酵母生物多样性开发及工业应用

酵母是一类包括酿酒酵母和非常规酵母在内的多种单细胞真菌的总称,其中酿酒酵母是应用较多的重要工业微生物,广泛应用于生物医药、食品、轻工和生物燃料生产等不同生物制造领域。近年来,研究者从不同生态环境中分离了大量的酵母菌株,鉴定了多个新种,也发现了抗逆性不同以及具有多种活性产物合成能力的菌株,证明天然酵母资源具有丰富的生物多样性和功能多样性。利用基因组挖掘以及转录组、蛋白组等多组学分析研究,可进一步开发利用酵母遗传多样性,获得酶和调节蛋白的基因以及启动子等遗传元件改造酵母菌株。除了利用酵母的天然遗传多样性,还可通过诱变、驯化、代谢工程改造及合成生物学等技术产生具有多种非天然多样性的菌株。此外,对天然遗传元件也可以进行突变和定向进化,所产生的新遗传元件可用于有效提升菌株的性能。开发利用酵母的生物多样性,对构建高效酵母细胞工厂,生产生物酶、疫苗以及多种活性天然产物等产品具有重要意义。文中对酵母生物多样性的研究现状进行综述,并对未来高效开发利用酵母菌株资源和遗传资源的研究进行了展望。文中所总结的研究方法和思路也可为研究其他工业微生物的多样性及进行高效菌株的选育提供参考。     

高耐性酱油酵母选育及其高密度发酵调控

高耐性酵母广泛应用于食品、酿造、饲料、生物能源等行业,酵母的耐受性对其生产和应用有着决定性影响。高耐性酵母菌种改良是酵母资源利用的关键步骤,高密度发酵是克服耐性酵母产业化的主要瓶颈技术。对传统酿造食品酱油生产中常用的耐高盐酵母菌株的选育、耐性机制及其高密度发酵技术研究进展进行了综述。     

四碳有机酸生物合成的代谢工程研究进展

四碳有机酸作为重要的平台化学品,广泛应用于食品、化工、农业、医药和生物材料等领域。与传统的石化法相比,利用微生物发酵生产四碳有机酸具有反应条件温和、过程绿色环保等优势,具有广泛的应用前景。文中总结了四碳有机酸的生物合成途径和代谢机制,着重讨论了天然菌株生产四碳有机酸以及基于菌种选育和代谢工程改造策略提高四碳有机酸合成能力的研究进展及挑战,为四碳有机酸的高效生物合成提供广阔的参考方向。     

代谢工程改造解脂耶氏酵母合成植物萜类化合物的研究进展

萜类化合物是一类广泛存在于植物中的天然产物,其在食品、药品和化工等多个领域中均有广泛的用途,市场潜力巨大。因此,开发生产萜类化合物等植物天然产物可再生的微生物资源来补充甚至代替原有稀少和珍贵的植物资源,具有重要的理论意义和潜在的应用价值。解脂耶氏酵母是目前使用最广泛的非常规酵母底盘细胞之一。近年来,利用代谢工程及合成生物学技术在解脂耶氏酵母底盘细胞中重构与优化萜类化合物的合成途径以实现目标代谢产物的高效合成,已经成为一项研究热点。本文系统总结了有关利用解脂耶氏酵母作为底盘细胞异源生产植物萜类化合物的具体实例和最新进展,包括所涉及的宿主菌株、关键酶、代谢途径及改造策略等,并在最后对该领域的未来发展方向进行了展望。     

纤维素酶酿酒酵母工程菌的研究进展

酵母菌是一类重要的工业微生物,广泛地应用于酿酒、食品、医药、饲料、化工原料和酶制剂的生产领域[1]。随着酵母转化系统的建立和重组DNA技术的发展,在某些重大课题的研究中,酵母已取代大肠杆菌成为重要的外源基因表达系统之一。传统的酵母生产菌株借助于现有的遗传工程手段和经典遗传学方法,可以改良某些性状或增加新的特性,这方面的可能性之一是提高工业酵母菌株分解复杂碳水化合物（纤维素、生淀粉）的能力,从而扩大可利用碳源的范围,缩短发酵时间,提高生产效率。在国外,已成功地将胞内葡聚糖酶基因转入啤酒酵母,并应用于啤…     

非传统酵母代谢工程研究进展

近30年来解脂耶氏酵母、克鲁维酵母、毕赤酵母、假丝酵母、汉逊酵母等非传统酵母因其具有天然的生理代谢优势,如快速生长、多底物利用、胁迫耐受性等,在代谢工程领域得到了广泛关注,多种基因工程改造工具正逐渐被开发用于非传统酵母的特性拓展,使其成为合成重组蛋白、生物可再生化学物质的高效细胞工厂。文中总结了非传统酵母中基因编辑工具的发展,并从代谢工程改造策略角度概括了利用非传统酵母进行产品合成的研究进展。最后,讨论了非传统酵母在产品生产应用方面遇到的挑战和未来的研究方向。     

马蜂内生酵母种群结构分析及Metschnikowia pulcherrima的分离和鉴定

本文以新疆石河子西公园的马蜂Vespa velutina为研究对象,结合基于26S rDNA的高通量测序技术和稀释平板分离的方法,研究马蜂内生酵母物种组成及其多样性.结果 显示,马蜂体内包含Cutaneotrichosporon、Torulaspora、Pichia等10个属内生酵母;含有Cutaneotrichosporon cutaneum、Torulaspora delbrueckii、Sporidiobolales sp.等10种内生酵母.Shannon指数、Simpson指数、ACE指数和Chao1指数分别为0.619215、0.681265、84.38456和76.利用稀释平板分离方法分离获得一株内生酵母,结合菌落和细胞形态观察、生理生化检测以及26S rDNA分子鉴定等方法,该酵母菌株为美极梅奇酵母Metschnikowia pulcherrima.本研究可为后续的内生酵母菌功能研究及酵母菌资源开发与利用奠定基础.     

合成芳香族化合物的酵母底盘改造策略*

芳香族化合物种类丰富,在多个行业具有广泛的用途,需求量大。通过构建微生物细胞工厂合成芳香族化合物具有独特的优势和工业化应用前景,其中酵母底盘因其清晰的遗传背景、完善的基因操作工具以及成熟的工业发酵体系等优势,常被用于构建细胞工厂。目前改造酵母底盘生产芳香族化合物的研究取得了一系列进展,并针对关键问题提出了一些可行的解决策略。针对酵母合成芳香族化合物的策略与挑战,从芳香族化合物合成路径改造、多样化碳源利用及转运系统改造、基因组多靶点改造、特殊酵母底盘及混菌系统构建、合成生物学高通量技术的应用这五个方面进行系统地梳理和阐述,为生产芳香族化合物的酵母底盘构建与改造提供思路。     

解脂耶氏酵母表达调控工具的开发及天然产物合成的研究进展

解脂耶氏酵母是一种重要的产油酵母,由于其能利用多种疏水性底物,具有良好的耐酸、耐盐等胁迫耐受性,具有高通量的三羧酸循环,可提供充足的乙酰辅酶A前体等特点,被认为是生产萜类、聚酮类和黄酮类等天然产物的理想宿主,在代谢工程领域有着广泛的应用。近年来,越来越多的基因编辑、表达和调控工具被逐渐开发,这促进了解脂耶氏酵母合成各种天然产物的研究。文中综述了近年来解脂耶氏酵母中基因表达和天然产物合成方面的研究进展,并探讨了在该酵母中异源合成天然产物所面临的挑战和可能的解决方案。     

食品上的应用

881213通过一种酵母利用甜菜糖浆和乳清合成脂〔英〕/Bednarski,W.…了AgriC.Wastes一2986,18(1)一19一26〔译自CBA,1 987,(6),2524」 从能够在一种含甜菜糖浆的培养基上合成脂的一些酵母菌株中选择出效率最高的弯假丝酵母(Candida eurvata)D。该酵母菌株合成脂的最佳条件是pHS.4、30℃及蔗糖含量259/l。在含甜菜糖浆和乳清的培养基上培养弯假丝酵母D可以得到良好的脂及菌体产率。分离出的或与剩余的培养基混在一起的菌体可用作为家禽、猪或牲畜饲料中的脂一蛋白成分。(柴勇)881214生产单细胞蛋白的低压气升式发酵器.1.设计及送复研究…     

腈水解酶在羧酸合成中的研究进展

有机羧酸是有机合成中的重要中间体,用腈水解酶催化有机腈实现有机羧酸的合成不仅具有反应条件温和、污染少和易处理等优点,而且更重要的是能实现一般化学法所不能达到的高度化学、区域和立体选择性。综述了腈水解酶的来源、特性和作用机理,介绍了腈水解酶在有机合成中的研究进展以及该酶在工业上的应用前景。     

生物表面活性剂合成的促产因子研究进展

生物表面活性剂是微生物产生的一类具有表面活性的代谢产物,与化学表面活性剂相比,具有高效、低毒、易降解的优点。本文综述了氨基酸、酵母提取物、金属离子和有机酸作为促产因子时,对生物表面活性剂产量、结构和同系物组成影响的研究进展,并对其促产机理进行了归纳总结,最后对此领域的研究进行了展望。     

New food sources of essential trace elements produced by biotechnology facilities

Population satiety with trace elements (TE) is a problem that is widely discussed in nutrition science. For optimal nutrition, the form of TE eaten in food is very important. Organic forms of TE in nutrition are appropriate as human metabolism has adapted to these kinds of nutrients during species evolution. This is now considered a reason for the beneficial use of biotechnologically produced TE sources in human food. Advanced matrixes for TE incorporation are unicellular organisms such as yeast, lactobacilli and Spirulina. Addition of inorganic salts at certain concentrations into cultivation media enables the mineral ions to incorporate into the microbial biomass. As a consequence, the biomass becomes enriched with organic forms of incorporated TE, which are presented by their complexes with amino acids, proteins and probably lipids and polysaccharides. In addition, a new direction of research has made good advances, in which technology has been developed for production of organic forms of TE through complex formation between transition metals (zinc, copper, manganese, chromium, iron) with amino acids and peptides formed during enzymatic hydrolysis of food protein. This brief review discusses the results demonstrating the advances in the biotechnological production of new TE sources, to obtain food components destined for wide prophylaxis of TE deficiency or for dietary treatment of the adverse consequences of these deficiencies.     

Organic acid (or anion) and organic base (or cation) transport by renal tubules of nonmammalian vertebrates

Organic acids (or anions) and organic bases (or cations) are transported by the renal tubules of nonmammalian vertebrates, but until recently the details of the transport processes have been poorly studied. Work with isolated perfused and nonperfused renal tubules and with membrane vesicles has now begun to supply information on the transepithelial transport processes and the transport steps at the individual cell membranes. The current information is reviewed for organic acids (or anions) as a general group, for urate (which generally appears to be transported by a separate system from that for other organic anions), and for organic bases (or cations) as a general group. Tentative cellular models for the transepithelial transport of each of these general categories of compounds are suggested.     

Preparation of selenium yeasts I. Preparation of selenium-enriched Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient for human and animal organisms. Organic selenium complexes and selenium-containing amino acids are considered the most bioavailable.Under appropriate conditions yeasts are capable of accumulating large amounts of trace elements, such as selenium, and incorporating them into organic compounds. It has been found that introduction of water-soluble selenium salt as a component of the culture medium for yeasts produced by conventional batch processing results in a substantial amount of selenium being absorbed by the yeast.Using a culture medium supplemented with 30 μg/mL sodium-selenite added during the exponential growth phase results in selenium-accumulation in the range of 1200–1400 μg/g dried baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) measured by ICP-AES method. In our previous studies it was shown that higher amounts of sodium-selenite in the culture medium have a strong inhibitory effect on the growth of this yeast. As a consequence of variations in cultivation conditions we obtained selenium yeast with different inorganic selenium content. The most important parameters influencing incorporated forms of selenium are pH value and dissolved oxygen level in the culture medium, and depending on these the selenium consumption rate of the yeast. A 0.40–0.50 mg/g h-1 specific selenium consumption rate was found to be appropriate to obtain selenium-enriched bakers' yeast of a high quality. Under suitable conditions the undesirable inorganic selenium content of the yeast could be suppressed to as low as 5–6% at the expense, however, of approximately a 20% decrease in the final biomass.     

Preparation of selenium yeasts I. Preparation of selenium-enriched Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient for human and animal organisms. Organic selenium complexes and selenium-containing amino acids are considered the most bioavailable. Under appropriate conditions yeasts are capable of accumulating large amounts of trace elements, such as selenium, and incorporating them into organic compounds. It has been found that introduction of water-soluble selenium salt as a component of the culture medium for yeasts produced by conventional batch processing results in a substantial amount of selenium being absorbed by the yeast. Using a culture medium supplemented with 30 microg/mL sodium-selenite added during the exponential growth phase results in selenium-accumulation in the range of 1200-1400 microg/g dried baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) measured by ICP-AES method. In our previous studies it was shown that higher amounts of sodium-selenite in the culture medium have a strong inhibitory effect on the growth of this yeast. As a consequence of variations in cultivation conditions we obtained selenium yeast with different inorganic selenium content. The most important parameters influencing incorporated forms of selenium are pH value and dissolved oxygen level in the culture medium, and depending on these the selenium consumption rate of the yeast. A 0.40-0.50 mg/g h-1 specific selenium consumption rate was found to be appropriate to obtain selenium-enriched bakers' yeast of a high quality. Under suitable conditions the undesirable inorganic selenium content of the yeast could be suppressed to as low as 5-6% at the expense, however, of approximately a 20% decrease in the final biomass.     

Evidence of low molecular weight components in the organic matrix of the reef building coral, Stylophora pistillata

Biominerals contain both inorganic and organic components. Organic components are collectively termed the organic matrix, and this matrix has been reported to play a crucial role in mineralization. Several matrix proteins have been characterized in vertebrates, but only a few in invertebrates, primarily in Molluscs and Echinoderms. Methods classically used to extract organic matrix proteins eliminate potential low molecular weight matrix components, since cut-offs ranging from 3.5 to 10 kDa are used to desalt matrix extracts. Consequently, the presence of such components remains unknown and these are never subjected to further analyses. In the present study, we have used microcolonies from the Scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata to study newly synthesized matrix components by labelling them with 14C-labelled amino acids. Radioactive matrix components were investigated by a method in which both total organic matrix and fractions of matrix below and above 5 kDa were analyzed. Using this method and SDS-PAGE analyses, we were able to detect the presence of low molecular mass matrix components (<3.5 kDa), but no free amino acids in the skeletal organic matrix. Since more than 98% of the 14C-labelled amino acids were incorporated into low molecular weight molecules, these probably form the bulk of newly synthesized organic matrix components. Our results suggest that these low molecular weight components may be peptides, which can be involved in the regulation of coral skeleton mineralization.     

Alumina-phosphate complexes for immobilization of biomolecules

Organic compounds containing the -PO3H2 function are strongly and specifically adsorbed by aluminum oxide in water within a large range of pH. The reversible character of the interaction allows the adsorbed organic phosphates to be displaced by inorganic phosphate buffers resulting in their purification by an affinity-like chromatographic procedure. The interaction between alumina and selected multifunctional compounds containing a phosphonate group yields a chemically activated alumina-phosphate complex onto which enzymes or other molecules can be immobilized. A number of proteases immobilized on alumina through such phosphate interactions proved to be active in the presence of organic solvents. As a consequence, enzyme-catalyzed peptide synthesis in a water-limited environment and optical resolution of amino acids in water-organic solvent emulsions can be accomplished.     

A Reassessment of Prebiotic Organic Synthesis in Neutral Planetary Atmospheres

The action of an electric discharge on reduced gas mixtures such as H₂O, CH₄ and NH₃ (or N₂) results in the production of several biologically important organic compounds including amino acids. However, it is now generally held that the early Earth’s atmosphere was likely not reducing, but was dominated by N₂ and CO₂. The synthesis of organic compounds by the action of electric discharges on neutral gas mixtures has been shown to be much less efficient. We show here that contrary to previous reports, significant amounts of amino acids are produced from neutral gas mixtures. The low yields previously reported appear to be the outcome of oxidation of the organic compounds during hydrolytic workup by nitrite and nitrate produced in the reactions. The yield of amino acids is greatly increased when oxidation inhibitors, such as ferrous iron, are added prior to hydrolysis. Organic synthesis from neutral atmospheres may have depended on the oceanic availability of oxidation inhibitors as well as on the nature of the primitive atmosphere itself. The results reported here suggest that endogenous synthesis from neutral atmospheres may be more important than previously thought. Stanley L. Miller died May 20, 2007.     

有机酸在植物解铝毒中的作用及生理机制

酸性土壤上铝毒是限制作物产量的一个重要障碍因子,具有螯合能力的有机酸在植物铝的外部排斥机制和内部耐受机制均具有重要作用,在铝的外部排斥解毒过程中,植物通过根系分泌有机酸进入根际,如柠檬酸,草酸,苹果酸等与铝形成稳定的复合体,阻止铝进入共质体,从而达到植物体外解除铝毒害效应的目的,且分泌的有机酸对铝的胁迫诱导表现出高度的专一性,分泌的关键点位于根尖,不同的物种间分泌的有机酸种类,分泌的模式及生理机理存在差异,在铝积累型植物的内部解毒过程中,有机酸与铝形成稳定的化合物,降低植物体内铝离子的生理活性,从而降低细胞内铝离子的毒害效应,如绣球花中铝与柠檬酸形成1：1的复合体,荞麦内铝与草酸形成1：3的复合体,本文就有机酸在植物忍耐和积累铝中的作用及生理机制作一简要综述。