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Dong Q, LeFevre GH, Mattes TE. Black Carbon Impacts on Paraburkholderia xenovorans Strain LB400 Cell Enrichment and Activity: Implications toward Lower-Chlorinated Polychlorinated Biphenyls Biodegradation Potential. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2024; 58:3895-3907. [PMID: 38356175 PMCID: PMC10902836 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c09183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Revised: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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Volatilization of lower-chlorinated polychlorinated biphenyls (LC-PCBs) from sediment poses health threats to nearby communities and ecosystems. Biodegradation combined with black carbon (BC) materials is an emerging bioaugmentation approach to remove PCBs from sediment, but development of aerobic biofilms on BC for long-term, sustained LC-PCBs remediation is poorly understood. This work aimed to characterize the cell enrichment and activity of biphenyl- and benzoate-grown Paraburkholderia xenovorans strain LB400 on various BCs. Biphenyl dioxygenase gene (bphA) abundance on four BC types demonstrated corn kernel biochar hosted at least 4 orders of magnitude more attached cells per gram than other feedstocks, and microscopic imaging revealed the attached live cell fraction was >1.5× more on corn kernel biochar than GAC. BC characteristics (i.e., sorption potential, pore size, pH) appear to contribute to cell attachment differences. Reverse transcription qPCR indicated that BC feedstocks significantly influenced bphA expression in attached cells. The bphA transcript-per-gene ratio of attached cells was >10-fold more than suspended cells, confirmed by transcriptomics. RNA-seq also demonstrated significant upregulation of biphenyl and benzoate degradation pathways on attached cells, as well as revealing biofilm formation potential/cell-cell communication pathways. These novel findings demonstrate aerobic PCB-degrading cell abundance and activity could be tuned by adjusting BC feedstocks/attributes to improve LC-PCBs biodegradation potential.
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- Qin Dong
- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, 4105 Seamans Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
- IIHR—Hydroscience
and Engineering, University of Iowa, 100 C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics
Laboratory, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, 4105 Seamans Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
- IIHR—Hydroscience
and Engineering, University of Iowa, 100 C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics
Laboratory, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, 4105 Seamans Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
- IIHR—Hydroscience
and Engineering, University of Iowa, 100 C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics
Laboratory, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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Liu R, Yang Z, Yang T, Wang Z, Chen X, Zhu J, Ren A, Shi L, Yu H, Zhao M. PRMT5 regulates the polysaccharide content by controlling the splicing of thaumatin-like protein in Ganoderma lucidum. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0290623. [PMID: 37882562 PMCID: PMC10715077 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02906-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE PRMT5 contributes to secondary metabolite biosynthesis in Ganoderma lucidum. However, the mechanism through which PRMT5 regulates the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites remains unclear. In the current study, PRMT5 silencing led to a significant decrease in the biosynthesis of polysaccharides from G. lucidum through the action of the alternative splicing of TLP. A shorter TLP2 isoform can directly bind to PGI and regulated polysaccharide biosynthesis. These results suggest that PRMT5 enhances PGI activity by regulating TLP binding to PGI. The results of the current study reveal a novel target gene for PRMT5-mediated alternative splicing and provide a reference for the identification of PRMT5 regulatory target genes.
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- Rui Liu
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture; Microbiology Department, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture; Microbiology Department, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture; Microbiology Department, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture; Microbiology Department, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture; Microbiology Department, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture; Microbiology Department, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture; Microbiology Department, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture; Microbiology Department, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture; Microbiology Department, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture; Microbiology Department, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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Werren JP, Mostacci N, Gjuroski I, Holivololona L, Troxler LJ, Hathaway LJ, Furrer J, Hilty M. Carbon source-dependent capsule thickness regulation in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2023; 13:1279119. [PMID: 38094742 PMCID: PMC10716237 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1279119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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Background The polysaccharide capsule of Streptococcus pneumoniae plays a major role in virulence, adherence to epithelial cells, and overall survival of the bacterium in the human host. Galactose, mannose, and N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) are likely to be relevant for metabolization in the nasopharynx, while glucose is the primary carbon source in the blood. In this study, we aim to further the understanding of the influence of carbon sources on pneumococcal growth, capsule biosynthesis, and subsequent adherence potential. Methods We tested the growth behavior of clinical wild-type and capsule knockout S. pneumoniae strains, using galactose, GlcNAc, mannose, and glucose as carbon source for growth. We measured capsule thickness and quantified capsule precursors by fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-dextran exclusion assays and 31P-nuclear magnetic resonance measurements, respectively. We also performed epithelial adherence assays using Detroit 562 cells and performed a transcriptome analysis (RNA sequencing). Results We observed a reduced growth in galactose, mannose, and GlcNAc compared to growth in glucose and found capsular size reductions in mannose and GlcNAc compared to galactose and glucose. Additionally, capsular precursor measurements of uridine diphosphate-(UDP)-glucose and UDP-galactose showed less accumulation of precursors in GlcNAc or mannose than in glucose and galactose, indicating a possible link with the received capsular thickness measurements. Epithelial adherence assays showed an increase in adherence potential for a pneumococcal strain, when grown in mannose compared to glucose. Finally, transcriptome analysis of four clinical isolates revealed not only strain specific but also common carbon source-specific gene expression. Conclusion Our findings may indicate a careful adaption of the lifestyle of S. pneumoniae according to the monosaccharides encountered in the respective human niche.
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- Joel P. Werren
- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Vallejo-García LC, Sánchez-Olmos MDC, Gutiérrez-Ríos RM, López Munguía A. Glycosyltransferases Expression Changes in Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides ATCC 8293 Grown on Different Carbon Sources. Foods 2023; 12:foods12091893. [PMID: 37174431 PMCID: PMC10177778 DOI: 10.3390/foods12091893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Revised: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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Leuconostoc mesenteroides strains are common contributors in fermented foods producing a wide variety of polysaccharides from sucrose through glycosyltransferases (GTFs). These polymers have been proposed as protective barriers against acidity, dehydration, heat, and oxidative stress. Despite its presence in many traditional fermented products and their association with food functional properties, regulation of GTFs expression in Ln. mesenteroides is still poorly understood. The strain Ln. mesenteroides ATCC 8293 contains three glucansucrases genes not found in operons, and three fructansucrases genes arranged in two operons, levLX and levC-scrB, a Glycoside-hydrolase. We described the first differential gene expression analysis of this strain when cultivated in different carbon sources. We observed that while GTFs are expressed in the presence of most sugars, they are down-regulated in xylose. We ruled out the regulatory effect of CcpA over GTFs and did not find regulatory elements with a direct effect on glucansucrases in the condition assayed. Our findings suggest that only operon levLX is repressed in xylose by LexA and that both fructansucrases operons can be regulated by the VicK/VicR system and PerR. It is essential to further explore the effect of environmental conditions in Ln. mesenteroides bacteria to better understand GTFs regulation and polymer function.
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- Luz Cristina Vallejo-García
- Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM, Av. Universidad 2001, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62210, Morelos, Mexico
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- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM, Av. Universidad 2001, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62210, Morelos, Mexico
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- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM, Av. Universidad 2001, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62210, Morelos, Mexico
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM, Av. Universidad 2001, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62210, Morelos, Mexico
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Ondee T, Pongpirul K, Janchot K, Kanacharoen S, Lertmongkolaksorn T, Wongsaroj L, Somboonna N, Ngamwongsatit N, Leelahavanichkul A. Lactiplantibacillus plantarum dfa1 Outperforms Enterococcus faecium dfa1 on Anti-Obesity in High Fat-Induced Obesity Mice Possibly through the Differences in Gut Dysbiosis Attenuation, despite the Similar Anti-Inflammatory Properties. Nutrients 2021; 14:nu14010080. [PMID: 35010955 PMCID: PMC8746774 DOI: 10.3390/nu14010080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Fat reduction and anti-inflammation are commonly claimed properties of probiotics. Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Enterococcus faecium were tested in high fat-induced obesity mice and in vitro experiments. After 16 weeks of probiotics, L. plantarum dfa1 outperforms E. faecium dfa1 on the anti-obesity property as indicated by body weight, regional fat accumulation, serum cholesterol, inflammatory cytokines (in blood and colon tissue), and gut barrier defect (FITC-dextran assay). With fecal microbiome analysis, L. plantarum dfa1 but not E. faecium dfa1 reduced fecal abundance of pathogenic Proteobacteria without an alteration in total Gram-negative bacteria when compared with non-probiotics obese mice. With palmitic acid induction, the condition media from both probiotics similarly attenuated supernatant IL-8, improved enterocyte integrity and down-regulated cholesterol absorption-associated genes in Caco-2 cell (an enterocyte cell line) and reduced supernatant cytokines (TNF-α and IL-6) with normalization of cell energy status (extracellular flux analysis) in bone-marrow-derived macrophages. Due to the anti-inflammatory effect of the condition media of both probiotics on palmitic acid-activated enterocytes was neutralized by amylase, the active anti-inflammatory molecules might, partly, be exopolysaccharides. As L. plantarum dfa1 out-performed E. faecium dfa1 in anti-obesity property, possibly through the reduced fecal Proteobacteria, with a similar anti-inflammatory exopolysaccharide; L. plantarum is a potentially better option for anti-obesity than E. faecium.
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- Thunnicha Ondee
- Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; (T.O.); (K.J.)
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- Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; (T.O.); (K.J.)
- Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
- Bumrungrad International Hospital, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
- Correspondence: (K.P.); (A.L.)
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- Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; (T.O.); (K.J.)
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- Department of Biology, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA;
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- Research Management and Development Division, Office of the President, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom 73170, Thailand;
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; (L.W.); (N.S.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; (L.W.); (N.S.)
- Microbiome Research Unit for Probiotics in Food and Cosmetics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom 73170, Thailand;
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
- Translational Research in Inflammation and Immunology Research Unit (TRIRU), Department of Microbiology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
- Nephrology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
- Correspondence: (K.P.); (A.L.)
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Sato R, Ikeda M, Tanaka T, Ohara H, Aso Y. Production of R- and S-1,2-propanediol in engineered Lactococcus lactis. AMB Express 2021; 11:117. [PMID: 34398341 PMCID: PMC8368392 DOI: 10.1186/s13568-021-01276-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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1,2-propanediol (1,2-PDO) is a versatile chemical used in multiple manufacturing processes. To date, some engineered and non-engineered microbes, such as Escherichia coli, Lactobacillus buchneri, and Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum, have been used to produce 1,2-PDO. In this study, we demonstrated the production of R- and S-1,2-PDO using engineered Lactococcus lactis. The L- and D-lactic acid-producing L. lactis strains NZ9000 and AH1 were transformed with the plasmid pNZ8048-ppy harboring pct, pduP, and yahK genes for 1,2-PDO biosynthesis, resulting in L. lactis LL1 and LL2, respectively. These engineered L. lactis produced S- and R-1,2-PDO at concentrations of 0.69 and 0.50 g/L with 94.4 and 78.0% ee optical purities, respectively, from 1% glucose after 72 h of cultivation. Both 1% mannitol and 1% gluconate were added instead of glucose to the culture of L. lactis LL1 to supply NADH and NADPH to the 1,2-PDO production pathway, resulting in 75% enhancement of S-1,2-PDO production. Production of S-1,2-PDO from 5% mannitol and 5% gluconate was demonstrated using L. lactis LL1 with a pH-stat approach. This resulted in S-1,2-PDO production at a concentration of 1.88 g/L after 96 h of cultivation. To our knowledge, this is the first report on the production of R- and S-1,2-PDO using engineered lactic acid bacteria.
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- Rintaro Sato
- Department of Biobased Materials Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
- JST-Mirai Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Biobased Materials Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Biobased Materials Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Biobased Materials Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Biobased Materials Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan.
- JST-Mirai Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan.
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Hueso-Gil Á, Calles B, de Lorenzo V. The Wsp intermembrane complex mediates metabolic control of the swim-attach decision of Pseudomonas putida. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:3535-3547. [PMID: 32519402 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Revised: 06/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pseudomonas putida is a microorganism of biotechnological interest that-similar to many other environmental bacteria-adheres to surfaces and forms biofilms. Although various mechanisms contributing to the swim-attach decision have been studied in this species, the role of a 7-gene operon homologous to the wsp cluster of Pseudomonas aeruginosa-which regulates cyclic di-GMP (cdGMP) levels upon surface contact-remained to be investigated. In this work, the function of the wsp operon of P. putida KT2440 has been characterized through inspection of single and multiple wsp deletion variants, complementation with Pseudomonas aeruginosa's homologues, combined with mutations of regulatory genes fleQ and fleN and removal of the flagellar regulator fglZ. The ability of the resulting strains to form biofilms at 6 and 24 h under three different carbon regimes (citrate, glucose and fructose) revealed that the Wsp complex delivers a similar function to both Pseudomonas species. In P. putida, the key components include WspR, a protein that harbours the domain for producing cdGMP, and WspF, which controls its activity. These results not only contribute to a deeper understanding of the network that regulates the sessile-planktonic decision of P. putida but also suggest strategies to exogenously control such a lifestyle switch.
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- Ángeles Hueso-Gil
- Systems Biology Department, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain
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- Systems Biology Department, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain
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- Systems Biology Department, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain
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Tiwari ON, Sasmal S, Kataria AK, Devi I. Application of microbial extracellular carbohydrate polymeric substances in food and allied industries. 3 Biotech 2020; 10:221. [PMID: 32355595 PMCID: PMC7188750 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-020-02200-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 04/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) are biopolymers, composed of polysaccharides, nucleic acids, proteins and lipids, which possess unique functional properties. Despite significant strides made in chemical production processes for polymers, the niche occupied by exopolysaccharides produced by bacteria, yeast or algae is steadily growing in its importance. With the availability of modern tools, a lot of information has been generated on the physico-chemical and biological properties using spectrometric tools, while advanced microscopic techniques have provided valuable insights into the structural-functional aspects. The size of EPS generally ranges between 10 and 10,000 kDa. The wide spectra of applications of EPS as adhesives, stabilizer, gelling, suspending, thickening agent, and surfactants in food and pharmaceutical industries are observed. The health benefits of these EPS enable the improvement of dual function, added value, and green products. This review summarizes previous work on the structural composition, rheological and thermal behaviour, and biosynthetic pathways of EPS and bioprocesses developed for their production. This review also considers each of the above factors and presents the current knowledge on the importance and refinement of available downstream protocols and genetic engineering towards specific food applications, which can help to diversify their prospects in different food and allied industries.
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- Onkar Nath Tiwari
- Centre for Conservation and Utilization of Blue Green Algae, Division of Microbiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012 India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, 110078 India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, 110078 India
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- DBT-Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, Imphal, Manipur 795001 India
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Malaka R, Maruddin F, Dwyana Z, Vargas MV. Assessment of exopolysaccharide production by Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus ropy strain in different substrate media. Food Sci Nutr 2020; 8:1657-1664. [PMID: 32180973 PMCID: PMC7063361 DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.1452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2019] [Accepted: 01/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The aim of this research was to determine the optimal medium for Exopolysaccharides (EPS) production by a Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus ropy strain isolated from a locally produced commercial fermented milk, in reconstituted skim milk (RSM) 10% (w/v), milk whey (MW), and soy milk whey (SMW), under optimal growth conditions for this strain. Milk whey was made by coagulating fresh milk using papaya latex 3% (v/v); soy milk whey was obtained from tofu household industry. The chemical composition of the substrate media was determined by proximate analysis, and sterilization was accomplished in an autoclave at 121°C for 15 min. Culture media were inoculated with 1% (v/v) of a starter culture of L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus and then incubated at 30°C for 16 hr. EPS production, lactic acid content, cell counting, and pH were determined after the media were cooled at 5°C. Findings showed that on the basis of the growth characteristics of L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, the best medium for EPS production was RSM 10% (258.60 ± 26.86 mg/L) compared to the milk whey (69.60 ± 9.48 mg/L) and soy milk whey (49.80 ± 9.04 mg/L).
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- Ratmawati Malaka
- Laboratory of Biotechnology of Milk Processing Department of Animal Science Faculty of Animal Science Hasanuddin University Makassar Indonesia
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- Laboratory of Biotechnology of Milk Processing Department of Animal Science Faculty of Animal Science Hasanuddin University Makassar Indonesia
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- Laboratory of Microbiology Department of Biology Faculty of Mathematic and Natural Sciences Hasanuddin University Makassar Indonesia
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- Laboratory of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences National Technical University (UTN) Alajuela Costa Rica
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Ahmed A, Narayanan RA, Veni AR. Influence of carbon source complexity on porosity, water retention and extracellular matrix composition of Neurospora discreta biofilms. J Appl Microbiol 2019; 128:1099-1108. [PMID: 31793753 DOI: 10.1111/jam.14539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Revised: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 12/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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AIMS To evaluate carbon source complexity as a process lever to impact the microstructure, chemical composition and water retention capacity of biofilms produced by Neurospora discreta. METHODS AND RESULTS Biofilms were produced by nonpathogenic fungus N. discreta, using sucrose, cellulose or lignin as carbon source. The increase in complexity of carbon source from sucrose to lignin resulted in decreased water retention values (WRV) and wet weights of harvested biofilms. Confocal laser scanning microscopy was used to calculate porosity from bright-field images, and relative stained areas of cells and carbohydrates from fluorescence imaging of samples stained with Trypan blue and Alexa Fluor 488. Porosity and relative quantity of cells increased with increase in carbon source complexity while the amount of carbohydrates decreased. The chemical analysis of the extracted extracellular matrix (ECM) showed that biofilms grown on more complex carbon sources had lower carbohydrate and protein content, which also explains the lower WRV trend, as carbohydrates are hydrophilic. CONCLUSIONS The nature of carbon source impacts the metabolic pathway of cells, thereby influencing the relative proportions of ECM and cells. This in turn impacts the microstructure, composition and water content of biofilms. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY This work shows that carbon source can be used as process lever to control the properties of biofilms and presents a novel view of biofilms as potentially useful biomaterials.
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- A Ahmed
- School of Human and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
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- Department of Physics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (Pilani), Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (Pilani), Hyderabad, India
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Troxler LJ, Werren JP, Schaffner TO, Mostacci N, Vermathen P, Vermathen M, Wüthrich D, Simillion C, Brugger SD, Bruggmann R, Hathaway LJ, Furrer J, Hilty M. Carbon source regulates polysaccharide capsule biosynthesis in Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:17224-17238. [PMID: 31594867 PMCID: PMC6873171 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.010764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The exopolysaccharide capsule of Streptococcus pneumoniae is an important virulence factor, but the mechanisms that regulate capsule thickness are not fully understood. Here, we investigated the effects of various exogenously supplied carbohydrates on capsule production and gene expression in several pneumococcal serotypes. Microscopy analyses indicated a near absence of the capsular polysaccharide (CPS) when S. pneumoniae was grown on fructose. Moreover, serotype 7F pneumococci produced much less CPS than strains of other serotypes (6B, 6C, 9V, 15, and 23F) when grown on glucose or sucrose. RNA-sequencing revealed carbon source-dependent regulation of distinct genes of WT strains and capsule-switch mutants of serotypes 6B and 7F, but could not explain the mechanism of capsule thickness regulation. In contrast, 31P NMR of whole-cell extract from capsule-knockout strains (Δcps) clearly revealed the accumulation or absence of capsule precursor metabolites when cells were grown on glucose or fructose, respectively. This finding suggests that fructose uptake mainly results in intracellular fructose 1-phosphate, which is not converted to CPS precursors. In addition, serotype 7F strains accumulated more precursors than did 6B strains, indicating less efficient conversion of precursor metabolites into the CPS in 7F, in line with its thinner capsule. Finally, isotopologue sucrose labeling and NMR analyses revealed that the uptake of the labeled fructose subunit into the capsule is <10% that of glucose. Our findings on the effects of carbon sources on CPS production in different S. pneumoniae serotypes may contribute to a better understanding of pneumococcal diseases and could inform future therapeutic approaches.
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- Lukas J Troxler
- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland.,Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland.,Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of BioMedical Research and Radiology, University of Bern and Inselspital, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.,Applied Microbiology Research Unit, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.,Division of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland
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- Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.,The Forsyth Institute (Microbiology), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142.,Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02142
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- Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland
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Rhizobium spp exopolysaccharides production and xanthan lyase use on its structural modification. Int J Biol Macromol 2019; 136:424-435. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.06.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2019] [Revised: 05/25/2019] [Accepted: 06/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Schulte S, Doss SS, Jeeva P, Ananth M, Blank LM, Jayaraman G. Exploiting the diversity of streptococcal hyaluronan synthases for the production of molecular weight–tailored hyaluronan. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 103:7567-7581. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-10023-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Revised: 07/11/2019] [Accepted: 07/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hueso-Gil Á, Calles B, O'Toole GA, de Lorenzo V. Gross transcriptomic analysis of Pseudomonas putida for diagnosing environmental shifts. Microb Biotechnol 2019; 13:263-273. [PMID: 30957409 PMCID: PMC6922523 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Revised: 03/10/2019] [Accepted: 03/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The biological regime of Pseudomonas putida (and any other bacterium) under given environmental conditions results from the hierarchical expression of sets of genes that become turned on and off in response to one or more physicochemical signals. In some cases, such signals are clearly defined, but in many others, cells are exposed to a whole variety of ill-defined inputs that occur simultaneously. Transcriptomic analyses of bacteria passed from a reference condition to a complex niche can thus expose both the type of signals that they experience during the transition and the functions involved in adaptation to the new scenario. In this article, we describe a complete protocol for generation of transcriptomes aimed at monitoring the physiological shift of P. putida between two divergent settings using as a simple case study the change between homogeneous, planktonic lifestyle in a liquid medium and growth on the surface of an agar plate. To this end, RNA was collected from P. putidaKT2440 cells at various times after growth in either condition, and the genome-wide transcriptional outputs were analysed. While the role of individual genes needs to be verified on a case-by-case basis, a gross inspection of the resulting profiles suggested cells that are cultured on solid media consistently had a higher translational and metabolic activity, stopped production of flagella and were conspicuously exposed to a strong oxidative stress. The herein described methodology is generally applicable to other circumstances for diagnosing lifestyle determinants of interest.
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- Ángeles Hueso-Gil
- Systems Biology Program, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain
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- Systems Biology Program, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Systems Biology Program, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain
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Huang L, Zuo Y, Jiang Q, Su Y, Qin Y, Xu X, Zhao L, Yan Q. A metabolomic investigation into the temperature-dependent virulence of Pseudomonas plecoglossicida from large yellow croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea). JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2019; 42:431-446. [PMID: 30659613 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Pseudomonas plecoglossicida is associated with multiple fish diseases, and temperature is one of the most important environmental factors related to its outbreak. To elucidate the influence of temperature variation on the pathogen, the global metabolomics of P. plecoglossicida (NZBD9) were analysed at the virulent (18°C) and avirulent (12°C and 28°C) temperatures. The result showed that the levels of Phosphoric acid, Tyrosine, Spermidine and Sucrose were significantly reduced,while Itaconic acid, Glucaric acid and Isomaltose were increased in P. plecoglossicida at 18°C. These metabolic adjustments assist P. plecoglossicida to survive in adverse environments, proliferate in the host, colonize and resist host immune clearance during the initial steps of infection. The results suggested that L321_03626 and L321_18122 genes played a key role in the regulation of these metabolic adaptions and thus regulated P. plecoglossicida virulence at virulent temperature, which was proved by further gene silencing and artificial infection. The present study, for the first time, determines the P. plecoglossicida metabolomic responses to temperature variation, which is helpful to explore its pathogenic mechanism and provides reference for disease control.
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- Lixing Huang
- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Fisheries College, Ministry of Agriculture, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Fisheries College, Ministry of Agriculture, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Fisheries College, Ministry of Agriculture, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Large Yellow Croaker Breeding, Ningde, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Fisheries College, Ministry of Agriculture, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Fisheries College, Ministry of Agriculture, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Fisheries College, Ministry of Agriculture, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Fisheries College, Ministry of Agriculture, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
- State Key Laboratory of Large Yellow Croaker Breeding, Ningde, China
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Padmanabhan A, Tong Y, Wu Q, Zhang J, Shah NP. Transcriptomic Insights Into the Growth Phase- and Sugar-Associated Changes in the Exopolysaccharide Production of a High EPS-Producing Streptococcus thermophilus ASCC 1275. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1919. [PMID: 30177921 PMCID: PMC6109772 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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In a previous study, incorporation of high exopolysaccharide (EPS) producing dairy starter bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus ASCC 1275 was found to improve functionality of low fat mozzarella cheese and yogurt. This bacterium in its eps gene cluster has a unique pair of chain length determining genes, epsC- epsD, when compared to other sequenced S. thermophilus strains. Hence, the aim of this study was to understand the regulatory mechanism of EPS production in this bacterium using transcriptomic analysis to provide opportunities to improve the yield of EPS. As sugars are considered as one of the major determinants of EPS production, after preliminary screening, we selected three sugars, glucose, sucrose and lactose to identify the EPS producing mechanism of this bacterium in M17 medium. Complete RNA-seq analysis was performed using Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencing system on S. thermophilus 1275 grown in three different sugars at two-time points, 5 h (log phase) and 10 h (stationary phase) to recognize the genes involved in sugar uptake, UDP-sugar formation, EPS assembly and export of EPS outside the bacterial cell. S. thermophilus 1275 was found to produce high amount of EPS (∼430 mg/L) in sucrose (1%) supplemented M17 medium when compared to other two sugars. Differential gene expression analysis revealed the involvement of phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system (PEP-PTS) for glucose and sucrose uptake, and lacS gene for lactose uptake. The pathways for the formation of UDP-glucose and UDP-galactose were highly upregulated in all the three sugars. In the presence of sucrose, eps1C1D2C2D were found to be highly expressed which refers to high EPS production. Protein homology study suggested the presence of Wzx/Wzy-dependent EPS synthesis and transport pathway in this bacterium. KEGG pathway and COG functional enrichment analysis were also performed to support the result. This is the first report providing the transcriptomic insights into the EPS production mechanism of a common dairy bacterium, S. thermophilus.
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- Aparna Padmanabhan
- Food and Nutritional Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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- Cancer Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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- Food and Nutritional Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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- Cancer Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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- Food and Nutritional Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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Zhang C, Allen KN, Dunaway-Mariano D. Mechanism of Substrate Recognition and Catalysis of the Haloalkanoic Acid Dehalogenase Family Member α-Phosphoglucomutase. Biochemistry 2018; 57:4504-4517. [PMID: 29952545 PMCID: PMC10725300 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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α-Phosphoglucomutase (αPGM), in its phosphorylated state, catalyzes the interconversion of α-d-glucose 1-phosphate and α-d-glucose 6-phosphate. The αPGM of Lactococcus lactis is a type C2B member of the haloalkanoic acid dehalogenase (HAD) enzyme family and is comprised of a Rossmann-fold catalytic domain and inserted α/β-fold cap domain. The active site is formed at the domain-domain interface. Herein, we report the results from a kinetic-based study of L. lactis αPGM catalysis, which demonstrate enzyme activation by autocatalyzed phosphorylation of Asp8 with αG1P, the intermediacy of αG1,6bisP in the phospho Ll-αPGM-catalyzed conversion of αG1P to G6P, and the reorientation of the αG1,6bisP intermediate via dissociation to solvent and rebinding. In order to provide insight into the structural determinants of L. lactis αPGM substrate recognition and catalysis, metal cofactor and substrate specificities were determined as were the contributions made by active-site residues toward catalytic efficiency. Lastly, the structure and catalytic mechanism of L. lactis αPGM are compared with those of HAD family phosphomutases L. lactis β-phosphoglucomutase and eukayotic α-phosphomannomutase to provide insight into the evolution of phosphohexomutases from HAD family phosphatases.
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- Chunchun Zhang
- Testing & Analytical Center, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston MA 02215-2521
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
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Carvalho SM, Kloosterman TG, Manzoor I, Caldas J, Vinga S, Martinussen J, Saraiva LM, Kuipers OP, Neves AR. Interplay Between Capsule Expression and Uracil Metabolism in Streptococcus pneumoniae D39. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:321. [PMID: 29599757 PMCID: PMC5863508 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Pyrimidine nucleotides play an important role in the biosynthesis of activated nucleotide sugars (NDP-sugars). NDP-sugars are the precursors of structural polysaccharides in bacteria, including capsule, which is a major virulence factor of the human pathogen S. pneumoniae. In this work, we identified a spontaneous non-reversible mutant of strain D39 that displayed a non-producing capsule phenotype. Whole-genome sequencing analysis of this mutant revealed several non-synonymous single base modifications, including in genes of the de novo synthesis of pyrimidines and in the -10 box of capsule operon promoter (Pcps). By directed mutagenesis we showed that the point mutation in Pcps was solely responsible for the drastic decrease in capsule expression. We also demonstrated that D39 subjected to uracil deprivation shows increased biomass and decreased Pcps activity and capsule amounts. Importantly, Pcps expression is further decreased by mutating the first gene of the de novo synthesis of pyrimidines, carA. In contrast, the absence of uracil from the culture medium showed no effect on the spontaneous mutant strain. Co-cultivation of the wild-type and the mutant strain indicated a competitive advantage of the spontaneous mutant (non-producing capsule) in medium devoid of uracil. We propose a model in that uracil may act as a signal for the production of different capsule amounts in S. pneumoniae.
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- Sandra M Carvalho
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), Lisbon, Portugal
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- IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- DTU Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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Sengupta D, Datta S, Biswas D. Towards a better production of bacterial exopolysaccharides by controlling genetic as well as physico-chemical parameters. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 102:1587-1598. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-018-8745-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2017] [Revised: 12/22/2017] [Accepted: 12/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Batool R, Marghoob U, Kalsoom A. Estimation of Exopolysaccharides (EPS) Producing Ability of Cr (VI) Resistant Bacterial Strains from Tannery Effluent. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.6000/1927-5129.2017.13.95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Sugar Allocation to Metabolic Pathways is Tightly Regulated and Affects the Virulence of Streptococcus mutans. Genes (Basel) 2016; 8:genes8010011. [PMID: 28036052 PMCID: PMC5295006 DOI: 10.3390/genes8010011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2016] [Revised: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 12/21/2016] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Bacteria take up and metabolize sugar as a carbohydrate source for survival. Most bacteria can utilize many sugars, including glucose, sucrose, and galactose, as well as amino sugars, such as glucosamine and N-acetylglucosamine. After entering the cytoplasm, the sugars are mainly allocated to the glycolysis pathway (energy production) and to various bacterial component biosynthesis pathways, including the cell wall, nucleic acids and amino acids. Sugars are also utilized to produce several virulence factors, such as capsule and lipoteichoic acid. Glutamine-fructose-6-phosphate aminotransferase (GlmS) and glucosamine-6-phosphate deaminase (NagB) have crucial roles in sugar distribution to the glycolysis pathway and to cell wall biosynthesis. In Streptococcus mutans, a cariogenic pathogen, the expression levels of glmS and nagB are coordinately regulated in response to the presence or absence of amino sugars. In addition, the disruption of this regulation affects the virulence of S. mutans. The expression of nagB and glmS is regulated by NagR in S. mutans, but the precise mechanism underlying glmS regulation is not clear. In Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis, the mRNA of glmS has ribozyme activity and undergoes self-degradation at the mRNA level. However, there is no ribozyme activity region on glmS mRNA in S. mutans. In this review article, we summarize the sugar distribution, particularly the coordinated regulation of GlmS and NagB expression, and its relationship with the virulence of S. mutans.
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Kaur M, Jayaraman G. Hyaluronan production and molecular weight is enhanced in pathway-engineered strains of lactate dehydrogenase-deficient Lactococcus lactis. Metab Eng Commun 2016; 3:15-23. [PMID: 29468110 PMCID: PMC5779726 DOI: 10.1016/j.meteno.2016.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2015] [Revised: 11/08/2015] [Accepted: 01/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The potential advantages of hyaluronic acid (HA) production by metabolically-engineered Lactococcus lactis is constrained by the lower molecular weight and yield of HA obtained in these strains, compared to natural producers. Earlier studies have correlated lower HA yield with excessive lactate production in L. lactis cultures (Chauhan et al., 2014). In the present study, a three-fold increase was observed in the amount as well as molecular weight of HA produced by recombinant ldh-mutant L. lactis strains. The diversion from lactate production in the ldh-mutant strains resulted in excess ethanol and acetoin production and higher NAD+/NADH ratio in these cultures. The initial NAD+/NADH ratio showed a positive correlation with HA molecular weight as well as with the HA-precursor ratio (UDP-GlcUA/UDP-GlcNAc). The influence of NAD+/NADH ratio on regulation of the concerned metabolic pathways was assessed by transcriptional analysis of key genes having putative binding sites of the NADH-binding transcriptional factor, Rex.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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Singh S, Verma E, Tiwari B, Mishra AK. Exopolysaccharide production in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 under different CaCl 2 regimes. PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANTS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 22:557-566. [PMID: 27924128 PMCID: PMC5120037 DOI: 10.1007/s12298-016-0380-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2016] [Revised: 08/26/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Influence of various levels of CaCl2 (0, 1, 10 and 100 mM) on exopolysaccharide production has been investigated in the cyanobacterium Anabaena 7120. At the concentration of 1 mM CaCl2, growth was found to be stimulatory while 100 mM was sub lethal for the cyanobacterial cells. Estimation of EPS content revealed that EPS production depends on the concentration of calcium ions in the immediate environment with maximum being at10 mM CaCl2. A possible involvement of alr2882 gene in the process of EPS production was also revealed through qRT-PCR. Further, FTIR-spectra marked the presence of aliphatic alkyl-group, primary amine-group, and polysaccharides along with shift in major absorption peaks suggesting that calcium levels in the external environment regulate the composition of EPS produced by Anabaena 7120. Thus, both quantity and composition of EPS is affected under different calcium chloride concentrations presenting possibilities of EPS with novel unexplored features that may offer biotechnological applications.
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- Savita Singh
- Laboratory of Microbial Genetics, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005 India
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- Laboratory of Microbial Genetics, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005 India
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- Laboratory of Microbial Genetics, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005 India
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- Laboratory of Microbial Genetics, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005 India
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Goto LS, Vessoni Alexandrino A, Malvessi Pereira C, Silva Martins C, D'Muniz Pereira H, Brandão-Neto J, Marques Novo-Mansur MT. Structural and functional characterization of the phosphoglucomutase from Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2016; 1864:1658-1666. [PMID: 27567706 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2016.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2016] [Revised: 08/17/2016] [Accepted: 08/23/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Citrus canker, caused by bacteria Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri, can affect all economically important varieties of citrus. Studying Xanthomonas genes related to the invasive capacity may improve the knowledge on how this works and ultimately use the information to avoid the disease. Some annotated genes from Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri published genome are addressed to an interesting class of genes named "pathogenicity, virulence and adaptation". One of them is xanA, which encodes a predicted phosphoglucomutase. Phosphoglucomutases are ubiquitous enzymes among the living kingdoms that play roles in carbohydrate metabolism, catalyzing the reversible conversion of 1- to 6-phosphoglucose. In Xanthomonas, phosphoglucomutase activity is required to synthesize precursors of the pathogenesis-related polysaccharide xanthan. In this work, a characterization of this gene product is presented by structural and functional studies. Molecular cloning was used for heterologous expression and deletion of xanA. A Michaelis-Menten kinetics model was obtained using the recombinant protein. The protein structure was also determined by X-ray diffraction on the recombinant enzyme substrate-free, bound to glucose-1,6-biphosphate and to glucose-1-phosphate. Deletion of xanA was done with a suicide plasmid construct and the obtained mutant was tested for pathogenic capacity. This study is the first describing the properties of the Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri phosphoglucomutase.
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- Leandro Seiji Goto
- Laboratório de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular Aplicada - LBBMA, Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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- Laboratório de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular Aplicada - LBBMA, Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular Aplicada - LBBMA, Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular Aplicada - LBBMA, Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Estrutural, Grupo de Cristalografia, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
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- Laboratório de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular Aplicada - LBBMA, Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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Arce-Rodríguez A, Calles B, Nikel PI, de Lorenzo V. The RNA chaperone Hfq enables the environmental stress tolerance super-phenotype ofPseudomonas putida. Environ Microbiol 2015; 18:3309-3326. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2015] [Revised: 09/09/2015] [Accepted: 09/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez
- Systems Biology Program; Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC); Campus de Cantoblanco Madrid 28049 Spain
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- Systems Biology Program; Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC); Campus de Cantoblanco Madrid 28049 Spain
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- Systems Biology Program; Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC); Campus de Cantoblanco Madrid 28049 Spain
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- Systems Biology Program; Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC); Campus de Cantoblanco Madrid 28049 Spain
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Characterization and upregulation of bifunctional phosphoglucomutase/phosphomannomutase enzyme in an exobiopolymer overproducing strain of Acinetobacter haemolyticus. Microbiol Res 2015; 181:8-14. [PMID: 26640047 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2015.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2015] [Revised: 07/13/2015] [Accepted: 08/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Several members of the Acinetobacter spp. produce exobiopolymer (EBP) of considerable biotechnological interest. In a previous study, we reported phosphate removal capacity of EBP produced by Acinetobacter haemolyticus. Insertional mutagenesis was attempted to develop EBP-overproducing strains of A. haemolyticus and mutant MG606 was isolated. In order to understand the underlying mechanism of overproduction, the EBP overproducing mutant MG606 was analyzed and compared with the wild type counterpart for its key EBP synthetic enzymes. The EBP produced by MG606 mutant was 650 mg/L compared to 220 mg/L in its wild type counterpart. Significantly high (p<0.05) levels of phosphoglucomutase/phosphomannomutase (PGM/PMM) in MG606 mutant was noted, whereas activities of other enzymes responsible for EBP synthesis showed no significant change (p>0.05). The up-regulation of PGM/PMM expression in mutant was further confirmed by real time reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR of PGM/PMM transcripts. The optimal conditions for PGM/PMM activity were found to be 35 °C and pH 7.5; PGM/PMM activity was inhibited by ions such as lithium, zinc, nickel. Further, incubation of cells with a PGM inhibitor (lithium) resulted in a concentration-dependent decrease in EBP production further confirming the role of PGM/PMM overexpression in enhanced EBP production by the mutant. Overall the results of our study indicate a key role of PGM/PMM in enhanced EBP production, as evident from enhanced enzyme activity, increased PGM/PMM transcripts and reduction in EBP synthesis by a PGM inhibitor. We envisage a potential exploitation of the insights so obtained to effectively engineer strains of Acinetobacter for overproducing phosphate binding EBP.
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Hmar RV, Prasad SB, Jayaraman G, Ramachandran KB. Chromosomal integration of hyaluronic acid synthesis (has) genes enhances the molecular weight of hyaluronan produced inLactococcus lactis. Biotechnol J 2014; 9:1554-64. [DOI: 10.1002/biot.201400215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2014] [Revised: 05/17/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Badle SS, Jayaraman G, Ramachandran KB. Ratio of intracellular precursors concentration and their flux influences hyaluronic acid molecular weight in Streptococcus zooepidemicus and recombinant Lactococcus lactis. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2014; 163:222-227. [PMID: 24814248 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2014] [Revised: 04/07/2014] [Accepted: 04/08/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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HA molecular weight variation in Streptococcus zooepidemicus and two recombinant Lactococcus lactis strains were investigated by chemostat experiments and metabolic flux analysis (MFA). The study showed that intracellular flux ratio of UDP-GlcUA to UDP-GlcNAc correlated directly with HA molecular weight, for all the three strains. The ratio of intracellular concentration of these HA precursors also exhibited a similar trend. Phosphoglucoisomerase activity and glucose flux towards lactic acid formation were found to be the major bottlenecks for HA production in all the three strains. The study suggests that environmental conditions and genetic manipulations that balance the intracellular flux and HA precursors concentrations will result in increased molecular weight.
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- Sneh Sanjay Badle
- Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India.
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Ates O, Arga KY, Oner ET. The stimulatory effect of mannitol on levan biosynthesis: Lessons from metabolic systems analysis ofHalomonas smyrnensisAAD6T. Biotechnol Prog 2013; 29:1386-97. [DOI: 10.1002/btpr.1823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2013] [Revised: 10/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Ozlem Ates
- Dept. of Bioengineering; Marmara University; Goztepe 34722 Istanbul Turkey
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- Dept. of Bioengineering; Marmara University; Goztepe 34722 Istanbul Turkey
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- Dept. of Bioengineering; Marmara University; Goztepe 34722 Istanbul Turkey
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Novel exopolysaccharides produced by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis, and the diversity of epsE genes in the exopolysaccharide biosynthesis gene clusters. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2013; 77:2013-8. [PMID: 24096663 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.130322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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To characterize novel variations of exopolysaccharides (EPSs) produced by dairy strains of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis and subsp. cremoris, the EPSs of five dairy strains of L. lactis were purified. Sugar composition analysis showed two novel EPSs produced by strains of L. lactis subsp. lactis. One strain produced EPS lacking galactose, and the other produced EPS containing fucose. Among the eps gene clusters of these strains, the highly conserved epsD and its neighboring epsE were sequenced. Sequence and PCR analysis revealed that epsE genes were strain-specific. By Southern blot analysis using epsD, the eps gene cluster in each strain was found to locate to the chromosome or a very large plasmid. This is the first report on the identification of two novel EPSs in L. lactis subsp. lactis. The strains can be detected among other strains by using epsE genes specific to them.
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Banderas A, Guiliani N. Bioinformatic prediction of gene functions regulated by quorum sensing in the bioleaching bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. Int J Mol Sci 2013; 14:16901-16. [PMID: 23959118 PMCID: PMC3759942 DOI: 10.3390/ijms140816901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2013] [Revised: 07/18/2013] [Accepted: 07/22/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The biomining bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans oxidizes sulfide ores and promotes metal solubilization. The efficiency of this process depends on the attachment of cells to surfaces, a process regulated by quorum sensing (QS) cell-to-cell signalling in many Gram-negative bacteria. At. ferrooxidans has a functional QS system and the presence of AHLs enhances its attachment to pyrite. However, direct targets of the QS transcription factor AfeR remain unknown. In this study, a bioinformatic approach was used to infer possible AfeR direct targets based on the particular palindromic features of the AfeR binding site. A set of Hidden Markov Models designed to maintain palindromic regions and vary non-palindromic regions was used to screen for putative binding sites. By annotating the context of each predicted binding site (PBS), we classified them according to their positional coherence relative to other putative genomic structures such as start codons, RNA polymerase promoter elements and intergenic regions. We further used the Multiple EM for Motif Elicitation algorithm (MEME) to further filter out low homology PBSs. In summary, 75 target-genes were identified, 34 of which have a higher confidence level. Among the identified genes, we found afeR itself, zwf, genes encoding glycosyltransferase activities, metallo-beta lactamases, and active transport-related proteins. Glycosyltransferases and Zwf (Glucose 6-phosphate-1-dehydrogenase) might be directly involved in polysaccharide biosynthesis and attachment to minerals by At. ferrooxidans cells during the bioleaching process.
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- Alvaro Banderas
- Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mails: (A.B.); (N.G.); Tel.: +49-06221-546846 (A.B.); +56-2-2978-7241 (N.G.)
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Communication, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago 780-0024, Chile
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Carlson-Banning KM, Chou A, Liu Z, Hamill RJ, Song Y, Zechiedrich L. Toward repurposing ciclopirox as an antibiotic against drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella pneumoniae. PLoS One 2013; 8:e69646. [PMID: 23936064 PMCID: PMC3720592 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2013] [Accepted: 06/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Antibiotic-resistant infections caused by gram-negative bacteria are a major healthcare concern. Repurposing drugs circumvents the time and money limitations associated with developing new antimicrobial agents needed to combat these antibiotic-resistant infections. Here we identified the off-patent antifungal agent, ciclopirox, as a candidate to repurpose for antibiotic use. To test the efficacy of ciclopirox against antibiotic-resistant pathogens, we used a curated collection of Acinetobacter baumannii, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates that are representative of known antibiotic resistance phenotypes. We found that ciclopirox, at 5–15 µg/ml concentrations, inhibited bacterial growth regardless of the antibiotic resistance status. At these same concentrations, ciclopirox reduced growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates, but some of these pathogens required higher ciclopirox concentrations to completely block growth. To determine how ciclopirox inhibits bacterial growth, we performed an overexpression screen in E. coli. This screen revealed that galE, which encodes UDP-glucose 4-epimerase, rescued bacterial growth at otherwise restrictive ciclopirox concentrations. We found that ciclopirox does not inhibit epimerization of UDP-galactose by purified E. coli GalE; however, ΔgalU, ΔgalE, ΔrfaI, or ΔrfaB mutant strains all have lower ciclopirox minimum inhibitory concentrations than the parent strain. The galU, galE, rfaI, and rfaB genes all encode enzymes that use UDP-galactose or UDP-glucose for galactose metabolism and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) biosynthesis. Indeed, we found that ciclopirox altered LPS composition of an E. coli clinical isolate. Taken together, our data demonstrate that ciclopirox affects galactose metabolism and LPS biosynthesis, two pathways important for bacterial growth and virulence. The lack of any reported fungal resistance to ciclopirox in over twenty years of use in the clinic, its excellent safety profiles, novel target(s), and efficacy, make ciclopirox a promising potential antimicrobial agent to use against multidrug-resistant problematic gram-negative pathogens.
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- Kimberly M. Carlson-Banning
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Carvalho SM, Farshchi Andisi V, Gradstedt H, Neef J, Kuipers OP, Neves AR, Bijlsma JJE. Pyruvate oxidase influences the sugar utilization pattern and capsule production in Streptococcus pneumoniae. PLoS One 2013; 8:e68277. [PMID: 23844180 PMCID: PMC3701046 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2012] [Accepted: 06/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Pyruvate oxidase is a key function in the metabolism and lifestyle of many lactic acid bacteria and its activity depends on the presence of environmental oxygen. In Streptococcus pneumoniae the protein has been suggested to play a major role in metabolism and has been implicated in virulence, oxidative stress survival and death in stationary phase. Under semi-aerobic conditions, transcriptomic and metabolite profiling analysis of a spxB mutant grown on glucose showed minor changes compared to the wild type, apart from the significant induction of two operons involved in carbohydrate uptake and processing. This induction leads to a change in the sugar utilization capabilities of the bacterium, as indicated by the analysis of the growth profiles of the D39 parent and spxB mutant on alternative carbohydrates. Metabolic analysis and growth experiments showed that inactivation of SpxB has no effect on the glucose fermentation pattern, except under aerobic conditions. More importantly, we show that mutation of spxB results in the production of increased amounts of capsule, the major virulence factor of S. pneumoniae. Part of this increase can be attributed to induction of capsule operon (cps) transcription. Therefore, we propose that S. pneumoniae utilizes pyruvate oxidase as an indirect sensor of the oxygenation of the environment, resulting in the adaption of its nutritional capability and the amount of capsule to survive in the host.
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- Sandra M. Carvalho
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Rochat T, Boudebbouze S, Gratadoux JJ, Blugeon S, Gaudu P, Langella P, Maguin E. Proteomic analysis of spontaneous mutants of Lactococcus lactis
: Involvement of GAPDH and arginine deiminase pathway in H2
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resistance. Proteomics 2012; 12:1792-805. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201100465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Tatiana Rochat
- INRA; UMR1319 Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
- AgroParisTech; UMR Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
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- INRA; UMR1319 Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
- AgroParisTech; UMR Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
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- INRA; UMR1319 Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
- AgroParisTech; UMR Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
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- INRA; UMR1319 Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
- AgroParisTech; UMR Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
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- INRA; UMR1319 Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
- AgroParisTech; UMR Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
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- INRA; UMR1319 Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
- AgroParisTech; UMR Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
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- INRA; UMR1319 Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
- AgroParisTech; UMR Micalis; Jouy-en-Josas; France
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Prasad SB, Ramachandran KB, Jayaraman G. Transcription analysis of hyaluronan biosynthesis genes in Streptococcus zooepidemicus and metabolically engineered Lactococcus lactis. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2012; 94:1593-607. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-3944-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2011] [Revised: 01/16/2012] [Accepted: 02/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Dimopoulou M, Hazo L, Dols-Lafargue M. Exploration of phenomena contributing to the diversity of Oenococcus oeni exopolysaccharides. Int J Food Microbiol 2011; 153:114-22. [PMID: 22119266 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2011.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2011] [Revised: 10/13/2011] [Accepted: 10/29/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Many food-grade bacteria produce exopolysaccharides (EPS) that may modify the food texture or affect their survival rate during food processing. This is the case of O. oeni, a bacterial species who drives malolactic fermentation in wine. The five strains analyzed in the present study all display both isolated genes dedicated to homopolysaccharide synthesis and gene clusters potentially associated with heteropolysaccharide synthesis. The number of isolated glycosyltransferase gene present and the gene composition of one of the operons change from one strain to the other. The soluble EPS yields and the EPS monomer composition vary depending on the strain and or the medium composition. O. oeni appears as a bacterium able to synthesize both homo and heteropolysaccharides. This unique property has rarely been described. Moreover, the abundance of the genetic determinants associated with EPS metabolism suggests that it is very important for the adaptation of the bacteria to wine.
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- Maria Dimopoulou
- Université de Bordeaux, IPB, ISVV, EA 4602, Unité de recherche OENOLOGIE, INRA USC 1219, 210 chemin de leysotte, 33882 Villenave d'Ornon cedex, France
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Carvalho SM, Kloosterman TG, Kuipers OP, Neves AR. CcpA ensures optimal metabolic fitness of Streptococcus pneumoniae. PLoS One 2011; 6:e26707. [PMID: 22039538 PMCID: PMC3198803 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2011] [Accepted: 10/03/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In gram-positive bacteria, the transcriptional regulator CcpA is at the core of catabolite control mechanisms. In the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae, links between CcpA and virulence have been established, but its role as a master regulator in different nutritional environments remains to be elucidated. Thus, we performed whole-transcriptome and metabolic analyses of S. pneumoniae D39 and its isogenic ccpA mutant during growth on glucose or galactose, rapidly and slowly metabolized carbohydrates presumably encountered by the bacterium in different host niches. CcpA affected the expression of up to 19% of the genome covering multiple cellular processes, including virulence, regulatory networks and central metabolism. Its prevalent function as a repressor was observed on glucose, but unexpectedly also on galactose. Carbohydrate-dependent CcpA regulation was also observed, as for the tagatose 6-phosphate pathway genes, which were activated by galactose and repressed by glucose. Metabolite analyses revealed that two pathways for galactose catabolism are functionally active, despite repression of the Leloir genes by CcpA. Surprisingly, galactose-induced mixed-acid fermentation apparently required CcpA, since genes involved in this type of metabolism were mostly under CcpA-repression. These findings indicate that the role of CcpA extends beyond transcriptional regulation, which seemingly is overlaid by other regulatory mechanisms. In agreement, CcpA influenced the level of many intracellular metabolites potentially involved in metabolic regulation. Our data strengthen the view that a true understanding of cell physiology demands thorough analyses at different cellular levels. Moreover, integration of transcriptional and metabolic data uncovered a link between CcpA and the association of surface molecules (e.g. capsule) to the cell wall. Hence, CcpA may play a key role in mediating the interaction of S. pneumoniae with its host. Overall, our results support the hypothesis that S. pneumoniae optimizes basic metabolic processes, likely enhancing in vivo fitness, in a CcpA-mediated manner.
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- Sandra M. Carvalho
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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The Lcn972 bacteriocin-encoding plasmid pBL1 impairs cellobiose metabolism in Lactococcus lactis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2011; 77:7576-85. [PMID: 21890668 DOI: 10.1128/aem.06107-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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pBL1 is a Lactococcus lactis theta-replicating 10.9-kbp plasmid that encodes the synthetic machinery of the bacteriocin Lcn972. In this work, the transcriptomes of exponentially growing L. lactis strains with and without pBL1 were compared. A discrete response was observed, with a total of 10 genes showing significantly changed expression. Upregulation of the lactococcal oligopeptide uptake (opp) system was observed, which was likely linked to a higher nitrogen demand required for Lcn972 biosynthesis. Strikingly, celB, coding for the membrane porter IIC of the cellobiose phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system (PTS), and the upstream gene llmg0186 were downregulated. Growth profiles for L. lactis strains MG1363, MG1363/pBL1, and MG1363 ΔcelB grown in chemically defined medium (CDM) containing cellobiose confirmed slower growth of MG1363/pBL1 and MG1363 ΔcelB, while no differences were observed with growth on glucose. The presence of pBL1 shifted the fermentation products toward a mixed acid profile and promoted substantial changes in intracellular pool sizes for glycolytic intermediates in cells growing on cellobiose as determined by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Overall, these data support the genetic evidence of a constriction in cellobiose uptake. Notably, several cell wall precursors accumulated, while other UDP-activated sugar pools were lower, which could reflect rerouting of precursors toward the production of structural or storage polysaccharides. Moreover, cells growing slowly on cellobiose and those lacking celB were more tolerant to Lcn972 than cellobiose-adapted cells. Thus, downregulation of celB could help to build up a response against the antimicrobial activity of Lcn972, enhancing self-immunity of the producer cells.
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Sanfélix-Haywood N, Coll-Marqués JM, Yebra MJ. Role of α-phosphoglucomutase and phosphoglucose isomerase activities at the branching point between sugar catabolism and anabolism in Lactobacillus casei. J Appl Microbiol 2011; 111:433-42. [PMID: 21605291 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2011.05045.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIMS To evaluate the role of α-phosphoglucomutase (α-Pgm) and phosphoglucose isomerase (Pgi) activities in growth rate, sugar-phosphates, UDP-sugars and lactate biosynthesis in Lactobacillus casei. METHODS AND RESULTS The pgm and pgi genes coding for α-Pgm and Pgi activities in L. casei BL23, respectively, were identified, cloned and shown to be functional by homologous overexpression. In MRS fermentation medium with glucose, overexpression of pgm gene in L. casei resulted in a growth rate reduced to 75% and glucose-6P levels reduced to 47%. By contrast, with lactose, the growth rate was raised to 119%. An increment of α-Pgm activity had no significant effect on UDP-sugar levels. Remarkably, Pgi overexpression in L. casei grown in lactose or galactose resulted in almost a double growth rate with respect to the control strain. The increased Pgi activity also resulted in glucose-6P levels reduced to 25 and 59% of control strain cultured in glucose and lactose, respectively, and the fructose-6P levels were increased to 128% on glucose. UDP-glucose and UDP-galactose levels were reduced to 66 and 55%, respectively, of control strain levels cultured in galactose. In addition, the lactate yield increased to 115% in the strain overproducing Pgi grown in galactose. CONCLUSIONS The physiological amount of α-Pgm and Pgi activities is limited for L. casei growth on lactose, and lactose and galactose, respectively, and that limitation was overcome by pgm and pgi gene overexpression. The increment of α-Pgm and Pgi activities, respectively, resulted in modified levels of sugar-phosphates, sugar-nucleotides and lactate showing the modulation capacity of the carbon fluxes in L. casei at the level of the glycolytic intermediate glucose-6P. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Knowledge of the role of key enzymes in metabolic fluxes at the branching point between anabolic and catabolic pathways would allow a rational design of engineering strategies in L. casei.
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- N Sanfélix-Haywood
- Laboratorio de Bacterias Lácticas y Probióticos, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de los Alimentos, IATA-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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Engineering trehalose synthesis in Lactococcus lactis for improved stress tolerance. Appl Environ Microbiol 2011; 77:4189-99. [PMID: 21515730 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02922-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Trehalose accumulation is a common cell defense strategy against a variety of stressful conditions. In particular, our team detected high levels of trehalose in Propionibacterium freudenreichii in response to acid stress, a result that led to the idea that endowing Lactococcus lactis with the capacity to synthesize trehalose could improve the acid tolerance of this organism. To this end, we took advantage of the endogenous genes involved in the trehalose catabolic pathway of L. lactis, i.e., trePP and pgmB, encoding trehalose 6-phosphate phosphorylase and β-phosphoglucomutase, respectively, which enabled the synthesis of trehalose 6-phosphate. Given that L. lactis lacks trehalose 6-phosphate phosphatase, the respective gene, otsB, from the food-grade organism P. freudenreichii was used to provide the required activity. The trehalose yield was approximately 15% in resting cells and in mid-exponential-phase cells grown without pH control. The intracellular concentration of trehalose reached maximal values of approximately 170 mM, but at least 67% of the trehalose produced was found in the growth medium. The viability of mutant and control strains was examined after exposure to heat, cold or acid shock, and freeze-drying. The trehalose-producing strains showed improved tolerance (5- to 10-fold-higher survivability) to acid (pH 3) and cold shock (4°C); there was also a strong improvement in cell survival in response to heat shock (45°C), and no protection was rendered against dehydration. The insight provided by this work may help the design of food-grade strains optimized for the dairy industry as well as for oral drug delivery.
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Since the discovery in 1899 of bifidobacteria as numerically dominant microbes in the feces of breast-fed infants, there have been numerous studies addressing their role in modulating gut microflora as well as their other potential health benefits. Because of this, they are frequently incorporated into foods as probiotic cultures. An understanding of their full interactions with intestinal microbes and the host is needed to scientifically validate any health benefits they may afford. Recently, the genome sequences of nine strains representing four species of Bifidobacterium became available. A comparative genome analysis of these genomes reveals a likely efficient capacity to adapt to their habitats, with B. longum subsp. infantis exhibiting more genomic potential to utilize human milk oligosaccharides, consistent with its habitat in the infant gut. Conversely, B. longum subsp. longum exhibits a higher genomic potential for utilization of plant-derived complex carbohydrates and polyols, consistent with its habitat in an adult gut. An intriguing observation is the loss of much of this genome potential when strains are adapted to pure culture environments, as highlighted by the genomes of B. animalis subsp. lactis strains, which exhibit the least potential for a gut habitat and are believed to have evolved from the B. animalis species during adaptation to dairy fermentation environments.
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- Ju-Hoon Lee
- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute, University of Minnesota, 1500 Gortner Ave., St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
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- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute, University of Minnesota, 1500 Gortner Ave., St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
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Ligand binding and substrate discrimination by UDP-galactopyranose mutase. J Mol Biol 2009; 391:327-40. [PMID: 19500588 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.05.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2009] [Revised: 05/20/2009] [Accepted: 05/27/2009] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Galactofuranose (Galf) residues are present in cell wall glycoconjugates of numerous pathogenic microbes. Uridine 5'-diphosphate (UDP) Galf, the biosynthetic precursor of Galf-containing glycoconjugates, is produced from UDP-galactopyranose (UDP-Galp) by the flavoenzyme UDP-galactopyranose mutase (UGM). The gene encoding UGM (glf) is essential for the viability of pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and this finding underscores the need to understand how UGM functions. Considerable effort has been devoted to elucidating the catalytic mechanism of UGM, but progress has been hindered by a lack of structural data for an enzyme-substrate complex. Such data could reveal not only substrate binding interactions but how UGM can act preferentially on two very different substrates, UDP-Galp and UDP-Galf, yet avoid other structurally related UDP sugars present in the cell. Herein, we describe the first structure of a UGM-ligand complex, which provides insight into the catalytic mechanism and molecular basis for substrate selectivity. The structure of UGM from Klebsiella pneumoniae bound to the substrate analog UDP-glucose (UDP-Glc) was solved by X-ray crystallographic methods and refined to 2.5 A resolution. The ligand is proximal to the cofactor, a finding that is consistent with a proposed mechanism in which the reduced flavin engages in covalent catalysis. Despite this proximity, the glucose ring of the substrate analog is positioned such that it disfavors covalent catalysis. This orientation is consistent with data indicating that UDP-Glc is not a substrate for UGM. The relative binding orientations of UDP-Galp and UDP-Glc were compared using saturation transfer difference NMR. The results indicate that the uridine moiety occupies a similar location in both ligand complexes, and this relevant binding mode is defined by our structural data. In contrast, the orientations of the glucose and galactose sugar moieties differ. To understand the consequences of these differences, we derived a model for the productive UGM-substrate complex that highlights interactions that can contribute to catalysis and substrate discrimination.
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Reduced lysis upon growth of Lactococcus lactis on galactose is a consequence of decreased binding of the autolysin AcmA. Appl Environ Microbiol 2008; 74:4671-9. [PMID: 18539791 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00103-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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When Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis IL1403 or L. lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363 is grown in a medium with galactose as the carbon source, the culture lyses to a lesser extent in stationary phase than when the bacteria are grown in a medium containing glucose. Expression of AcmA, the major autolysin of L. lactis, is not influenced by the carbon source. Binding studies with a fusion protein consisting of the MSA2 protein of Plasmodium falciparum and the C-terminal peptidoglycan-binding domain of AcmA revealed that cell walls of cells from both subspecies grown on galactose bind less AcmA than cell walls of cells grown on glucose. Cells grown on glucose or galactose and treated with trichloroacetic acid prior to AcmA binding bind similar amounts of AcmA. Analysis of the composition of the lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) of L. lactis IL1403 cells grown on glucose or galactose showed that the LTA composition is influenced by the carbon source: cells grown on galactose contain LTA with less galactose than cells grown on glucose. In conclusion, growth of L. lactis on galactose changes the LTA composition in the cell wall in such a way that less AcmA is able to bind to the peptidoglycan, resulting in a decrease in autolysis.
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Culture and exopolysaccharide production from sugarcane molasses by Gordonia polyisoprenivorans CCT 7137, isolated from contaminated groundwater in Brazil. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s11274-007-9570-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Cohen DPA, Renes J, Bouwman FG, Zoetendal EG, Mariman E, de Vos WM, Vaughan EE. Proteomic analysis of log to stationary growth phase Lactobacillus plantarum cells and a 2-DE database. Proteomics 2007; 6:6485-93. [PMID: 17115453 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200600361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Lactobacillus plantarum is part of the natural microbiota of many food fermentations as well as the human gastro-intestinal tract. The cytosolic fraction of the proteome of L. plantarum WCFS1, whose genome has been sequenced, was studied. 2-DE was used to investigate the proteins from the cytosolic fraction isolated from mid- and late-log, early- and late-stationary phase cells to generate reference maps of different growth conditions offering more knowledge of the metabolic behavior of this bacterium. From this fraction, a total of 200 protein spots were identified by MALDI-MS and a proteome production map was constructed to facilitate further studies such as detection of suitable biomarkers for specific growth conditions. More than half (57%) of the identified proteins were predicted to be involved in metabolic pathways of the bacterium. The protein profile changed during the growth of the bacteria such that 29% of the identified proteins involved in anabolic pathways were at least twofold up-regulated throughout the mid- and late-exponential and early-stationary phases. In the late-stationary phase, six proteins involved in stress or with a potential role for survival during starvation were up-regulated significantly.
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- David P A Cohen
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Neves AR, Pool WA, Castro R, Mingote A, Santos F, Kok J, Kuipers OP, Santos H. The α-Phosphoglucomutase of Lactococcus lactis Is Unrelated to the α-d-Phosphohexomutase Superfamily and Is Encoded by the Essential Gene pgmH. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:36864-73. [PMID: 16980299 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m607044200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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alpha-Phosphoglucomutase (alpha-PGM) plays an important role in carbohydrate metabolism by catalyzing the reversible conversion of alpha-glucose 1-phosphate to glucose 6-phosphate. Isolation of alpha-PGM activity from cell extracts of Lactococcus lactis strain MG1363 led to the conclusion that this activity is encoded by yfgH, herein renamed pgmH. Its gene product has no sequence homology to proteins in the alpha-d-phosphohexomutase superfamily and is instead related to the eukaryotic phosphomannomutases within the haloacid dehalogenase superfamily. In contrast to known bacterial alpha-PGMs, this 28-kDa enzyme is highly specific for alpha-glucose 1-phosphate and glucose 6-phosphate and showed no activity for mannose phosphate. To elucidate the function of pgmH, the metabolism of glucose and galactose was characterized in mutants overproducing or with a deficiency of alpha-PGM activity. Overproduction of alpha-PGM led to increased glycolytic flux and growth rate on galactose. Despite several attempts, we failed to obtain a deletion mutant of pgmH. The essentiality of this gene was proven by using a conditional knock-out strain in which a native copy of the gene was provided in trans under the control of the nisin promoter. Growth of this strain was severely impaired when alpha-PGM activity was below the control level. We show that the novel L. lactis alpha-PGM is the only enzyme that mediates the interconversion of alpha-glucose 1-phosphate to glucose 6-phosphate and is essential for growth.
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- Ana R Neves
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica and Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, Apartado 127, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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Ventura CL, Cartee RT, Forsee WT, Yother J. Control of capsular polysaccharide chain length by UDP-sugar substrate concentrations in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mol Microbiol 2006; 61:723-33. [PMID: 16780566 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05259.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Regulation of chain length is essential to the proper functioning of prokaryotic and eukaryotic polysaccharides. Modulation of polymer size by substrate concentration is an attractive but unexplored control mechanism that has been suggested for many polysaccharides. The Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharide is essential for virulence, and regulation of its size is critical for survival in different host environments. Synthesis of the type 3 capsule [-4)-beta-d-Glc-(1-3)-beta-d-GlcUA-(1-] from UDP-glucose (UDP-Glc) and UDP-glucuronic acid (UDP-GlcUA) is catalysed by the type 3 synthase, a processive beta-glycosyltransferase, and requires a UDP-Glc dehydrogenase for conversion of UDP-Glc to UDP-GlcUA. Strains containing mutant UDP-Glc dehydrogenases exhibited reduced levels of UDP-GlcUA, along with reductions in total capsule amount and polymer chain length. In both the parent and mutant strains, UDP-Glc levels far exceeded UDP-GlcUA levels, which were very low to undetectable in the absence of blocking synthase activity. The in vivo observations were consistent with in vitro conditions that effect chain termination and ejection of the polysaccharide from the synthase when one substrate is limiting. These data are the first to demonstrate modulation of polysaccharide chain length by substrate concentration and to enable a model for the underlying mechanism. Further, they may have implications for the control of chain length in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic polymers synthesized by similar mechanisms.
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- Christy L Ventura
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Dai J, Wang L, Allen KN, Radstrom P, Dunaway-Mariano D. Conformational Cycling in β-Phosphoglucomutase Catalysis: Reorientation of the β-d-Glucose 1,6-(Bis)phosphate Intermediate. Biochemistry 2006; 45:7818-24. [PMID: 16784233 DOI: 10.1021/bi060136v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Activated Lactococcus lactis beta-phosphoglucomutase (betaPGM) catalyzes the conversion of beta-d-glucose 1-phosphate (betaG1P) derived from maltose to beta-d-glucose 6-phosphate (G6P). Activation requires Mg(2+) binding and phosphorylation of the active site residue Asp8. Initial velocity techniques were used to define the steady-state kinetic constants k(cat) = 177 +/- 9 s(-)(1), K(m) = 49 +/- 4 microM for the substrate betaG1P and K(m) = 6.5 +/- 0.7 microM for the activator beta-d-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate (betaG1,6bisP). The observed transient accumulation of [(14)C]betaG1,6bisP (12% at approximately 0.1 s) in the single turnover reaction carried out with excess betaPGM (40 microM) and limiting [(14)C]betaG1P (5 microM) and betaG1,6bisP (5 microM) supported the role of betaG1,6bisP as a reaction intermediate in the conversion of the betaG1P to G6P. Single turnover reactions of [(14)C]betaG1,6bisP with excess betaPGM were carried out to demonstrate that phosphoryl transfer rather than ligand binding is rate-limiting and to show that the betaG1,6bisP binds to the active site in two different orientations (one positioning the C(1)phosphoryl group for reaction with Asp8, and the other orientation positioning the C(6)phosphoryl group for reaction with Asp8) with roughly the same efficiency. Single turnover reactions carried out with betaPGM, [(14)C]betaG1P, and unlabeled betaG1,6bisP demonstrated complete exchange of label to the betaG1,6bisP during the catalytic cycle. Thus, the reorientation of the betaG1,6bisP intermediate that is required to complete the catalytic cycle occurs by diffusion into solvent followed by binding in the opposite orientation. Published X-ray structures of betaG1P suggest that the reorientation and phosphoryl transfer from betaG1,6bisP occur by conformational cycling of the enzyme between the active site open and closed forms via cap domain movement. Last, the equilibrium ratio of betaG1,6bisP to betaG1P plus G6P was examined to evidence a significant stabilization of betaPGM aspartyl phosphate.
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- Jianying Dai
- Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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Welman AD, Maddox IS, Archer RH. Metabolism associated with raised metabolic flux to sugar nucleotide precursors of exopolysaccharides in Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2006; 33:391-400. [PMID: 16453122 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-005-0075-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2005] [Accepted: 12/24/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Exopolysaccharide (EPS) metabolism was studied in a galactose-negative strain of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, using two different approaches. Firstly, using both the parent strain and a chemically induced mutant with higher yield and specific productivity of EPS than the parent, comparative information was obtained relating to enzyme activities and metabolite levels associated with EPS formation when grown on lactose. Under continuous culture conditions (D = 0.10 h(-1)), the higher metabolic flux towards EPS formation in the mutant strain relative to the parent appeared to be mediated by raised levels of UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (UGP). Marginally raised UDP-galactose 4-epimerase (UGE) activity in the mutant strain suggested that this enzyme could also play a role in EPS overproduction. The second approach involved investigating the effect of growth rate on sugar nucleotide metabolism in the parent, as it is known that EPS production is growth-associated in this strain. UGE activity in the parent strain appeared to increase when the growth rate was elevated from 0.05 to 0.10 h(-1), and further to 0.35 h(-1), conditions that can be associated with higher levels of metabolic flux to EPS formation. Concurrent with these increments, intracellular ATP levels in the cell were raised. In both investigations glucose-6-phosphate accumulated pointing to a constriction at this branch-point, and a limitation in the flow of carbon towards fructose-6-phosphate or glucose-1-phosphate. The changes in metabolism associated with enhanced flux to EPS provide guidance as to how the yield of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus EPS can be improved.
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- A D Welman
- Fonterra Research Centre, Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited, Private Bag 11029, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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Forsee WT, Cartee RT, Yother J. Role of the carbohydrate binding site of the Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharide type 3 synthase in the transition from oligosaccharide to polysaccharide synthesis. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:6283-9. [PMID: 16410247 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m511124200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The type 3 synthase catalyzes the formation of the Streptococcus pneumoniae type 3 capsular polysaccharide [-3)-beta-D-GlcUA-(1, 4)-beta-D-Glc-(1-]n. Synthesis is comprised of two distinct catalytic phases separated by a transition step whereby an oligosaccharylphosphatidylglycerol primer becomes tightly bound to the carbohydrate acceptor recognition site of the synthase. Using the recombinant synthase in Escherichia coli membranes, we determined that a critical oligosaccharide length of approximately 8 monosaccharides was required for recognition of the growing chain by the synthase. Upon binding of the oligosaccharide-lipid to the carbohydrate recognition site, the polymerization reaction entered a highly processive phase to produce polymer of high molecular weight. The initial oligosaccharide-synthetic phase also appeared to be processive, the duration of which was enhanced by the concentration of UDP-GlcUA and diminished by an increase in temperature. The overall reaction approached a steady state equilibrium between the polymer- and oligosaccharide-forming phases that was shifted toward the former by higher UDP-GlcUA levels or lower temperatures and toward the latter by lower concentrations of UDP-GlcUA or higher temperatures. The transition step between the two enzymatic phases demonstrated cooperative kinetics, which is predicted to reflect a possible reorientation of the oligosaccharide-lipid in conjunction with the formation of a tight binding complex.
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- W Thomas Forsee
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
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