高产谷胱甘肽酵母菌株的选育及其代谢通量分析

利用UV和HNO2及其复合诱变处理S.cerevisiae 的原生质,筛选得到ZnCl2和半胱氨酸抗性菌株S.cerevisiae YZM-14(ZnCl2r,Cysr),其谷胱甘肽(GSH)产量(84.72mg/L)、生物量(7.63g/L)及胞内GSH含量(11.10mg/g)分别是出发菌株的2.79倍、1.63倍和1.71倍,且性状稳定。根据细胞比生长速率和GSH得率变化曲线,将GSH生物合成过程分为三个阶段,第二阶段诱变菌株与出发菌株相比PP途径代谢通量增加8.1 mmol/(g·h),GSH前体合成途径通量增加,且诱变菌株的有机酸分泌通量减少,提高了细胞的碳源利用效率,增大了GSH的生成。     

Effect of glyphosate toxicity on growth, pigment and alkaline phosphatase activity in cyanobacterium Anabaena doliolum: a role of inorganic phosphate in glyphosate tolerance

Response of glyphosate toxicity on photoautotrophic cyanobacterium A. doliolum and its mutant strain was investigated. Chlorophyll a content of both the wild type and mutant strain in the presence of glyphosate (N-phosphonomethyl glycine) initially showed an increasing trend when supplemented with Pi and a declining tendency under the Pi-starved condition. The results suggested that both the wild type and mutant strains were more sensitive to glyphosate in the absence of phosphate. Alkaline phosphatase activity of wild type strain in the presence of Pi, enhanced in response to addition of glyphosate (40 microg/ml), but the activity remained unaltered by addition of glyphosate in the Pi-starved cells, whereas the alkaline phosphatase activity in the mutant strain under both Pi-starved as well as unstarved conditions was stimulated (approximately 5.4 and 3.1-fold, respectively) by addition of glyphosate. The results on alkaline phosphatase activity indicated a glyphosate-induced depletion in the phosphate content of the cells, particularly in the mutant strain, as evident from the stimulated activity of alkaline phosphatase. It is suggested that enzyme activity in the Pi-starved wild type cells may not be influenced any further by glyphosate, as cellular phosphate reserve might not be available for further depletion.     

Metabolic and genetic aspects of the relationship between growth and tetracycline production in Streptomyces aureofaciens

Summary A mutant of S. aureofaciens characterized by lower growth and higher tetracycline production than its parent strain is described. The mutant has a limited degree of temperature-sensitivity and shows a lower efficiency in the utilization of phosphate for growth and a higher cellular content of RNA. The data are in accordance with a possible mutation impairing some aminoacyl RNA synthetases. This kind of mutation might explain the lower growth in phosphate limited conditions and the higher content of RNA.     

柱晶白霉素产生菌的选育：耐磷高产突变株的分离

柱晶白霉素产生菌──北里链霉菌（Ｓｔｒｅｐｏｍｙｃｅｓ．Ｋｉｔａｓａｔｏｎｅｓｉｓ）,通过紫外线处理和高浓度磷酸盐平板上选择分离到突变株ＵＤＰ１－２,在正常发酵培养基条件下摇瓶发酵柱晶白霉素超产可达１８．６％。而且变株的菌落形态与亲本菌株差异较大。     

Morphology and anionic polymer content in the cell wall of a glycerol-requiring mutant ofBacillus subtilis

A glycerol-requiring mutant ofBacillus subtilis formed irregular spheres and showed disturbed septum formation, when subjected to growth limitation by the supply of glycerol. Under phosphate limitation the cells were also round and developed asymmetric septa. In magnesium-limited cultures the cells contained a thickened wall, as compared with that of the parent strain grown under the same conditions. Chemical analysis revealed the presence of teichoic acid as the major anionic polymer in the wall of the glycerol-, as well as the magnesium-limited cells of the glycerol-requiringB. subtilis mutant.Under phosphate limitation teichuronic acid was the only anionic polymer present in the wall. Thus, in this respect, there were no apparent differences between mutant organisms and the parent strain when grown under magnesium and phosphate limitation, respectively and the observed morphological deviations could not be correlated with an altered anionic polymer content of the wall.     

产脂肪酶细菌RYXP的诱变选育及突变株产酶条件优化

以"凤丹"牡丹根际土壤中分离筛选到的产脂肪酶菌株Pseudomonas sp. RYXP作为出发菌株,对其进行了紫外线诱变选育,并采用单因素试验和正交试验方法对活性最强正突变株的产脂肪酶基本特性进行了测定。结果表明,出发菌株Pseudomonas sp. RYXP的紫外线诱变最佳条件为:15 W紫外灯30 cm距离照射1 min;将产脂肪酶活性最强的正突变菌株编号为RYXP-3,单因素试验表明RYXP-3产脂肪酶适宜的碳源为玉米淀粉,适宜氮源为豆饼粉,适宜的磷酸二氢钾含量是0.3%,适宜的初始pH值为7;正交试验表明RYXP-3的最佳的产酶培养基成分组成是:玉米淀粉7%,豆饼粉3%,磷酸二氢钾0.3%,初始pH值为8。在优化方案A1B2C2D3产酶条件下,突变株RYXP-3最高的产酶活性达到56.1 U/mL。突变菌株RYXP-3可作为产油牡丹"凤丹"专用促生菌肥开发的备选资源菌株。     

Isolation of a Tn501 insertion mutant lacking porin protein P of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Summary In order to demonstrate a role for anion-specific protein P channels in phosphate transport in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO, we wished to isolate a transposon insertion mutant deficient in protein P. A number of transposon delivery systems were tested which yielded, for the most part, whole plasmid inserts. Plasmid pMT1000 (Tsuda et al. 1984), a temperature-sensitive R68 plasmid carrying the transposon Tn501, was successfully employed in the isolation of a Tn501 insertion mutant lacking protein P under normally inducing conditions. To identify the mutant deficient in protein P, a protein P-specific polyclonal antiserum was used. This mutant, strain H576, was deficient in high-affinity phosphate transport exhibiting a Km for uptake (3.60±0.64 M) almost ten times greater than that of the wild type strain (Km=0.39 M). There was, however, no change in the V_max for high-affinity phosphate transport as a result of the loss of protein P in this mutant. The protein P-deficiency of the mutant correlated with a growth defect in a phosphate-limited medium resulting in an 18%–35% decrease in growth when compared with the wild type.     

PhoR/PhoP two component regulatory system affects biocontrol capability of Bacillus subtilis NCD-2

The Bacillus subtilis strain NCD-2 is an important biocontrol agent against cotton verticillium wilt and cotton sore shin in the field, which are caused by Verticillium dahliae Kleb and Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn, respectively. A mutant of strain NCD-2, designated M216, with decreased antagonism to V. dahliae and R. solani, was selected by mini-Tn10 mutagenesis and in vitro virulence screening. The inserted gene in the mutant was cloned and identified as the phoR gene, which encodes a sensor kinase in the PhoP/PhoR two-component system. Compared to the wild-type strain, the APase activities of the mutant was decreased significantly when cultured in low phosphate medium, but no obvious difference was observed when cultured in high phosphate medium. The mutant also grew more slowly on organic phosphate agar and lost its phosphatidylcholine-solubilizing ability. The suppression of cotton seedling damping-off in vivo and colonization of the rhizosphere of cotton also decreased in the mutant strain when compared with the wild type strain. All of these characteristics could be partially restored by complementation of the phoR gene in the M216 mutant.     

Disruption of the acetate kinase (<Emphasis Type="Italic">ack</Emphasis>) gene of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium acetobutylicum</Emphasis> results in delayed acetate production

In microorganisms, the enzyme acetate kinase (AK) catalyses the formation of ATP from ADP by de-phosphorylation of acetyl phosphate into acetic acid. A mutant strain of Clostridium acetobutylicum lacking acetate kinase activity is expected to have reduced acetate and acetone production compared to the wild type. In this work, a C. acetobutylicum mutant strain with a selectively disrupted ack gene, encoding AK, was constructed and genetically and physiologically characterized. The ack (-) strain showed a reduction in acetate kinase activity of more than 97% compared to the wild type. The fermentation profiles of the ack (-) and wild-type strain were compared using two different fermentation media, CGM and CM1. The latter contains acetate and has a higher iron and magnesium content than CGM. In general, fermentations by the mutant strain showed a clear shift in the timing of peak acetate production relative to butyrate and had increased acid uptake after the onset of solvent formation. Specifically, in acetate containing CM1 medium, acetate production was reduced by more than 80% compared to the wild type under the same conditions, but both strains produced similar final amounts of solvents. Fermentations in CGM showed similar peak acetate and butyrate levels, but increased acetoin (60%), ethanol (63%) and butanol (16%) production and reduced lactate (-50%) formation by the mutant compared to the wild type. These findings are in agreement with the proposed regulatory function of butyryl phosphate as opposed to acetyl phosphate in the metabolic switch of solventogenic clostridia.     

植酸酶高产菌株的诱变选育

无花果曲霉是一种可以产植酸酶的菌株,其代谢产物植酸酶可以将有机植酸磷降解为无机磷。以此菌株为出发菌株,确定了它的最适pH值为1.3~1.4,最适温度为55~60℃。同时,为获得高酶活的突变株,进行亚硝基胍和紫外线处理,经初筛得到99株高效突变株,再经复筛和传代试验,得到1株植酸酶活性是出发菌株2.47倍的突变株NTG-23。     

Responses of Chlamydomonas reinhardi to Specific Nutritional Limitation in Continuous Culture*†

SYNOPSIS. Responses of wild type and mutant strains of Chlamydomonas reinhardi were studied in a simple but stable chemostat. No chlorosis was observed under conditions of phosphate, arginine or Na acetate limitation. Competition between wild type and the mutant strain y-2 was studied in continuous culture with phosphate as the limiting nutrient in continuous light, continuous dark and alternating periods of light and darkness. In all cases, the mutant strain y-2 overgrew the wild type.     

Responses of a Mutant Strain of Chlamydomonas reinhardi to Prolonged Organotrophic Growth

The responses of the wild type strain and of the y-2 mutant strain of Chlamydomonas reinhardi to long term organotrophic growth were studied. It was shown that wild type can be cultured as an organotroph for at least a month with little decrease in chlorophyll content and no loss of viability. On the other hand, the mutant strain y-2 dies during such organotrophic growth, death beginning after 5 to 6 days in the dark. The kinetics of death indicate that the loss of 95% of the chlorophyll precedes death and that revertants to wild type overgrow such a culture. The results suggest that death of y-2 is correlated with the loss of chlorophyll rather than simple metabolic response to organotrophy and that the chloroplast or a chloroplast related factor may perform certain nonphotosynthetic functions in C. reinhardi. The activities of nicotine adenine dinucleotide and nicotine adenine dinucleotide phosphate dependent triose phosphate dehydrogenases were studied during long term organotrophic growth of y-2. It was found that the activities of these enzymes varied in a manner consistent with previous findings under these conditions. The activity of glutamic dehydrogenase was found to vary as a function of chlorophyll content in the mutant strain y-2.     

Threonine deaminase from a nonsense mutant of Escherichia coli requiring isoleucine or pyridoxine: evidence for half-of-the-sites reactivity.

The mutant IP7 of Escherichia coli B requires isoleucine or pyridoxine for growth as a consequence of a mutation in the gene coding for biosynthetic threonine deaminase. The mutation of IP7 was shown to be of the nonsense type by the following data: (1) reversion to isoleucine prototrophy involves the formation of external suppression at a high frequency, as shown by transduction experiments; and (ii) the isoleucine requirement is suppressed by lysogenization with a phage carrying the amber suppressor su-3. Cell extracts of the mutant strain contain a low activity of threonine deaminase. The possibility that this activity is biodegradative was ruled out by kinetic experiments. The mutant threonine deaminase was purified to homogeneity by conventional procedures. The enzyme is a dimer of identical subunits of an approximate molecular weight of 43,000 (Grimminger and Feldner, 1974), whereas the wild-type enzyme is a tetramer of 50,000-dalton subunits (Calhoun et al., 1973; Grimminger et al., 1973). The mutant enzyme is not inhibited by isoleucine and does not bind isoleucine, as shown by equilibrium dialysis experiments. Pyridoxal phosphate enhances the maximum catalytic activity of the mutant enzyme by a factor of five, whereas the wild-type enzyme is not affected. In wild-type and mutant threonine deaminase the ratio of protein subunits and bound pyridoxal phosphate is 2:1. The activation of threonine deaminase from strain IP7 is due to a second coenzyme binding site, as shown by (i) spectrophotometric titration of the enzyme with pyridoxal phosphate and by (ii) measurement the pyridoxal phosphate content of the enzyme after sodium borohydride reduction of the protein. The observation of one pyridoxal phosphate binding site per peptide dimer in the wild-type enzyme and of two binding sites per dimer in the mutant strongly suggests that one of the potential sites in the wild-type enzyme is masked by allosteric effects. The factors responsible for the half-of-the-sites reactivity of the coenzyme sites appear to be nonoperative in the mutant protein.     

Inactivation of phosphate regulator (SphU) in cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. 6803 directly induced acetyl phosphate pathway leading to enhanced PHB level under nitrogen-sufficient condition

Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a biodegradable and biocompatible polymer that has potential in the fields of environmental, agricultural, and biomedical sciences. Cyanobacteria are considered an excellent source of PHB by bioconversion of CO₂. This study aimed to prolong PHB production under nitrogen-sufficient condition in the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Interestingly, the lack of phosphate regulator (SphU) enabled the mutant strain (ΔSphU) to have the ability to accumulate phosphate with higher expression of Pho regulon. When strain ΔSphU was cultured in nitrogen complete medium for 14 days, the PHB granules were more extensively accumulated in the ΔSphU strain than in the wild type. Photosynthesis activity slightly increased in ΔSphU strain, with no significant difference in chlorophyll a content between wild-type and ΔSphU strain in nitrogen-containing medium, indicating that the higher PHB content (14.57% (w/w) cell dry weight) was not influent of chlorosis. The RT-qPCR analysis revealed that genes involved in PHB biosynthesis and acetyl phosphate pathway were more upregulated in ΔSphU strain. Moreover, the level of acetate production in ΔSphU cells was higher than that in the wild type, suggesting that the deletion of the phosphate regulator could directly induce PHB metabolism by activation of the acetyl phosphate pathway. This research provides better understanding of PHB production regulation in cyanobacteria which are a promising hosts for industrial production of biodegradable plastics.

     

Isolation of mannan-protein complexes from viable cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae X2180-1A wild type and Saccharomyces cerevisiae X2180-1 A-5 mutant strains by the action of Zymolyase-60,000.

The viable whole cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae X2180-1A wild type and its mannan mutant strain S. cerevisiae X2180-1A-5, were treated with an Arthrobacter sp. beta-1,3-glucanase in the presence of a serine protease inhibitor, phenyl-methylsulfonyl fluoride. Fractionation of the solubilized materials of each strain with Cetavlon (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide) yielded one mannan-protein complex. Molecular weights of these complexes were almost the same as that of the mannoprotein of the mutant strain prepared by Nakajima and Ballou, which had a molecular weight of 133,000 and were approximately three times larger than those of the mannans isolated from the same cells by hot-water extraction. Each mannan-protein complex contained up to 2% glucose residue, which was not removed by specific precipitation with anti-mannan sera or by affinity chromatography on a column of concanavalin A-Sepharose. Treatment of these complexes with alkaline NaBH4 produced peptide-free mannan containing small amounts of glucose nearly identical to those of the parent complexes. The above findings provide evidence that the glucose residues exist in a covalently linked form to the mannan moiety. Fractionation of the mannan-protein complex of the S. cerevisiae wild-type strain by DEAE-Sephadex chromatography yielded five subfractions of different phosphate content, indicating that these highly intact mannan-protein complexes were of heterogeneous material consisting of many molecular species of different phosphate content.     

Phosphate inhibition of secondary metabolism in Streptomyces hygroscopicus and its reversal by cyclic AMP

Inorganic phosphate inhibited the biosynthesis of the macrolide antibiotic turimycin in different strains of Streptomyces hygroscopicus. In the wild type strain a depression was observed with increasing phosphate concentrations. A total inhibition was found at 0.1 M phosphate. In a high producing mutant a minimum of turimycin production occured when the phosphate concentration was between 5 mM and 10 mM. Above this concentration the antibiotic synthesis increased again but the production period shifted to a later period of cultivation. Addition of inorganic phosphate resulted in an initial increase of intracellular cyclic AMP content. But a second elevation characterizing the normal level of cyclic AMP throughout the growth phase was prevented by phosphate. Exogenous cyclic AMP as well as positive effectors of the adenylyl cyclase system were able to overcome the phosphate suppression. Cyclic AMP abolished the reduction of protein synthesis following phosphate addition and caused the reappearance of a protein band which may be responsible for the turimycin biosynthesis.     

Influence of Phosphate on the Growth and Nodulation Characteristics of Rhizobium trifolii

The growth and nodulating characteristics of Rhizobium trifolii 6 and 36 differed under different external phosphate conditions. Under growth conditions designed to deplete the internal phosphate content of the rhizobia, strain 6 maintained a generation time of 5 h during the exponential phase over two cycles of growth in phosphate-depleted medium. In contrast, the generation time of strain 36 was extended from 3.5 to 9.8 h over two cycles of phosphate-depleted growth, although the organism eventually achieved the same cell density and cellular phosphate content as that of strain 6 at stationary phase. Phosphate-depleted strain 6 required 0.51 ± 0.08 μM phosphate to commence proliferation, whereas phosphate-depleted strain 36 required 0.89 ± 0.04 μM phosphate under the same conditions. Phosphate-depleted strain 6 maintained viability when exposed to external phosphate concentrations subcritical for growth to occur, whereas phosphate-depleted strain 36 lost viability within 48 h when exposed to medium containing phosphate at concentrations subcritical for growth. Phosphate-depleted strain 36 was inferior to phosphate-depleted strain 6 at nodulating subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L. cv. Mt. Barker) by taking 2 to 4 days longer to develop nodules in phosphatedepleted plant grown medium at pH 5.5. Nodulation by phosphate-depleted strain 36 was accelerated either by including phosphate in the plant growth medium at pH 5.5 or by raising the solution pH of phosphate-depleted plant growth medium to pH 6.5. External phosphate and pH effects were not observed on the nodulating capabilities of phosphate-depleted strain 6 or on luxury phosphate-grown cells of either strain. Phosphatedepleted strains 6 and 36 proliferated to a similar extent on the rhizoplanes even under stringently low external P_i concentrations. The phosphatase activities of both phosphate-depleted strains were significantly (P = 0.05) higher at pH 6.5 than at pH 5.5, and the activity of strain 6 was significantly higher (P = 0.05) than that of strain 36 at pH 5.5 and 5.0.     

Biochemical identification of a tryptophan auxotroph in Rhodospirillum rubrum.

A tryptophan auxotroph of aerobically grown Rodospirillum rubrum was isolated after mutagenesis and replica plating. The mutant grows on tryptophan or indole, accumulates indole glycerol phosphate, lacks the capacity to convert indole glycerol phosphate to indole glycerol phosphate to indole, and finally is defective in photosynthetic growth. The strain is, therefore, analogous to a Trp A mutant which is defective in the alpha-subunit structural gene of tryptophan synthetase.     

浑球红假单胞菌(Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides)色素基因的突变对生长速率及光合固氮的影响

浑球红假单胞菌Rps.sphaeroides 6128经甲基磺酸乙酯诱变处理,分离获得23株色素突变种。不具有细菌叶绿素a和类胡萝卜素的无色突变株不能光养生长,蓝绿突变株305不含带色的类胡萝卜素,但能光养生长,其世代时间比亲本株长5倍左右,而且,没有还原乙炔和放氢的固氮酶活性。绿色突变株309缺失球形烯和球形烯酮。当光照强度从3000lx增加到4000lx时,绿色突变株与亲本株生长速率之差由5.3小时缩短为0.3小时,其光合固氮和光合放氢的活性分别为亲本株的30％和45％。各菌株ATP的含量因所含色素成份不同而异。在指数生长期,蓝绿突变株305的ATP含量只有亲本株的8％,绿色突变株309的ATP含量为亲本株的32％,各色素变种的固氮能力与它们菌体ATP的含量相关。类胡萝卜素在为光合固氮提供能源中起着重要的作用。