Introduction
引言从自然微生物群落出发,说明微生物通过营养物和信号交换形成分工。作者指出复杂生物材料降解和生物膜稳健性都体现了群落相对于单一物种的优势。文章由此引出合成群落:用更可控的工程依赖关系复制或简化自然分工。
这篇综述关注一个核心问题:当单一工程菌株承担复杂底物转化或多步小分子生物合成时,能否通过合成微生物群落把代谢负担拆分到多个成员中。作者用生态互作、底物可及性和通路模块化来解释为什么共培养可能比单菌更灵活。文章同时追问:这些概念验证如何走向稳定、可放大、可商业化的生产过程。
| 题名 | Synthetic microbial consortia for small molecule production |
| 作者 | Elvira Sgobba and Volker F Wendisch |
| 期刊/年份 | Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2020, 62:72–79; available online 15th October 2019 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.copbio.2019.09.011 |
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这篇综述关注一个核心问题:当单一工程菌株承担复杂底物转化或多步小分子生物合成时,能否通过合成微生物群落把代谢负担拆分到多个成员中。作者用生态互作、底物可及性和通路模块化来解释为什么共培养可能比单菌更灵活。文章同时追问:这些概念验证如何走向稳定、可放大、可商业化的生产过程。
引言从自然微生物群落出发,说明微生物通过营养物和信号交换形成分工。作者指出复杂生物材料降解和生物膜稳健性都体现了群落相对于单一物种的优势。文章由此引出合成群落:用更可控的工程依赖关系复制或简化自然分工。
本节回顾自然群落在发酵食品、废水处理和农业中的长期应用,同时指出这类黑箱体系的组成和维持原则并不完全清楚。自然群落能转化复杂底物,但也可能产生副产物而降低总得率。作者借此说明定义清晰的合成群落为何具有工程价值。
本节讨论合成群落如何处理复杂或波动的可再生原料。作者指出,当原料组成随季节变化时,将底物转化和产物形成分给不同工程菌株可能更灵活。文中重点介绍了C. glutamicum与E. coli的淀粉/蔗糖体系,以及木质纤维素、甘蔗渣等底物相关例子。
本节说明复杂代谢通路可被拆成多个模块,由多个菌株分别承担。拆分依据包括供体宿主中的通路演化、转运蛋白可用性、NADPH或ATP需求、以及中间体耐受性。作者用花青素、迷迭香酸和其他小分子例子说明线性、三元、四元及汇聚式设计。
作者把性能、稳定性和生长条件适应性列为群落应用的重要挑战。调整菌株比例可提升特定产物滴度,适应性实验室进化也可能改善互利、偏利或耐酸等性状。但这些策略仍需与生产指标和群落稳定性共同优化。
结论指出,代谢工程把传统共培养概念推进到新的水平,已经实现底物转化/生产分工以及复杂线性或汇聚通路拆分。然而,现有证明多在实验室尺度。未来需要微生物营养/培养/代谢数据库、低成本互作分析、长期保存方法、菌株开发和过程控制策略。
图示信息:Figure 1 Product Microbe II Intermediate Microbe I Substrate Microbe III + (a) (b) Effect Ecological Metabolic Application No interaction No common metabolities Amensalism Waste product inhibition Competition Substrate competition Predation Food chain with waste product inhibition 0/0 0/- -/- +/- 0/+ +/+ Commensalism Food chain Cooperation Mutualism or cross-feeding Current Opinion in Biotechnology (a) Schematic representation of basic motifs of metabolite-based microbial interactions (adapted from Grosskopf and Soyer 2014). with positive (+), negative () or neutral (0) interactions: no interaction (0/0), amensalism (0/) for inhibition of a subpopulation by a waste product of another subpopulation, competition (/) for a common nutrient required by both microbial subpopulations, predation/parasitism (+/) as in linear food chains with inhibition of the first subpopulation by a waste product of the second subpopulation, commensalism (0/+) in linear food chains, and mutualism/cooperation (+/+) as in syntrophic linear food chains. Microorganisms (squares) and metabolites (circles) and stimulating (pointed arrows) and inhibitory (blunt arrows) interactions are depicted. (b) Schemati
论文结果 / 观点:该图把群落互作落实到代谢物、电子或营养物交换,是理解共培养功能涌现的关键证据。
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图示信息:Figure 2 C. glutamicum (α-amylase-negative, L-lysine overproducing) E. coli (α-amylase secreting, L-lysine auxotrophic) Starch Glucose L-lysine L-lysine cadaverine L-pipecolic acid 5μm 5μm 5μm Co-culture for L-lysine production Co-culture for L-pipecolic acid production Co-culture for cadaverine production Current Opinion in Biotechnology Division of labor between substrate conversion (starch hydrolysis) and production (L-lysine, cadaverine and L-pipecolic acid from glucose) in three different synthetic mutualistic E. coli–C. glutamicum consortia (adapted from Sgobba et al. [20]). The fluorescence microscopy pictures showed three E. coli–C. glutamicum consortia in which C. glutamicum cells express the red fluorescence protein Crimson, and E. coli cells express green GfpUV. Each consortium was designed to produce either L-lysine, L- pipecolic acid or cadaverine. www.sciencedirect.com Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2020, 62:72–79
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图示信息:Figure 3 Malonate Glucose, glycerol, xylose Flavanones Flavan-3-ols Anthocyanins Phenylpropanoic acids E. coli converting phenylpropanoic acids and malonate to flavonones E. coli converting flavanones to flavan-3-ols E. coli converting flavan-3-ols to anthocyanins glucose, glycerol and xylose utilizing E. coli producing phenylpropanoic acids Current Opinion in Biotechnology A linear biosynthetic pathway divided over four E. coli strains in a synthetic polyculture (adapted from Jones et al. [36]). The consortium consisted of a strain (brown) producing phenylpropanoic acids from a blend of glucose, xylose, and gylcerol, a strain (red) converting malonate into flavanone, a strain (blue) converting flavanones into flavan-3-ols and a strain (green) converting flavan-3 -ols to anthocyanins. www.sciencedirect.com Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2020, 62:72–79
论文结果 / 观点:该图支撑正文关于合成菌群设计、构建、验证或应用边界的核心论证。
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图示信息:Figure 4 Glucose Xylose Caffeic acid Salvianic acid A Rosmarinic acid Glucose-negative E.coli producing salvianic acid A Xylose-negative E. coli converting caffeic acid and salvianic acid A to rosmarinic acid Glucose-negative E.coli producing caffeic acid Current Opinion in Biotechnology A biosynthetic pathway with two converging branches divided over three E. coli strains in a synthetic polyculture (adapted from Li et al. [37]). The consortium consisted of a strain (blue) producing caffeic acid from xylose, a strain (brown) producing salvianic acid A from xylose and a strain (green) growing in glucose and converting caffeic acid and salvianic acid A into rosmarinic acid. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2020, 62:72–79 www.sciencedirect.com
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