Medium-Chain-Length Fatty Acid Catabolism in Cupriavidus necator H16: Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals Differences from Long-Chain-Length Fatty Acid β-Oxidation and Involvement of Several Homologous Genes.

Publisher: American Society for Microbiology Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7605801 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1098-5336 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00992240 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Appl Environ Microbiol Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: Washington, American Society for Microbiology.

Cupriavidus necator*/metabolism ; Polyhydroxyalkanoates*/metabolism; Transcriptome ; Fatty Acids/metabolism

The number of genes encoding β-oxidation enzymes in Cupriavidus necator H16 (synonym, Ralstonia eutropha H16) is high, but only the operons A0459-A0464 and A1526-A1531, each encoding four genes for β-oxidation enzymes, were expressed during growth with long-chain-length fatty acids (LCFAs). However, we observed that C. necator ΔA0459-A0464 ΔA1526-A1531 and C. necator H16 showed the same growth behavior during growth with decanoic acid and shorter FAs. The negative effect of the deletion of these two operons increased with an increasing chain length of the utilized FAs. Transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) revealed the expression profiles of genes involved in the catabolism of medium-chain-length fatty acids (MCFAs) in C. necator H16. Operon A0459-A0464 was expressed only during growth with nonanoic acid, whereas operon A1526-A1531 was highly expressed during growth with octanoic and nonanoic acid. The gene clusters B1187-B1192 and B0751-B0759 showed a log2 fold change in expression of up to 4.29 and 4.02, respectively, during growth with octanoic acid and up to 8.82 and 5.50, respectively, with nonanoic acid compared to sodium gluconate-grown cells. Several acyl-CoA ligases catalyze the activation of MCFAs with coenzyme A (CoA), but fadD3 (A3288), involved in activation of LCFAs, was not detected. The expression profiles of C. necator strain ΔA0459-A0464 ΔA1526-A1531 showed that the growth with nonanoic acid resulted in the expression of further β-oxidation enzyme-encoding genes. Additional insights into the transport of FAs in C. necator H16 revealed the complexity and putative involvement of the DegV-like protein encoded by A0463 in the transport of odd-chain-length FAs and of siderophore biosynthesis in the transport mechanism. IMPORTANCE Although Cupriavidus necator H16 has been used in several studies to produce polyhydroxyalkanoates from various lipids, the fatty acid metabolism is poorly understood. The β-oxidation of long-chain-length FAs has been investigated, but the tremendous number of homologous genes encoding β-oxidation enzymes hides the potential for variances in the expressed genes for catabolism of shorter FAs. The catabolism of medium-chain-length FAs and connected pathways has not been investigated yet. As more sustainable substrates such as lipids and the production of fatty acids and fatty acid derivates become more critical with the dependency on fossil-based substances, understanding the complex metabolism in this highly diverse workhorse for biotechnology, C. necator, is inevitable. For further metabolic engineering and construction of production strains, we investigated the metabolism during growth on medium-chain-length FAs by RNA-Seq.

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Keywords: Cupriavidus necator; RNA sequencing; Ralstonia eutropha; medium-chain-length fatty acid catabolism; β-oxidation

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0 (Polyhydroxyalkanoates)

Date Created: 20221221 Date Completed: 20230202 Latest Revision: 20230701

20231215

PMC9888253

10.1128/aem.01428-22

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