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A Cyclic Metabolic Network in Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 Prioritizes the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway and Exhibits Substrate Hierarchy during Carbohydrate Co-Utilization
The genetic characterization of Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 was recently completed. However, the inferred metabolic network structure has not yet been evaluated experimentally. Here, we employed (13)C-tracers and quantitative flux analysis to investigate the intracellular network for carbohydrate met...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30366991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02084-18 |
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author | Wilkes, Rebecca A. Mendonca, Caroll M. Aristilde, Ludmilla |
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description | The genetic characterization of Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 was recently completed. However, the inferred metabolic network structure has not yet been evaluated experimentally. Here, we employed (13)C-tracers and quantitative flux analysis to investigate the intracellular network for carbohydrate metabolism. In lieu of the direct phosphorylation of glucose by glucose kinase, glucose catabolism was characterized primarily by the oxidation of glucose to gluconate and 2-ketogluconate before the phosphorylation of these metabolites to feed the Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway. In the absence of phosphofructokinase activity, a cyclic flux from the ED pathway to the upper Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) pathway was responsible for routing glucose-derived carbons to the non-oxidative pentose phosphate (PP) pathway. Consistent with the lack of annotated genes in P. protegens Pf-5 for the transport or initial catabolism of pentoses and galactose, only glucose was assimilated into intracellular metabolites in the presence of xylose, arabinose, or galactose. However, when glucose was fed simultaneously with fructose or mannose, co-uptake of these hexoses was evident, but glucose was preferred over fructose (3 to 1) and over mannose (4 to 1). Despite gene annotation of mannose catabolism to fructose-6-phosphate, metabolite labeling patterns revealed that mannose was assimilated into fructose-1,6-bisphosphate, similarly to fructose catabolism. Remarkably, carbons from mannose and fructose were also found to cycle backward through the upper EMP pathway toward the ED pathway. Therefore, the operational metabolic network for processing carbohydrates in P. protegens Pf-5 prioritizes flux through the ED pathway to channel carbons to EMP, PP, and downstream pathways. IMPORTANCE Species of the Pseudomonas genus thrive in various nutritional environments and have strong biocatalytic potential due to their diverse metabolic capabilities. Carbohydrate substrates are ubiquitous both in environmental matrices and in feedstocks for engineered bioconversion. Here, we investigated the metabolic network for carbohydrate metabolism in Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5. Metabolic flux quantitation revealed the relative involvement of different catabolic routes in channeling carbohydrate carbons through a cyclic metabolic network. We also uncovered that mannose catabolism was similar to fructose catabolism, despite the annotation of a different pathway in the genome. Elucidation of the constitutive metabolic network in P. protegens is important for understanding its innate carbohydrate processing, thus laying the foundation for targeting metabolic engineering of this untapped Pseudomonas species. |
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spelling | pubmed-62930942018-12-28 A Cyclic Metabolic Network in Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 Prioritizes the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway and Exhibits Substrate Hierarchy during Carbohydrate Co-Utilization Wilkes, Rebecca A. Mendonca, Caroll M. Aristilde, Ludmilla Appl Environ Microbiol Physiology The genetic characterization of Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 was recently completed. However, the inferred metabolic network structure has not yet been evaluated experimentally. Here, we employed (13)C-tracers and quantitative flux analysis to investigate the intracellular network for carbohydrate metabolism. In lieu of the direct phosphorylation of glucose by glucose kinase, glucose catabolism was characterized primarily by the oxidation of glucose to gluconate and 2-ketogluconate before the phosphorylation of these metabolites to feed the Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway. In the absence of phosphofructokinase activity, a cyclic flux from the ED pathway to the upper Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) pathway was responsible for routing glucose-derived carbons to the non-oxidative pentose phosphate (PP) pathway. Consistent with the lack of annotated genes in P. protegens Pf-5 for the transport or initial catabolism of pentoses and galactose, only glucose was assimilated into intracellular metabolites in the presence of xylose, arabinose, or galactose. However, when glucose was fed simultaneously with fructose or mannose, co-uptake of these hexoses was evident, but glucose was preferred over fructose (3 to 1) and over mannose (4 to 1). Despite gene annotation of mannose catabolism to fructose-6-phosphate, metabolite labeling patterns revealed that mannose was assimilated into fructose-1,6-bisphosphate, similarly to fructose catabolism. Remarkably, carbons from mannose and fructose were also found to cycle backward through the upper EMP pathway toward the ED pathway. Therefore, the operational metabolic network for processing carbohydrates in P. protegens Pf-5 prioritizes flux through the ED pathway to channel carbons to EMP, PP, and downstream pathways. IMPORTANCE Species of the Pseudomonas genus thrive in various nutritional environments and have strong biocatalytic potential due to their diverse metabolic capabilities. Carbohydrate substrates are ubiquitous both in environmental matrices and in feedstocks for engineered bioconversion. Here, we investigated the metabolic network for carbohydrate metabolism in Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5. Metabolic flux quantitation revealed the relative involvement of different catabolic routes in channeling carbohydrate carbons through a cyclic metabolic network. We also uncovered that mannose catabolism was similar to fructose catabolism, despite the annotation of a different pathway in the genome. Elucidation of the constitutive metabolic network in P. protegens is important for understanding its innate carbohydrate processing, thus laying the foundation for targeting metabolic engineering of this untapped Pseudomonas species. American Society for Microbiology 2018-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6293094/ /pubmed/30366991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02084-18 Text en Copyright © 2018 Wilkes et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Physiology Wilkes, Rebecca A. Mendonca, Caroll M. Aristilde, Ludmilla A Cyclic Metabolic Network in Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 Prioritizes the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway and Exhibits Substrate Hierarchy during Carbohydrate Co-Utilization |
title | A Cyclic Metabolic Network in Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 Prioritizes the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway and Exhibits Substrate Hierarchy during Carbohydrate Co-Utilization |
title_full | A Cyclic Metabolic Network in Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 Prioritizes the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway and Exhibits Substrate Hierarchy during Carbohydrate Co-Utilization |
title_fullStr | A Cyclic Metabolic Network in Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 Prioritizes the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway and Exhibits Substrate Hierarchy during Carbohydrate Co-Utilization |
title_full_unstemmed | A Cyclic Metabolic Network in Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 Prioritizes the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway and Exhibits Substrate Hierarchy during Carbohydrate Co-Utilization |
title_short | A Cyclic Metabolic Network in Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 Prioritizes the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway and Exhibits Substrate Hierarchy during Carbohydrate Co-Utilization |
title_sort | cyclic metabolic network in pseudomonas protegens pf-5 prioritizes the entner-doudoroff pathway and exhibits substrate hierarchy during carbohydrate co-utilization |
topic | Physiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30366991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02084-18 |
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