丙酮丁醇梭菌磷酸化蛋白质组分析

近年的研究揭示,细菌细胞中蛋白质的磷酸化状态可能调节信号或代谢通路的生物活性。丙酮丁醇梭菌是一个重要的工业菌株,在酸性条件下能够生成大量的有机溶剂。然而,调节丙酮丁醇梭菌有机溶剂生成的分子机制尚未完全阐明。采用双向电泳和质谱联用的技术,比较了该菌在产酸期与产有机溶剂期间的差异蛋白质谱图。特别关注了那些分子量接近但具有不同等电点的蛋白质。在高有机溶剂生成速率的丙酮丁醇梭菌中,发现了8个电泳斑点簇呈现明显的酸移而且伴随光密度强度的变化。质谱分析数据表明,这些蛋白质均含有磷酸化修饰的肽段。生物信息学分析预示,这些蛋白质参与了有机溶剂的生成过程。但究竟它们的磷酸化状态如何调控有机溶剂生成仍需更为深入地研究。     

丙酮丁醇梭菌XY16丁醇发酵特性

以诱变选育的1株突变菌株丙酮丁醇梭菌XY16为对象,对影响该菌发酵特性的相关因素(N源、生长因子、热激)进行研究。结果显示:无机N源乙酸铵比其他N源更有利于丙酮丁醇的发酵,玉米浆或玉米蛋白可以直接替代生长因子进行丙酮丁醇发酵,热激可以提高总溶剂产量,最高可以达到21.28 g/L。该菌还可以同时利用葡萄糖和木糖,当葡萄糖利用完后,木糖才能被有效利用。     

丙酮丁醇梭菌丁醇耐受性

丁醇在发酵培养基中的积累所产生的毒性问题是限制丁醇产量的重要因素,然而对于Clostridium acetobutylicum是如何适应丁醇胁迫,进而调节菌体生长和代谢的,目前尚缺乏系统研究,不能全面揭示C.acetobutylicum的丁醇耐受性机制.对丙酮丁醇梭菌丁醇耐受性有关的研究成果进行了综述,旨在深入理解菌株丁醇耐受性发生改变的相关分子基础.希望为进行微生物丁醇耐受性分子机制的改造、提高菌株的丁醇耐受性提供新的研究思路.     

丁酸胁迫耦联丙酮丁醇梭菌-酿酒酵母混合培养强化丁醇发酵性能

为改善丁醇发酵性能,提出丁酸胁迫与丙酮丁醇梭菌-酿酒酵母混合培养体系协同作用的新型丁醇发酵优化控制策略.7L发酵罐中,在溶剂生产期(24 h)添加4.0 g/L-broth的丁酸浓缩液和0.2 g-DCW/L-broth的酿酒酵母进行发酵,丁醇浓度、丁醇/丙酮比和总溶剂生产效率与对照相比分别提高35％、43％和79％,达到15.74 g/L、2.83和0.52 g/L/h的最高水平.若将精馏后溶剂混合物作为高效柴油添加剂,柴油添加剂中B∶A∶E比例可达74∶17∶9(w/w)的高水平,产品质量获得显著改善.试验及分析阐明该优化控制策略可大幅诱发赖氨酸的分泌及在梭菌中的吸收/利用,提高梭菌对高丁醇浓度环境的耐受能力,促进丁醇合成;可强化梭菌对底物利用的竞争能力、提高电子往复穿梭传递系统中还原力再生速率、产生更多用于丁醇合成的NADH.两者的协同作用大幅提高了丁醇发酵的整体性能.     

丙酮丁醇梭菌的遗传操作系统

丙酮丁醇梭菌是极具潜力的替代燃料——生物丁醇的合成菌,受到各国研究者的普遍关注。丙酮丁醇梭菌菌株改造是生物丁醇产业化进程中的一项重要工作,其中遗传操作是核心内容之一。以下对丙酮丁醇梭菌的遗传操作系统的发展历史、种类和原理进行了综述,分析了目前几种遗传操作系统的局限性,并对其发展进行了展望。     

高丁醇比丙酮丁醇梭菌的选育与应用

设计了专一性分离方法,从土样中分离了多株能产生溶剂的梭苗,经多次单细胞分离、纯化,再经亚硝基胍和甲基磺酸乙酯诱变和抗性筛选,获得几株高丁醇的丙酮丁醇梭菌。对高产菌株的性状稳定性、发酵过程、混合原料应用、温度的影响进行了研究。结果证明菌株性状稳定,丁醇产量为总溶剂的７０％;过程为典型的丙酮丁醇发酵,对温度可耐受到３９－４０℃;能利用玉米和薯干,玉米和高梁进行正常发酵。菌株已在百吨生产罐,连续应用一年     

丙酮丁醇梭菌(Clostridium acetobutylicum)原生质体融合育种研究

为了提高丙酮丁醇梭菌(Clostridium acetobutylicum)的丁醇耐受能力和培养基总糖产丁醇的转化率,通过原生质体融合的方法,研究了溶菌酶浓度及其作用时间、再生培养基种类、55℃条件下菌体致死时间、不同PEG分子量以及作用时间、Ca^2+和Mg^2+不同的添加量对丙酮丁醇梭菌原生质体制备、融合、再生的影响,得到了一套比较系统的丙酮丁醇梭菌的原生质体融合条件,同时通过气相色谱检测了融合菌的产溶剂能力并计算总糖转化率。结果显示,最终得到的215I菌株的总糖转化率比原始菌株提高了34.7%,产丁醇能力比原始菌株提高了32.2%,并且发现1株融合菌能产生新物质。原生质体融合方法在丙酸丁醇梭菌育种方面有广泛的应用潜力,通过融合得到的菌株为丁醇生产奠定了基础。     

丙酮丁醇梭菌发酵菊芋汁生产丁醇

对丙酮丁醇梭菌Clostridium acetobutylicum L7发酵菊芋汁酸水解液生产丁醇进行了初步研究。实验结果表明,以该水解液为底物生产丁醇,不需要添加氮源和生长因子。当水解液初始糖浓度为48.36 g/L时,其发酵性能与以果糖为碳源的对照组基本相同,发酵终点丁醇浓度为8.67 g/L,丁醇、丙酮和乙醇的比例为0.58∶0.36∶0.06,但与以葡萄糖为碳源的对照组相比,发酵时间明显延长,表明该菌株葡萄糖转运能力强于果糖。当水解液初始糖浓度提高到62.87 g/L时,发酵终点残糖浓度从3.09 g/L增加到3.26 g/L,但丁醇浓度却提高到11.21 g/L,丁醇、丙酮和乙醇的比例相应为0.64∶0.29∶0.05,表明适量糖过剩有助于C.acetobutylicum L7胞内代谢从丙酮合成向丁醇合成途径调节;继续提高水解液初始糖浓度,发酵终点残糖浓度迅速升高,丁醇生产的技术经济指标受到明显影响。     

丙酮丁醇梭菌的基因编辑工具及代谢工程改造

丙酮丁醇梭菌作为极具潜力的新型生物燃料丁醇的生产菌,受到各国研究学者的广泛关注。通过丙酮丁醇梭菌(ABE)发酵生产丁醇,由于生产成本高,限制了其工业化应用。随着基因组学和分子生物学的快速发展,适用于丙酮丁醇的基因编辑工具不断发展并应用于提高菌株的发酵性能。本文对丙酮丁醇梭菌基因编辑工具和代谢工程改造取得的进展进行综述。     

Mutagenesis of Clostridium acetobutylicum

Mutagenesis of the obligate anaerobe Clostridium acetobutylicum was best accomplished using agents (e.g. ethyl methane sulphonate or N -methyl- N '-nitro- N -nitrosoguanidine) which are believed to act by a direct mutagenic mechanism. Other agents (e.g. u.v. radiation) whose effectiveness relies on misrepair of damaged DNA via an error-prone pathway, were poor mutagens of this organism. Procedures are described which readily yielded a variety of auxotrophic and other useful mutant strains of Cl. acetobutylicum and related saccharolytic clostridia.     

Mutagenesis of Clostridium acetobutylicum

Mutagenesis of the obligate anaerobe Clostridium acetobutylicum was best accomplished using agents (e.g. ethyl methane sulphonate or N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine) which are believed to act by a direct mutagenic mechanism. Other agents (e.g. u.v. radiation) whose effectiveness relies on misrepair of damaged DNA via an error-prone pathway, were poor mutagens of this organism. Procedures are described which readily yielded a variety of auxotrophic and other useful mutant strains of Cl. acetobutylicum and related saccharolytic clostridia.     

Xylanolytic Activity of Clostridium acetobutylicum

Of 20 strains of Clostridium spp. screened, 17 hydrolyzed larch wood xylan. Two strains of Clostridium acetobutylicum, NRRL B527 and ATCC 824, hydrolyzed xylan but failed to grow on solid media with larch xylan as the sole carbon source; however, strain ATCC 824 was subsequently found to grow on xylan under specified conditions in a chemostat. These two strains possessed cellulolytic activity and were therefore selected for further studies. In cellobiose-limited continuous cultures, strain NRRL B527 produced maximum xylanase activity at pH 5.2. Strain ATCC 824 produced higher xylanase, xylopyranosidase, and arabinofuranosidase activities in chemostat culture with xylose than with any other soluble carbon source as the limiting nutrient. The activities of these enzymes were markedly reduced when the cells were grown in the presence of excess glucose. The xylanase showed maximum activity at pH 5.8 to 6.0 and 65°C. The enzyme was stable on the alkaline side of pH 5.2 but was unstable below this pH value. The extracellular xylanolytic activity from strain ATCC 824 hydrolyzed 12% of the larch wood xylan during a 24-h incubation period, yielding xylose, xylobiose, and xylotriose as the major hydrolysis products. Strain ATCC 824, after being induced to grow in batch culture in xylan medium supplemented with a low concentration of xylose, failed to grow reproducibly in unsupplemented xylan medium. A mutant obtained by mutagenesis with ethyl methanesulfonate was able to grow reproducibly in batch culture on xylan. Both the parent strain and the mutant were able to grow with xylan as the sole source of carbohydrate in continuous culture with the pH maintained at either 5.2 or 6.0. Under these conditions, the cells utilized approximately 50% of the xylan.     

Cellulolytic Activity of Clostridium acetobutylicum

Clostridium acetobutylicum NRRL B527 and ATCC 824 exhibited extracellular and cell-bound endoglucanase and cellobiase activities during growth in a chemically defined medium with cellobiose as the sole source of carbohydrate. For both strains, the endoglucanase was found to be mainly extracellular (70 to 90%) during growth in continuous or batch cultures with the pH maintained at 5.2, whereas the cellobiase was mainly cell associated (60 to 90%). During continuous cultivation of strain B527 with cellobiose as the limiting nutrient, maximum production of the endoglucanase and cellobiase occurred at pH values of 5.2 and 4.8, respectively. In the carbon-limited continuous cultures, strain 824 produced similar levels of endoglucanase, cellobiosidase, and cellobiase activities regardless of the carbon source used. However, in ammonium- or phosphate-limited cultures, with an excess of glucose, only 1/10 of the endoglucanase was produced, and neither cellobiosidase nor cellobiase activities were detectable. A crude extracellular enzyme preparation from strain B527 hydrolyzed carboxymethylcellulose and phosphoric acid-swollen cellulose readily and microcrystalline cellulose (A vicel) to a lesser extent. Glucose accounted for more than 90% of the reducing sugar produced by the hydrolysis of acid-swollen cellulose and Avicel. Strain B527 did not grow in medium with acid-swollen cellulose as the sole source of carbohydrate, although it grew readily on the products obtained by hydrolyzing the cellulose in vitro with a preparation of extracellular cellulase derived from the same organism.     

Butyrate kinase from Clostridium acetobutylicum

Crude extracts of Clostridium acetobutylicum contain a butyrate kinase of high specific activity (5.2 mumol/min/mg of protein). The enzyme has been purified 77-fold in a six-step procedure to a specific activity of 402 mumol/min/mg of protein. The purified butyrate kinase showed a single band with a molecular weight of 85,000 on nondenaturing polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis. Separation by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that the enzyme is a dimer of two apparently identical subunits with molecular weights of 39,000. The pH optimum for the reaction in the butyryl phosphate-forming direction is 7.5, and the pI of the kinase is 5.6. The amino acid composition of the enzyme is also reported. It contains no tryptophan and is low in sulfur-containing amino acids. The kinase has a broad substrate specificity and exhibits its highest relative activities with butyrate and valerate. Butyrate kinase is rapidly inactivated at 50 degrees C in the absence of a fatty acid substrate. Although a reducing agent was required for maximum activity, treatment with several sulfhydryl-modifying agents failed to inhibit the enzyme.