Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 52-56Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/btpr.325
Keywords
secondary metabolites; metabolic flux; C-13; green fluorescent protein; proteinogenic amino acids
Funding
- US Department of Energy
- I-CARES at Washington University
- Missouri Life Sciences Research Board
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Microbial production of many commercially important secondary metabolites occurs during stationary phase, and methods to measure metabolic flux during this growth phase would be valuable. Metabolic flux analysis is often based on isotopomer information front proteinogenic amino acids. As such, flux analysis primarily reflects the metabolism pertinent to the growth phase during which most proteins are synthesized. To investigate central metabolism and amino acids synthesis activity during stationary phase, addition of fully C-13-labeled glucose followed by induction of green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression during stationary phase was used. Our results indicate that Escherichia coli was able to produce new proteins (i.e., GFP) in the stationary phase, and the amino acids in GFP were mostly from degraded proteins synthesized during the exponential growth phase. Among amino acid biosynthetic pathways, only those for serine, alanine, glutamate/glutamine, and aspartate/asparagine had significant activity during the stationary phase. (C) 2009 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 26: 52-56 2010
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