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A directed genome evolution method to enhance hydrogen production in Rhodobacter capsulatus

dc.contributor.authorBarahona, Emma
dc.contributor.authorSan Isidro, Elisa
dc.contributor.authorSierra-Heras, Laura
dc.contributor.authorÁlvarez-Melcón, Inés
dc.contributor.authorBuesa, Jose María
dc.contributor.authorJiménez-Vicente, Emilio
dc.contributor.authorImperial, Juan
dc.contributor.authorRubio, Luis Manuel
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-26T20:54:54Z
dc.date.available2023-12-26T20:54:54Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-24
dc.identifier.issn1664-302X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10115/27917
dc.descriptionLa beca de inicio del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) con el número 205442 financió la generación de cepas de sensores de hidrógeno. La "Fundación Iberdrola Ayudas a la Investigación en Energía y Medio Ambiente 2018" financió el secuenciamiento de ADN. La beca de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid con el número RP160050022 financió el resto del trabajo.es
dc.description.abstractNitrogenase-dependent H2 production by photosynthetic bacteria, such as Rhodobacter capsulatus, has been extensively investigated. An important limitation to increase H2 production using genetic manipulation is the scarcity of high-throughput screening methods to detect possible overproducing mutants. Previously, we engineered R. capsulatus strains that emitted fluorescence in response to H2 and used them to identify mutations in the nitrogenase Fe protein leading to H2 overproduction. Here, we used ultraviolet light to induce random mutations in the genome of the engineered H2- sensing strain, and fluorescent-activated cell sorting to detect and isolate the H2-overproducing cells from libraries containing 5 × 105 mutants. Three rounds of mutagenesis and strain selection gradually increased H2 production up to 3-fold. The whole genomes of five H2 overproducing strains were sequenced and compared to that of the parental sensor strain to determine the basis for H2 overproduction. No mutations were present in well-characterized functions related to nitrogen fixation, except for the transcriptional activator nifA2. However, several mutations mapped to energy-generating systems and to carbon metabolism-related functions, which could feed reducing power or ATP to nitrogenase. Time-course experiments of nitrogenase depression in batch cultures exposed mismatches between nitrogenase protein levels and their H2 and ethylene production activities that suggested energy limitation. Consistently, cultivating in a chemostat produced up to 19-fold more H2 than the corresponding batch cultures, revealing the potential of selected H2 overproducing strains.es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaes
dc.rightsAtribución 4.0 Internacional*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectnitrogenasees
dc.subjectflow cytometryes
dc.subjecthydrogenasees
dc.subjectbiological hydrogen productiones
dc.subjecthupAes
dc.subjectmutagenesises
dc.titleA directed genome evolution method to enhance hydrogen production in Rhodobacter capsulatuses
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fmicb.2022.991123es
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses


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