Redirection of carbon flux to lysine in a recombinant of Corynebacterium lactofermentum ATCC 21799 by limited supply of pantothenate

To increase carbon flux to lysine, minimized production of amino acids that are biosynthetically related to lysine, for example, isoleucine and valine, is required. By limiting the supply of pantothenate, the precursor of coenzyme A, the carbon flux was redirected from isoleucine and valine to lysine in the recombinant of Corynebacterium lactofermentum ATCC 21799 containing the plasmid pGC77. The pGC77 contains hom(dr), thrB, and ilvA encoding feedback-deregulated homoserine dehydrogenase, homoserine kinase, and threonine dehydratase, respectively. At 250 microM of isopropyl-beta-d-thiogalactopyranoside, the recombinant (pGC77) produced lysine, valine, and isoleucine. Limiting the supply of pantothenate from 300 microg/l to 30 microg/l resulted in an increase in lysine (from 4.5 to 6.4 g/l) and decreases in valine (from 3.1 to 1.6 g/l) and isoleucine (from 0.9 to 0.3 g/l) production. The concentration of pyruvate was higher and that of acetate lower in the pantothenate-limited culture than in the control, suggesting that the limited supply of pantothenate delayed the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA. Increased availability of pyruvate by limiting the supply of pantothenate might favor the integration of pyruvate into the lysine branch. The results of this study are useful for the production of lysine with decreased concentrations of byproducts.     

Metabolic flux analysis for efficient pyruvate fermentation using vitamin-auxotrophic yeast of Torulopsis glabrata

The metabolism of a vitamin-auxotrophic pyruvate-producing microorganism, Torulopsis glabrata IFO 0005, was investigated by metabolic flux analysis. Particular attention was focused on the effect of culture conditions, such as dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration and thiamine concentration, on specific pathway activities. The results of metabolic flux analysis indicate that the thiamine concentration significantly affected pyruvate dehydrogenase and pyruvate decarboxylase activities, and plays an important role in cell growth and pyruvate production. Metabolic flux analysis was also utilized to clarify the metabolism of this strain during pyruvate fermentation under different oxygen supply conditions, and the reason for the enhanced pyruvate production under conditions of 30-40% DO concentration was clarified from the viewpoint of intracellular flux distributions. Based on the analysis of the effect of thiamine concentration on the metabolic fluxes, we conducted a fed-batch experiment where the initial thiamine concentration was reduced to 30 microg/l and thiamine was added at 10 microg/l during fermentation when the cell growth rate decreased to 0.2 h(-1). With separate addition of thiamine, the overall pyruvate yield could be improved by 15% due to the decrease of ethanol production.     

通过添加NaHCO_3和调节pH提高谷氨酸得率

研究了在谷氨酸发酵产酸期分别添加NaHCO3、调节pH及两者耦联操作条件下的发酵性能。结果表明:只有在升高pH值、添加NaHCO3同时进行或先升高pH值后添加NaHCO3的情况下,葡萄糖消耗量大幅下降,谷氨酸得率显著提高,分别比对照提高36%和34%,且谷氨酸产量可以达到正常水平(75 g/L以上)。酶学代谢分析表明,仅仅提高丙酮酸羧化酶活性不能提高谷氨酸得率,只有各个关键酶相互协调配合,即适度弱化丙酮酸脱氢酶和α-酮戊二酸脱氢酶活性的同时,适度提高丙酮酸羧化酶和异柠檬酸脱氢酶活性,才能有效提高谷氨酸发酵整体性能。     

Distinct roles of two anaplerotic pathways in glutamate production induced by biotin limitation in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Corynebacterium glutamicum is a biotin auxotrophic bacterium in which glutamate production is induced under biotin-limited conditions. During glutamate production, anaplerotic reactions catalyzed by phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) and a biotin-containing enzyme pyruvate carboxylase (PC) are believed to play an important role in supplying oxaloacetate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle. To understand the distinct roles of PEPC and PC on glutamate production by C. glutamicum, we observed glutamate production induced under biotin-limited conditions in the disruptants of the genes encoding PEPC (ppc) and PC (pyc), respectively. The pyc disruptant retained the ability to produce high amounts of glutamate, and lactate was simultaneously produced probably due to the increased intracellular pyruvate levels. On the other hand, the ppc knockout mutant could not produce glutamate. Additionally, glutamate production in the pyc disruptant was enhanced by overexpression of ppc rather than disruption of the lactate dehydrogenase gene (ldh), which is involved in lactate production. Metabolic flux analysis based on the 13C-labeling experiment and measurement of 13C-enrichment in glutamate using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy revealed that the flux for anaplerotic reactions in the pyc disruptant was lower than that in the wild type, concomitantly increasing the flux for lactate formation. Moreover, overexpression of ppc increased this flux in both the pyc disruptant and the wild type. Our results suggest that the PEPC-catalyzed anaplerotic reaction is necessary for glutamate production induced under biotin-limited conditions, because PC is not active during glutamate production, and overexpression of ppc effectively enhances glutamate production under biotin-limited conditions.     

温度对Zymomonas mobilis糖代谢关键酶活力和代谢流量的影响

以运动发酵单胞菌(Zynwmonas mobilis)ATCC31821为模式菌株,研究不同温度条件对其葡萄糖代谢关键酶活力的影响.采用全自动发酵罐,在整个发酵过程中通过充入氮气调节发酵液的溶氧量(DO)=0%,添加0.5mol/LNaOH溶液控制pH=5.5,发酵温度分别控制为25、30、35、40℃,发酵24h,测定其糖代谢网络中ED、HMP、TCA等途径的关键酶活力和代谢物成分.结果表明,在发酵温度为30～35℃时,乙醇脱氢酶(ADH)、葡萄糖-6-磷酸脱氢酶(G-6-PDH)、丙酮酸脱羧酶(PDC)、葡萄糖激酶(GK)、丙酮酸激酶(PK)和甘油醛-3-磷酸脱氢酶(GD-3-PDH)的活力较高,菌体的ED途径代谢活跃,碳素流量增加,乙醇生产量和糖转化率较高,而TCA途径的苹果酸脱氢酶(MDH)和异柠檬酸脱氢酶(ICDH)等活力较低,进入TCA途径的碳素流量明显减少;发酵温度为25、40℃时,TCA途径的酶活力升高,ED途径的酶活力减弱,生成乙醇的代谢流量减少,因此温度是z.mobilis发酵过程中调控菌体细胞生长和糖代谢的一个重要因素. 、葡萄糖-6-磷酸脱氢酶(G-6-PDH)、丙酮酸脱羧酶(PDC) 葡萄糖激酶(GK)、丙酮酸激酶(PK)和甘油醛-3-磷酸脱氢酶(GD-3-PDH)的活力较高,菌体的ED途径代谢活跃,碳素流量增加,乙醇生产量和糖转化率较高,而TCA途径的苹果酸脱氢酶(MDH)和异柠檬酸脱氢酶(ICDH)等活力较低,进入TCA途径的碳素流量明显减少;发酵温度为25、40℃时,TCA途径的酶活力升高,ED途径的酶活力减弱,生成乙醇的代谢流量减少,因此温度是z.mobilis发酵过程中调控菌体细胞生长和糖代谢的一个重要因素.葡萄糖-6-磷酸脱氢酶(G-6-PDH)、丙酮酸脱羧酶(PDC) 葡萄糖激酶(GK)、     

pH值对运动发酵单胞菌葡萄糖代谢酶活性影响的研究

以运动发酵单胞菌(Zymomonas mobilis)ATCC31821为模式菌株,研究pH值条件对其葡萄糖代谢关键酶活力的影响.结果表明:发酵液pH5.5时,胞内乙醇脱氢酶、丙酮酸脱羧酶、葡萄糖激酶、葡萄糖-6-磷酸脱氢酶的活力较高,而异柠檬酸脱氢酶活性较低,能促进乙醇的生成;pH 5.0时,苹果酸脱氧酶的酶活力较低,使糖酵解反应向另一个方向发生偏移,促进乙醇的形成.pH 4.0～6.5时,丙酮酸激酶和甘油醛-3-磷酸脱氢酶的酶活力水平相差不大,说明pH值对这2种酶的活性影响甚微.因此,pH5.0～5.5,代谢途径(如糖酵解途径、ED途径等)中的胞内代谢酶活性增强,有利于乙醇的产生.     

Glucose metabolism,enzymic analysis and product formation in chemostat culture of Hanseniaspora uvarum

The physiology of Hanseniaspora uvarum K₅ was studied in glucose-limited chemostat cultures and upon glucose pulse. Up to a dilution rate of 0·28 h^?1, glucose was completely metabolized in biomass and CO₂. Above this value, increase in the dilution rate was accompanied by sequential production of metabolites (glycerol, acetate and ethanol) and decrease in cell yield. Similar results were observed upon glucose pulse. From the enzyme activities (pyruvate dehydrogenase, pyruvate decarboxylase, NAD and NADP-dependent acetaldehyde dehydrogenases, acetyl coenzyme A synthetase and alcohol dehydrogenase) and substrate affinities, the following conclusions were drawn with respect to product formation of cells: (1) pyruvate was preferentially metabolized via pyruvate dehydrogenase, when biomass and CO₂ were the only products formed; (2) acetaldehyde formed by pyruvate decarboxylase was preferentially oxidized in acetate by NADP-dependent aldehyde dehydrogenase; acetate accumulation results from insufficient activity of acetyl-CoA synthetase required for the complete oxidation of acetate; (3) acetaldehyde was oxidized in ethanol by alcohol dehydrogenase, in addition to acetate production.     

米根霉乙醇脱氢酶粗酶液的特性研究

米根霉细胞中乙醇脱氢酶(ADH)催化丙酮酸向乙醇支路的转化,导致丙酮酸向乳酸转化通量减少,降低了乳酸转化率。本文初步从米根霉菌丝体中提取制备ADH粗酶液,并研究其酶学特性,结果表明,ADH粗酶液体系反应的最适温度为25℃,温度高于30℃将降低ADH活力。ADH催化体系pH值对其活力有很大影响,最适pH值在7.5左右,高于或低于此值,反应速度均很快下降。在反应体系中添加0.1μmol的EDTA、Mg2+、Ca2+或Zn2+,对该酶都有一定的抑制作用。ADH以乙醛为底物的米氏常数Km为6.90×10-4mol/L。     

高糖胁迫下蜂蜜接合酵母碳代谢流的研究

研究蜂蜜接合酵母LGL-1在高糖胁迫下的代谢特性及代谢流变化。采用高效液相色谱等方法测定蜂蜜接合酵母LGL-1在葡萄糖质量浓度100 g/L和400 g/L条件下积累的代谢产物(酒精、海藻糖、甘油、苹果酸、α-酮戊二酸、柠檬酸及乳酸),通过构建代谢矩阵方程组,采用Matlab软件和归一法分析关键节点的代谢流分布情况。结果表明,蜂蜜接合酵母LGL-1高糖胁迫时的碳流量偏向流入海藻糖、甘油、乙醇和TCA循环的代谢支路,与常规培养相比,海藻糖、甘油和TCA循环的通量分别增加了50.00%,17.73%和4.79%,高糖培养与常规培养的乙醇代谢通量接近。在高糖胁迫条件下蜂蜜接合酵母LGL-1积累的海藻糖、甘油以及TCA循环的通量变化也反映海藻糖、甘油以及TCA循环对酵母细胞的重要保护功能。     

出芽短梗霉发酵生产聚苹果酸的代谢通量及关键酶活性分析

野生型出芽短梗霉菌株TKPM00006及其诱变菌株CGMCC30007在相同条件下,使用5 L罐进行聚苹果酸发酵,分析这2株菌在相同发酵状态下发酵中后期代谢网络的代谢流分布和关键酶活变化,对出芽短梗霉合成聚苹果酸的机理进行探究。结果表明,菌株TKPM00006和菌株CGMCC30007的菌体生长情况相似,但产酸量分别为20.54 g/L和30.2 g/L。.通过代谢通量分析及关键酶活性的测定可知,丙酮酸羧化途径及乙醛酸途径是PMLA合成的主要途径,TCA循环途径在发酵后期比较弱,该结论通过添加代谢抑制剂及中间代谢物实验加以证明。酶活分析同时还证明了高产菌株比出发菌株的PMLA合成能力强主要是因为丙酮酸羧化途径的加强。根据实验分析可在丙酮酸节点进行靶点改造或通过发酵调控改变丙酮酸节点处碳架的分配,通过加强丙酮酸羧化途径来减少因副产物的生产而造成的碳架流失,达到增加聚苹果酸生物合成的目的。     

A novel ATP regeneration system using polyphosphate-AMP phosphotransferase and polyphosphate kinase

Polyphosphate-AMP phosphotransferase (PAP) and polyphosphate kinase (PPK) were used for designing a novel ATP regeneration system, named the PAP-PPK ATP regeneration system. PAP is an enzyme that catalyzes the phospho-conversion of AMP to ADP, and PPK catalyzes ATP formation from ADP. Both enzymes use inorganic polyphosphate [poly(P)] as a phosphate donor. In the PAP-PPK ATP regeneration system, ATP was continuously synthesized from AMP by the coupling reaction of PAP and PPK using poly(P). Poly(P) is a cheap material compared to acetyl phosphate, phosphoenol pyruvate and creatine phosphate, which are phosphate donors used for conventional ATP regeneration systems. To achieve efficient synthesis of ATP from AMP, an excessive amount of poly(P) should be added to the reaction solution because both PAP and PPK consume poly(P) as a phosphate donor. Using this ATP generation reaction, we constructed the PAP-PPK ATP regeneration system with acetyl-CoA synthase and succeeded in synthesizing acetyl-CoA from CoA, acetate and AMP. Since too much poly(P) may chelate MG2+ and inhibit enzyme activity, the Mg2+ concentration was optimized to 24 mM in the presence of 30 mM poly(P) in the reaction. In this reaction, ATP was regenerated 39.8 times from AMP, and 99.5% of CoA was converted to acetyl-CoA. In addition, since the PAP-PPK ATP regeneration system can regenerate GTP from GMP, it could also be used as a GTP regeneration system.     

α-淀粉酶抑制剂生物合成途径和代谢流分析

为提高糖类的利用效率,加强糖类代谢向生成α-淀粉酶抑制剂的方向流动,提高α-淀粉酶抑制剂产量,对天蓝黄链霉菌合成α-淀粉酶抑制剂的代谢网络进行分析,找出影响α-淀粉酶抑制剂合成的代谢流量分配规律和关键节点,并且应用代谢流分析的方法研究了谷氨酸钠对α-淀粉酶抑制剂发酵中后期胞内代谢流分布的影响。结果表明：在α-淀粉酶抑制剂分批发酵过程中,未流加谷氨酸钠时合成α-淀粉酶抑制剂的代谢流量为1.84;在发酵培养基中流加谷氨酸钠使其质量浓度维持在4.0 g/L后,α-淀粉酶抑制剂生物合成的代谢流增长至3.18。因此发酵过程中流加谷氨酸钠能够改变α-淀粉酶抑制剂生物合成途径的关键节点6-磷酸葡萄糖、7-磷酸景天庚酮糖及谷氨酸的代谢流分布,提高α-淀粉酶抑制剂生物合成途径的代谢流量。     

Pyruvate Metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

In yeasts, pyruvate is located at a major junction of assimilatory and dissimilatory reactions as well as at the branch-point between respiratory dissimilation of sugars and alcoholic fermentation. This review deals with the enzymology, physiological function and regulation of three key reactions occurring at the pyruvate branch-point in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: (i) the direct oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA, catalysed by the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, (ii) decarboxylation of pyruvate to acetaldehyde, catalysed by pyruvate decarboxylase, and (iii) the anaplerotic carboxylation of pyruvate to oxaloacetate, catalysed by pyruvate carboxylase. Special attention is devoted to physiological studies on S. cerevisiae strains in which structural genes encoding these key enzymes have been inactivated by gene disruption.     

Isolation of the Pichia pastoris PYC1 gene encoding pyruvate carboxylase and identification of a suppressor of the pyc phenotype

We have cloned and characterized a gene encoding pyruvate carboxylase from the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris. Disruption of this gene produced inability to grow in minimal medium with glucose as carbon source and ammonium as nitrogen source. Growth was possible with aspartate or glutamate as nitrogen source. The gene PpPYC1 expressd from its own promoter was able to rescue the phenotype of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants devoid of pyruvate carboxylase. In a P. pastoris strain carrying a disrupted PpPYC1 gene we have isolated spontaneous mutants able to grow in non-permissive conditions. In a mutant strain grown in glucose several enzymes sensitive to catabolite repression were derepressed. The strain also had elevated levels of glutamate dehydrogenase (NAD) both in repressed and derepressed conditions. The sequence of the PpPYC1 gene has been entered in the EMBL nucleotide sequence databank: Accession Number Y11106. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

通过体外代谢途径构建确定乳酸合成关键酶

基于代谢控制分析理论提出了一种通过体外代谢途径构建和分析确定关键酶的方法并应用其确定乳酸高产菌株中的关键酶。首先获得高产菌株的粗酶液并测定葡萄糖到乳酸合成途径中各种蛋白的绝对浓度,进而通过向粗酶液中分别添加同等比例的各纯酶对途径进行扰动,并由扰动前后的途径通量变化计算出各酶的通量控制系数以确定关键酶。结果表明,该菌株乳酸合成途径中丙酮酸激酶和甘油醛-3-磷酸脱氢酶对途径通量影响最大,由此预测在该菌株基础上进一步过表达这两个酶对提高乳酸生成速率可能最为有效。     

Behavior of certain parameters of lipid and energy metabolism. 5. Effects of high-fat and low-fat diets on certain biochemical parameters in rat livers before and after change of diet]

Typical metabolic patterns are detectable in the livers of growing rats after feeding diets with high (25%) or low (2%) fat contents. In view of the elucidation of problems related to the regulation of the metabolic processes, it is of interest to know in what way these metabolic patterns change after short-time change from the one diet to the other and if there are hierarchies. Within 2 days after change of diet, the enzymes glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, NAD-malate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase and fatty acid synthase were affected, only the 3'.5'-c AMP-splitting phosphodieterase showed no change. The metabolites lactate and pyruvate also changed, inversely to lactate dehydrogenase activity, the lactate-pyruvate ratio remaining almost constant. Acetyl CoA also responded in a characteristic manner. The single parameters were differently affected by the kind of the change of diet (from high-fat to low-fat diet or inversely). For example, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase responded very rapidly to the change from the high-fat to the low-fat diet, malate dehydrogenase behaved inversely, and citrate synthase responded to both changes. Consequently, the regulatory processes after change of diet start from different sides. It is thinkable that this behaviour is related to the different roles of the determined parameters in fat and energy metabolism.     

Modulation of Glycerol and Ethanol Yields During Alcoholic Fermentation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strains Overexpressed or Disrupted for GPD1 Encoding Glycerol 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase

The possibility of the diversion of carbon flux from ethanol towards glycerol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during alcoholic fermentation was investigated. Variations in the glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) level and similar trends for alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), pyruvate decarboxylase and glycerol-3-phosphatase were found when low and high glycerol-forming wine yeast strains were compared. GPDH is thus a limiting enzyme for glycerol production. Wine yeast strains with modulated GPD1 (encoding one of the two GPDH isoenzymes) expression were constructed and characterized during fermentation on glucose-rich medium. Engineered strains fermented glucose with a strongly modified [glycerol] : [ethanol] ratio. gpd1Δ mutants exhibited a 50% decrease in glycerol production and increased ethanol yield. Overexpression of GPD1 on synthetic must (200 g/l glucose) resulted in a substantial increase in glycerol production (×4) at the expense of ethanol. Acetaldehyde accumulated through the competitive regeneration of NADH via GPDH. Accumulation of by-products such as pyruvate, acetate, acetoin, 2,3 butane-diol and succinate was observed, with a marked increase in acetoin production. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Acetaldehyde: an intermediate in the formation of ethanol from glucose by lactic acid bacteria.

Group N streptococci formed acetaldehyde and ethanol from glucose. As the enzymes aldehyde dehydrogenase, phosphotransacetylase and acetate kinase were present this would enable these organisms to reduce acetyl-CoA to acetaldehyde and convert acetyl-CoA to acetyl phosphate and acetate. A pentose phosphate pathway which converted ribose-5-phosphate to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate was also present. Acetaldehyde could not be formed via the hexose monophosphate shunt or by direct decarboxylation of pyruvate, as the enzymes phosphoketolase and alpha-carboxylase were absent. Phosphoketolase activity was induced in Streptococcus lactis subsp. diacetylactis after growth on D-xylose. Group N streptococci also contained an NAD-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase which reduced acetaldehyde to ethanol while both NAD- and NADP-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase activities were found in Leuconostoc cremoris.     

乳酸盐通量及其控制分析:食品功能的定量化评价方法

目的:食品对机体的影响主要表现为对代谢和代谢网络的影响,本实验旨在研究食品对机体代谢作用的定量化评价方法。方法:通过对志愿者外周血采样,首先研究4 种生理状态(基础状态、学习状态、运动状态和发烧状态)下,乳酸盐代谢通量的变化,同时研究中心代谢途径中的15 种酶对乳酸盐代谢通量的控制作用;采用相关分析和主成分分析相结合的方法,研究酶的表达(或合成)量对乳酸盐代谢通量的作用,确定主成分及各种酶的控制系数。另招募健康志愿者,采集其食用大米变性淀粉前后的外周血样,运用已建立的代谢通量模型及控制分析方法对变性淀粉的功能性进行评价。结果:4种状态下乳酸盐代谢通量各不相同,由小到大依次为:基础状态、学习状态、运动状态和发烧状态,4种生理状态下机体内的分解代谢依次增强,可见乳酸盐代谢通量实质上反映了机体分解代谢(氧化磷酸化供能)的强弱。丙酮酸激酶(pyruvate kinase,PK,Cp PK=0.221 6),丙酮酸脱氢酶复合物(pyruvate dehydrogenase complex,PDHC,Cp PDHC=0.206 4),乳酸脱氢酶(lactate dehydrogenase,LDH,Cp LDH=0.162 6),转酮酶(transketolase,TKL,Cp TKL=0.206 0)对乳酸盐代谢通量起到主要作用,其中,PK的控制作用最强。志愿者食用变性淀粉后,乳酸盐通量增强,分解代谢增强而合成代谢减弱;PK的基因表达(合成)量显著增加(P=0.010.05),PDHC的基因表达(合成)量极显著降低(P=0.0030.01),说明所测酶的表达量与所预测的乳酸盐通量之间的拟合程度较好。结论:本实验建立的评价方法可以通过采集适量的外周血对食用食品后的人体代谢作用进行定量化评价。