Comprehensive analysis of glucose and xylose metabolism in Escherichia coli under aerobic and anaerobic conditions by 13C metabolic flux analysis
Abstract
Glucose and xylose are the two most abundant sugars derived from the breakdown of lignocellulosic biomass. While aerobic glucose metabolism is relatively well understood in E. coli, until now there have been only a handful of studies focused on anaerobic glucose metabolism and no 13C-flux studies on xylose metabolism. In the absence of experimentally validated flux maps, constraint-based approaches such as MOMA and RELATCH cannot be used to guide new metabolic engineering designs. In this work, we have addressed this critical gap in current understanding by performing comprehensive characterizations of glucose and xylose metabolism under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, using recent state-of-the-art techniques in 13C metabolic flux analysis (13C-MFA). Specifically, we quantified precise metabolic fluxes for each condition by performing parallel labeling experiments and analyzing the data through integrated 13C-MFA using the optimal tracers [1,2-13C]glucose, [1,6-13C]glucose, [1,2-13C]xylose and [5-13C]xylose. We also quantified changes in biomass composition and confirmed turnover of macromolecules by applying [U-13C]glucose and [U-13C]xylose tracers. We demonstrate that under anaerobic growth conditions there is significant turnover of lipids and that a significant portion of CO2 originates from biomass turnover. Using knockout strains, we also demonstrate that β-oxidation is critical for anaerobic growth on xylose. Quantitative analysis of co-factormore »
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- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
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- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
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- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1463265
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- OSTI ID: 1397057
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- AR0000432
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- Metabolic Engineering
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- Journal Volume: 39; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1096-7176
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- Elsevier
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- United States
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- English
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- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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Gonzalez, Jacqueline E., Long, Christopher P., and Antoniewicz, Maciek R. Comprehensive analysis of glucose and xylose metabolism in Escherichia coli under aerobic and anaerobic conditions by 13C metabolic flux analysis. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.ymben.2016.11.003.
Gonzalez, Jacqueline E., Long, Christopher P., & Antoniewicz, Maciek R. Comprehensive analysis of glucose and xylose metabolism in Escherichia coli under aerobic and anaerobic conditions by 13C metabolic flux analysis. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2016.11.003
Gonzalez, Jacqueline E., Long, Christopher P., and Antoniewicz, Maciek R. Fri .
"Comprehensive analysis of glucose and xylose metabolism in Escherichia coli under aerobic and anaerobic conditions by 13C metabolic flux analysis". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2016.11.003. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1463265.
@article{osti_1463265,
title = {Comprehensive analysis of glucose and xylose metabolism in Escherichia coli under aerobic and anaerobic conditions by 13C metabolic flux analysis},
author = {Gonzalez, Jacqueline E. and Long, Christopher P. and Antoniewicz, Maciek R.},
abstractNote = {Glucose and xylose are the two most abundant sugars derived from the breakdown of lignocellulosic biomass. While aerobic glucose metabolism is relatively well understood in E. coli, until now there have been only a handful of studies focused on anaerobic glucose metabolism and no 13C-flux studies on xylose metabolism. In the absence of experimentally validated flux maps, constraint-based approaches such as MOMA and RELATCH cannot be used to guide new metabolic engineering designs. In this work, we have addressed this critical gap in current understanding by performing comprehensive characterizations of glucose and xylose metabolism under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, using recent state-of-the-art techniques in 13C metabolic flux analysis (13C-MFA). Specifically, we quantified precise metabolic fluxes for each condition by performing parallel labeling experiments and analyzing the data through integrated 13C-MFA using the optimal tracers [1,2-13C]glucose, [1,6-13C]glucose, [1,2-13C]xylose and [5-13C]xylose. We also quantified changes in biomass composition and confirmed turnover of macromolecules by applying [U-13C]glucose and [U-13C]xylose tracers. We demonstrate that under anaerobic growth conditions there is significant turnover of lipids and that a significant portion of CO2 originates from biomass turnover. Using knockout strains, we also demonstrate that β-oxidation is critical for anaerobic growth on xylose. Quantitative analysis of co-factor balances (NADH/FADH2, NADPH, and ATP) for different growth conditions provided new insights regarding the interplay of energy and redox metabolism and the impact on E. coli cell physiology.},
doi = {10.1016/j.ymben.2016.11.003},
journal = {Metabolic Engineering},
number = C,
volume = 39,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 11 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Nov 11 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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