Project description:Respiratory ATP-synthesis is at present the only known mechanism for ATP synthesis in Mtb. This makes Mtb particularly vulnerable to inhibition of respiratory ATP synthase inhibitors such as TMC207, a novel compound for treatment of tuberculosis. We now provide first evidence that Mtb possesses a pathway that is fermentative in nature that could compensate lack of respiratory ATP synthesis. We identified acetate as a fermentation product in Mtb. Production of acetate was mediated by phosphotransacetylase (Pta) and acetate kinase (AckA). In acetate fermenting Mtb cultures, ATP levels remained stable despite inhibition of respiratory ATP synthase. Deletion of the PtaAckA pathway in Mtb decreased ATP content and impaired survival. This study provides evidence that in Mtb substrate level phosphorylation can compensate lack of oxidative phosphorylation, and thus facilitates survival of Mtb in the absence of respiration. Acetate fermentation contributes to adaptation to respiration-limiting conditions, and plays an important role in the emerging field of fermentative metabolism of Mtb.
Project description:Background Lignocellulosic biomass is a promising renewable feedstock for biofuel production. Acetate is one of the major inhibitors liberated from hemicelluloses during hydrolysis. An understanding of the toxic effects of acetate on the fermentation microorganism and the efficient utilization of mixed sugars of glucose and xylose in the presence of hydrolysate inhibitors is crucial for economic biofuel production. Results A new microarray was designed including both coding sequences and intergenic regions to investigate the acetate stress responses of Zymomonas mobilis 8b when using single carbon sources of glucose or xylose, or mixed sugars of both glucose and xylose. With the supplementation of exogenous acetate, 8b can utilize all the glucose with a similar ethanol yield, although the growth, final biomass, and ethanol production rate were reduced. However, xylose utilization was inhibited in both media containing xylose or a mixed sugar of glucose and xylose, although the performance of 8b was better in mixed sugar than xylose-only media. The presence of acetate caused genes related to biosynthesis, the flagellar system, and glycolysis to be downregulated, and genes related to stress responses and energy metabolism to be upregulated. Unexpectedly, xylose seems to pose more stress on 8b, recruiting more genes for xylose utilization, than does acetate. Several gene candidates based on transcriptome results were selected for genetic manipulation, and a TonB-dependent receptor knockout mutant was confirmed to have a slight advantage regarding acetate tolerance. Conclusions Our results indicate Z. mobilis utilized a different mechanism for xylose utilization, with an even more severe impact on Z. mobilis than that caused by acetate treatment. Our study also suggests redox imbalance caused by stressful conditions may trigger a metabolic reaction leading to the accumulation of toxic intermediates such as xylitol, but Z. mobilis manages its carbon and energy metabolism through the control of individual reactions to mitigate the stressful conditions. We have thus provided extensive transcriptomic datasets and gained insights into the molecular responses of Z. mobilis to the inhibitor acetate when grown in different sugar sources, which will facilitate future metabolic modeling studies and strain improvement efforts for better xylose utilization and acetate tolerance.
Project description:Respiratory ATP-synthesis is at present the only known mechanism for ATP synthesis in Mtb. This makes Mtb particularly vulnerable to inhibition of respiratory ATP synthase inhibitors such as TMC207, a novel compound for treatment of tuberculosis. We now provide first evidence that Mtb possesses a pathway that is fermentative in nature that could compensate lack of respiratory ATP synthesis. We identified acetate as a fermentation product in Mtb. Production of acetate was mediated by phosphotransacetylase (Pta) and acetate kinase (AckA). In acetate fermenting Mtb cultures, ATP levels remained stable despite inhibition of respiratory ATP synthase. Deletion of the PtaAckA pathway in Mtb decreased ATP content and impaired survival. This study provides evidence that in Mtb substrate level phosphorylation can compensate lack of oxidative phosphorylation, and thus facilitates survival of Mtb in the absence of respiration. Acetate fermentation contributes to adaptation to respiration-limiting conditions, and plays an important role in the emerging field of fermentative metabolism of Mtb. We performed DNA microarray analysis to validate the reduction of oxygen concentration by comparing aerobic and hypoxic cultures. RNA was prepared from Mtb after two days of cultivation in aerobic and in hypoxic cultures. At each condition, Mtb were cultured in medium supplemented with glycerol and glucose. Labelled cDNA from three independent experiments was subjected to array analysis.
Project description:[1] Lactic acidosis time course: MCF7 cells were exposed to lactic acidosis for different length of time. We used microarrays to examine the genomic programs of cells incubated under lactic acidosis for different length of time [2] Metabolic profiling: MCF7 cells were exposed to control condition, 25mM lactic acidosis, glucose deprivation (zero glucose) and hypoxia (1% oxygen level). [3] Mouse study: Lactic acidosis triggers starvation response with paradoxical induction of TXNIP through MondoA. Wild-type mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) and TXNIP-null MEFs were exposed to Ctrl versus lactic acidosis conditions for 24hrs and the RNAs from cells were extracted with MiRVana kit (Ambion) and applied to Affymetrix 430A mouse chips We used microarrays to examine the genomic programs of cells incubated under different microenvironmental stresses. [1] Lactic acidosis time course: MCF7 cells were exposed to lactic acidosis for 1, 4, 12 and 24 hours. [2] Metabolic profiling: MCF7 cells were exposed to lactic acidosis, glucose deprivation and hypoxia for 4hours. [3] wild-type mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) and TXNIP-null MEFs were exposed to Ctrl versus lactic acidosis conditions for 24hrs.
Project description:[1] Lactic acidosis time course: MCF7 cells were exposed to lactic acidosis for different length of time. We used microarrays to examine the genomic programs of cells incubated under lactic acidosis for different length of time [2] Metabolic profiling: MCF7 cells were exposed to control condition, 25mM lactic acidosis, glucose deprivation (zero glucose) and hypoxia (1% oxygen level). [3] Mouse study: Lactic acidosis triggers starvation response with paradoxical induction of TXNIP through MondoA. Wild-type mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) and TXNIP-null MEFs were exposed to Ctrl versus lactic acidosis conditions for 24hrs and the RNAs from cells were extracted with MiRVana kit (Ambion) and applied to Affymetrix 430A mouse chips We used microarrays to examine the genomic programs of cells incubated under different microenvironmental stresses.
Project description:Four C. thermocellum DSM-1313 derived strains were assessed using metabolite and DNA microarray tools in order to better understand carbon and electron flow within this organism. C. thermocellum is able to ferment cellulose into its fermentation end products L-lactate, acetate, formate, hydrogen gas, and ethanol, with the latter being the desired end product to be used as biorenewable fuel. In addition to the parent strain (genotype: hpt spo0A), strains with either or both of the genes encoding lactate dehydrogenase (ldh) and phosphate acetyltransferase (pta) deleted were studied. The strains used are a parent strain (M1726: genotype: hpt spo0A), and strains with either the gene encoding lactate dehydrogenase (M1629: hpt spo0A ldh) or phosphate acetyltransferase (M1630: hpt spo0A pta) deleted, or with both genes deleted (M1725: hpt spo0A ldh pta). Controlled batch fermentations using cellobiose as sole carbon source were grown for each strain, and samples in mid-exponential phase and at the time of carbon depletion were examined by DNA microarray.
Project description:Metabolite accumulation has pleiotropic, including toxic, effects on cellular physiology, but such effects are not well understood at the genomic level. Using DNA microarrays, the Clostridium acetobutylicum transcriptional stress response to acetate was analyzed. Keywords: stress response
Project description:Human PdLFs (iCell Bioscience, China) were treated with 1µM, 10µM, and 100µM L-lactic acid (Sigma-Aldrich, Germany). Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) (ab120297, Abcam, UK) at 1µM was used as an inflammatory inducer, a positive control for the expression and synthesis of collagen and MMP-1. Untreated PdLFs were regarded as control. PdLFs were incubated at 37°C and 5% CO2 for 2 days and 6 days.