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Anaplerotic flux into the Calvin-Benson cycle: hydrogen isotope evidence for in vivo occurrence in C₃ metabolism.

ABSTRACT: As the central carbon uptake pathway in photosynthetic cells, the Calvin-Benson cycle is among the most important biochemical cycles for life on Earth. A carbon flux of anaplerotic origin (i.e. through the chloroplast-localized oxidative branch of the pentose phosphate pathway) into the Calvin-Benson cycle was proposed recently. Here, we measured intramolecular deuterium abundances in leaf starch of Helianthus annuus grown at varying ambient CO₂ concentrations, C_a . Additionally, we modelled deuterium fractionations expected for the anaplerotic pathway and compared modelled with measured fractionations. We report deuterium fractionation signals at H¹ and H² of starch glucose. Below a C_a change point, these signals increase with decreasing C_a consistent with modelled fractionations by anaplerotic flux. Under standard conditions (C_a = 450 ppm corresponding to intercellular CO₂ concentrations, C_i , of 328 ppm), we estimate negligible anaplerotic flux. At C_a = 180 ppm (C_i = 140 ppm), more than 10% of the glucose-6-phosphate entering the starch biosynthesis pathway is diverted into the anaplerotic pathway. In conclusion, we report evidence consistent with anaplerotic carbon flux into the Calvin-Benson cycle in vivo. We propose the flux may help to: maintain high levels of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate under source-limited growth conditions to facilitate photorespiratory nitrogen assimilation required to build-up source strength; and counteract oxidative stress.

SUBMITTER: Wieloch T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9305100 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Project description:BackgroundCO2 is fixed by all living organisms with an autotrophic metabolism, among which the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) cycle is the most important and widespread carbon fixation pathway. Thus, studying and engineering the CBB cycle with the associated energy providing pathways to increase the CO2 fixation efficiency of cells is an important subject of biological research with significant application potential.ResultsIn this work, the autotrophic microbe Ralstonia eutropha (Cupriavidus necator) was selected as a research platform for CBB cycle optimization engineering. By knocking out either CBB operon genes on the operon or mega-plasmid of R. eutropha, we found that both CBB operons were active and contributed almost equally to the carbon fixation process. With similar knock-out experiments, we found both soluble and membrane-bound hydrogenases (SH and MBH), belonging to the energy providing hydrogenase module, were functional during autotrophic growth of R. eutropha. SH played a more significant role. By introducing a heterologous cyanobacterial RuBisCO with the endogenous GroES/EL chaperone system(A quality control systems for proteins consisting of molecular chaperones and proteases, which prevent protein aggregation by either refolding or degrading misfolded proteins) and RbcX(A chaperone in the folding of Rubisco), the culture OD600 of engineered strain increased 89.2% after 72 h of autotrophic growth, although the difference was decreased at 96 h, indicating cyanobacterial RuBisCO with a higher activity was functional in R. eutropha and lead to improved growth in comparison to the host specific enzyme. Meanwhile, expression of hydrogenases was optimized by modulating the expression of MBH and SH, which could further increase the R. eutropha H16 culture OD600 to 93.4% at 72 h. Moreover, the autotrophic yield of its major industrially relevant product, polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), was increased by 99.7%.ConclusionsTo our best knowledge, this is the first report of successfully engineering the CBB pathway and hydrogenases of R. eutropha for improved activity, and is one of only a few cases where the efficiency of CO2 assimilation pathway was improved. Our work demonstrates that R. eutropha is a useful platform for studying and engineering the CBB for applications.

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