High activity CAZyme cassette for improving biomass degradation in thermophiles
Posted on 2018-02-01 - 05:00
Abstract Background Thermophilic microorganisms and their enzymes offer several advantages for industrial application over their mesophilic counterparts. For example, a hyperthermophilic anaerobe, Caldicellulosiruptor bescii, was recently isolated from hot springs in Kamchatka, Siberia, and shown to have very high cellulolytic activity. Additionally, it is one of a few microorganisms being considered as viable candidates for consolidated bioprocessing applications. Moreover, C. bescii is capable of deconstructing plant biomass without enzymatic or chemical pretreatment. This ability is accomplished by the production and secretion of free, multi-modular and multi-functional enzymes, one of which, CbCel9A/Cel48A also known as CelA, is able to outperform enzymes found in commercial enzyme preparations. Furthermore, the complete C. bescii exoproteome is extremely thermostable and highly active at elevated temperatures, unlike commercial fungal cellulases. Therefore, understanding the functional diversity of enzymes in the C. bescii exoproteome and how inter-molecular synergy between them confers C. bescii with its high cellulolytic activity is an important endeavor to enable the production of more efficient biomass degrading enzyme formulations and in turn, better cellulolytic industrial microorganisms. Results To advance the understanding of the C. bescii exoproteome we have expressed, purified, and tested four of the primary enzymes found in the exoproteome and we have found that the combination of three or four of the most highly expressed enzymes exhibit synergistic activity. We also demonstrated that discrete combinations of these enzymes mimic and even  improve upon the activity of the whole C. bescii exoproteome, even though some of the enzymes lack significant activity on their own. Conclusions We have demonstrated that it is possible to replicate the cellulolytic activity of the native C. bescii exoproteome utilizing a minimal gene set, and that these minimal gene sets are more active than the whole exoproteome. In the future, this may lead to more simplified and efficient cellulolytic enzyme preparations or yield improvements when these enzymes are expressed in microorganisms engineered for consolidated bioprocessing.
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Brunecky, Roman; Chung, Daehwan; Sarai, Nicholas; Hengge, Neal; Russell, Jordan; Young, Jenna; et al. (2018). High activity CAZyme cassette for improving biomass degradation in thermophiles. figshare. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3994020.v1
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AUTHORS (14)
RB
Roman Brunecky
DC
Daehwan Chung
NS
Nicholas Sarai
NH
Neal Hengge
JR
Jordan Russell
JY
Jenna Young
AM
Ashutosh Mittal
PP
Patthra Pason
TV
Todd Vander Wall
WM
William Michener
TS
Todd Shollenberger
JW
Janet Westpheling
MH
Michael Himmel
YB
Yannick Bomble