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An L-2-hydroxyglutarate biosensor based on specific transcriptional regulator LhgR.

ABSTRACT: L-2-Hydroxyglutarate (L-2-HG) plays important roles in diverse physiological processes, such as carbon starvation response, tumorigenesis, and hypoxic adaptation. Despite its importance and intensively studied metabolism, regulation of L-2-HG metabolism remains poorly understood and none of regulator specifically responded to L-2-HG has been identified. Based on bacterial genomic neighborhood analysis of the gene encoding L-2-HG oxidase (LhgO), LhgR, which represses the transcription of lhgO in Pseudomonas putida W619, is identified in this study. LhgR is demonstrated to recognize L-2-HG as its specific effector molecule, and this allosteric transcription factor is then used as a biorecognition element to construct an L-2-HG-sensing FRET sensor. The L-2-HG sensor is able to conveniently monitor the concentrations of L-2-HG in various biological samples. In addition to bacterial L-2-HG generation during carbon starvation, biological function of the L-2-HG dehydrogenase and hypoxia induced L-2-HG accumulation are also revealed by using the L-2-HG sensor in human cells.

SUBMITTER: Kang Z

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8206213 | biostudies-literature |

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