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- Title
Mining for novel cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferases unravels the carbohydrate metabolism pathway via cyclodextrins in Thermoanaerobacterales.
- Authors
Centeno-Leija, Sara; Espinosa-Barrera, Laura; Velazquez-Cruz, Beatriz; Cárdenas-Conejo, Yair; Virgen-Ortíz, Raúl; Valencia-Cruz, Georgina; Saenz, Roberto A.; Marín-Tovar, Yerli; Gómez-Manzo, Saúl; Hernández-Ochoa, Beatriz; Rocha-Ramirez, Luz María; Zataraín-Palacios, Rocío; Osuna-Castro, Juan A.; López-Munguía, Agustín; Serrano-Posada, Hugo
- Abstract
Carbohydrate metabolism via cyclodextrins (CM-CD) is an uncommon starch-converting pathway that thoroughly depends on extracellular cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferases (CGTases) to transform the surrounding starch substrate to α-(1,4)-linked oligosaccharides and cyclodextrins (CDs). The CM-CD pathway has emerged as a convenient microbial adaptation to thrive under extreme temperatures, as CDs are functional amphipathic toroids with higher heat-resistant values than linear dextrins. Nevertheless, although the CM-CD pathway has been described in a few mesophilic bacteria and archaea, it remains obscure in extremely thermophilic prokaryotes (Topt ≥ 70 °C). Here, a new monophyletic group of CGTases with an exceptional three-domain ABC architecture was detected by (meta)genome mining of extremely thermophilic Thermoanaerobacterales living in a wide variety of hot starch-poor environments on Earth. Functional studies of a representative member, CldA, showed a maximum activity in a thermoacidophilic range (pH 4.0 and 80 °C) with remarkable product diversification that yielded a mixture of α:β:γ-CDs (34:62:4) from soluble starch, as well as G3–G7 linear dextrins and fermentable sugars as the primary products. Together, comparative genomics and predictive functional analysis, combined with data of the functionally characterized key proteins of the gene clusters encoding CGTases, revealed the CM-CD pathway in Thermoanaerobacterales and showed that it is involved in the synthesis, transportation, degradation, and metabolic assimilation of CDs.
- Subjects
CARBOHYDRATE metabolism; DEXTRINS; MALTODEXTRIN; COMPARATIVE genomics; CYCLODEXTRINS; FUNCTIONAL genomics; DIVERSIFICATION in industry
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-021-04569-x