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エシェリキア・コロイにおけるCO2からの糖合成
Niv Antonovsky1, Shmuel Gleizer1, Elad Noor1
1Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Cell
|June 28, 2016
まとめ
科学者は,E.コライを非本来のカルビン・ベンソン・バッシューム (CBB) サイクルを使って二酸化炭素を固定するように設計した. この代謝再配線により 細菌はCO2からバイオマスの前駆物質を合成し 合成生物学の進歩の道を開きます
科学分野:
- 合成生物学
- メタボリック・エンジニアリング
- 微生物バイオテクノロジー
背景:
- ヘテロトロフ生物は通常,二酸化炭素 (CO2) から直接バイオマスを合成することはできません.
- 微生物における非本来の炭素固定経路の確立は大きな課題です
- Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) 循環は,オートロフにおけるCO2吸収の主なメカニズムである.
研究 の 目的:
- CO2からバイオマスの前体を作るために ヘテロトロフな有機体であるE.コライを設計する.
- 炭素固定のための非ネイティブCBBサイクルを実装する可能性を調査する.
- 微生物の代謝におけるトロフィックモードの進化の可能性を調査する.
主な方法:
- E. コライの合理的な代謝の再編成
- 非原生CBBサイクルの再結合表現
- 研究室での人工E・コライ菌株の進化
- 重要な変異を特定するために ゲノム配列を解析する
主要な成果:
- E. coliにおける機能的な非原生CBBサイクルを成功裏に確立した.
- エンジニアリングされたバクテリアはCO2から糖類や他のバイオマス成分を合成した.
- 炭素固定は有機化合物 (例えばピルベート) の酸化と結合し,エネルギーと還元力を獲得した.
- 流動分岐点の変異は,観察された表型にとって決定的なものであると特定された.
結論:
- 異性細菌における非本来の炭素固定経路の進化を成功裏に実証した.
- 微生物の代謝の急速なトロフィックモードの進化の可能性を強調した.
- バイオテクノロジーの直接的なCO2利用のための微生物の設計に向けた重要な一歩を示した.
- 純炭素増加は達成されなかったが,この研究は将来の進歩のための基盤を提供している.
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