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2018] [Accepted: 06/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Cells must appropriately sense and integrate multiple metabolic resources to commit to proliferation. Here, we report that S. cerevisiae cells regulate carbon and nitrogen metabolic homeostasis through tRNA U34-thiolation. Despite amino acid sufficiency, tRNA-thiolation deficient cells appear amino acid starved. In these cells, carbon flux towards nucleotide synthesis decreases, and trehalose synthesis increases, resulting in a starvation-like metabolic signature. Thiolation mutants have only minor translation defects. However, in these cells phosphate homeostasis genes are strongly down-regulated, resulting in an effectively phosphate-limited state. Reduced phosphate enforces a metabolic switch, where glucose-6-phosphate is routed towards storage carbohydrates. Notably, trehalose synthesis, which releases phosphate and thereby restores phosphate availability, is central to this metabolic rewiring. Thus, cells use thiolated tRNAs to perceive amino acid sufficiency, balance carbon and amino acid metabolic flux and grow optimally, by controlling phosphate availability. These results further biochemically explain how phosphate availability determines a switch to a 'starvation-state'.
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- Ritu Gupta
- Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)BangaloreIndia
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- Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)BangaloreIndia
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- Department of GeneticsRutgers UniversityPiscatawayUnited States
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- Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)BangaloreIndia
- Manipal Academy of Higher EducationManipalIndia
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- Department of GeneticsRutgers UniversityPiscatawayUnited States
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- Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)BangaloreIndia
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Yan YY, Yang B, Lan XY, Li XY, Xu FL. Cadmium accumulation capacity and resistance strategies of a cadmium-hypertolerant fern - Microsorum fortunei. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 649:1209-1223. [PMID: 30308892 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Revised: 08/18/2018] [Accepted: 08/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Microsorum fortunei (M. fortunei), a close relative to the cadmium (Cd) hyperaccumulator Microsorum pteropus, is an epiphytic Polypodiaceae fern with strong antioxidant activity. The Cd-accumulation capacities and Cd-resistance mechanisms of M. fortunei were analyzed in this study by measuring metal contents (Cd, Fe, Mg, Ca, Zn, Mn, K and Na) and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters (Fv/Fm, qN, qP, Y(II), Y(NPQ) and Y(NO)) and by performing an RNA-sequencing analysis. M. fortunei could accumulate up to 2249.10 μg/g DW Cd in roots under a 15-day 1000 μmol/L Cd treatment, with little Cd translocated into the leaves (maximum 138.26 μg/g DW). The M. fortunei leaves could maintain their normal physiological functions with no phytosynthesis damage and few changes in metal contents or differentially expressed genes. M. fortunei roots showed a decrease in Zn concentration, with potential Cd-tolerance mechanisms such as heavy metal transporters, vesicle trafficking and fusion proteins, antioxidant systems, and primary metabolites like plant hormones, revealed by differentially expressed functional genes. In conclusion, M. fortunei may serve as a potential cadmium-hypertolerant fern that sequesters and detoxifies most cadmium in the roots, with a minimum root-to-shoot Cd translocation to guarantee the physiological functions in the more vulnerable leaves.
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- Yun-Yun Yan
- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Rainio MJ, Margus A, Lehmann P, Helander M, Lindström L. Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on survival and oxidative status of a non-target herbivore, the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata). Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol 2019; 215:47-55. [PMID: 30316832 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2018.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Glyphosate is the globally most used herbicide against a wide range of weeds. Glyphosate has been considered safe to animals as it mainly targets physiological pathways in plants. However, recent toxicological studies have revealed that glyphosate can cause various toxic effects also on animals. In this study, we investigated the direct toxic effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide (GBH, Roundup® Bio) on 1) survival and 2) oxidative status of a non-target herbivore by using Colorado potato beetles (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), originating from Poland and USA, as model species. Larvae were randomly divided into three groups: 1) high concentration (100% Roundup Bio, 360 g/l), 2) low concentration (1.5% Roundup Bio) and 3) control group (water). Larvae were exposed to Roundup for different time periods: 2 h, 24 h, 48 h, 72 h and 96 h. Larval survival decreased in the group treated with high concentration of GBH compared to controls, whereas the low concentration group did not differ from the control group. GBH treatment had no association with oxidative status biomarkers (i.e. catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione-S-transferase, glutathione and glutathione related enzymes), but increased lipid hydroperoxide levels after 2 h exposure, suggesting increased oxidative damage soon after the exposure. Larvae of different origin also differed in their oxidative status, indicating population-dependent differences in antioxidant defence system. Environmentally relevant concentrations of GBH are not likely to affect larval survival, but high concentrations can reduce survival and increase oxidative damage of non-target herbivores. Also, populations of different origin and pesticide usage history can differ in their tolerance to GBH.
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- Miia J Rainio
- Department of Biology, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland.
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland; Department of Zoology, University of Stockholm, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland.
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.
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Walvekar AS, Srinivasan R, Gupta R, Laxman S. Methionine coordinates a hierarchically organized anabolic program enabling proliferation. Mol Biol Cell 2018; 29:3183-3200. [PMID: 30354837 PMCID: PMC6340205 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e18-08-0515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2018] [Revised: 10/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Methionine availability during overall amino acid limitation metabolically reprograms cells to support proliferation, the underlying basis for which remains unclear. Here we construct the organization of this methionine-mediated anabolic program using yeast. Combining comparative transcriptome analysis and biochemical and metabolic flux-based approaches, we discover that methionine rewires overall metabolic outputs by increasing the activity of a key regulatory node. This comprises the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) coupled with reductive biosynthesis, the glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH)-dependent synthesis of glutamate/glutamine, and pyridoxal-5-phosphate (PLP)-dependent transamination capacity. This PPP-GDH-PLP node provides the required cofactors and/or substrates for subsequent rate-limiting reactions in the synthesis of amino acids and therefore nucleotides. These rate-limiting steps in amino acid biosynthesis are also induced in a methionine-dependent manner. This thereby results in a biochemical cascade establishing a hierarchically organized anabolic program. For this methionine-mediated anabolic program to be sustained, cells co-opt a "starvation stress response" regulator, Gcn4p. Collectively, our data suggest a hierarchical metabolic framework explaining how methionine mediates an anabolic switch.
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- Adhish S. Walvekar
- Institute for Stem Cell biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), NCBS-TIFR campus, Bangalore 560065, India
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- Institute for Stem Cell biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), NCBS-TIFR campus, Bangalore 560065, India
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- Institute for Stem Cell biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), NCBS-TIFR campus, Bangalore 560065, India
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- Institute for Stem Cell biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), NCBS-TIFR campus, Bangalore 560065, India
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Brückner C, Oreb M, Kunze G, Boles E, Tripp J. An expanded enzyme toolbox for production of cis, cis-muconic acid and other shikimate pathway derivatives in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Yeast Res 2018; 18:4862472. [DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foy017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Christine Brückner
- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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The aim of this study was to develop a purified diet that mimics the characteristics of the Japanese diet using readily available materials with a simpler composition and a focus on quality, with the goal of facilitating performance of studies on the Japanese diet worldwide. The utility of the new diet was examined as a mimic of the standard Japanese diet for use in animal experiments. We examined whether a key characteristic of the Japanese diet of being less likely to cause obesity could be reproduced. The mimic diet had a balance of protein, fat and carbohydrate based on the 1975 Japanese diet, which is the least likely to cause obesity, and materials chosen with reference to the National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHNS). To examine similarities of the mimic diet with the model 1975 Japanese diet, we created a menu of the 1975 diet based on the NHNS and prepared the freeze-dried and powdered diet. The mimic diet, the 1975 Japanese diet, a control AIN-93G diet and a Western diet were fed to mice for 4 weeks. As a result, the mimic diet and the 1975 diet resulted in less accumulation of visceral fat and liver fat. Mice given these two diets showed similar effects. This indicates that the mimic diet used in this study has characteristics of the 1975 Japanese diet and could be used as a standard Japanese diet in animal experiments.
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Partow S, Hyland PB, Mahadevan R. Synthetic rescue couples NADPH generation to metabolite overproduction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metab Eng 2017; 43:64-70. [PMID: 28803913 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2017.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2016] [Revised: 08/04/2017] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Engineering the redox cofactor metabolism is known to be a key challenge in developing a platform strain for biosynthesis of valuable products. Hence, general strategies for manipulation of co-factor metabolism in industrially relevant hosts are of significance. Here, we demonstrate an improvement in α-ketoglutarate (AKG) production in S. cerevisiae using a novel approach based on synthetic rescue. Here, we first perturb the cytosolic NADPH metabolism via deletion of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (ZWF1). In parallel, we used a strain design algorithm to identify strategies for further improvement in AKG production. Implementation of the identified genetic targets, including disruption of succinyl-CoA Ligase (LSC2) and constitutive expression of NADP+-specific isocitrate dehydrogenases (IDP1 and IDP2) resulted in more than 3 fold improvement in AKG production as compared to the wild type. Our results demonstrate this improvement is due to a synthetic rescue mechanism in which the metabolic flux was redirected towards AKG production through the manipulation of redox cofactors. Disrupting lsc2 in zwf1 mutant improved specific growth rate more than 15% as compared to the zwf1 mutant. In addition, our result suggests that cytosolic isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDP2) may be regulated by isocitrate pools. Together, these results suggest the ability to improve metabolite production via a model guided synthetic rescue mechanism in S. cerevisiae and the potential for using IDP2 expression as a generalized strategy to effectively meet NADPH requirements in engineered strains.
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- Siavash Partow
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada; Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), University of Toronto, Canada.
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Corkins ME, Wilson S, Cocuron JC, Alonso AP, Bird AJ. The gluconate shunt is an alternative route for directing glucose into the pentose phosphate pathway in fission yeast. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:13823-13832. [PMID: 28667014 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.798488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Revised: 06/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway both play a central role in the degradation of glucose in all domains of life. Another metabolic route that can facilitate glucose breakdown is the gluconate shunt. In this shunt glucose dehydrogenase and gluconate kinase catalyze the two-step conversion of glucose into the pentose phosphate pathway intermediate 6-phosphogluconate. Despite the presence of these enzymes in many organisms, their only established role is in the production of 6-phosphogluconate for the Entner-Doudoroff pathway. In this report we performed metabolic profiling on a strain of Schizosaccharomyces pombe lacking the zinc-responsive transcriptional repressor Loz1 with the goal of identifying metabolic pathways that were altered by cellular zinc status. This profiling revealed that loz1Δ cells accumulate higher levels of gluconate. We show that the altered gluconate levels in loz1Δ cells result from increased expression of gcd1 By analyzing the activity of recombinant Gcd1 in vitro and by measuring gluconate levels in strains lacking enzymes of the gluconate shunt we demonstrate that Gcd1 encodes a novel NADP+-dependent glucose dehydrogenase that acts in a pathway with the Idn1 gluconate kinase. We also find that cells lacking gcd1 and zwf1, which encode the first enzyme in the pentose phosphate pathway, have a more severe growth phenotype than cells lacking zwf1 We propose that in S. pombe Gcd1 and Idn1 act together to shunt glucose into the pentose phosphate pathway, creating an alternative route for directing glucose into the pentose phosphate pathway that bypasses hexokinase and the rate-limiting enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase.
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- From the Department of Molecular Genetics.,Center for Applied Plant Sciences
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- From the Department of Molecular Genetics, .,Department of Human Nutrition, and.,the Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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Guo Y, Winkler J, Kao KC. Insights on Osmotic Tolerance Mechanisms in Escherichia coli Gained from an rpoC Mutation. Bioengineering (Basel) 2017; 4:bioengineering4030061. [PMID: 28952540 PMCID: PMC5615307 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering4030061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Revised: 06/22/2017] [Accepted: 06/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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An 84 bp in-frame duplication (K370_A396dup) within the rpoC subunit of RNA polymerase was found in two independent mutants selected during an adaptive laboratory evolution experiment under osmotic stress in Escherichia coli, suggesting that this mutation confers improved osmotic tolerance. To determine the role this mutation in rpoC plays in osmotic tolerance, we reconstructed the mutation in BW25113, and found it to confer improved tolerance to hyperosmotic stress. Metabolite analysis, exogenous supplementation assays, and cell membrane damage analysis suggest that the mechanism of improved osmotic tolerance by this rpoC mutation may be related to the higher production of acetic acid and amino acids such as proline, and increased membrane integrity in the presence of NaCl stress in exponential phase cells. Transcriptional analysis led to the findings that the overexpression of methionine related genes metK and mmuP improves osmotic tolerance in BW25113. Furthermore, deletion of a stress related gene bolA was found to confer enhanced osmotic tolerance in BW25113 and MG1655. These findings expand our current understanding of osmotic tolerance in E. coli, and have the potential to expand the utilization of high saline feedstocks and water sources in microbial fermentation.
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- Yuqi Guo
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
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d'Espaux L, Ghosh A, Runguphan W, Wehrs M, Xu F, Konzock O, Dev I, Nhan M, Gin J, Reider Apel A, Petzold CJ, Singh S, Simmons BA, Mukhopadhyay A, García Martín H, Keasling JD. Engineering high-level production of fatty alcohols by Saccharomyces cerevisiae from lignocellulosic feedstocks. Metab Eng 2017; 42:115-125. [PMID: 28606738 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2017.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2017] [Revised: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 06/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Fatty alcohols in the C12-C18 range are used in personal care products, lubricants, and potentially biofuels. These compounds can be produced from the fatty acid pathway by a fatty acid reductase (FAR), yet yields from the preferred industrial host Saccharomyces cerevisiae remain under 2% of the theoretical maximum from glucose. Here we improved titer and yield of fatty alcohols using an approach involving quantitative analysis of protein levels and metabolic flux, engineering enzyme level and localization, pull-push-block engineering of carbon flux, and cofactor balancing. We compared four heterologous FARs, finding highest activity and endoplasmic reticulum localization from a Mus musculus FAR. After screening an additional twenty-one single-gene edits, we identified increasing FAR expression; deleting competing reactions encoded by DGA1, HFD1, and ADH6; overexpressing a mutant acetyl-CoA carboxylase; limiting NADPH and carbon usage by the glutamate dehydrogenase encoded by GDH1; and overexpressing the Δ9-desaturase encoded by OLE1 as successful strategies to improve titer. Our final strain produced 1.2g/L fatty alcohols in shake flasks, and 6.0g/L in fed-batch fermentation, corresponding to ~ 20% of the maximum theoretical yield from glucose, the highest titers and yields reported to date in S. cerevisiae. We further demonstrate high-level production from lignocellulosic feedstocks derived from ionic-liquid treated switchgrass and sorghum, reaching 0.7g/L in shake flasks. Altogether, our work represents progress towards efficient and renewable microbial production of fatty acid-derived products.
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- Leo d'Espaux
- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Biomass Science and Conversion Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551, United States; Biological and Materials Science Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Biomass Science and Conversion Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551, United States; Biological and Materials Science Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Biomass Science and Conversion Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551, United States; Biological and Materials Science Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Sustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
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Chen TL, Yang HC, Hung CY, Ou MH, Pan YY, Cheng ML, Stern A, Lo SJ, Chiu DTY. Impaired embryonic development in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient Caenorhabditis elegans due to abnormal redox homeostasis induced activation of calcium-independent phospholipase and alteration of glycerophospholipid metabolism. Cell Death Dis 2017; 8:e2545. [PMID: 28079896 PMCID: PMC5386372 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2016.463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Revised: 12/05/2016] [Accepted: 12/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is a commonly pervasive inherited disease in many parts of the world. The complete lack of G6PD activity in a mouse model causes embryonic lethality. The G6PD-deficient Caenorhabditis elegans model also shows embryonic death as indicated by a severe hatching defect. Although increased oxidative stress has been implicated in both cases as the underlying cause, the exact mechanism has not been clearly delineated. In this study with C. elegans, membrane-associated defects, including enhanced permeability, defective polarity and cytokinesis, were found in G6PD-deficient embryos. The membrane-associated abnormalities were accompanied by impaired eggshell structure as evidenced by a transmission electron microscopic study. Such loss of membrane structural integrity was associated with abnormal lipid composition as lipidomic analysis revealed that lysoglycerophospholipids were significantly increased in G6PD-deficient embryos. Abnormal glycerophospholipid metabolism leading to defective embryonic development could be attributed to the increased activity of calcium-independent phospholipase A2 (iPLA) in G6PD-deficient embryos. This notion is further supported by the fact that the suppression of multiple iPLAs by genetic manipulation partially rescued the embryonic defects in G6PD-deficient embryos. In addition, G6PD deficiency induced disruption of redox balance as manifested by diminished NADPH and elevated lipid peroxidation in embryos. Taken together, disrupted lipid metabolism due to abnormal redox homeostasis is a major factor contributing to abnormal embryonic development in G6PD-deficient C. elegans.
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- Tzu-Ling Chen
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Metabolomics Core Laboratory, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Clinical Phenome Center, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- New York University School of Medicine, New York,NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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Yang HC, Wu YH, Liu HY, Stern A, Chiu DTY. What has passed is prolog: new cellular and physiological roles of G6PD. Free Radic Res 2016; 50:1047-1064. [PMID: 27684214 DOI: 10.1080/10715762.2016.1223296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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G6PD deficiency has been the most pervasive inherited disorder in the world since having been discovered. G6PD has an antioxidant role by functioning as a major nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) provider to reduce excessive oxidative stress. NADPH can produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) mediated by NADPH oxidase (NOX) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS), respectively. Hence, G6PD also has a pro-oxidant role. Research in the past has focused on the enhanced susceptibility of G6PD-deficient cells or individuals to oxidative challenge. The cytoregulatory role of G6PD has largely been overlooked. By using a metabolomic approach, it is noted that upon oxidant challenge, G6PD-deficient cells will reprogram the GSH metabolism from regeneration to synthesis with exhaustive energy consumption. Recently, new cellular/physiologic roles of G6PD have been discovered. By using a proteomic approach, it has been found that G6PD plays a regulatory role in xenobiotic metabolism possibly via NOX and the redox-sensitive Nrf2-signaling pathway to modulate the expression of xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes. Since G6PD is a key regulator responsible for intracellular redox homeostasis, G6PD deficiency can alter redox balance leading to many abnormal cellular effects such as the cellular inflammatory and immune response against viral infection. G6PD may play an important role in embryogenesis as G6PD-knockdown mouse cannot produce offspring and G6PD-deficient C. elegans with defective egg production and hatching. This array of findings indicates that the cellular and physiologic roles of G6PD, other than the classical role as an antioxidant enzyme, deserve further attention.
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- Hung-Chi Yang
- a Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences , College of Medicine, Chang Gung University , Taoyuan , Taiwan.,b Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University , Taoyuan , Taiwan
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- a Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences , College of Medicine, Chang Gung University , Taoyuan , Taiwan
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- a Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences , College of Medicine, Chang Gung University , Taoyuan , Taiwan
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- c Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology , New York University School of Medicine , New York , NY , USA
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- a Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences , College of Medicine, Chang Gung University , Taoyuan , Taiwan.,b Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University , Taoyuan , Taiwan.,d Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology , Chang Gung Memorial Hospital , Linkou , Taiwan
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Improving the flux distributions simulated with genome-scale metabolic models of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metab Eng Commun 2016; 3:153-163. [PMID: 29468121 PMCID: PMC5779720 DOI: 10.1016/j.meteno.2016.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2015] [Revised: 03/17/2016] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) can be used to evaluate genotype-phenotype relationships and their application to microbial strain engineering is increasing in popularity. Some of the algorithms used to simulate the phenotypes of mutant strains require the determination of a wild-type flux distribution. However, the accuracy of this reference, when calculated with flux balance analysis, has not been studied in detail before. Here, the wild-type simulations of selected GEMs for Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been analysed and most of the models tested predicted erroneous fluxes in central pathways, especially in the pentose phosphate pathway. Since the problematic fluxes were mostly related to areas of the metabolism consuming or producing NADPH/NADH, we have manually curated all reactions including these cofactors by forcing the use of NADPH/NADP+ in anabolic reactions and NADH/NAD+ for catabolic reactions. The curated models predicted more accurate flux distributions and performed better in the simulation of mutant phenotypes. The flux distributions of the genome-scale models of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were evaluated Most of the tested models showed fluxes inconsistent with experimental data A manual curation process was performed on all reactions including NADH or NADPH The curated models showed flux distributions more consistent with experimental data Phenotype simulations improved when the curated flux distributions were used
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Campbell K, Vowinckel J, Keller MA, Ralser M. Methionine Metabolism Alters Oxidative Stress Resistance via the Pentose Phosphate Pathway. Antioxid Redox Signal 2016; 24:543-7. [PMID: 26596469 PMCID: PMC4827311 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2015.6516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2015] [Revised: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 11/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Nutrient uptake and metabolism have a significant impact on the way cells respond to stress. The amino acid methionine is, in particular, a key player in the oxidative stress response, and acting as a reactive oxygen species scavenger, methionine is implicated in caloric restriction phenotypes and aging. We here provide evidence that some effects of methionine in stress situations are indirect and caused by altered activity of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) producing oxidative part of the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, both methionine prototrophic (MET15) and auxotrophic (met15Δ) cells supplemented with methionine showed an increase in PPP metabolite concentrations downstream of the NADPH producing enzyme, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase. Proteomics revealed this enzyme to also increase in expression compared to methionine self-synthesizing cells. Oxidant tolerance was increased in cells preincubated with methionine; however, this effect was abolished when flux through the oxidative PPP was prevented by deletion of its rate limiting enzyme, ZWF1. Stress resistance phenotypes that follow methionine supplementation hence involve the oxidative PPP. Effects of methionine on oxidative metabolism, stress signaling, and aging have thus to be seen in the context of an altered activity of this NADP reducing pathway.
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- Kate Campbell
- Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- The Francis Crick Institute Mill Hill Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
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Gold ND, Gowen CM, Lussier FX, Cautha SC, Mahadevan R, Martin VJJ. Metabolic engineering of a tyrosine-overproducing yeast platform using targeted metabolomics. Microb Cell Fact 2015; 14:73. [PMID: 26016674 PMCID: PMC4458059 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-015-0252-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 05/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background L-tyrosine is a common precursor for a wide range of valuable secondary metabolites, including benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) and many polyketides. An industrially tractable yeast strain optimized for production of L-tyrosine could serve as a platform for the development of BIA and polyketide cell factories. This study applied a targeted metabolomics approach to evaluate metabolic engineering strategies to increase the availability of intracellular L-tyrosine in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK. Our engineering strategies combined localized pathway engineering with global engineering of central metabolism, facilitated by genome-scale steady-state modelling. Results Addition of a tyrosine feedback resistant version of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate-7-phosphate synthase Aro4 from S. cerevisiae was combined with overexpression of either a tyrosine feedback resistant yeast chorismate mutase Aro7, the native pentafunctional arom protein Aro1, native prephenate dehydrogenase Tyr1 or cyclohexadienyl dehydrogenase TyrC from Zymomonas mobilis. Loss of aromatic carbon was limited by eliminating phenylpyruvate decarboxylase Aro10. The TAL gene from Rhodobacter sphaeroides was used to produce coumarate as a simple test case of a heterologous by-product of tyrosine. Additionally, multiple strategies for engineering global metabolism to promote tyrosine production were evaluated using metabolic modelling. The T21E mutant of pyruvate kinase Cdc19 was hypothesized to slow the conversion of phosphoenolpyruvate to pyruvate and accumulate the former as precursor to the shikimate pathway. The ZWF1 gene coding for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was deleted to create an NADPH deficiency designed to force the cell to couple its growth to tyrosine production via overexpressed NADP+-dependent prephenate dehydrogenase Tyr1. Our engineered Zwf1− strain expressing TYRC ARO4FBR and grown in the presence of methionine achieved an intracellular L-tyrosine accumulation up to 520 μmol/g DCW or 192 mM in the cytosol, but sustained flux through this pathway was found to depend on the complete elimination of feedback inhibition and degradation pathways. Conclusions Our targeted metabolomics approach confirmed a likely regulatory site at DAHP synthase and identified another possible cofactor limitation at prephenate dehydrogenase. Additionally, the genome-scale metabolic model identified design strategies that have the potential to improve availability of erythrose 4-phosphate for DAHP synthase and cofactor availability for prephenate dehydrogenase. We evaluated these strategies and provide recommendations for further improvement of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in S. cerevisiae. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12934-015-0252-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Nicholas D Gold
- Department of Biology and Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke West, Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E5, Canada.
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- Department of Biology and Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke West, Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E5, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E5, Canada. .,Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, 164 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G9, Canada.
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- Department of Biology and Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke West, Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6, Canada.
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Stincone A, Prigione A, Cramer T, Wamelink MMC, Campbell K, Cheung E, Olin-Sandoval V, Grüning NM, Krüger A, Tauqeer Alam M, Keller MA, Breitenbach M, Brindle KM, Rabinowitz JD, Ralser M. The return of metabolism: biochemistry and physiology of the pentose phosphate pathway. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2014; 90:927-63. [PMID: 25243985 PMCID: PMC4470864 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 781] [Impact Index Per Article: 78.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2014] [Revised: 07/07/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) is a fundamental component of cellular metabolism. The PPP is important to maintain carbon homoeostasis, to provide precursors for nucleotide and amino acid biosynthesis, to provide reducing molecules for anabolism, and to defeat oxidative stress. The PPP shares reactions with the Entner–Doudoroff pathway and Calvin cycle and divides into an oxidative and non-oxidative branch. The oxidative branch is highly active in most eukaryotes and converts glucose 6-phosphate into carbon dioxide, ribulose 5-phosphate and NADPH. The latter function is critical to maintain redox balance under stress situations, when cells proliferate rapidly, in ageing, and for the ‘Warburg effect’ of cancer cells. The non-oxidative branch instead is virtually ubiquitous, and metabolizes the glycolytic intermediates fructose 6-phosphate and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate as well as sedoheptulose sugars, yielding ribose 5-phosphate for the synthesis of nucleic acids and sugar phosphate precursors for the synthesis of amino acids. Whereas the oxidative PPP is considered unidirectional, the non-oxidative branch can supply glycolysis with intermediates derived from ribose 5-phosphate and vice versa, depending on the biochemical demand. These functions require dynamic regulation of the PPP pathway that is achieved through hierarchical interactions between transcriptome, proteome and metabolome. Consequently, the biochemistry and regulation of this pathway, while still unresolved in many cases, are archetypal for the dynamics of the metabolic network of the cell. In this comprehensive article we review seminal work that led to the discovery and description of the pathway that date back now for 80 years, and address recent results about genetic and metabolic mechanisms that regulate its activity. These biochemical principles are discussed in the context of PPP deficiencies causing metabolic disease and the role of this pathway in biotechnology, bacterial and parasite infections, neurons, stem cell potency and cancer metabolism.
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- Anna Stincone
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K.,Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- Max Delbrueck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13092 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Molekulares Krebsforschungszentrum (MKFZ), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Metabolic Unit, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam, De Boelelaaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K.,Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- Cancer Research UK, Beatson Institute, Switchback Road, Glasgow G61 1BD, U.K
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K.,Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K.,Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestr 73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K.,Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K.,Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K.,Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute (CRI), Li Ka Shing Centre, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, 08544 NJ, U.S.A
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K.,Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K.,Division of Physiology and Metabolism, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7, U.K
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Kokina A, Kibilds J, Liepins J. Adenine auxotrophy--be aware: some effects of adenine auxotrophy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain W303-1A. FEMS Yeast Res 2014; 14:697-707. [PMID: 24661329 DOI: 10.1111/1567-1364.12154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2013] [Revised: 02/24/2014] [Accepted: 03/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Adenine auxotrophy is a commonly used genetic marker in haploid yeast strains. Strain W303-1A, which carries the ade2-1 mutation, is widely used in physiological and genetic research. Yeast extract-based rich medium contains a low level of adenine, so that adenine is often depleted before glucose. This could affect the cell physiology of adenine auxotrophs grown in rich medium. The aim of our study was to assess the effects of adenine auxotrophy on cell morphology and stress physiology. Our results show that adenine depletion halts cell division, but that culture optical density continues to increase due to cell swelling. Accumulation of trehalose and a coincident 10-fold increase in desiccation stress tolerance is observed in adenine auxotrophs after adenine depletion, when compared to prototrophs. Under adenine starvation, long-term survival of W303-1A is lower than during carbon starvation, but higher than during leucine starvation. We observed drastic adenine-dependent changes in cell stress physiology, suggesting that results may be biased when adenine auxotrophs are grown in rich media without adenine supplementation.
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- Agnese Kokina
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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Yang HC, Chen TL, Wu YH, Cheng KP, Lin YH, Cheng ML, Ho HY, Lo SJ, Chiu DTY. Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency enhances germ cell apoptosis and causes defective embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Cell Death Dis 2013; 4:e616. [PMID: 23640458 PMCID: PMC3674345 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2013.132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, known as favism, is classically manifested by hemolytic anemia in human. More recently, it has been shown that mild G6PD deficiency moderately affects cardiac function, whereas severe G6PD deficiency leads to embryonic lethality in mice. How G6PD deficiency affects organisms has not been fully elucidated due to the lack of a suitable animal model. In this study, G6PD-deficient Caenorhabditis elegans was established by RNA interference (RNAi) knockdown to delineate the role of G6PD in animal physiology. Upon G6PD RNAi knockdown, G6PD activity was significantly hampered in C. elegans in parallel with increased oxidative stress and DNA oxidative damage. Phenotypically, G6PD-knockdown enhanced germ cell apoptosis (2-fold increase), reduced egg production (65% of mock), and hatching (10% of mock). To determine whether oxidative stress is associated with G6PD knockdown-induced reproduction defects, C. elegans was challenged with a short-term hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The early phase egg production of both mock and G6PD-knockdown C. elegans were significantly affected by H2O2. However, H2O2-induced germ cell apoptosis was more dramatic in mock than that in G6PD-deficient C. elegans. To investigate the signaling pathways involved in defective oogenesis and embryogenesis caused by G6PD knockdown, mutants of p53 and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways were examined. Despite the upregulation of CEP-1 (p53), cep-1 mutation did not affect egg production and hatching in G6PD-deficient C. elegans. Neither pmk-1 nor mek-1 mutation significantly affected egg production, whereas sek-1 mutation further decreased egg production in G6PD-deficient C. elegans. Intriguingly, loss of function of sek-1 or mek-1 dramatically rescued defective hatching (8.3- and 9.6-fold increase, respectively) induced by G6PD knockdown. Taken together, these findings show that G6PD knockdown reduces egg production and hatching in C. elegans, which are possibly associated with enhanced oxidative stress and altered MAPK pathways, respectively.
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- H-C Yang
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
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Celton M, Sanchez I, Goelzer A, Fromion V, Camarasa C, Dequin S. A comparative transcriptomic, fluxomic and metabolomic analysis of the response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to increases in NADPH oxidation. BMC Genomics 2012; 13:317. [PMID: 22805527 PMCID: PMC3431268 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2012] [Accepted: 06/28/2012] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Background Redox homeostasis is essential to sustain metabolism and growth. We recently reported that yeast cells meet a gradual increase in imposed NADPH demand by progressively increasing flux through the pentose phosphate (PP) and acetate pathways and by exchanging NADH for NADPH in the cytosol, via a transhydrogenase-like cycle. Here, we studied the mechanisms underlying this metabolic response, through a combination of gene expression profiling and analyses of extracellular and intracellular metabolites and 13 C-flux analysis. Results NADPH oxidation was increased by reducing acetoin to 2,3-butanediol in a strain overexpressing an engineered NADPH-dependent butanediol dehydrogenase cultured in the presence of acetoin. An increase in NADPH demand to 22 times the anabolic requirement for NADPH was accompanied by the intracellular accumulation of PP pathway metabolites consistent with an increase in flux through this pathway. Increases in NADPH demand were accompanied by the successive induction of several genes of the PP pathway. NADPH-consuming pathways, such as amino-acid biosynthesis, were upregulated as an indirect effect of the decrease in NADPH availability. Metabolomic analysis showed that the most extreme modification of NADPH demand resulted in an energetic problem. Our results also highlight the influence of redox status on aroma production. Conclusions Combined 13 C-flux, intracellular metabolite levels and microarrays analyses revealed that NADPH homeostasis, in response to a progressive increase in NADPH demand, was achieved by the regulation, at several levels, of the PP pathway. This pathway is principally under metabolic control, but regulation of the transcription of PP pathway genes can exert a stronger effect, by redirecting larger amounts of carbon to this pathway to satisfy the demand for NADPH. No coordinated response of genes involved in NADPH metabolism was observed, suggesting that yeast has no system for sensing NADPH/NADP+ ratio. Instead, the induction of NADPH-consuming amino-acid pathways in conditions of NADPH limitation may indirectly trigger the transcription of a set of PP pathway genes.
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Scalcinati G, Otero JM, Vleet JR, Jeffries TW, Olsson L, Nielsen J. Evolutionary engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for efficient aerobic xylose consumption. FEMS Yeast Res 2012; 12:582-97. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2012.00808.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2011] [Revised: 03/01/2012] [Accepted: 04/02/2012] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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- Department of Bacteriology; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison; WI; USA
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Shi F, Li Z, Sun M, Li Y. Role of mitochondrial NADH kinase and NADPH supply in the respiratory chain activity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 2011; 43:989-95. [PMID: 22011405 DOI: 10.1093/abbs/gmr092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the mitochondrial nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide hydride kinase Pos5p is required for a variety of essential cellular pathways, most importantly respiration. The Pos5p knockout strain pos5Δ grows poorly in non-fermentable media. A potential relationship between this respiratory deficiency and the ability of the cells to supply nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) was examined by analyzing the respiratory chain activity of pos5Δ and two NADP(+)-specific dehydrogenase mutants, idp1Δ and zwf1Δ. All of the respiratory chain complexes of pos5Δ exhibited poor relative activity of <26% at the middle-log phase and 62% at the stationary phase. The respiratory chain activity levels of idp1Δ and zwf1Δ also reduced to 22%-37% and 28%-84% at the middle-log phase, and 73%-81% and 67%-88% at the stationary phase, not as robustly as those of pos5Δ. The double-mutant idp1pos5Δ exhibited even lower activities of <20% at the middle-log phase, but zwf1pos5Δ showed similar activities with pos5Δ. The complemented strain POS5/pos5Δ exhibited 1.05- to 3-fold higher activities than pos5Δ. These data showed that Pos5p contributes to the maintenance of respiratory chain complex activities, with other NADPH sources, such as Idp1p and Zwf1p, making a smaller contribution. These contributions were partly related to the ability of the cells to supply NADPH, especially in the mitochondria.
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- Feng Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
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Pajares MA, Markham GD. Methionine adenosyltransferase (s-adenosylmethionine synthetase). ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 78:449-521. [PMID: 22220481 DOI: 10.1002/9781118105771.ch11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- María A Pajares
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols" (CSIC-UAM), Madrid Spain
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Ayar-Kayali H. Pentose phosphate pathway flux analysis for glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin production during glucose-limited cultivation of Amycolatopsis orientalis. Prep Biochem Biotechnol 2011; 41:94-105. [PMID: 21229467 DOI: 10.1080/10826068.2010.535401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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In vivo pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) enzymes such as glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGDH), and transaldolase (TAL) activities as well as ATP- and ADP-level variations of Amycolatopsis orientalis were investigated with respect to glucose concentration and incubation period. G6PDH, 6PGDH, and TAL activities of A. orientalis reached maximum levels at 48 hr for all glucose concentrations used, after which the levels began to decline. G6PDH, 6PGDH, and TAL activities showed positive correlation with the glucose concentration up to 15 g/L, while further increases had an opposite effect. Intracellular ATP level showed a positive correlation with glucose concentrations, while ADP level increased up to 15 g/L. ATP concentration of A. orientalis increased rapidly at 48 hr of incubation, as was the case also for G6PDH, 6PGDH, and TAL activities, although the incubation period corresponding to maximum values of ADP shifted to 60 hr. Production of the glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin increased with the increases in glucose concentrations up to 15 g/L, by showing coherence in the rates of oxidative and nonoxidative parts of the PPP.
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- Hulya Ayar-Kayali
- Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry Division, University of Dokuz Eylul, Buca, Izmir, Turkey.
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Hébert A, Casaregola S, Beckerich JM. Biodiversity in sulfur metabolism in hemiascomycetous yeasts. FEMS Yeast Res 2011; 11:366-78. [PMID: 21348937 DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2011.00725.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The evolution of the metabolism of sulfur compounds among yeast species was investigated. Differences between species were observed in the cysteine biosynthesis pathway. Most yeast species possess two pathways leading to cysteine production, the transsulfuration pathway and the O-acetyl-serine (OAS) pathway, with the exception of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida glabrata, which only display the transsulfuration pathway, and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which only have the OAS pathway. An examination of the components of the regulatory network in the different species shows that it is conserved in all the species analyzed, as its central component Met4p was shown to keep its functional domains and its partners were present. The analysis of the presence of genes involved in the catabolic pathway shows that it is evolutionarily conserved in the sulfur metabolism and leads us to propose a role for two gene families which appeared to be highly conserved. This survey has provided ways to understand the diversity of sulfur metabolism products among yeast species through the reconstruction of these pathways. This diversity could account for the difference in metabolic potentialities of the species with a biotechnological interest.
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- Agnès Hébert
- INRA, UMR1319, Institut MICALIS, AgroParisTech, Thiverval-Grignon, France
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Cadière A, Galeote V, Dequin S. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae zinc factor protein Stb5p is required as a basal regulator of the pentose phosphate pathway. FEMS Yeast Res 2010; 10:819-27. [PMID: 20738406 DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2010.00672.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the oxidative stress-activated zinc cluster protein Stb5p activates genes involved in NADPH production and most genes of the pentose phosphate (PP) pathway. To gain insight into the role of Stb5p, we studied the behaviour of stb5 deletion mutants during aerobic and anaerobic growth on glucose. stb5 mutants were auxotrophic for methionine and pyrimidine nucleotides. The methionine auxotrophy phenotype was air dependent, suggesting an impaired aerobic NADPH status. Consistent with this, the acetate level was reduced and the α-ketoglutarate level was increased in the stb5 mutant. stb5 cells also required pyrimidine nucleotides for aerobic and anaerobic growth, consistent with a reduction in 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate production caused by a reduced flux through the PP pathway. Strains overexpressing STB5 could not grow on glucose. This growth defect was restored by overproduction of an NADPH-butanediol dehydrogenase, which reoxidizes the excess NADPH in the oxidative PP pathway. These findings suggest a major role for the transcription factor Stb5p in maintaining a basal flux through the PP pathway to meet the NADPH requirements for aerobic growth, and to provide the nucleotide precursors. Our data also demonstrate the potential use of a system based on overproduction of this transcription factor to increase flux through the PP pathway.
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- Axelle Cadière
- INRA, UMR1083 Sciences pour l'nologie, Montpellier, France Lallemand SAS, Blagnac, France
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Lee TA, Jorgensen P, Bognar AL, Peyraud C, Thomas D, Tyers M. Dissection of combinatorial control by the Met4 transcriptional complex. Mol Biol Cell 2010; 21:456-69. [PMID: 19940020 PMCID: PMC2814790 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e09-05-0420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Met4 is the transcriptional activator of the sulfur metabolic network in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Lacking DNA-binding ability, Met4 must interact with proteins called Met4 cofactors to target promoters for transcription. Two types of DNA-binding cofactors (Cbf1 and Met31/Met32) recruit Met4 to promoters and one cofactor (Met28) stabilizes the DNA-bound Met4 complexes. To dissect this combinatorial system, we systematically deleted each category of cofactor(s) and analyzed Met4-activated transcription on a genome-wide scale. We defined a core regulon for Met4, consisting of 45 target genes. Deletion of both Met31 and Met32 eliminated activation of the core regulon, whereas loss of Met28 or Cbf1 interfered with only a subset of targets that map to distinct sectors of the sulfur metabolic network. These transcriptional dependencies roughly correlated with the presence of Cbf1 promoter motifs. Quantitative analysis of in vivo promoter binding properties indicated varying levels of cooperativity and interdependency exists between members of this combinatorial system. Cbf1 was the only cofactor to remain fully bound to target promoters under all conditions, whereas other factors exhibited different degrees of regulated binding in a promoter-specific fashion. Taken together, Met4 cofactors use a variety of mechanisms to allow differential transcription of target genes in response to various cues.
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- Traci A Lee
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI 53144, USA.
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Outten C, Falk R, Culotta V. Cellular factors required for protection from hyperoxia toxicity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochem J 2009; 388:93-101. [PMID: 15641941 PMCID: PMC1186697 DOI: 10.1042/bj20041914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Prolonged exposure to hyperoxia represents a serious danger to cells, yet little is known about the specific cellular factors that affect hyperoxia stress. By screening the yeast deletion library, we have identified genes that protect against high-O2 damage. Out of approx. 4800 mutants, 84 were identified as hyperoxia-sensitive, representing genes with diverse cellular functions, including transcription and translation, vacuole function, NADPH production, and superoxide detoxification. Superoxide plays a significant role, since the majority of hyperoxia-sensitive mutants displayed cross-sensitivity to superoxide-generating agents, and mutants with compromised SOD (superoxide dismutase) activity were particularly vulnerable to hyperoxia. By comparison, factors known to guard against H2O2 toxicity were poorly represented amongst hyperoxia-sensitive mutants. Although many cellular components are potential targets, our studies indicate that mitochondrial glutathione is particularly vulnerable to hyperoxia damage. During hyperoxia stress, mitochondrial glutathione is more susceptible to oxidation than cytosolic glutathione. Furthermore, two factors that help maintain mitochondrial GSH in the reduced form, namely the NADH kinase Pos5p and the mitochondrial glutathione reductase (Glr1p), are critical for hyperoxia resistance, whereas their cytosolic counterparts are not. Our findings are consistent with a model in which hyperoxia toxicity is manifested by superoxide-related damage and changes in the mitochondrial redox state.
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- Caryn E. Outten
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe St. Room 7032, Baltimore, MD 21205, U.S.A
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe St. Room 7032, Baltimore, MD 21205, U.S.A
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe St. Room 7032, Baltimore, MD 21205, U.S.A
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Seitomer E, Balar B, He D, Copeland PR, Kinzy TG. Analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae null allele strains identifies a larger role for DNA damage versus oxidative stress pathways in growth inhibition by selenium. Mol Nutr Food Res 2009; 52:1305-15. [PMID: 18496816 DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.200700347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Selenium toxicity is a growing environmental concern due to widespread availability of high-dose selenium supplements and the development of high-selenium agricultural drainage basins. To begin to analyze the effects of selenium toxicity at the genetic level, we have systematically determined which genes are involved in responding to high environmental selenium using a collection of viable haploid null allele strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae representing three major stress pathways: the RAD9-dependent DNA repair pathway, the RAD6/RAD18 DNA damage tolerance pathway, and the oxidative stress pathway. A total of 53 null allele strains were tested for growth defects in the presence of a range of sodium selenite and selenomethionine (SeMet) concentrations. Our results show that approximately 64-72% of the strains lacking RAD9-dependent DNA repair or RAD6/RAD18 DNA damage tolerance pathway genes show reduced growth in sodium selenite versus approximately 28-36% in SeMet. Interestingly both compounds reduced growth in approximately 21-25% of the strains lacking oxidative stress genes. These data suggest that both selenite and SeMet are likely inducing DNA damage by generating reactive species. The anticipated effects of loss of components of the oxidative stress pathway were not observed, likely due to apparent redundancies in these gene products that may keep the damaging effects in check.
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- Eden Seitomer
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ 08854-5635, USA
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Miyagi H, Kawai S, Murata K. Two sources of mitochondrial NADPH in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:7553-60. [PMID: 19158096 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m804100200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae contain three NAD kinases; namely, cytosolic Utr1p, cytosolic Yef1p, and mitochondrial Pos5p. Previously, the NADH kinase reaction catalyzed by Pos5p, rather than the NAD kinase reaction followed by the NADP(+)-dependent dehydrogenase reaction, had been regarded as a critical source of mitochondrial NADPH, which plays vital roles in various mitochondrial functions. This study demonstrates that the mitochondrial NADH kinase reaction is dispensable as a source of mitochondrial NADPH and emphasizes the importance of the NAD kinase reaction, followed by the mitochondrial NADP(+)-dependent dehydrogenase reaction. Of the potential dehydrogenases (malic enzyme, Mae1p; isocitrate dehydrogenase, Idp1p; and acetaldehyde dehydrogenases, Ald4/5p), evidence is presented that acetaldehyde dehydrogenases, and in particular Ald4p, play a prominent role in generating mitochondrial NADPH in the absence of the NADH kinase reaction. The physiological significance of the mitochondrial NADH kinase reaction in the absence of Ald4p is also demonstrated. In addition, Pos5p is confirmed to have a considerably higher NADH kinase activity than NAD kinase activity. Taking these results together, it is proposed that there are two sources of mitochondrial NADPH in yeast: one is the mitochondrial Pos5p-NADH kinase reaction and the other is the mitochondrial Pos5p-NAD kinase reaction followed by the mitochondrial NADP(+)-dependent acetaldehyde dehydrogenase reaction.
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- Hikaru Miyagi
- Department of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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Saliola M, Scappucci G, De Maria I, Lodi T, Mancini P, Falcone C. Deletion of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase gene KlZWF1 affects both fermentative and respiratory metabolism in Kluyveromyces lactis. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2006; 6:19-27. [PMID: 17085636 PMCID: PMC1800367 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00189-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In Kluyveromyces lactis, the pentose phosphate pathway is an alternative route for the dissimilation of glucose. The first enzyme of the pathway is the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), encoded by KlZWF1. We isolated this gene and examined its role. Like ZWF1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, KlZWF1 was constitutively expressed, and its deletion led to increased sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide on glucose, but unlike the case for S. cerevisiae, the Klzwf1Delta strain had a reduced biomass yield on fermentative carbon sources as well as on lactate and glycerol. In addition, the reduced yield on glucose was associated with low ethanol production and decreased oxygen consumption, indicating that this gene is required for both fermentation and respiration. On ethanol, however, the mutant showed an increased biomass yield. Moreover, on this substrate, wild-type cells showed an additional band of activity that might correspond to a dimeric form of G6PDH. The partial dimerization of the G6PDH tetramer on ethanol suggested the production of an NADPH excess that was negative for biomass yield.
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- Michele Saliola
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.
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Bieganowski P, Seidle HF, Wojcik M, Brenner C. Synthetic lethal and biochemical analyses of NAD and NADH kinases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae establish separation of cellular functions. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:22439-45. [PMID: 16760478 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m513919200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Production of NADP and NADPH depends on activity of NAD and NADH kinases. Here we characterized all combinations of mutants in yeast NAD and NADH kinases to determine their physiological roles. We constructed a diploid strain heterozygous for disruption of POS5, encoding mitochondrial NADH kinase, UTR1, cytosolic NAD kinase, and YEF1, a UTR1-homologous gene we characterized as encoding a low specific activity cytosolic NAD kinase. pos5 utr1 is a synthetic lethal combination rescued by plasmid-borne copies of the POS5 or UTR1 genes or by YEF1 driven by the ADH1 promoter. Respiratory-deficient and oxidative damage-sensitive defects in pos5 mutants were not made more deleterious by yef1 deletion, and a quantitative growth phenotype of pos5 and its arginine auxotrophy were repaired by plasmid-borne POS5 but not UTR1 or ADH1-driven YEF1. utr1 haploids have a slow growth phenotype on glucose not exacerbated by yef1 deletion but reversed by either plasmid-borne UTR1 or ADH1-driven YEF1. The defect in fermentative growth of utr1 mutants renders POS5 but not POS5-dependent mitochondrial genome maintenance essential because rho-utr1 derivatives are viable. Purified Yef1 has similar nucleoside triphosphate specificity but substantially lower specific activity and less discrimination in favor of NAD versus NADH phosphorylation than Utr1. Low expression and low intrinsic NAD kinase activity of Yef1 and the lack of phenotype associated with yef1 suggest that Utr1 and Pos5 are responsible for essentially all NAD/NADH kinase activity in vivo. The data are compatible with a model in which there is no exchange of NADP, NADPH, or cytoplasmic NAD/NADH kinase between nucleocytoplasmic and mitochondrial compartments, but the cytoplasm is exposed to mitochondrial NAD/NADH kinase during the transit of the molecule.
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- Pawel Bieganowski
- Department of Genetics and Biochemistry and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
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Production of NADPH in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells grown on glucose has been attributed to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (Zwf1p) and a cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase (Ald6p) (Grabowska, D., and Chelstowska, A. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 13984-13988). This was based on compensation by overexpression of Ald6p for phenotypes associated with ZWF1 gene disruption and on the apparent lethality resulting from co-disruption of ZWF1 and ALD6 genes. However, we have found that a zwf1Delta ald6Delta mutant can be constructed by mating when tetrads are dissected on plates with a nonfermentable carbon source (lactate), a condition associated with expression of another enzymatic source of NADPH, cytosolic NADP+-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase (Idp2p). We demonstrated previously that a zwf1Delta idp2Delta mutant loses viability when shifted to medium with oleate or acetate as the carbon source, apparently because of the inadequate supply of NADPH for cellular antioxidant systems. In contrast, the zwf1Delta ald6Delta mutant grows as well as the parental strain in similar shifts. In addition, the zwf1Delta ald6Delta mutant grows slowly but does not lose viability when shifted to culture medium with glucose as the carbon source, and the mutant resumes growth when the glucose is exhausted from the medium. Measurements of NADP(H) levels revealed that NADPH may not be rapidly utilized in the zwf1Delta ald6Delta mutant in glucose medium, perhaps because of a reduction in fatty acid synthesis associated with loss of Ald6p. In contrast, levels of NADP+ rise dramatically in the zwf1Delta idp2Delta mutant in acetate medium, suggesting a decrease in production of NADPH reducing equivalents needed both for biosynthesis and for antioxidant functions.
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- Karyl I Minard
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900, USA
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Shi F, Kawai S, Mori S, Kono E, Murata K. Identification of ATP-NADH kinase isozymes and their contribution to supply of NADP(H) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS J 2005; 272:3337-49. [PMID: 15978040 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04749.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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ATP-NAD kinase phosphorylates NAD to produce NADP by using ATP, whereas ATP-NADH kinase phosphorylates both NAD and NADH. Three NAD kinase homologues, namely, ATP-NAD kinase (Utr1p), ATP-NADH kinase (Pos5p) and function-unknown Yel041wp (Yef1p), are found in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this study, Yef1p was identified as an ATP-NADH kinase. The ATP-NADH kinase activity of Utr1p was also confirmed. Thus, the three NAD kinase homologues were biochemically identified as ATP-NADH kinases. The phenotypic analysis of the single, double and triple mutants, which was unexpectedly found to be viable, for UTR1, YEF1 and POS5 demonstrated the critical contribution of Pos5p to mitochondrial function and survival at 37 degrees C and the critical contribution of Utr1p to growth in low iron medium. The contributions of the other two enzymes were also demonstrated; however, these were observed only in the absence of the critical contributor, which was supported by complementation for some pos5 phenotypes by the overexpression of UTR1 and YEF1. The viability of the triple mutant suggested that a 'novel' enzyme, whose primary structure is different from those of all known NAD and NADH kinases, probably catalyses the formation of cytosolic NADP in S. cerevisiae. Finally, we found that LEU2 of Candida glabrata, encoding beta-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase and being used to construct the triple mutant, complemented some pos5 phenotypes; however, overexpression of LEU2 of S. cerevisiae did not. The complementation was putatively attributed to an ability of Leu2p of C. glabrata to use NADP as a coenzyme and to supply NADPH.
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- Feng Shi
- Department of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology, Division of Food and Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
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Hanson R, Goldberg S, Goswami A, Tully T, Patel R. Purification and Cloning of a Ketoreductase used for the Preparation of Chiral Alcohols. Adv Synth Catal 2005. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200505045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Paglialunga F, Fico A, Iaccarino I, Notaro R, Luzzatto L, Martini G, Filosa S. G6PD is indispensable for erythropoiesis after the embryonic-adult hemoglobin switch. Blood 2004; 104:3148-52. [PMID: 15271799 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-03-0835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) (EC 1.1.1.42) is an essential enzyme for the rapid production of NADPH, as required on exposure to oxidative stress. Mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells can produce all embryonic and fetal/adult cell types. By studying the in vitro differentiation of embryoid bodies produced from G6pdDelta ES cells that are totally unable to produce G6PD protein, we found that these cells are able to differentiate into mesodermal cells, cardiomyocytes, hepatocytes, and primitive erythroid cells. However, we show here that, after the hemoglobin switch has taken place, definitive erythrocytes die by apoptosis. This apoptotic death is delayed by reducing agents and by a caspase inhibitor, but it is prevented only by the restoration of G6PD activity. Thus, G6PD proves indispensable for definitive erythropoiesis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Francesca Paglialunga
- Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica Adriano Buzzati Traverso CNR, Via G. Marconi 12, 80125 Napoli, Italy
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