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Functional identification of butanol-tolerant genes mediated by the transcriptional factor Rob in Escherichia coli

ABSTRACT: Butanol is a bulk chemical feedstock and a promising fuels. Microbial production of butanol is challenging primarily because of its toxicity and low titer of production. Transcript regulator factor Rob plays an important role in butanol-tolerant functional revealed by our previous study. In this study, the mutant strain DTrob (AT686-687 deletion in rob gene) could tolerate 1.25 %(v/v) butanol. And the per unit intracellular butanol concentration and transcriptome of wild-type and DTrob were further compared to understand the regulation mechanism of Rob for butanol tolerance. A total of 285 DEGs (differentially expression genes) were identified by bioinformatic analysis, and they may function in transport and localization according to the GO functional annotations and the functional annotation of gene product in NCBI database. Eighteen DEGs representing different functional categories were selected for real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) for confirming the dependability of RNA-seq data. The deletion strains of glgS or yibT gene, which were down-regulated by Rob, had butanol-toleranct characteristic, indicating that the deletion or downregulated expression of the two genes down-regulated by Rob could improve the butanol tolerance. This study reveals the transcript regulator factor Rob could regulate and control the expression of the butanol tolerant genes, and its inactivation would result in an improved butanol tolerance.

ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli

PROVIDER: GSE120032 | GEO | 2019/09/17

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Functional identification of butanol-tolerant genes mediated by the transcriptional factor Rob in Escherichia coli

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