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PHB production Regulation: PesaS-B0034-gltA-PesaRwt-B0034-PHBcab-PYU16-B0034-SRRz

PesaS-B0034-gltA-PesaRwt-B0034-PHBcab-PYU16-B0034-SRRz

Usage and Biology

Many production processes using microorganisms face the dilemma of conflicting production products and key metabolic pathways. This means that simply introducing product-synthesising genes into engineered bacteria can greatly affect the growth of the microorganism, leading to a situation where production is too low. There are a number of current solutions to this problem. For example, metabolic engineering can regulate metabolic flow using methods such as gene knockdown, promoter replacement, etc. These static strategies are effective for productivity improvement, but are not responsive to changes in the cell or environment. Dynamic control is a favourable solution for the conditional knockdown of essential genes and balances the flow in the metabolic pathway.

The pathway of PHB synthetsis is conflict with TCA cycle. Both TCA cycle and PHB production pathways use acetyl-coA as raw material, so if only the PHB production gene circuit is simply added to the engineered bacteria, the growth of the bacteria will be greatly affected, and the final result is low PHB production. Quorum sensing system can automatically sense cell density to regulate downstream genetic on/off. It is independent of metabolic pathways and do not need exogenous inducers, which make it a perfect tool to solve this problem. PHB are a form of carbon storage by bacteria. PHB products take up most of the space inside the cell, but will not be released from the cell. The method of mechanical crushing or chemical solvent extraction used in traditional industry is not only expensive, but also brings great pressure to the environment, so we hope to design an auto-lysis system with specific expression time.

This part is about PHB Production Regulation based on an three-layer dynamic regulation model. It dynamically regulate the PHB production by dividing the process into 3 phases: Growth Phase, Production Phase and Product-release Phase. In this way, the cell can firstly grow up and then put their all effort into PHB production. Finally, in the late stationary phase of cell growth, the enigneered bacteria can express lysis gene.

1. Three-layer Dynamic Regulation Model

2. The first and second layer--Growth and production control

Quorum Sensing is a way for cells to regulate downstream gene expression based on their own density. The concentration of the signaling molecule - AHL - secreted by the cell increases as the cell density increases. When the concentration of AHL reaches a certain level, it can bind to the corresponding binding protein and alter the expression of downstream genes.

In the first and second layer, this part using a QS-switch to regulate the flow of acetyl-coA. At the early stage of growth, using QS-switch turn on the TCA cycle and turn off the PHB production pathway, so that acetyl-coA flowed into the TCA cycle and the cells grew. When the cell grows to a certain extent, the TCA cycle is turned off, while the PHB production pathway is turned on, and the acetyl-coA flows to the PHB production pathway for PHB production.

4. The Third layer--Product-release control

In the third layer, this part uses a late stationary phase promoter and an lysis gene. The late stationary phase promoter is used to regulate the expressing time of the downstream gene. When the bacterial reach the stationary phase, the promoter will turn on and then the cell lysis.

Characterization

1. Protocols

2. The Characterization of PesaS and PesaRwt/PesaRc/PesaRp

3. The Characterization of PesaRwt/PesaRc/PesaRp and PYU3/PYU7/PYU16/PYU92

Summary of Results

Our part provides an example for future iGEM team

Limitations

Sequence and Features