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Engineering Geobacillus thermodenitrificans to introduce cellulolytic activity; expression of native and heterologous cellulase genes.
Daas, Martinus J A; Nijsse, Bart; van de Weijer, Antonius H P; Groenendaal, Bart W A J; Janssen, Fons; van der Oost, John; van Kranenburg, Richard.
Afiliação
  • Daas MJA; Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, 6708, WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  • Nijsse B; Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, 6708, WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  • van de Weijer AHP; Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, 6708, WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  • Groenendaal BWAJ; Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, 6708, WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  • Janssen F; Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, 6708, WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  • van der Oost J; Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, 6708, WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  • van Kranenburg R; Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, 6708, WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands. richard.vankranenburg@wur.nl.
BMC Biotechnol ; 18(1): 42, 2018 06 27.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29945583
ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:

Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) is a cost-effective approach for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels and biochemicals. The enzymatic conversion of cellulose to glucose requires the synergistic action of three types of enzymes exoglucanases, endoglucanases and ß-glucosidases. The thermophilic, hemicellulolytic Geobacillus thermodenitrificans T12 was shown to harbor desired features for CBP, although it lacks the desired endo and exoglucanases required for the conversion of cellulose. Here, we report the expression of both endoglucanase and exoglucanase encoding genes by G. thermodenitrificans T12, in an initial attempt to express cellulolytic enzymes that complement the enzymatic machinery of this strain.

RESULTS:

A metagenome screen was performed on 73 G. thermodenitrificans strains using HMM profiles of all known CAZy families that contain endo and/or exoglucanases. Two putative endoglucanases, GE39 and GE40, belonging to glucoside hydrolase family 5 (GH5) were isolated and expressed in both E. coli and G. thermodenitrificans T12. Structure modeling of GE39 revealed a folding similar to a GH5 exo-1,3-ß-glucanase from S. cerevisiae. However, we determined GE39 to be a ß-xylosidase having pronounced activity towards p-nitrophenyl-ß-D-xylopyranoside. Structure modelling of GE40 revealed its protein architecture to be similar to a GH5 endoglucanase from B. halodurans, and its endoglucanase activity was confirmed by enzymatic activity against 2-hydroxyethylcellulose, carboxymethylcellulose and barley ß-glucan. Additionally, we introduced expression constructs into T12 containing Geobacillus sp. 70PC53 endoglucanase gene celA and both endoglucanase genes (M1 and M2) from Geobacillus sp. WSUCF1. Finally, we introduced expression constructs into T12 containing the C. thermocellum exoglucanases celK and celS genes and the endoglucanase celC gene.

CONCLUSIONS:

We identified a novel G. thermodenitrificans ß-xylosidase (GE39) and a novel endoglucanase (GE40) using a metagenome screen based on multiple HMM profiles. We successfully expressed both genes in E. coli and functionally expressed the GE40 endoglucanase in G. thermodenitrificans T12. Additionally, the heterologous production of active CelK, a C. thermocellum derived exoglucanase, and CelA, a Geobacillus derived endoglucanase, was demonstrated with strain T12. The native hemicellulolytic activity and the heterologous cellulolytic activity described in this research provide a good basis for the further development of G. thermodenitrificans T12 as a host for consolidated bioprocessing.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Xilosidases / Celulase / Escherichia coli / Geobacillus Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2018 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Xilosidases / Celulase / Escherichia coli / Geobacillus Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2018 Tipo de documento: Article