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Developing rapid growing Bacillus subtilis for improved biochemical and recombinant protein production

Bacillus subtilis is a model Gram-positive bacterium, which has been widely used as industrially important chassis in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Rapid growth of chassis is beneficial for shortening the fermentation period and enhancing production of target product. However, enginee...

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Published in:Metabolic engineering communications 2020-12, Vol.11, p.e00141-e00141, Article e00141
Main Authors: Liu, Yanfeng, Su, Anqi, Tian, Rongzhen, Li, Jianghua, Liu, Long, Du, Guocheng
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Summary:Bacillus subtilis is a model Gram-positive bacterium, which has been widely used as industrially important chassis in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Rapid growth of chassis is beneficial for shortening the fermentation period and enhancing production of target product. However, engineered B. subtilis with faster growth phenotype is lacking. Here, fast-growing B. subtilis were constructed through rational gene knockout and adaptive laboratory evolution using wild type strain B. subtilis 168 (BS168) as starting strain. Specifically, strains BS01, BS02, and BS03 were obtained through gene knockout of oppD, hag, and flgD genes, respectively, resulting 15.37%, 24.18% and 36.46% increases of specific growth rate compared with BS168. Next, strains A28 and A40 were obtained through adaptive laboratory evolution, whose specific growth rates increased by 39.88% and 43.53% compared to BS168, respectively. Then these two methods were combined via deleting oppD, hag, and flgD genes respectively on the basis of evolved strain A40, yielding strain A4003 with further 7.76% increase of specific growth rate, reaching 0.75 h-1 in chemical defined M9 medium. Finally, bioproduction efficiency of intracellular product (ribonucleic acid, RNA), extracellular product (acetoin), and recombinant proteins (green fluorescent protein (GFP) and ovalbumin) by fast-growing strain A4003 was tested. And the production of RNA, acetoin, GFP, and ovalbumin increased 38.09%, 5.40%, 9.47% and 19.79% using fast-growing strain A4003 as chassis compared with BS168, respectively. The developed fast-growing B. subtilis strains and strategies used for developing these strains should be useful for improving bioproduction efficiency and constructing other industrially important bacterium with faster growth phenotype. •Fast-growing Bacillus subtilis were constructed through rational gene knockout and adaptive laboratory evolution.•Specific growth rate of engineered B. subtilis ​increased 53.06% compared with ​B. subtilis 168, reaching 0.75 h-1 ​in M9 medium.•Production of RNA, acetoin, and ovalbumin increased 38.09%, 5.40%, and 19.79% using fast-growing strain as chassis.
ISSN:2214-0301
2214-0301
DOI:10.1016/j.mec.2020.e00141