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Garber ME, Frank V, Kazakov AE, Incha MR, Nava AA, Zhang H, Valencia LE, Keasling JD, Rajeev L, Mukhopadhyay A. REC protein family expansion by the emergence of a new signaling pathway. mBio 2023; 14:e0262223. [PMID: 37991384 PMCID: PMC10746176 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02622-23] [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: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023] Open
Abstract
IMPORTANCE We explore when and why large classes of proteins expand into new sequence space. We used an unsupervised machine learning approach to observe the sequence landscape of REC domains of bacterial response regulator proteins. We find that within-gene recombination can switch effector domains and, consequently, change the regulatory context of the duplicated protein.
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- Megan E. Garber
- Department of Comparative Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
- Center for Biosustainability, Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark
- Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, China
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Comparative Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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Ding L, Li X, Zhu H, Luo H. Single-Cell Sequencing in Rheumatic Diseases: New Insights from the Perspective of the Cell Type. Aging Dis 2022; 13:1633-1651. [PMID: 36465169 PMCID: PMC9662270 DOI: 10.14336/ad.2022.0323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2023] Open
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Rheumatic diseases are a group of highly heterogeneous autoimmune and inflammatory disorders involving multiple systems. Dysfunction of immune and non-immune cells participates in the complex pathogenesis of rheumatic diseases. Therefore, studies on the abnormal activation of cell subtypes provided a specific basis for understanding the pathogenesis of rheumatic diseases, which promoted the accuracy of disease diagnosis and the effectiveness of various treatments. However, there was still a far way to achieve individualized precision medicine as the result of heterogeneity among cell subtypes. To obtain the biological information of cell subtypes, single-cell sequencing, a cutting-edge technology, is used for analyzing their genomes, transcriptomes, epigenetics, and proteomics. Novel results identified multiple cell subtypes in tissues of patients with rheumatic diseases by single-cell sequencing. Consequently, we provide an overview of recent applications of single-cell sequencing in rheumatic disease and cross-tissue to understand the cell subtypes and functions.
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- Liqing Ding
- The Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
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- The Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
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- The Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
- Provincial Clinical Research Center for Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, China.
- National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, China.
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- The Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
- Provincial Clinical Research Center for Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, China.
- National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, China.
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Pang B, Li J, Eiben CB, Oksen E, Barcelos C, Chen R, Englund E, Sundstrom E, Keasling JD. Lepidopteran mevalonate pathway optimization in Escherichia coli efficiently produces isoprenol analogs for next-generation biofuels. Metab Eng 2021; 68:210-219. [PMID: 34673235 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2021.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Terpenes constitute the largest class of natural products with over 55,000 compounds with versatile applications including drugs and biofuels. Introducing structural modifications to terpenes through metabolic engineering is an efficient and sustainable way to improve their properties. Here, we report the optimization of the lepidopteran mevalonate (LMVA) pathway towards the efficient production of isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP) analogs as terpene precursors. First, we linked the LMVA pathway to NudB, a promiscuous phosphatase, resulting in the production of the six-carbon analog of 3-methyl-3-buten-1-ol (isoprenol), 3-ethyl-3-buten-1-ol (C6-isoprenol). Using C6-isoprenol as the final product, we then engineered the LMVA pathway by redirecting its upstream portion from a thiolase-dependent pathway to a beta-oxidation pathway. The beta-oxidation LMVA pathway transforms valeric acid, a platform chemical that can be produced from biomass, into C6-isoprenol at a titer of 110.3 mg/L, improved from 5.5 mg/L by the thiolase LMVA pathway, which used propionic acid as a feedstock. Knockout of the E. coli endogenous thiolase genes further improved the C6-isoprenol titer to 390 mg/L, implying efficient production of homo isopentenyl pyrophosphate (HIPP). The beta-oxidation LMVA-NudB pathway also converts butanoic acid and hexanoic acid into isoprenol and isoprenol's seven-carbon analog, 3-propyl-3-buten-1-ol (C7-isoprenol), respectively, suggesting the beta-oxidation LMVA pathway produces IPP and C7-IPP from the corresponding fatty acids. Fuel property tests revealed the longer chain isoprenol analogs have lower water solubilities, similar or higher energy densities, and comparable research octane number (RON) boosting effects to isopentenols. This work not only optimizes the LMVA pathway, setting the basis for homoterpene biosynthesis to expand terpene chemical space, but provides an efficient pathway to produce isoprenol analogs as next-generation biofuels from sustainable feedstocks.
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- Bo Pang
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States; Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, United States; State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430062, PR China; Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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- Advanced Biofuels & Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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- Advanced Biofuels & Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States; School of Public Health, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311121, PR China
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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- Advanced Biofuels & Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, United States; Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States; Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University Denmark, DK 2970 Horsholm, Denmark; Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, PR China.
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Gallegos JE, Rogers MF, Cialek CA, Peccoud J. Rapid, robust plasmid verification by de novo assembly of short sequencing reads. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:e106. [PMID: 32890398 PMCID: PMC7544192 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Plasmids are a foundational tool for basic and applied research across all subfields of biology. Increasingly, researchers in synthetic biology are relying on and developing massive libraries of plasmids as vectors for directed evolution, combinatorial gene circuit tests, and for CRISPR multiplexing. Verification of plasmid sequences following synthesis is a crucial quality control step that creates a bottleneck in plasmid fabrication workflows. Crucially, researchers often elect to forego the cumbersome verification step, potentially leading to reproducibility and—depending on the application—security issues. In order to facilitate plasmid verification to improve the quality and reproducibility of life science research, we developed a fast, simple, and open source pipeline for assembly and verification of plasmid sequences from Illumina reads. We demonstrate that our pipeline, which relies on de novo assembly, can also be used to detect contaminating sequences in plasmid samples. In addition to presenting our pipeline, we discuss the role for verification and quality control in the increasingly complex life science workflows ushered in by synthetic biology.
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- Jenna E Gallegos
- Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, USA
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- GenoFAB, Inc.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, USA
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- Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, USA.,GenoFAB, Inc
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Eiben CB, Tian T, Thompson MG, Mendez-Perez D, Kaplan N, Goyal G, Chiniquy J, Hillson NJ, Lee TS, Keasling JD. Adenosine Triphosphate and Carbon Efficient Route to Second Generation Biofuel Isopentanol. ACS Synth Biol 2020; 9:468-474. [PMID: 32149502 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Climate change necessitates the development of CO2 neutral or negative routes to chemicals currently produced from fossil carbon. In this paper we demonstrate a pathway from the renewable resource glucose to next generation biofuel isopentanol by pairing the isovaleryl-CoA biosynthesis pathway from Myxococcus xanthus and a butyryl-CoA reductase from Clostridium acetobutylicum. The best plasmid and Escherichia coli strain combination makes 80.50 ± 8.08 (SD) mg/L of isopentanol after 36 h under microaerobic conditions with an oleyl alcohol overlay. In addition, the system also shows a strong preference for isopentanol production over prenol in microaerobic conditions. Finally, the pathway requires zero adenosine triphosphate and can be paired theoretically with nonoxidative glycolysis, the combination being redox balanced from glucose thus avoiding unnecessary carbon loss as CO2. These pathway properties make the isovaleryl-CoA pathway an attractive isopentanol production route for further optimization.
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- Christopher B. Eiben
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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