发布: 2018年05月05日第8卷第9期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2826 浏览次数: 6465
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Abstract
Cyanobacteria, which have the extraordinary ability to grow using sunlight and carbon dioxide, are emerging as a green host to produce value-added products. Exploitation of this highly promising host to make products may depend on the ability to modulate the glucose metabolic pathway; it is the key metabolic pathway that generates intermediates that feed many industrially important pathways. Thus, before cyanobacteria can be considered as a leading source to produce value-added products, we must understand the interaction between glucose metabolism and other important cellular activities such as photosynthesis and chlorophyll metabolism. Here we describe reproducible and reliable methods for measuring extracellular glucose and glycogen levels from cyanobacteria.
Keywords: Extracellular glucose (胞外葡萄糖)Background
Cyanobacteria have a light-dark cycle in their natural habitat. In the light, their metabolism is centered on photosynthesis, the Calvin cycle, glycolysis and the TCA cycle with N-assimilation; carbon is stored as glycogen. In the dark, glycogen is metabolized through glycolysis and the oxidative pentose phosphate (OPP) pathway, the oxidative and reductive branches of the TCA cycle, and the C4 cycle (Nagarajan et al., 2014). Thus, the shift from dark to light or light to dark drives metabolic reprogramming.
In the laboratory, the addition of glucose to the culture media also impacts cyanobacteria metabolic programs. For example, nutritional and environmental conditions influence how the cyanobacterium Synechocystis metabolizes glucose; Synechocystis metabolizes glucose differently in photoautotrophic, heterotrophic and mixotrophic conditions. Previous studies reported that some strains of Synechocystis are light-dependent and glucose tolerant (Anderson and McIntosh, 1991). Light-activated heterotrophic growth (LAHG) conditions are characterized by the presence of glucose and growth in the dark with a pulse of white or blue light for at least 5-15 min per day. However, some strains of Synechocystis are glucose intolerant, meaning that they cannot grow in the presence of glucose in the dark. In summary, the addition of glucose to the culture media of Synechocystis has been reported to bring physiological and metabolic changes such as pigmentation (Ryu et al., 2004), carbon metabolism (Lee et al., 2007; Takahashi et al., 2008), phosphorylation patterns (Bloye et al., 1992), carbon dioxide uptake (Kaplan and Reinhold, 1999), and oxidative stress generation (Narainsamy et al., 2013).
To identify the utility of cyanobacteria to produce natural product, growing cyanobacteria in large-scale is a prerequisite. For growing cyanobacteria efficiently, it’s important to characterize the direct impact of common environmental factors such as light and temperature on glucose metabolism. Here, we present an accurate, reproducible, and reliable method to quantify extracellular glucose and glycogen levels of cyanobacteria, we belelive that this method will help determine the utility of cyanobacteria as a source for engineering natural products.
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Khan, M. R. I., Wang, Y., Afrin, S., He, L. and Ma, G. (2018). Glycogen and Extracellular Glucose Estimation from Cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Bio-protocol 8(9): e2826. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2826.
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微生物学 > 微生物生物化学 > 糖类
生物化学 > 糖类 > 糖原
生物化学 > 糖类 > 多糖
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