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Analysis of ethanologenic E.coli strain GLBRCE1 during fermentation of alkaline-pretreated corn stover hydrolysate

ABSTRACT: The physiology of ethanologenic Escherichia coli grown anaerobically in alkaline-pretreated plant hydrolysates is not well studied. To gain insight into how E. coli responds to such hydrolysates, we studied an E. coli K-12 ethanologen fermenting a hydrolysate prepared from corn stover pre-treated by ammonia fiber expansion. Despite the high sugar content (~6% glucose, 3% xylose) and relatively low toxicity of this hydrolysate, E. coli ceased growth long before glucose was depleted. Nevertheless, the cells remained metabolically active and continued conversion of glucose to ethanol until all glucose was consumed. Gene expression profiling revealed complex and changing patterns of metabolic physiology and cellular stress responses throughout the different stages of growth. During the exponential and transition phases of growth, high cell maintenance and stress response costs were mitigated, in part, by free amino acids available in the hydrolysate media. However, after the majority of amino acids were depleted from the media cells entered stationary phase and ATP derived from glucose fermentation was consumed entirely by the demands of cell maintenance in the hydrolysate. Comparative gene expression profiling and metabolic modeling of the ethanologen suggested that the high energetic cost of mitigating osmotic, lignotoxin and ethanol stress collectively limits growth, sugar utilization rates and ethanol yields in alkaline-pretreated lignocellulosic hydrolysates. 38 samples in total. 24 samples were derived from biological replicate fermentations of alkaline-pretreated cornstover hydrolysate (12 datapoint time-series per fermentation). The remaining samples were obtained from fermentations conducted in defined media (Glucose Minimal Media (GMM, n=7), Synthetic Hydrolysate media (SynH, n=7)).

ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli

SUBMITTER: Michael Schwalbach

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-35049 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Complex physiology and compound stress responses during fermentation of alkali-pretreated corn stover hydrolysate by an Escherichia coli ethanologen.

Schwalbach Michael S MS Keating David H DH Tremaine Mary M Marner Wesley D WD Zhang Yaoping Y Bothfeld William W Higbee Alan A Grass Jeffrey A JA Cotten Cameron C Reed Jennifer L JL da Costa Sousa Leonardo L Jin Mingjie M Balan Venkatesh V Ellinger James J Dale Bruce B Kiley Patricia J PJ Landick Robert R

Applied and environmental microbiology 20120302 9

The physiology of ethanologenic Escherichia coli grown anaerobically in alkali-pretreated plant hydrolysates is complex and not well studied. To gain insight into how E. coli responds to such hydrolysates, we studied an E. coli K-12 ethanologen fermenting a hydrolysate prepared from corn stover pretreated by ammonia fiber expansion. Despite the high sugar content (∼6% glucose, 3% xylose) and relatively low toxicity of this hydrolysate, E. coli ceased growth long before glucose was depleted. Neve ...[more]

PMID: 22389370

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Analysis of ethanologenic E.coli strain GLBRCE1 during fermentation of alkaline-pretreated corn stover hydrolysate

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Complex physiology and compound stress responses during fermentation of alkali-pretreated corn stover hydrolysate by an Escherichia coli ethanologen.

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