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Metabolic response of Clostridium ljungdahlii to oxygen exposure

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Whitham, Jason M., Tirado-Acevedo, Oscar, Chinn, Mari S., Pawlak, Joel J., Grunden, Amy M.·2015·Applied and Environmental Microbiology

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Clostridium ljungdahlii is an important synthesis gas-fermenting bacterium used in the biofuels industry, and a preliminary investigation showed that it has some tolerance to oxygen when cultured in rich mixotrophic medium. Batch cultures not only continue to grow and consume H2, CO, and fructose after 8% O2 exposure, but fermentation product analysis revealed an increase in ethanol concentration and decreased acetate concentration compared to non-oxygen-exposed cultures. In this study, the mechanisms for higher ethanol production and oxygen/reactive oxygen species (ROS) detoxification were identified using a combination of fermentation, transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) differential expression, and enzyme activity analyses. The results indicate that the higher ethanol and lower acetate concentrations were due to the carboxylic acid reductase activity of a more highly expressed predicted aldehyde oxidoreductase (CLJU_c24130) and that C. ljungdahlii's primary defense upon oxygen exposure is a predicted rubrerythrin (CLJU_c39340). The metabolic responses of higher ethanol production and oxygen/ROS detoxification were found to be linked by cofactor management and substrate and energy metabolism. This study contributes new insights into the physiology and metabolism of C. ljungdahlii and provides new genetic targets to generate C. ljungdahlii strains that produce more ethanol and are more tolerant to syngas contaminants.

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Authors
Whitham, J. M., Tirado-Acevedo, O., Chinn, M. S., Pawlak, J. J., & Grunden, A. M.
Affiliations
North Carolina State University (US)
Venue
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Published
2015-12-15
Volume
81
Issue
24
Pages
8379-8391
ISSN
  • 0099-2240 (ISSN-L)
  • 1098-5336
OpenAlex
W2288696301
Cited by
47
References
111
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FWCI
2.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
Keywords
Clostridium ljungdahlii, oxygen tolerance, reactive oxygen species scavenging, ethanol production, acetate production, carboxylic acid reductase, aldehyde oxidoreductase, rubrerythrin, energy metabolism, syngas fermentation, transcriptome, strain engineering
MeSH terms
Acetates, Ethanol, Aldehyde Oxidoreductases, Base Sequence, Carbon Dioxide, Clostridium, DNA, Bacterial, Energy Metabolism, Fermentation, Molecular Sequence Data, Oxidation-Reduction, Oxidoreductases, Oxygen, Gene Expression, Sequence Alignment, Reactive Oxygen Species, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Bioreactors, Biofuels

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