透明颤菌血红蛋白的结构功能和应用进展

透明颤菌血红蛋白(VHb)是科学家发现的第一种微生物血红蛋白,它的结构、生化功能以及表达调控机制都已经得到广泛的研究。VHb可以在很多宿主细胞中表达,通过促进氧的输送增强呼吸和能量代谢,以提高许多有用的代谢产物(抗生素、蛋白质、聚合物等)的产量和宿主抗逆性,还能降低有害化合物的毒害。重点从VHb的功能与结构、在提高微生物代谢产物的产量,以及对动植物某些特性的影响和增加生物修复能力等方面的应用进展进行了综述,并对VHb在植物代谢和动物代谢中具有很大的发展空间进行了展望。     

透明颤菌血红蛋白与耐低氧抗生素生产菌株构建

透明颤菌血红蛋白(Vitreoscilla hemoglobin,VHb)是由透明颤菌属细菌产生的氧结合蛋白。通过引入透明颤菌血红蛋白基因(vgb)从降低需氧角度定向改造抗生素生产菌是近年来研究的热点。vgb在宿主菌中的异源表达能有效提高宿主菌在低氧环境下的代谢效率,促进代谢产物积累,基于这一特性,采用基因工程育种策略构建具有低氧耐受性的生产菌种,将有效降低抗生素生产成本。简述了近年来VHb的研究进展,重点总结了耐低氧抗生素生产菌株构建的研究及其应用现状,并对其在抗生素工业生产中的应用前景进行展望。     

透明颤菌血红蛋白的研究进展及其在发酵工业中的应用

透明颤菌血红蛋白（Vitreoscilla Hemoglobin, VHb）是20世纪70年代后期发现的一种血红蛋白,该蛋白质能使透明颤菌在低氧的环境下生存,并保持较高的生长速率。随着其作用机理的深入研究,VHb在生物工程领域的应用越来越广泛。本文总结了近年来VHb的研究进展,包括蛋白结构、细胞定位、基因改组、作用机理等方面的研究,并概述了其在微生物发酵工业中的应用。     

透明颤菌血红蛋白的分离纯化与分析检测

透明颤菌血红蛋白(Vitreoscillahemoglobin,VHb)是惟一一种研究得较为透彻的原核生物氧结合蛋白血红蛋白。它支持细胞在微氧条件下进行好氧生长,克服发酵过程中的溶氧限制,因此在需氧微生物发酵工业中具有重要的应用价值。简述了VHb的分离纯化过程,综述了VHb的各种定性检测和定量分析方法,比较了各种检测分析方法的优缺点和适用性。提出利用改进的一氧化碳差光谱法以全细胞悬浮液为对象直接进行VHb的定量分析是发酵工业中应用VHb重组菌株的研究发展方向 。     

透明颤菌血红蛋白的应用进展

透明颤菌血红蛋白（VHb）具有在限氧条件下促进异源宿主细胞生长和增加产物产量的作用,已在发酵、环保、转基因动植物、重组蛋白表达等方面得到了广泛应用。将VHb与酶或蛋白融合表达可提高酶的活性、稳定性或蛋白的分离效率。对VHb进行改造有助于获得性能更良好的"新"蛋白。     

病毒蛋白质组学: 病毒学研究前沿

病毒寄生于宿主细胞中, 需要不断地适应和改变宿主的环境. 它们能够编码多种多功能蛋白质, 这些蛋白能与宿主蛋白发生一系列的相互作用以完成病毒的各种功能. 迄今, 尽管许多病毒的基因组已测序完成, 但由于受到病毒影响而发生相应改变的宿主蛋白组、宿主蛋白翻译后修饰, 以及蛋白酶剪接过程还未被完全阐明. 近年来新兴的高通量技术, 如基于质谱技术的定量或半定量蛋白组方法, 已被广泛应用于病毒宿主相互作用的研究中, 且有望在上述领域取得突破性进展. 本综述主要探讨蛋白质组学研究中的病毒颗粒蛋白质组学, 病毒结构蛋白质组学和病毒影响的宿主蛋白质组学等病毒蛋白质组学中的前沿领域.     

重组基因表达对大肠杆菌生理的影响

重组基因在表达外源蛋白质时常常会耗用大量的宿主细胞资源,从而对宿主造成代谢负荷,代谢负荷使得宿主的生化和生理产生很大的变化,甚至损害宿主正常的代谢功能。而过重的代谢负荷会影响目标蛋白的表达量和表达质量。综述了产生代谢负荷的原因,宿主细胞对代谢负荷的应激反应、以及减轻代谢负荷的策略。     

与PRRSV nsp11互作的宿主细胞蛋白鉴定及生物信息学分析

【目的】研究猪繁殖与呼吸综合征病毒(Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus,PRRSV)nsp11与宿主细胞蛋白之间的相互作用,对于揭示nsp11在病毒复制过程中发挥的功能至关重要。【方法】在病毒感染细胞的基础上,利用nsp11的单克隆抗体,采用免疫沉淀结合串联质谱的方法,筛选与PRRSV nsp11相互作用的宿主细胞蛋白,并对所筛选出的宿主细胞蛋白进行了GO注释、COG注释和KEGG代谢通路注释;选取筛选出的宿主细胞蛋白IRAK1,利用免疫共沉淀技术和激光共聚焦技术鉴定其与nsp11之间的相互作用。【结果】与空白对照组相比,病毒感染组中出现3条差异带;经质谱分析共筛选得到了201个与nsp11相互作用的宿主细胞蛋白,分别与蛋白质代谢、细胞信号通路转导以及病原致病性等密切相关;在生物信息学分析的基础上,实验验证了nsp11确与宿主细胞蛋白IRAK1进行相互作用。【结论】鉴定出与PRRSV nsp11相互作用的宿主细胞蛋白,生物信息学分析显示它们在病毒的复制和致病过程中发挥重要作用。研究结果为探究nsp11的生物学功能指明了方向,也为研究宿主细胞蛋白与病毒蛋白间的相互作用及其调控病毒复制和致病性的分子机制奠定了基础。     

人体肠道微生物多样性和功能研究进展

人体肠道中庞大而复杂的微生物群落对人体自身代谢表型有深远的影响.肠道微生物群落在亚种或菌株水平上表现出极大的多样性.利用微生物分子生态学、元基因组学和代谢组学研究方法,发现肠道微生物与宿主表现出共进化的特点,肠道微生物群落及其基因组为宿主提供了互补的遗传和代谢功能,表现出互惠共生关系.但是,肠道微生物群落中影响宿主代谢表型的关键功能菌鉴定及其作用模式问题仍然悬而未决,综合运用多种高通量研究方法和多维数据分析方法可能成为解决这个问题的突破口.     

新型高密度发酵基因工程菌G830

运用PCR方法,从磷酸乙酰转移酶（Pta）－乙酸激酶（Ack)代谢途径缺失菌株E.coliPA1染色体上,扩增出天氨酸激酶－1-高丝氨酸脱氢酶－I（thrA）和高丝氨酸激酶（thrB）基因部分序列,构建了整合型重组质粒pVHb-Kan;应用染色体－质粒同源重组的方法,将透明颤菌血红蛋白（Vitreoscila haemoglobin,VHb)基因整合到大杆菌PA1染色体上的thr操纵子,构建了新型整合工程菌G830。在高密度发酵条件下,G830的细胞呼吸强度、能量代谢、最高菌密度和细胞干重,均明显优于对照菌株PA1和BL21;重组蛋白脯氨酰内肽酶在G830和PA1中获得稳定高表达;重组菌生长状况及发酵指标均与空宿主菌基本一致且表达质粒能维持较好的稳定性。整合型vhb的表达及乙酸代谢途径（Pta-Ack）的缺陷,改善了宿主在贫氧条件下的生长,且促进了重组蛋白的表达。该工程菌具有良好的氧耐受力,且乙酸积累得到大幅度降低,可作为适于高密度发酵的基因工程菌。     

Recent developments and future prospects of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin application in metabolic engineering

In hypoxic conditions, bacteria express a kind of hemoglobin, which is proposed to enhance respiration and energy metabolism by promoting oxygen delivery. Bacteria hemoglobin from Vitreoscilla stercoraria - Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb), when expressed in various hosts in oxygen-limited conditions, has been shown to improve growth, protein secretion, metabolite productivity and stress resistance of hosts, thus rendering the protein promising in metabolic engineering, especially in plant metabolism optimization. In this review, many well-studies areas are presented to illustrate the potential of VHb application in biotechnology industry, to discuss the cellular mechanisms of VHb function and to show the wide variety of approaches taken within the field.     

Error-prone PCR of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) to support the growth of microaerobic Escherichia coli

Expression of the gene encoding bacterial hemoglobin (VHb) from Vitreoscilla has been previously used to improve recombinant cell growth and enhance product formation under microaerobic conditions. It is very likely that the properties of VHb are not optimized for foreign hosts; therefore, we used error-prone PCR to generate a number of randomly mutated vhb genes to be expressed and studied in Escherichia coli. In addition, the mutated VHb proteins also contained an extension of eight residues (MTMITPSF) at the amino terminus. VHb mutants were screened for improved growth properties under microaerobic conditions and 15 clones expressing mutated hemoglobin protein were selected for further characterization and cultivated in a microaerobic bioreactor to analyze the physiological effects of novel VHb proteins on cell growth. The expression of four VHb mutants, carried by pVM20, pVM50, pVM104, and pVM134, were able to enhance microaerobic growth of E. coli by approximately 22%, 155%, 50%, and 90%, respectively, with a concomitant decrease of acetate excretion into the culture medium. The vhb gene in pVM20 contains two mutations substituting residues Glu19(A17) and Glu137(H23) to Gly. pVM50 expresses a VHb protein carrying two mutations: His36(C1) to Arg36 and Gln66(E20) to Arg66. pVM104 and pVM134 express VHb proteins carrying the mutations Ala56(E10) to Gly and Ile24(B5) to Thr, respectively. Our experiments also indicate that the positive effects elicited by mutant VHb-expression from pVM20 and pVM50 are linked to the peptide tail. Removal of the N-terminal sequence reduced cell growth approximately 23% and 53%, respectively, relative to wild-type controls. These results clearly demonstrate that it is possible to obtain mutated VHb proteins with improved characteristics for improving microaerobic growth of E. coli by using combined mutation techniques, addition of a peptide tail, and random error-prone PCR.     

Expression of double Vitreoscilla hemoglobin enhances growth and alters ribosome and tRNA levels in Escherichia coli

In several organisms, expression of a gene encoding dimeric hemoglobin (VHb) from the obligate aerobic bacterium Vitreoscilla stercoraria has been shown to increase microaerobic cell growth and enhance oxygen-dependent cell metabolism. In an attempt to further improve these effects of VHb, a gene encoding two vhb genes connected by a short linker of six base pairs was constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli(double VHb). Escherichia coli cells expressing double VHb reached a cell density 19% higher than that of cells expressing native VHb. The protein production per cell remained constant since the increase in cell growth was accompanied by an increase in protein content by 16%. Investigation of ribosome and tRNA content revealed that cells expressing double VHb reached their maximal capacity of protein synthesis later during cultivation than cells expressing native VHb, and furthermore they reached considerably higher levels of ribosome and tRNA compared to that of the VHb-expressing cells.     

Bacterial hemoglobins and flavohemoglobins: versatile proteins and their impact on microbiology and biotechnology

In response to oxygen limitation or oxidative and nitrosative stress, bacteria express three kinds of hemoglobin proteins: truncated hemoglobins (tr Hbs), hemoglobins (Hbs) and flavohemoglobins (flavo Hbs). The two latter groups share a high sequence homology and structural similarity in their globin domain. Flavohemoglobin proteins contain an additional reductase domain at their C-terminus and their expression is induced in the presence of reactive nitrogen and oxygen species. Flavohemoglobins detoxify NO in an aerobic process, termed nitric oxide dioxygenase reaction, which protects the host from various noxious nitrogen compounds. Only a small number of bacteria express hemoglobin proteins and the best studied of these is from Vitreoscilla sp. Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) has been expressed in various heterologous hosts under oxygen-limited conditions and has been shown to improve growth and productivity, rendering the protein interesting for biotechnology industry. The close interaction of VHb with the terminal oxidases has been shown and this interplay has been proposed to enhance respiratory activity and energy production by delivering oxygen, the ultimate result being an improvement in growth properties.     

透明颤菌血红蛋白基因的研究与应用

总结了近 15年来透明颤菌血红蛋白的研究结果 ,包括它的分布、结构、功能、合成等分子生物学以及在基因工程中的应用。透明颤菌的血红蛋白是 2 0世纪 70年代被发现的 ,由于它具有结合氧的特性 ,可使透明颤菌这一专性好氧的革兰氏阴性菌在贫氧环境中生长。透明颤菌血红蛋白是同型二聚体形式的可溶性血红蛋白分子 ,每分子透明颤菌血红蛋白由两个分子量为 15 775的亚基和两个b型血红素组成。透明颤菌血红蛋白的功能是为透明颤菌强大的呼吸膜增加氧的流量。完整的有功能的血红蛋白由血红蛋白亚基和血红素组成 ,血红蛋白亚基由基因vgb编码 ,血红素由生化代谢合成。透明颤菌血红蛋白基因在野生透明颤菌中是以单拷贝的方式随染色体一起复制表达的。透明颤菌血红蛋白基因已经被克隆和测序。同时也讨论了将透明颤菌血红蛋白基因整合到异源宿主菌中增加重组蛋白产量和发酵产量方面的研究。最后 ,概述了当透明颤菌血红蛋白在植物中表达时 ,转基因植物表现出生长增加以及代谢物产量发生变化的情况。     

Vitreoscilla hemoglobin. Intracellular localization and binding to membranes

The obligate aerobic bacterium, Vitreoscilla, synthesizes elevated quantities of a homodimeric hemoglobin (VHb) under hypoxic growth conditions. Expression of VHb in heterologous hosts often enhances growth and product formation. A role in facilitating oxygen transfer to the respiratory membranes is one explanation of its cellular function. Immunogold labeling of VHb in both Vitreoscilla and recombinant Escherichia coli bearing the VHb gene clearly indicated that VHb has a cytoplasmic (not periplasmic) localization and is concentrated near the periphery of the cytosolic face of the cell membrane. OmpA signal-peptide VHb fusions were transported into the periplasm in E. coli, but this did not confer any additional growth advantage. The interaction of VHb with respiratory membranes was also studied. The K(d) values for the binding of VHb to Vitreoscilla and E. coli cell membranes were approximately 5-6 microm, a 4-8-fold higher affinity than those of horse myoglobin and hemoglobin for these same membranes. VHb stimulated the ubiquinol-1 oxidase activity of inverted Vitreoscilla membranes by 68%. The inclusion of Vitreoscilla cytochrome bo in proteoliposomes led to 2.4- and 6-fold increases in VHb binding affinity and binding site number, respectively, relative to control liposomes, suggesting a direct interaction between VHb and cytochrome bo.     

Role of hemoglobin in improving biodegradation of aromatic contaminants under hypoxic conditions

Genetic engineering of bacteria using the Vitreoscilla (bacterial) hemoglobin gene has been used to enhance bioremediation of several compounds which are models for, or are themselves, toxic chemicals which may contaminate soil and water. Initial experiments, done mostly in shake flasks, with Escherichia coli, Burkholderia sp. DNT and Pseudomonas aeruginosa demonstrated that expression of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin in heterologous hosts can enhance biodegradation of several aromatic compounds as well as an organophosphorus compound. These studies concentrated for the most part on enhancement of endogenous catabolic capabilities of the hosts; the presence of vgb/VHb enhanced both growth and biodegradation. The initial studies were followed by experiments in systems which more closely approximated conditions that would exist in field applications. These included soil columns, continuous flow reactors and membrane bioreactors. The latter work also enabled calculation of the effects of the presence of vgb/VHb on kinetic parameters such as growth rate, substrate and oxygen utilization rate, and degradation rate of pollutants, etc. Although not always the case, for the most part, and particularly in bioreactors, the advantages due to vgb/VHb were greater under conditions of limited aeration or hypoxic conditions.     

从透明颤菌血红蛋白谈到植物缺氧与转基因作物

扼要介绍透明颤菌血红蛋白基因在多种微生物的表达、调节和生理功能,特别是在生物工程方面可能的应用。但最值得重视的是这一基因在烟草中的表达及其生理效应,它为我们提出一个重要的问题,就是植物是否缺氧,透明颤菌血红蛋白基因很可能是构建转基因作物的重要元件。     

Aerobic expression of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin improves the growth performance of CHO‐K1 cells

Inefficient carbon metabolism is a relevant issue during the culture of mammalian cells for the production of biopharmaceuticals. Therefore, cell engineering strategies to improve the metabolic and growth performance of cell lines are needed. The expression of Vitreoscilla stercoraria hemoglobin (VHb) has been shown to significantly reduce overflow metabolism and improve the aerobic growth of bacteria. However, the effects of VHb on mammalian cells have been rarely studied. Here, the impact of VHb on growth and lactate accumulation during CHO‐K1 cell culture was investigated. For this purpose, CHO‐K1 cells were transfected with plasmids carrying the vgb or gfp gene to express VHb or green fluorescence protein (GFP), respectively. VHb expression increased the specific growth rate and biomass yields on glucose and glutamine by 60 %, and reduced the amount of lactate produced per cell by 40 %, compared to the GFP‐expression controls. Immunofluorescence microscopy showed that VHb is distributed in the cytoplasm and organelles, which support the hypothesis that VHb could serve as an oxygen carrier, enhancing aerobic respiration. These results are useful for the development of better producing cell lines for industrial applications.