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Metabolites. 2015 Sep 02;5(3):455-74. doi: 10.3390/metabo5030455.

(13)C Tracers for Glucose Degrading Pathway Discrimination in Gluconobacter oxydans 621H.

Metabolites

Steffen Ostermann, Janine Richhardt, Stephanie Bringer, Michael Bott, Wolfgang Wiechert, Marco Oldiges

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Bio- and Geosciences-IBG-1: Biotechnology, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany. [email protected].
  2. Institute of Bio- and Geosciences-IBG-1: Biotechnology, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany. [email protected].
  3. Institute of Bio- and Geosciences-IBG-1: Biotechnology, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany. [email protected].
  4. Institute of Bio- and Geosciences-IBG-1: Biotechnology, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany. [email protected].
  5. Institute of Bio- and Geosciences-IBG-1: Biotechnology, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany. [email protected].
  6. Institute of Bio- and Geosciences-IBG-1: Biotechnology, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany. [email protected].

PMID: 26404385 PMCID: PMC4588806 DOI: 10.3390/metabo5030455

Abstract

Gluconobacter oxydans 621H is used as an industrial production organism due to its exceptional ability to incompletely oxidize a great variety of carbohydrates in the periplasm. With glucose as the carbon source, up to 90% of the initial concentration is oxidized periplasmatically to gluconate and ketogluconates. Growth on glucose is biphasic and intracellular sugar catabolism proceeds via the Entner-Doudoroff pathway (EDP) and the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). Here we studied the in vivo contributions of the two pathways to glucose catabolism on a microtiter scale. In our approach we applied specifically (13)C labeled glucose, whereby a labeling pattern in alanine was generated intracellularly. This method revealed a dynamic growth phase-dependent pathway activity with increased activity of EDP in the first and PPP in the second growth phase, respectively. Evidence for a growth phase-independent decarboxylation-carboxylation cycle around the pyruvate node was obtained from (13)C fragmentation patterns of alanine. For the first time, down-scaled microtiter plate cultivation together with (13)C-labeled substrate was applied for G. oxydans to elucidate pathway operation, exhibiting reasonable labeling costs and allowing for sufficient replicate experiments.

Keywords: 13C tracer; Entner–Doudoroff pathway; glucose; microtiter cultivation; pentose phosphate pathway

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