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- Title
Functional Characterization of Transporters for L-Aspartate in Bacillus licheniformis.
- Authors
Wang, Hanrong; Li, Youran; Xiao, Fengxu; Zhang, Yupeng; Shi, Guiyang; Zhang, Liang; Xu, Sha; Ding, Zhongyang; Gu, Zhenghua
- Abstract
Amino acid efflux and influx transport systems play vital roles in industrial microorganisms' cell growth and metabolism. However, although biochemically characterized, most of them remain unknown at the molecular level in Bacillus licheniformis. In this study, three proteins, namely, YdgF, YvbW, and YveA, were predicted to be involved in the active transport of L-aspartate (L-Asp). This was verified by manipulating their encoding genes. When growing in the minimal medium with L-Asp as the only carbon and nitrogen source, the growth of strains lacking proteins YdgF, YvbW, and YveA was significantly inhibited compared with the wild-type strains, while supplementing the expression of the corresponding proteins in the single-gene knockout strains could alleviate the inhibition. Upon overexpression, the recombinant proteins mediated the accumulation of L-aspartate to varying degrees. Compared with the wild-type strains, the single knockout strains of the three protein genes exhibited reduced absorption of L-aspartate. In addition, this study focused on the effects of these three proteins on the absorption of β-alanine, L-glutamate, D-serine, D-alanine, and glycine.
- Subjects
BACILLUS licheniformis; RECOMBINANT proteins; BIOLOGICAL transport; CELL metabolism; PROTEIN expression
- Publication
Fermentation (Basel), 2022, Vol 8, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
2311-5637
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/fermentation8010022