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- Title
Deletion of Rap-phosphatases for quorum sensing control in Bacillus and its effect on surfactin production.
- Authors
Treinen, Chantal; Biermann, Lennart; Vahidinasab, Maliheh; Heravi, Kambiz Morabbi; Lilge, Lars; Hausmann, Rudolf; Henkel, Marius
- Abstract
The complex regulatory network in Bacillus, known as quorum sensing, offers many opportunities to modify bacterial gene expression and hence to control bioprocesses. One target regulated by this mechanism is the activity of the PsrfA promoter, which is engaged in the formation of lipopeptide surfactin. It was hypothesised that deletion of rapC, rapF and rapH, encoding for prominent Rap-phosphatases known to affect PsrfA activity, would enhance surfactin production. Therefore, these genes were deleted in a sfp+ derivative of B. subtilis 168 with subsequent evaluation of quantitative data. Up to the maximum product formation of the reference strain B. subtilis KM1016 after 16 h of cultivation, the titers of the rap deletion mutants did not exceed the reference. However, an increase in both product yield per biomass YP/X and specific surfactin productivity qsurfactin was observed, without any considerable effect on the ComX activity. By extending the cultivation time, a 2.7-fold increase in surfactin titer was observed after 24 h for strain CT10 (ΔrapC) and a 2.5-fold increase for CT11 (ΔrapF) compared to the reference strain KM1016. In addition, YP/X was again increased for strains CT10 and CT11, with values of 1.33 g/g and 1.13 g/g, respectively. Interestingly, the effect on surfactin titer in strain CT12 (ΔrapH) was not as distinct, although it achieved the highest promoter activity (PsrfA-lacZ). The data presented support the possibility of involving the quorum sensing system of Bacillus in bioprocess control as shown here on the example of lipopeptide production.
- Subjects
SURFACTIN; BACILLUS (Bacteria); QUORUM sensing; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL process control; BACTERIAL genes; GENE expression
- Publication
AMB Express, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2191-0855
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13568-023-01555-6