hprK基因敲除及对其枯草芽孢杆菌核黄素发酵的影响

枯草芽孢杆菌在葡萄糖丰富的环境中,胞内糖分解代谢物浓度的提高将引起碳分解代谢物阻遏效应(CCR)及糖吸收的抑制,对核黄素等发酵过程产生不利影响。通过缺陷细胞的分解代谢物控制蛋白A(CcpA)可以解除CCR效应,但不能解除糖吸收的抑制。磷酸烯醇式丙酮酸-糖磷酸转移酶系统(PTS)是枯草芽孢杆菌主要的糖吸收方式,HPr蛋白和双功能的HPr激酶/HPr-Ser46-P磷酸酶(HprK/P)参与PTS系统的调控。在葡萄糖丰富的条件下,HprK/P的激酶活性受1,6-二磷酸果糖激活,催化HPr蛋白46位丝氨酸残基磷酸化,形成HPr-Ser46-P。HPr-Ser46-P抑制某些碳源透过酶基因的表达;同时HPr-Ser46-P难以被酶Ⅰ在His15磷酸化,不能在PTS系统中发挥转移磷酸基团的作用,使细胞的糖吸收受到抑制。在CcpA缺陷的背景下,敲除核黄素生产菌株B.subtilis24A1/pMX45的HprK/P编码基因hprK,构建了CcpA和HprK/P双缺陷的重组菌B.subtilisZHc/pMX45。摇瓶发酵显示,B.subtilisZHc/pMX45核黄素发酵的最适葡萄糖浓度由24A1/pMX45的8%提高到10%;核黄素产量达到4.374mg/mL,比24A1/pMX45提高了19.2%。结果表明,CcpA和HprK/P的双缺陷可有效解除高浓度葡萄糖所引起的CCR效应和糖吸收抑制,有助于提高细胞对葡萄糖的耐受力,并提高核黄素产量。     

hprK 基因敲除及对其枯草芽孢杆菌核黄素发酵的影响

枯草芽孢杆菌在葡萄糖丰富的环境中,胞内糖分解代谢物浓度的提高将引起碳分解代谢物阻遏效应（CCR）及糖吸收 的抑制,对核黄素等发酵过程产生不利影响。通过缺陷细胞的分解代谢物控制蛋白A（CcpA）可以解除CCR效应,但不能解除糖吸收的抑制。磷酸烯醇式丙酮酸-糖磷酸转移酶系统（PTS）是枯草芽孢杆菌主要的糖吸收方式,HPr蛋白和双功能的HPr激酶/HPr-Ser46-P 磷酸酶（HprK/P）参与PTS系统的调控。在葡萄糖丰富的条件下,K96SRQ 的激酶活性受1,6二磷酸果糖激活,催化HPr蛋白46位丝氨酸残基磷酸化,形成HPr-Ser46-P.HPr-Ser46-P抑制某些碳源透过酶基因的表达;同时HPr-Ser46-P难以被酶I在His15磷酸化,不能在PTS系统中发挥转移磷酸基团的作用,使细胞的糖吸收受到抑制。在CcpA缺陷的背景下,敲除核黄素生产菌株B.subtilis24Al/Pmx45 的HprK/P 编码基因hprK,构建了CcpA和HprK/P双缺陷的重组菌B.subtilisZHc/Pmx45.摇瓶发酵显示,B.subtilisZHc/Pmx45核黄素发酵的最适葡萄糖浓度由24Al/Pmx45的8%提高到10%;核黄素产量达到4.374mg/Ml,比24Al/Pmx45提高了19.2%。结果表明,CcpA和HprK/P的双缺陷可有效解除高浓度葡萄糖所引起的CCR效 应和糖吸收抑制,有助于提高细胞对葡萄糖的耐受力,并提高核黄素产量。     

单核细胞增生李斯特菌中CcpA缺失株的构建及对毒力的影响

CcpA是革兰氏阳性菌中由ccpA基因编码的介导碳分解代谢物阻遏的全局调控因子。近年来的研究表明,CcpA不仅参与CCR效应,还直接或间接参与病原细菌毒力基因的表达调控。为探讨CcpA对单核细胞增生李斯特菌（Lm）毒力的影响,应用同源重组方法构建CcpA缺失菌株。以BLAB/c小鼠为实验动物模型,检测野生株EGDe和缺失株EGDeΔccpA侵染小鼠后的半数致死剂量 LD₅₀和肝脾细菌载菌量,观察小鼠肝脏和脾脏的病理形态变化。结果显示：缺失CcpA后,Lm的LD₅₀降低了10倍,虽然肝脾细菌载菌量没有显著变化,但EGDe△ccpA对小鼠肝和脾的损害更为严重,表明CcpA缺失增强了细菌的毒力,CcpA 对Lm 毒力基因的表达可能具有间接或者直接的调控作用。     

大肠杆菌甘油激酶基因(glpK)和甘油脱氢酶基因(gldA)的敲除及其对甘油产量的影响

利用Red重组系统构建了大肠杆菌JM109甘油激酶基因(glpK)和甘油脱氢酶基因(gldA)缺失的双突变菌株JM109B,然后将表达酿酒酵母3-磷酸甘油脱氢酶基因(GPD1)和3-磷酸甘油酯酶基因(HOR2)的质粒pSE-gpd1-hor2转化到JM109B突变菌株中,在含1%葡萄糖的摇瓶发酵培养基中37℃发酵24 h,甘油的最高产量为5.61 g/L,是原始菌株JM109/pSE-gpd1-hor2甘油产量的1.59倍;在30 L发酵罐中发酵28 h,甘油的最高产量为103.12 g/L,是原始菌株JM109/pSE-gpd1-hor2甘油产量的1.59倍,是原始菌株BL21/pSE-gpd1-hor2甘油产量的1.41倍,葡萄糖转化率为50.39%。     

增强胞内NDAH水平和乙偶姻还原酶活力提高2,3-丁二醇产量

枯草芽孢杆菌Bacillus subtilis 168是一株安全生产菌株,首次通过弱化B.subtilis 168磷酸戊糖途径(PPP)中的关键酶葡萄糖-6-磷酸脱氢酶(G6PDH)基因zwf,研究了其对胞内NADH水平的影响,进而研究其对2,3-丁二醇(2,3-BD)及副产物合成的影响。弱化菌株B. subtilis168△zwf进行摇瓶发酵实验,与出发菌株相比,胞内辅酶NADH水平得到了增强, 2,3-BD产量提高了15.0%,主要副产物AC积累量下降了10.6%,但乙酸、乳酸等有机酸的积累量提高。为了进一步提高2,3-BD生产效率,在B. subtilis168中克隆表达了不同来源的ACR基因,研究发现克雷伯氏菌来源的ACR酶活力最高,将此来源的ACR的基因kphs克隆到B.subtilis168△zwf中加强表达,对重组菌株B.subtilis168△zwf/pMA5-kphs进行摇瓶发酵实验,与出发菌相比,2,3-BD产量提高了37.3 %,主要副产物AC积累量下降了28.1%,同时,乙酸等分支路径的其他副产物也有不同程度的降低。     

微生物分解代谢物控制蛋白CcpA的研究进展

碳分解代谢物阻遏（carbon catabolite repression, CCR）是指微生物在混合碳源发酵时优先利用速效碳源（通常为葡萄糖）,且该碳源的代谢产物会抑制其他非速效碳源代谢相关的基因表达和蛋白活性,从而影响非速效碳源利用的现象。在低GC含量革兰氏阳性菌中,CCR效应的关键调控因子为分解代谢物控制蛋白CcpA（catabolite control protein A）.该调控蛋白具有多效性功能,除参与CCR外,还与中心碳、氮代谢的调控、生物被膜的形成和毒性基因的表达等多种生删过程相关。综述厂近年来有关CcpA蛋白的功能、作用机制及分子结构的研究进展。     

肺炎链球菌糖代谢蛋白CcpA对荚膜多糖的调控作用

摘要:【目的】研究肺炎链球菌糖代谢蛋白CcpA对肺炎链球菌荚膜多糖(CPS)的调控作用。【方法】利用大肠杆菌(Escherichia coli)BL21(DE3)工程菌原核表达CcpA蛋白,使用Ni2+亲和层析的方法纯化蛋白。利用纯化后的CcpA蛋白免疫昆明小鼠并制备多克隆抗体;采用ELISA法测定抗CcpA抗体效价。随后,利用Westertn blot方法分析CcpA蛋白在肺炎链球菌中的保守性。另外,利用EMSA方法分析CcpA与cps基因座启动子区域片段的结合。最后,构建ccpA基因缺失株和ccpA基因回复株;利用ELISA法测定野生D39菌 株、ccpA基因缺失株和ccpA基因回复株的荚膜多糖含量。【结果】Western blot结果显示CcpA蛋白在多种血清型的肺炎链球菌均有表达,CcpA蛋白可与cps基因座启动子区域结合,且呈剂量依赖性;ccpA基因缺失时,细菌CPS含量升高,回复表达CcpA蛋白后,CPS含量显著降低。【结论】CcpA是肺炎链球菌中一种保守表达的蛋白,可通过调节cps基因座启动子负性调控肺炎链球菌荚膜多糖的表达。     

枯草芽孢杆菌基因修饰生产核黄素

【目的】研究枯草芽孢杆菌核黄素合成途径、木糖代谢相关基因修饰对核黄素合成的影响。【方法】单独过表达或共同过表达核黄素操纵子中的基因、过表达木糖代谢相关基因构建相应的重组菌株。通过测定和比较重组菌株摇瓶发酵的核黄素产量和生物量,表征各个基因修饰的效应。采用摇瓶和5 L罐发酵,考察木糖作为主要碳源以及木糖与蔗糖共代谢对核黄素发酵的影响。【结果】ribA基因单独过表达,使核黄素产量提高99%,但生物量降低30%,出现细胞自溶现象。ribA-ribH基因共表达,使核黄素产量提高280%,并且无细胞自溶和生物量下降现象。1.5%蔗糖与6.5%木糖作为碳源,5 L发酵罐发酵70 h,核黄素产量达到3.6 g/L,与8%蔗糖为碳源的发酵相比,核黄素产量提高80%。木糖代谢相关基因过表达,均明显降低核黄素产量。【结论】与ribA基因单独过表达相比,ribA-ribH基因共表达可有效避免细胞自溶现象,并能进一步提高核黄素产量。蔗糖与木糖共代谢,能够改善前体物供给,有利于提高核黄素产量。     

枯草芽孢杆菌核黄素操纵子rib operon的克隆与表达

目的:构建产核黄素的枯草芽孢杆菌基因工程菌.方法:以穿梭载体pEB03构建核黄素操纵子的表达质粒载体pGJB13和pGJB14,与质粒pMX45分别转化产核黄素的枯草芽孢杆菌GJ07,并通过发酵摇瓶实验检测核黄素的产量.结果:得到产核黄素的工程菌GJ13 、GJ14和GJ08,在以蔗糖为碳源的发酵条件下,GJ08可产核黄素820mg/L,提高了约55%.结论:得到了产核黄素的高产菌种G J08.     

过量无机盐及谷氨酸抑制重组菌核黄素发酵

在重组枯草芽孢杆菌24/pMX45核黄素发酵中,酵母粉促进核黄素合成,酵母抽提物抑制核黄素合成。分析显示,酵母抽提物的无机离子和游离氨基酸含量均高于酵母粉。在酵母粉基础发酵培养基中,添加各种无机离子和游离氨基酸,使其含量与酵母抽提物相同。摇瓶发酵结果表明:过量的无机离子和谷氨酸对核黄素合成有显著的抑制作用。酵母抽提物含有较高浓度的谷氨酸,是其抑制核黄素合成的主要原因。     

Loss of protein kinase-catalyzed phosphorylation of HPr, a phosphocarrier protein of the phosphotransferase system, by mutation of the ptsH gene confers catabolite repression resistance to several catabolic genes of Bacillus subtilis.

In gram-positive bacteria, HPr, a phosphocarrier protein of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS), is phosphorylated by an ATP-dependent, metabolite-activated protein kinase on seryl residue 46. In a Bacillus subtilis mutant strain in which Ser-46 of HPr was replaced with a nonphosphorylatable alanyl residue (ptsH1 mutation), synthesis of gluconate kinase, glucitol dehydrogenase, mannitol-1-P dehydrogenase and the mannitol-specific PTS permease was completely relieved from repression by glucose, fructose, or mannitol, whereas synthesis of inositol dehydrogenase was partially relieved from catabolite repression and synthesis of alpha-glucosidase and glycerol kinase was still subject to catabolite repression. When the S46A mutation in HPr was reverted to give S46 wild-type HPr, expression of gluconate kinase and glucitol dehydrogenase regained full sensitivity to repression by PTS sugars. These results suggest that phosphorylation of HPr at Ser-46 is directly or indirectly involved in catabolite repression. A strain deleted for the ptsGHI genes was transformed with plasmids expressing either the wild-type ptsH gene or various S46 mutant ptsH genes (S46A or S46D). Expression of the gene encoding S46D HPr, having a structure similar to that of P-ser-HPr according to nuclear magnetic resonance data, caused significant reduction of gluconate kinase activity, whereas expression of the genes encoding wild-type or S46A HPr had no effect on this enzyme activity. When the promoterless lacZ gene was put under the control of the gnt promoter and was subsequently incorporated into the amyE gene on the B. subtilis chromosome, expression of beta-galactosidase was inducible by gluconate and repressed by glucose. However, we observed no repression of beta-galactosidase activity in a strain carrying the ptsH1 mutation. Additionally, we investigated a ccpA mutant strain and observed that all of the enzymes which we found to be relieved from carbon catabolite repression in the ptsH1 mutant strain were also insensitive to catabolite repression in the ccpA mutant. Enzymes that were repressed in the ptsH1 mutant were also repressed in the ccpA mutant.     

Significance of HPr in catabolite repression of alpha-amylase.

CcpA and HPr are presently the only two proteins implicated in Bacillus subtilis global carbon source catabolite repression, and the ptsH1 mutation in the gene for the HPr protein was reported to relieve catabolite repression of several genes. However, alpha-amylase synthesis by B. subtilis SA003 containing the ptsH1 mutation was repressed by glucose. Our results suggest HPr(Ser-P) may be involved in but is not required for catabolite repression of alpha-amylase, indicating that HPr(Ser-P) is not the sole signaling molecule for CcpA-mediated catabolite repression in B. subtilis.     

Catabolite repression in Lactobacillus casei ATCC 393 is mediated by CcpA.

The chromosomal ccpA gene from Lactobacillus casei ATCC 393 has been cloned and sequenced. It encodes the CcpA protein, a central catabolite regulator belonging to the LacI-GalR family of bacterial repressors, and shows 54% identity with CcpA proteins from Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus megaterium. The L. casei ccpA gene was able to complement a B. subtilis ccpA mutant. An L. casei ccpA mutant showed increased doubling times and a relief of the catabolite repression of some enzymatic activities, such as N-acetylglucosaminidase and phospho-beta-galactosidase. Detailed analysis of CcpA activity was performed by using the promoter region of the L. casei chromosomal lacTEGF operon which is subject to catabolite repression and contains a catabolite responsive element (cre) consensus sequence. Deletion of this cre site or the presence of the ccpA mutation abolished the catabolite repression of a lacp::gusA fusion. These data support the role of CcpA as a common regulatory element mediating catabolite repression in low-GC-content gram-positive bacteria.     

Catabolite regulation of the cytochrome c550-encoding Bacillus subtilis cccA gene

In Gram-positive bacteria, catabolite control protein A (CcpA)-mediated catabolite repression or activation regulates not only the expression of a great number of catabolic operons, but also the synthesis of enzymes of central metabolic pathways. We found that a constituent of the Bacillus subtilis respiratory chain, the small cytochrome c550 encoded by the cccA gene, was also submitted to catabolite repression. Similar to most catabolite-repressed genes and operons, the Bacillus subtilis cccA gene contains a potential catabolite response element cre, an operator site recognized by CcpA. The presumed cre overlaps the -35 region of the cccA promoter. Strains carrying a cccA'-IacZ fusion formed blue colonies when grown on rich solid medium, whereas white colonies were obtained when glucose was present. beta-Galactosidase assays with cells grown in rich medium confirmed the repressive effect of glucose on cccA'-lacZ expression. Introduction of a ccpA or hprK mutation or of a mutation affecting the presumed cccA cre relieved the repressive effect of glucose during late log phase. An additional glucose repression mechanism was activated during stationary phase, which was not relieved by the ccpA, hprK or cre mutations. An interaction of the repressor/corepressor complex (CcpA/seryl-phosphorylated HPr (P-Ser-HPr)) with the cccA cre could be demonstrated by gel shift experiments. By contrast, a DNA fragment carrying mutations in the presumed cccA cre was barely shifted by the CcpA/P-Ser-HPr complex. In footprinting experiments, the region corresponding to the presumed cccA cre was specifically protected in the presence of the CcpA/P-Ser-HPr complex.