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Flux balance analysis (FBA) is an important method for calculating optimal pathways to produce industrially important chemicals in genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs). However, for biologists, the requirement of coding skills poses a significant obstacle to using FBA for pathway analysis and engineering target identification. Additionally, a time-consuming manual drawing process is often needed to illustrate the mass flow in an FBA-calculated pathway, making it challenging to detect errors or discover interesting metabolic features. To solve this problem, we developed CAVE, a cloud-based platform for the integrated calculation, visualization, examination and correction of metabolic pathways. CAVE can analyze and visualize pathways for over 100 published GEMs or user-uploaded GEMs, allowing for quicker examination and identification of special metabolic features in a particular GEM. Additionally, CAVE offers model modification functions, such as gene/reaction removal or addition, making it easy for users to correct errors found in pathway analysis and obtain more reliable pathways. With a focus on the design and analysis of optimal pathways for biochemicals, CAVE complements existing visualization tools based on manually drawn global maps and can be applied to a broader range of organisms for rational metabolic engineering. CAVE is available at https://cave.biodesign.ac.cn/.
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Nube Computacional , Visualización de Datos , Redes y Vías Metabólicas , Metabolómica , Genoma , Redes y Vías Metabólicas/genética , Modelos Biológicos , Programas Informáticos , Metabolómica/instrumentación , Metabolómica/métodosRESUMEN
A high-quality filler within mixed matrix membranes, coupled with uniform dispersity, endows a high-efficiency transfer pathway for the significant improvement on separation performance. In this work, a zeolite-typed MCM-22 filler is reported that is doped into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) matrix by ultrafast photo-curing technique. The unique structure of nanosheets assembly layer by layer endows the continuous transfer channels towards penetrate molecules because of the inter-connective nanosheets within PDMS matrix. Furthermore, an ultrafast freezing effect produced by fast photo-curing is used to overcome the key issue, namely filler aggregation, and further eliminates defects. When pervaporative separating a 5 wt% ethanol aqueous solution, the resulting MCM-22/PDMS membrane exhibits an excellent membrane flux of 1486 g m-2 h-1 with an ethanol separation factor of 10.2. Considering a biobased route for ethanol production, the gas stripping and vapor permeation through this membrane also shows a great enrichment performance, and the concentrated ethanol is up to 65.6 wt%. Overall, this MCM-22/PDMS membrane shows a high separation ability for ethanol benefited from a unique structure deign of fillers and ultrafast curing speed of PDMS, and has a great potential for bioethanol separation from cellulosic ethanol fermentation.
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Zymomonas mobilis metabolizes sugar anaerobically through the Entner-Doudoroff pathway with less ATP generated for lower biomass accumulation to direct more sugar for product formation with improved yield, making it a suitable host to be engineered as microbial cell factories for producing bulk commodities with major costs from feedstock consumption. Self-flocculation of the bacterial cells presents many advantages, such as enhanced tolerance to environmental stresses, a prerequisite for achieving high product titers by using concentrated substrates. ZM401, a self-flocculating mutant developed from ZM4, the unicellular model strain of Z. mobilis, was employed in this work to explore the molecular mechanism underlying this self-flocculating phenotype. Comparative studies between ZM401 and ZM4 indicate that a frameshift caused by a single nucleotide deletion in the poly-T tract of ZMO1082 fused the putative gene with the open reading frame of ZMO1083, encoding the catalytic subunit BcsA of the bacterial cellulose synthase to catalyze cellulose biosynthesis. Furthermore, the single nucleotide polymorphism mutation in the open reading frame of ZMO1055, encoding a bifunctional GGDEF-EAL protein with apparent diguanylate cyclase/phosphodiesterase activities, resulted in the Ala526Val substitution, which consequently compromised in vivo specific phosphodiesterase activity for the degradation of cyclic diguanylic acid, leading to intracellular accumulation of the signaling molecule to activate cellulose biosynthesis. These discoveries are significant for engineering other unicellular strains from Z. mobilis with the self-flocculating phenotype for robust production. IMPORTANCE Stress tolerance is a prerequisite for microbial cell factories to be robust in production, particularly for biorefinery of lignocellulosic biomass to produce biofuels, bioenergy, and bio-based chemicals for sustainable socioeconomic development, since various inhibitors are released during the pretreatment to destroy the recalcitrant lignin-carbohydrate complex for sugar production through enzymatic hydrolysis of the cellulose component, and their detoxification is too costly for producing bulk commodities. Although tolerance to individual stress has been intensively studied, the progress seems less significant since microbial cells are inevitably suffering from multiple stresses simultaneously under production conditions. When self-flocculating, microbial cells are more tolerant to multiple stresses through the general stress response due to enhanced quorum sensing associated with the morphological change for physiological and metabolic advantages. Therefore, elucidation of the molecular mechanism underlying such a self-flocculating phenotype is significant for engineering microbial cells with the unique multicellular morphology through rational design to boost their production performance.
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Zymomonas , Celulosa/metabolismo , Floculación , Hidrolasas Diéster Fosfóricas/metabolismo , Azúcares/metabolismo , Zymomonas/genética , Zymomonas/metabolismoRESUMEN
Zymomonas mobilis is a model bacterial ethanologen and has been engineered to produce lignocellulosic biofuels and biochemicals such as 2,3-butanediol. We have previously identified promoters of different strengths using systems biology datasets and characterized them using the flow cytometry-based dual reporter-gene system. Here, we further demonstrated the capability of applying the dual reporter-gene system and omics datasets on discovering inducible promoters. Ten candidate ethanol-inducible promoters were identified through omics datasets mining and clustering. Using the dual reporter-gene system, these promoters were characterized under natural growth, ethanol stress, and ethanol-induced condition to investigate the transcriptional strength and ethanol inducibility. The results demonstrated that three promoters of P0405, P0435, and P0038 driving the expression of native genes of ZMO0405, ZMO0435, and ZMO0038, correspondingly, are potential ethanol-responsive promoters and may be growth related. This study not only identified and verified three ethanol-inducible promoters as biological parts, which can be used to synchronize the expression of heterologous pathway genes with the ethanol production process of Z. mobilis, but also demonstrated the power of combining omics datasets and dual reporter-gene system to identify biological parts for metabolic engineering and synthetic biology applications in Z. mobilis and related microorganisms.
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Bases de Datos Genéticas , Etanol/metabolismo , Genes Reporteros/genética , Zymomonas/genética , Zymomonas/metabolismo , Ingeniería MetabólicaRESUMEN
Biorefinery of biomass-based biofuels and biochemicals by microorganisms is a competitive alternative of traditional petroleum refineries. Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen with many desirable characteristics, which makes it an ideal industrial microbial biocatalyst for commercial production of desirable bioproducts through metabolic engineering. In this review, we summarize the metabolic engineering progress achieved in Z. mobilis to expand its substrate and product ranges as well as to enhance its robustness against stressful conditions such as inhibitory compounds within the lignocellulosic hydrolysates and slurries. We also discuss a few metabolic engineering strategies that can be applied in Z. mobilis to further develop it as a robust workhorse for economic lignocellulosic bioproducts. In addition, we briefly review the progress of metabolic engineering in Z. mobilis related to the classical synthetic biology cycle of "Design-Build-Test-Learn", as well as the progress and potential to develop Z. mobilis as a model chassis for biorefinery practices in the synthetic biology era.
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Ingeniería Metabólica/métodos , Biología Sintética/métodos , Zymomonas/genética , Zymomonas/metabolismo , Lignina/genética , Lignina/metabolismoRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Cordyceps taii, an entomogenous fungus native to south China, is a folk medicine with varieties of pharmacological activities including anticancer effect. To validate the ethnopharmacological claim against cancer, the antitumor and antimetastatic activities of chloroform extract of C. taii (CFCT) were investigated in vivo. METHODS: The in vitro cytotoxic activities of CFCT against human lung cancer (A549) and gastric cancer (SGC-7901) cells were evaluated using the Sulforhodamine B (SRB) assay. In vivo anti tumor and antimetastatic activities, Kunming mice bearing sarcoma 180 and C57BL/6 mice bearing melanoma B16F10 were employed, respectively. The antitumor effects of CFCT were completely evaluated on the basis of the tumor weight, survival time, histologic analysis, and immune organ indices. The histopathological change, metastatic foci and malignant melanoma specific marker HMB45 in the lung tissue were detected for the evaluation of the antimetastatic activity of CFCT. RESULTS: CFCT exhibited dose- and time-dependent cytotoxicities against A549 and SGC-7901 cells with the IC50 values of 30.2 and 65.7 µg/mL, respectively. Furthermore, CFCT at a dose of 50 or 100 mg/kg could significantly inhibit the tumor growth in vivo and prolonged the survival time in two different models as compared with the model group, especially when combined with the CTX at a low dose rate. And it also increased spleen index of Kunming mice and thymus index of C57BL/6 mice. Meanwhile, histologic analysis illustrated that CFCT alone or in combination with CTX could induce tumor tissue necrosis of both models. In addition, CFCT at a dose of 50 or 100 mg/kg inhibited the lung metastasis of melanoma B16F10 in tumor-bearing C57BL/6 mice. The antimetastatic effect was also observed when CFCT was used in combination with CTX. In comparison to any other groups, CFCT at a dose of 100 mg/kg could effectively enhance the GSH-Px activities of various tissues in tumor-bearing C57BL/6 mice. CONCLUSIONS: These findings demonstrate that CFCT has potent in vivo antitumor and antimetastatic activities, and may be helpful to the development of anticancer chemopreventive agents from C. taii.
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Antineoplásicos/farmacología , Productos Biológicos/farmacología , Cordyceps/química , Animales , Antineoplásicos/química , Productos Biológicos/química , Línea Celular Tumoral , Humanos , Pulmón/efectos de los fármacos , Pulmón/patología , Neoplasias Pulmonares/patología , Ratones , Ratones Endogámicos C57BL , Ensayos Antitumor por Modelo de XenoinjertoRESUMEN
In the laboratory study of alkali-silica reaction (ASR), models attempt to predict the service life of concrete due to ASR by correlating the performance of concrete at high and low temperatures. However, the consequences of elevating temperature are not so encouraging. In this paper, the influence of temperature on the expansion of 2-graded concrete and 3-graded concrete caused by ASR was investigated by curing the concrete under different temperatures ranging from 40 °C to 80 °C. Increased temperature resulted in rapid expansion at the early stages, but the expansion rate of concrete prisms cured at the higher temperatures (70 °C and 80 °C) was slowed down at the later stages, and concrete prisms cured at 50 °C or 60 °C showed the highest expansions during the experimental period. The chemical analysis results of the pore solution expressed from the concrete show that the ASR expansion is significantly influenced by the [OH-]: the decrease in [OH-] leads to the retardation of the ASR expansion. The decrease in [OH-] is attributed to the consumption of OH- ions for the alkali-silica reaction and the decrease in activity of NaOH(aq) influenced by the temperature. For large cross-section specimens, the OH- within the concrete for alkali-silica reactions cannot be effectively compensated by the external alkali solution. In the accelerated test to evaluate ASR for large cross-section specimens, a curing temperature of less than 60 °C is suggested. This study provides critical insights into the temperature dependency of ASR expansion of concrete, offering a curing temperature range for developing predictive models of ASR expansion under varied environmental conditions.
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Despite extensive research, the relationship between the progression of the alkali-silica reaction (ASR) and the expansion of concrete due to ASR, particularly for the heterogeneous aggregate with slow reactivity, is not thoroughly understood. In this paper, the dissolution kinetics of reactive silica present in sandstone when exposed to NaOH solutions, alongside the expansion characteristics of rock prisms under ASR conditions, were studied. The experimental results indicate that ASR behaves as a first-order reaction, accompanied by an exponential decrease in the concentration of OH- over time, and the dissolution rate of silica is predominantly governed by diffusion dynamics. Notably, increasing the temperature accelerates ASR, which augments the expansive pressure in a confined and limited space, leading to more significant aggregate expansion. Conversely, higher temperatures also result in a diminished retention of ASR gels within the aggregate, leading to the mitigation of ASR expansion. Our findings underscore that larger aggregates retain a greater quantity of gels, resulting in more pronounced expansion. To establish an ASR prediction model based on the relationship of the ASR expansion of concrete to high and low temperatures, the parameters such as the range of curing temperatures and the grading size of aggregates should be carefully considered for the experiments.
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High-quality genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) could play critical roles on rational design of microbial cell factories in the classical Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle of synthetic biology studies. Despite of the constant establishment and update of GEMs for model microorganisms such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, high-quality GEMs for non-model industrial microorganisms are still scarce. Zymomonas mobilis subsp. mobilis ZM4 is a non-model ethanologenic microorganism with many excellent industrial characteristics that has been developing as microbial cell factories for biochemical production. Although five GEMs of Z. mobilis have been constructed, these models are either generating ATP incorrectly, or lacking information of plasmid genes, or not providing standard format file. In this study, a high-quality GEM iZM516 of Z. mobilis ZM4 was constructed. The information from the improved genome annotation, literature, datasets of Biolog Phenotype Microarray studies, and recently updated Gene-Protein-Reaction information was combined for the curation of iZM516. Finally, 516 genes, 1389 reactions, 1437 metabolites, and 3 cell compartments are included in iZM516, which also had the highest MEMOTE score of 91% among all published GEMs of Z. mobilis. Cell growth was then predicted by iZM516, which had 79.4% agreement with the experimental results of the substrate utilization. In addition, the potential endogenous succinate synthesis pathway of Z. mobilis ZM4 was proposed through simulation and analysis using iZM516. Furthermore, metabolic engineering strategies to produce succinate and 1,4-butanediol (1,4-BDO) were designed and then simulated under anaerobic condition using iZM516. The results indicated that 1.68 mol/mol succinate and 1.07 mol/mol 1,4-BDO can be achieved through combinational metabolic engineering strategies, which was comparable to that of the model species E. coli. Our study thus not only established a high-quality GEM iZM516 to help understand and design microbial cell factories for economic biochemical production using Z. mobilis as the chassis, but also provided guidance on building accurate GEMs for other non-model industrial microorganisms.
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To solve the issue of the poor temperature stability of conventional modified asphalt, polyurethane (PU) was used as a modifier with its corresponding curing agent (CA) to prepare thermosetting PU asphalt. First, the modifying effects of the different types of PU modifiers were evaluated, and the optimal PU modifier was then selected. Second, a three-factor and three-level L9 (33) orthogonal experiment table was designed based on the preparation technology, PU dosage, and CA dosage to prepare the thermosetting PU asphalt and asphalt mixture. Further, the effect of PU dosage, CA dosage, and preparation technology on the 3d, 5d, and 7d splitting tensile strength, freeze-thaw splitting strength, and tensile strength ratio (TSR) of the PU asphalt mixture was analyzed, and a PU-modified asphalt preparation plan was recommended. Finally, a tension test was conducted on the PU-modified asphalt and a split tensile test was performed on the PU asphalt mixture to analyze their mechanical properties. The results show that the content of PU has a significant effect on the splitting tensile strength of PU asphalt mixtures. When the content of the PU modifier is 56.64% and the content of CA is 3.58%, the performance of the PU-modified asphalt and mixture is better when prepared by the prefabricated method. The PU-modified asphalt and mixture have high strength and plastic deformation ability. The modified asphalt mixture has excellent tensile performance, low-temperature performance, and water stability, which meets the requirements of epoxy asphalt and the mixture standards.
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X-ray detectors based on conventional semiconductors with large atomic numbers are suffering from the poor stability under a high dose rate of ionizing irradiation. In this work, we demonstrate that a wide band gap ceramic-boron nitride with small atomic numbers could be used for sensitive X-ray detection. Boron nitride samples showed excellent resistance to ionizing radiation, which have been systematically studied with the neutron- and electron-aging experiments. Then, we fully analyzed the influence of these aging effects on the fundamental properties of boron nitride. Interestingly, we found that the boron nitride samples could maintain relatively good charge transport properties even after large dose of neutron irradiation. The fabricated X-ray detectors showed decent performance metrics, and the neutron-aged boron nitride even showed improved operational stability under continuous X-ray irradiation, suggesting the great potential for real applications.
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Zymomonas mobilis is a promising microorganism for industrial bioethanol production. However, ethanol produced during fermentation is toxic to Z. mobilis and affects its growth and bioethanol production. Although several reports demonstrated that the RNA-binding protein Hfq in Z. mobilis contributes to the tolerance against multiple lignocellulosic hydrolysate inhibitors, the role of Hfq on ethanol tolerance has not been investigated. In this study, hfq in Z. mobilis was either deleted or overexpressed and their effects on cell growth and ethanol tolerance were examined. Our results demonstrated that hfq overexpression improved ethanol tolerance of Z. mobilis, which is probably due to energy saving by downregulating flagellar biosynthesis and heat stress response proteins, as well as reducing the reactive oxygen species induced by ethanol stress via upregulating the sulfate assimilation and cysteine biosynthesis. To explore proteins potentially interacted with Hfq, the TEV protease mediated Yeast Endoplasmic Reticulum Sequestration Screening system (YESS) was established in Z. mobilis. YESS results suggested that Hfq may modulate the cytoplasmic heat shock response by interacting with the heat shock proteins DnaK and DnaJ to deal with the ethanol inhibition. This study thus not only revealed the underlying mechanism of enhanced ethanol tolerance by hfq overexpression, but also provided an alternative approach to investigate protein-protein interactions in Z. mobilis.
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Inhibitors in lignocellulosic hydrolysates are toxic to Zymomonas mobilis and reduce its bioethanol production. This study revealed cysteine supplementation enhanced furfural tolerance in Z. mobilis with a 2-fold biomass increase. Transcriptomic study illustrated that cysteine biosynthesis pathway was down-regulated while cysteine catabolism was up-regulated with cysteine supplementation. Mutants for genes involved in cysteine metabolism were constructed, and metabolites in cysteine metabolic pathway including methionine, glutathione, NaHS, glutamate, and pyruvate were supplemented into media. Cysteine supplementation boosted glutathione synthesis or H2S release effectively in Z. mobilis leading to the reduced accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by furfural, while pyruvate and glutamate produced in the H2S generation pathway promoted cell growth by serving as the carbon or nitrogen source. Finally, cysteine supplementation was confirmed to enhance Z. mobilis tolerance against ethanol, acetate, and corncob hydrolysate with an enhanced ethanol productivity from 0.38 to 0.55 g-1âL-1âh-1.
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Zymomonas , Cisteína/metabolismo , Suplementos Dietéticos , Fermentación , Lignina/metabolismo , Zymomonas/genética , Zymomonas/metabolismoRESUMEN
A promoter plays a crucial role in controlling the expression of the target gene in cells, thus being one of the key biological parts for synthetic biology practices. Although significant efforts have been made to identify and characterize promoters with different strengths in various microorganisms, the compatibility of promoters within different hosts still lacks investigation. In this study, we chose the native Pgap promoter of Zymomonas mobilis to investigate nucleotide sequences within promoter regions affecting promoter compatibility between Escherichia coli and Z. mobilis. Pgap is one of the strongest promotors in Z. mobilis that has many excellent characteristics to be developed as microbial cell factories. Using EGFP as a reporter, a Z. mobilis-derived Pgap mutant library was constructed and sorted in E. coli, with candidate promoters exhibiting high fluorescence intensity collected. A total of 53 variants were finally selected and sequenced by Sanger sequencing. The sequencing results grouped these variants into 12 different Pgap variant types, among which seven types presented higher promoter strength than native Pgap in E. coli. The next-generation sequencing technique was then employed to identify key mutations within the Pgap promoter region that affect the promoter compatibility. Finally, six important sites were identified and confirmed to help increase Pgap strength in E. coli while keeping similar strength of native Pgap in Z. mobilis. Compared to native Pgap, synthetic promoters combining these sites had enhanced strength; especially, Pgap-6M combining all six sites exhibited 20-fold greater strength than native Pgap in E. coli. This study thus not only determined six important sites affecting promoter compatibility but also confirmed a series of Pgap promoter variants with strong promoter activity in both E. coli and Z. mobilis. In addition, a strategy was established in this study to investigate and determine nucleotide sequences in promoter regions affecting promoter compatibility, which can be applied in other microorganisms to help reveal universal factors affecting promoter compatibility and design promoters with desired strengths among different microbial cell factories.
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Zymomonas , Secuencia de Bases , Escherichia coli/genética , Regiones Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Biología Sintética , Zymomonas/genética , Zymomonas/metabolismoRESUMEN
The model ethanologenic bacterium Zymomonas mobilis has many advantages for diverse biochemical production. Although the impact of temperature especially high temperature on the growth and ethanol production of Z. mobilis has been reported, the transcriptional profiles of Z. mobilis grown at different temperatures have not been systematically investigated. In this study, Z. mobilis wild-type strain ZM4 was used to study the effect of a broad range of temperatures of 24, 30, 36, 40, and 45 °C on cell growth and morphology, glucose utilization and ethanol production, as well as the corresponding global gene expression profiles using RNA-Seq-based transcriptomics. In addition, a recombinant Z. mobilis strain expressing reporter gene EGFP (ZM4_EGFP) was constructed to study the effect of temperature on heterologous protein expression at different temperatures. Our result demonstrated that the effect of temperature on the growth and morphology of ZM4 and ZM4_EGFP were similar. The biomass of these two strains decreased along with the temperature increase, and an optimal temperature range is needed for efficient glucose utilization and ethanol production. Temperatures lower or higher than normal temperature investigated in this work was not favorable for the glucose utilization and ethanol production as well as the expression of exogenous protein EGFP based on the results of flow cytometry and Western blot. Temperature also affected the transcriptional profiles of Z. mobilis especially under high temperature. Compared with ZM4 cultured at 30 °C, 478 genes were up-regulated and 481 genes were down-regulated at 45 °C. The number of differentially expressed genes of ZM4 cultured at other temperatures (24, 36 or 40 °C) was relatively small though compared with those at 30 °C. Since temperature usually increases during the fermentation process, and heat tolerance is one of the important robustness traits of industrial strains, candidate genes related to heat resistance based on our RNA-Seq result and literature report were then selected for genetics study using the strategies of plasmid overexpression of candidate gene or replacement of the native promoter of candidate gene by an inducible Ptet promoter. The genetics studies indicated that ZMO0236, ZMO1335, ZMO0994, operon groESL, and cspL, which encodes Mrp family chromosome partitioning ATPase, flavoprotein WrbA, an uncharacterized protein, chaperonin Cpn10 and GroEL, and an exogenous cold shock protein, respectively, were associated with heat tolerance, and recombinant strains over-expressing these genes can improve their heat tolerance. Our work thus not only explored the effects of temperature on the expression of exogenous gene EGFP and endogenous genes, but also selected and confirmed several genes associated with heat tolerance in Z. mobilis, which provided a guidance on identifying candidate genes associated with phenotypic improvement through systems biology strategy and genetics studies for other microorganisms.
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BACKGROUND: To explore possible associations between polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) exposure and patients with abnormal thyroid hormone levels whose thyroid function parameters are above normal ranges. METHODS: The serum of 40 patients with thyroid hormone abnormalities was collected in Kunming. triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4), free triiodothyronine (FT3), free thyroxine (FT4), and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) were detected in serum using chemiluminescence. The PBDE homologs in the patients' serum were quantitatively analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. If the detection frequency of the compound exceeded 50%, it was included in the analysis. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression were used to evaluate the correlation between PBDE homologs and five thyroid function parameters. RESULTS: A total of 33 PBDE homologs were detected, 7 of which had a more than 50% detection rate. BDE-47 was the main homolog detected. Spearman's correlation showed that no relationship was found between PBDE homologs and thyroid hormones. Multiple linear regression showed that BDE-153 was positively correlated with T4, negatively correlated with T3, while BDE-47 was negatively correlated with FT4 (P<0.05). The correlation between other PBDE homologs and thyroid function parameters was weak (P>0.05). The ß coefficient showed that the increase in the logarithmic unit of ∑7PBDEs was related to an increase in FT4 and T4 levels and decreased TSH, T3, and FT3 levels. CONCLUSIONS: There is a significant correlation between exposure to PBDE and thyroid dysfunction. The increase of total PBDEs was significantly correlated with the increase of FT4 and T4 levels and decreased TSH, T3, and FT3 levels.
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Éteres Difenilos Halogenados , Glándula Tiroides , Humanos , Proyectos Piloto , Tiroxina , TriyodotironinaRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Efficient use of glucose and xylose is a key for the economic production of lignocellulosic biofuels and biochemicals, and different recombinant strains have been constructed for xylose utilization including those using Zymomonas mobilis as the host. However, the xylose utilization efficiency still needs to be improved. In this work, the strategy of combining metabolic engineering and adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) was employed to develop recombinant Z. mobilis strains that can utilize xylose efficiently at high concentrations, and NGS-based genome resequencing and RNA-Seq transcriptomics were performed for strains evolved after serial transfers in different media to understand the impact of xylose and differences among strains with different xylose-utilization capabilities at molecular level. RESULTS: Heterologous genes encoding xylose isomerase and xylulokinase were evaluated, which were then introduced into xylose-utilizing strain Z. mobilis 8b to enhance its capacity of xylose utilization. The results demonstrated that the effect of three xylose isomerases on xylose utilization was different, and the increase of copy number of xylose metabolism genes can improve xylose utilization. Among various recombinant strains constructed, the xylose utilization capacity of the recombinant strain 8b-RsXI-xylB was the best, which was further improved through continuous adaption with 38 transfers over 100 days in 50 g/L xylose media. The fermentation performances of the parental strain 8b, the evolved 8b-S38 strain with the best xylose utilization capability, and the intermediate strain 8b-S8 in different media were compared, and the results showed that only 8b-S38 could completely consume xylose at 50 g/L and 100 g/L concentrations. In addition, the xylose consumption rate of 8b-S38 was faster than that of 8b at different xylose concentrations from 50 to 150 g/L, and the ethanol yield increased by 16 ~ 40%, respectively. The results of the mixed-sugar fermentation also demonstrated that 8b-S38 had a higher xylose consumption rate than 8b, and its maximum ethanol productivity was 1.2 ~ 1.4 times higher than that of 8b and 8b-S8. Whole-genome resequencing identified three common genetic changes in 8b-S38 compared with 8b and 8b-S8. RNA-Seq study demonstrated that the expression levels of genes encoding chaperone proteins, ATP-dependent proteases, phage shock proteins, ribosomal proteins, flagellar operons, and transcriptional regulators were significantly increased in xylose media in 8b-S38. The up-regulated expression of these genes may therefore contribute to the efficient xylose utilization of 8b-S38 by maintaining the normal cell metabolism and growth, repairing cellular damages, and rebalancing cellular energy to help cells resist the stressful environment. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides gene candidates to improve xylose utilization, and the result of expressing an extra copy of xylose isomerase and xylulokinase improved xylose utilization also provides a direction for efficient xylose-utilization strain development in other microorganisms. In addition, this study demonstrated the necessity to combine metabolic engineering and ALE for industrial strain development. The recombinant strain 8b-S38 can efficiently metabolize xylose for ethanol fermentation at high xylose concentrations as well as in mixed sugars of glucose and xylose, which could be further developed as the microbial biocatalyst for the production of lignocellulosic biofuels and biochemicals.
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The development and implement of microbial chassis cells can provide excellent cell factories for diverse industrial applications, which help achieve the goal of environmental protection and sustainable bioeconomy. The synthetic biology strategy of Design-Build-Test-Learn (DBTL) plays a crucial role on rational and/or semi-rational construction or modification of chassis cells to achieve the goals of "Building to Understand" and "Building for Applications". In this review, we briefly comment on the technical development of the DBTL cycle and the research progress of a few model microorganisms. We mainly focuse on non-model bacterial cell factories with potential industrial applications, which possess unique physiological and biochemical characteristics, capabilities of utilizing one-carbon compounds or of producing platform compounds efficiently. We also propose strategies for the efficient and effective construction and application of synthetic microbial cell factories securely in the synthetic biology era, which are to discover and integrate the advantages of model and non-model industrial microorganisms, to develop and deploy intelligent automated equipment for cost-effective high-throughput screening and characterization of chassis cells as well as big-data platforms for storing, retrieving, analyzing, simulating, integrating, and visualizing omics datasets at both molecular and phenotypic levels, so that we can build both high-quality digital cell models and optimized chassis cells to guide the rational design and construction of microbial cell factories for diverse industrial applications.
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Ingeniería Metabólica , Biología Sintética , Bacterias/genéticaRESUMEN
Although rational design-based metabolic engineering has been applied widely to obtain promising microbial biocatalysts, conventional strategies such as adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) and mutagenesis are still efficient approaches to improve microorganisms for exceptional features such as a broad spectrum of substrate utilization, robustness of cell growth, as well as high titer, yield, and productivity of the target products. In this chapter, we describe the procedure to generate mutant strains with desired phenotypes using ALE and a new mutagenesis approach of Atmosphere and Room Temperature Plasma (ARTP). In addition, we discuss the methodology to combine next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based genome-resequencing and RNA-Seq transcriptomics approaches to characterize the mutant strains and connect the phenotypes with their corresponding genotypic changes.