Metabolome Analysis of Constituents in Membrane Vesicles for Clostridium thermocellum Growth Stimulation.

ABSTRACT: The cultivation of the cellulolytic bacterium, Clostridium thermocellum, can have cost-effective cellulosic biomass utilizations, such as consolidated bioprocessing, simultaneous biological enzyme production and saccharification. However, these processes require a longer cultivation term of approximately 1 week. We demonstrate that constituents of the C. thermocellum membrane vesicle fraction significantly promoted the growth rate of C. thermocellum. Similarly, cell-free Bacillus subtilis broth was able to increase C. thermocellum growth rate, while several B. subtilis single-gene deletion mutants, e.g., yxeJ, yxeH, ahpC, yxdK, iolF, decreased the growth stimulation ability. Metabolome analysis revealed signal compounds for cell-cell communication in the C. thermocellum membrane vesicle fr

SUBMITTER: Ichikawa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8002186 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature