期刊
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
卷 113, 期 5, 页码 979-988出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25862
关键词
hydrogen; fermentation; nitrate reductase; reducing equivalent; Synechococcus 7002
资金
- US Department of Energy [DOE-EERE, DE-EE0003373]
- AFSOR [FA9550-11-1-0231]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1021725] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1613022] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
To produce cellular energy, cyanobacteria reduce nitrate as the preferred pathway over proton reduction (H-2 evolution) by catabolizing glycogen under dark anaerobic conditions. This competition lowers H-2 production by consuming a large fraction of the reducing equivalents (NADPH and NADH). To eliminate this competition, we constructed a knockout mutant of nitrate reductase, encoded by narB, in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002. As expected, narB was able to take up intracellular nitrate but was unable to reduce it to nitrite or ammonia, and was unable to grow photoautotrophically on nitrate. During photoautotrophic growth on urea, narB significantly redirects biomass accumulation into glycogen at the expense of protein accumulation. During subsequent dark fermentation, metabolite concentrationsboth the adenylate cellular energy charge (approximate to ATP) and the redox poise (NAD(P)H/NAD(P))were independent of nitrate availability in narB, in contrast to the wild type (WT) control. The narB strain diverted more reducing equivalents from glycogen catabolism into reduced products, mainly H-2 and d-lactate, by 6-fold (2.8% yield) and 2-fold (82.3% yield), respectively, than WT. Continuous removal of H-2 from the fermentation medium (milking) further boosted net H-2 production by 7-fold in narB, at the expense of less excreted lactate, resulting in a 49-fold combined increase in the net H-2 evolution rate during 2 days of fermentation compared to the WT. The absence of nitrate reductase eliminated the inductive effect of nitrate addition on rerouting carbohydrate catabolism from glycolysis to the oxidative pentose phosphate (OPP) pathway, indicating that intracellular redox poise and not nitrate itself acts as the control switch for carbon flux branching between pathways. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2016;113: 979-988. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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