Abstract
Microorganisms can utilize biomass to produce valuable chemicals, showing sustainable, renewable and economic advantages compared with traditional chemical synthesis. As a potential five-carbon platform polymer monomer, 5-aminovalerate has been widely used in industrial fields such as clothes and disposable goods. Here we establish an efficient whole-cell catalysis for 5-aminovalerate production with ethanol pretreatment. In this study, the metabolic pathway from L-lysine to 5-aminovalerate was constructed at the cellular level by introducing L-lysine α-oxidase. The newly produced H2O2 and added ethanol both are toxic to the cells, obviously inhibiting their growth. Here, a promising strategy of whole-cell catalysis with ethanol pretreatment is proposed, which greatly improves the yield of 5-aminovalerate. Subsequently, the effects of ethanol pretreatment, substrate concentration, reaction temperature, pH value, metal ion additions and hydrogen peroxide addition on the whole-cell biocatalytic efficiency were investigated. Using 100 g/L of L-lysine hydrochloride as raw material, 50.62 g/L of 5-aminovalerate could be excellently produced via fed-batch bioconversion with the yield of 0.84 mol/mol. The results show that a fast, environmentally friendly and efficient production of 5-aminovalerate was established after introducing the engineered whole-cell biocatalysts. This strategy, combined with ethanol pretreatment, can not only greatly enhance the yield of 5-aminovalerate but also be applied to the biosynthesis of other valuable chemicals.
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Introduction
With the increasingly severe global environmental pollution and petroleum shortages, energy security has been widely concerned, and great efforts have been made to develop bio-based chemicals with renewable feedstock1. 5-aminovalerate (5AVA) is a non-proteinogenic amino acid that could be used as a potential, promising and valuable precursor for producing δ-valerolactam2, glutarate3 and nylon 5 fibers and resins4. It also could be used for synthesis of 5-hydroxyvalerate5, 1,5-pentanediol and other valuable chemicals. 5AVA could be manufactured from L-lysine (L-lys), which could be produced 2.2 million tons per year3,6. In view of the important applications of 5AVA in the field of synthesis, it is necessary to put forward relatively higher requirement for the development of the biotechnological 5AVA production.
In fact, the 5AVA production is closely related to the biological metabolism of L-lysine7. 5AVA is mainly synthetized through the coupled system of L-lys 2-monooxygenase (DavB) and 5-aminovaleramide amidohydrolase (DavA)8. Jorge et al. found that L-lys could be decarboxylated to form cadaverine by L-lys decarboxylase (CadA), then to 5AVA by consecutive transamination and oxidation9. Recently, Cheng et al. reported that L-lys hydrochloride (L-lys HCl) could be oxidative decarboxylated by L-lys α-oxidase (RaiP) from Scomber japonicas to produce 5AVA in Escherichia coli (E. coli)10. Based on these three basic synthetic routes converting L-lys to 5AVA, the three related bioproduction processes (i.e., microbial fermentation, enzymatic catalysis, and whole-cell methods) have been widely explored. For microbial fermentation, while DavA and DavB both were overexpressed in WL3110 and 3.6 g/L of 5AVA could be generated11. The engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum (C. glutamicum) strain under a synthetic H36 promoter could produce 33.1 g/L of 5AVA12. Putrescine transaminase (PatA), CadA and γ-aminobutyraldehyde dehydrogenase (PatD) were overexpressed in C. glutamicum, and 5.1 g/L of 5AVA was gained from glucose and alternative carbon sources9, as well as 28 g/L of 5AVA from a de novo bioproduction process with gabT gene deletion13. In Cheng’s research, the addition of 4% (v/v) ethanol effectively enhanced the level of RaiP protein expression, which could increase the titer of 5AVA to 29.12 g/L10. For the enzymatic catalysis of 5AVA, Liu et al. found that 20.8 g/L of 5AVA could be produced using the coupled system of purified DavB and DavA5. Under the catalysis of RaiP immobilized on a solid support, 13.4 g/L of 5AVA could be produced after 5 days14. In addition, an artificial iterative carbon-chain-extension cycle was constructed to generate 5AVA, a non-natural straight-chain amino acid15. Objectively, microbial fermentation has the disadvantages of long cycle, impure metabolites and complex process. The use of purified enzymes often leads to an increased production costs16.
Whole-cell biocatalysis has unique advantages, such as simple component of the reaction mixture, higher selectivity, highly catalytic activity and cost-effectiveness, etc. It has been widely used in the biosynthesis of 5AVA and other value-added chemicals17. In fact, whole-cell biocatalysis was considered as a competitive industrial process18, based on which Li et al. successfully obtained 24.8 g/L of β-alanine19. Cui et al. evaluated the effects of gene knockout on the production of glutathione by whole-cell catalysis20, and successfully prepared 103.1 g/L of 5AVA in the W3110/DavA-DavB21. Park et al. developed a novel process producing 90.59 g/L of 5AVA22. Li’s work showed that the overexpression of L-lys specific permease (LysP) enhanced 5AVA production, and 63.2 g/L of such compound could be successfully obtained using the whole-cell catalysis strategy23.
Bacterial strains often be engineered to express recombinant proteins. The expression of proteins is often induced by isopropyl β-D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) in strain expression system. However, the expression level of proteins is still relatively low24. Effective strategies for improving expression level of proteins were developed, include the optimization of the host strains, vector, culture medium and gene sequences, as well as the addition of ethanol25. Ethanol has been demonstrated to works with T7 or T5 promoters, and a relatively higher level of protein expression was observed with the addition of 2%-4% ethanol24. In Chhetri’ research, the addition of 3% ethanol could not only improve the expression level of the heterogeneous amyloid-beta peptide25, but also increase the enzymatic activity by 5-fold26. Cheng et al. also found that the addition of 4% ethanol has a 3-fold increase in production of 5AVA10. Importantly, the maltose ABC transporter was revealed to be the main regulatory route activated to enhance the expression of heterologous proteins by ethanol27. Therefore, the ethanol pretreatment has proved to be a potential, environmentally friendly and efficient method to enhance the level of enzyme expression, and further to improve the yield of related reaction products28.
In this work, E. coli CJ02 overexpressed RaiP from Scomber japonicasused (CJ02RaiP) as whole-cell biocatalysts was constructed, sequentially followed by optimizing the concentration of ethanol pretreatment, reaction temperature, pH value, the additions of metal ion and hydrogen peroxide (see Fig. 1). Under optimal conditions, whole-cell biocatalysts CJ02RaiP exhibiting a better catalytic activity was finally achieved.
Results and Discussion
The effect of whole-cell catalyst with ethanol pretreatment on 5AVA production
In this work, two strategies—substrate L-lys HCl addition and cadA knockout—were conducted to increase the utilization of L-lys. Our previous studies have demonstrated that L-lys HCl is a better substrate to produce 5AVA10 and L-pipecolic acid (L-PA) than L-lys29, respectively increasing the titer of 5AVA10 by 24% and L-PA29 by 21%. Lys could be degraded to cadaverine by CadA30, which was knocked out to increase the flus to 5AVA. If not specified, L-lys was replaced by L-lys HCl in this work.
Figure 2 shows the effects of whole-cell biocatalysts CJ02RaiP on the production of 5AVA at different ethanol concentration of pretreatment, and other reaction conditions are 5 g/L of L-lys HCl, 37 °C and 250 rpm for 12 h (see Fig. 2). When the concentration of ethanol pretreatment was 1% (v/v), 0.33 g/L of 5AVA was produced after 12 h, which was 17.86% higher than that without ethanol pretreatment as control. When the concentration of ethanol pretreatment was increased to 2%, 3% and 4%, the titer of 5AVA reached 0.51 g/L, 0.62 g/L and 0.68 g/L, with the increase rates of 82.14%, 121.43% and 142.86%, respectively. However, when continuing to augment the concentration of ethanol pretreatment to 5%, the cell growth was unexpectedly significantly inhibited. Hence, the optimal concentration of ethanol pretreatment was set as 4%. It has been proved enhancing protein expression contributes to improving the titer of production26,31. Ethanol could also exhibit divergent effect on inclusion body formation32. As shown in Fig. 3, the addition of 4% ethanol increased the expression of RaiP protein by about 30% compared with the absence of ethanol. In this work, whole-cell catalysts with ethanol pretreatment did improve the production of 5AVA significantly.
Optimization of whole-cell transformation conditions
Reaction temperature
To enhance the biocatalytic efficiency, the optimal reaction temperature was discussed here. Figure 4A shows the 5AVA production catalyzed by whole-cell biocatalysts CJ02RaiP with 4% ethanol pretreatment at different temperature, 5 g/L of L-lys HCl, pH 8.0 and 250 rpm for 12 h. It was shown that the reaction temperature ranging from 16 to 58 °C had obviously influence on 5AVA production. The whole-cell biocatalysts CJ02RaiP could only generate 0.37 g/L of 5AVA at 16 °C. As the reaction temperature increased, the titer of 5AVA increased gradually. When the reaction temperature was 37 °C, the titer of 5AVA was 0.68 g/L. Notably, only 0.18 g/L of 5AVA was obtained at 58 °C, implying that the whole-cell catalytic activity decreased to very low levels at high temperature. The results were consistent with the character of most enzymes, that is, the function curve of enzyme activity to temperature is an inverted bell shaped. Hence, 37 °C was set as the optimal reaction temperature.
Rotational speed
The whole-cell catalysis was executed in the flasks with rotation, allowing the permeation of the oxygen in the air. Here, O2 is the electron acceptor of the oxidative, and NH3 is produced as a byproduct for enzyme RaiP to transform L-lys HCl to 5AVA. Obviously, rotational speed could partly determine the production of 5AVA by affecting the dissolved oxygen. Figure 4B shows the 5AVA production performed at different rotational speed, 5 g/L of L-lys HCl, pH 8.0 and 37 °C for 12 h. With the increase of rotational speed, the titer of 5AVA is slightly increased. When the stirring rate was 100 rpm, the titer of 5AVA reached 0.48 g/L; when the rate become 200 rpm, the corresponding titer increased to 0.64 g/L; as the rotation speed continued to increase, there was no significant difference in the titer of 5AVA. Thus, 200 rpm was adopted in the subsequent experiments.
pH value
To achieve a higher titer of product, the pH values during the 5AVA production were also discussed. The relevant reaction conditions were the 50 mM PKB buffer containing 5 g/L of L-lys HCl, the pH values ranged from 6.0 to 10.0, reaction temperature of 37 °C, culture time of 12 h at 200 rpm shaking. As shown in Fig. 4C, the optimal pH value for production of 5AVA was 8.0. It can be seen that the conditions of excessive acid and alkali are not conductive to the bioconversion from L-lys HCl to 5AVA, thus the subsequent experiments were executed at pH value of 8.0.
Metal ions
Figure 4D shows the influence of metal ions on the 5AVA production in whole-cell biocatalysts CJ02RaiP with 4% ethanol pretreatment. As shown in Fig. 4D, the addition of 3 mM Mg2+ exhibited a positive effect on the 5AVA production with 0.19-fold higher, and the titer of 5AVA increased from 0.68 to 0.81 g/L. There is no significant variation in the catalytic activity by adding Mo2+, Zn2+ or Ca2+, while the addition of Fe3+, Fe2+, Co2+ or Cu2+ exhibited negative influence. Specially, the Cu2+ and Co2+ both significantly decreased the catalytic activity of whole-cell biocatalysts CJ02RaiP (see Fig. 4D). Nevertheless, the addition of Mg2+ could significantly improve the activity of whole-cell catalysts CJ02RaiP. Positive effect of Mg2+ was reported in phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase33, malate dehydrogenase34 or pyruvate carboxylase35, where exogenous Mg2+ ion addition enhanced the enzyme activity to produce succinate. As a substrate activator36, Mg2+ might be associated with organic cofactors to form stable units like our study. However, in a previous study, the addition of Zn2+ could also improve the enzyme activity about 1.1-fold at the concentration of 1 mM37. It is speculated that low concentration (1 mM) of Zn2+ could improve the activity of RaiP, whereas high concentration (3 mM) inhibited its enzyme activity.
The effect of H2O2 as oxidant on the 5AVA production
The addition time of H2O2 was also optimized in this study. 1.27 g/L of 5AVA could be achieved by adding 5 mM H2O2 after 8 h reaction, increasing by 19.81% compared with 0 h. However, the titer of 5AVA was decreased if H2O2 continued to be added later. Figure 5 shows the effects of H2O2 on the 5AVA production by the whole-cell biocatalysts CJ02RaiP with 4% ethanol pretreatment. After the addition of 5 mM H2O2, whole-cell catalysts CJ02RaiP could produce 1.27 g/L of 5AVA after 12 h, which increased by about 66.67% compared with the absent of H2O2 addition. When 10 mM H2O2 was added, the titer of 5AVA significantly increased to 1.52 g/L, with a 5AVA titer increase of 87.65%. The results indicated that the addition of H2O2 could favor the reaction to 5AVA and increase its metabolic flux. When continuing to increase the concentration of H2O2 addition, the titer of 5AVA was decreased. High concentration of H2O2 might reduce the enzyme activity of RaiP. It is in accordance with the previous reported findings of Cheng et al., where a higher concentration of 5AVA could be obtained by adding H2O2 after fermentation for 8 h10. High concentration of H2O2 could significantly inhibit enzyme activity of RaiP in this work. Hence, we proposed a strategy that high concentration of H2O2 was added after 8 h reaction of CJ02RaiP helping to accumulate intermediate 2-keto-6-aminocaproate (2K6AC) in the biocatalytic process. In order to eliminate the negative effects in the growth process, adding H2O2 as oxidant at the later stage of growth could be an alternative method.
Whole-cell catalysis and sale-up bioconversion of 5AVA production
The whole-cell biocatalysis from L-lys HCl to 5AVA was conducted under the optimal conditions to investigate the feasibility of CJ02RaiP as a 5AVA producer in a 2 mL reactor supplemented with 5 g/L of L-lys HCl. The whole-cell biocatalyst CJ02RaiP could consume more than 60% of the L-lys HCl after 8 h (see Fig. 6A). After 24 h, the reaction went to completion and 2.71 g/L of 5AVA was produced. The yield of 5AVA was greatly improved during the biocatalytic process (see Fig. 6A), due to that L-lys HCl was firstly converted into intermediate 2K6AC catalyzed by RaiP, and then oxidatively decarboxylated into 5AVA in the presence of the oxidant H2O2.
To further examine the industrial potential of CJ02RaiP, a fed-batch strategy was adopted in a 400 mL reactor to enhance the 5AVA production. 11.35 g/L of 5AVA was produced after 12 h (see Fig. 6B), where 30 g/L of L-lys HCl was added into the reactor to maintain high-efficiency bioconversion; 5AVA titer increased to 23.12 g/L at 24 h; 50.62 g/L of 5AVA with a yield of 0.84 mol/mol was obtained at 48 h by adding another 30 g/L of L-lys HCl. At this point, the production of 5AVA reached equilibrium, no obvious increases in 5AVA production were obtained after 48 h. At the end of the reaction, there were 6.05 g/L of Lys HCl and a little intermediate 2K6AC remained.
Whole cell catalysis could usually obtain a higher yield17. 63.2 g/L of 5AVA was produced by whole cell catalysis with a yield of 0.75 g/g23. Compared with microbial fermentation in Cheng’s study10, whole-cell catalysis could produce a higher titer from 29.12 to 50.62 g/L, and shorten the reaction time from72 to 48 h. In addition, the produced H2O2 and added ethanol during the fermentation process markedly inhibited the cell growth, resulting in the highest OD600 of only 4110. Satisfactorily, whole-cell catalysis is free of cell growth restrictions, and OD600 could reach up to 80, thus further improving 5AVA production. In fact, the high yield of 5AVA is related the two-step reaction mechanism: (1) the intermediate 2K6AC was heavily accumulated by RaiP; (2) hydrogen peroxide served as oxidant to form 5AVA through decarboxylation and oxidation.
Conclusions
A green whole-cell biocatalytic production for the 5AVA was established in this work. CJ02RaiP, as an efficient whole-cell biocatalyst, could produce 0.81 g/L of 5AVA from 5 g/L of L-lys HCl with 4% ethanol pretreatment after reaction 12 h. The yield of 5AVA production with ethanol pretreatment was 189.29% higher than that without pretreatment. A titer of 1.52 g/L of 5AVA was obtained after reaction 12 h using whole-cell biocatalysts CJ02RaiP with 4% ethanol pretreatment and 10 mM H2O2, which increased 5AVA production by 87.65% than that in the absence of H2O2. After a series of process optimizations (i.e., pretreatment with 4% ethanol, and the addition of 10 mM H2O2 after reaction 48 h, etc.), 50.62 g/L of 5AVA can be obtained based on this engineered whole-cell biocatalytic system. The constructed whole-cell biocatalyst system with ethanol pretreatment shows the advantages of renewable substrate, simple component of the reaction mixture, higher titer and environmental friendliness. It has important application values for large-scale production of 5-aminovalerate and other valuable chemicals.
Materials and Methods
Microorganisms and culture conditions
E. coli DH5α was used for the propagation of plasmids, E. coli BL21 (DE3) and its derivative both used for 5AVA production, and vector pET21a for protein expression. The nucleotide sequence of the synthetic and optimized raiP gene is available in the GenBank database (Refseq accession No. MG423617)29. The raiP from Scomber japonicas with BamHI and NdeI restriction sites was ligated into the vector pET21a to form pCJ01. The gene cadA was knocked out in E. coli BL21 (DE3) to obtained strain ML03 using the two steps of homologous10. The strain ML 03 harboring plasmid pCJ01 was named CJ02. All the resulting strains were cultured in Lysogeny broth (LB) medium supplemented with corresponding antibiotics.
Preparation of the whole-cell biocatalysts with ethanol pretreatment
E. coli ML03 harboring plasmid pCJ02 was grown at 37 °C for 12 h with 250 rpm shaking in 2 L flask containing 240 mL LB with 100 μm/mL ampicillin. When the optical density (OD600) of 0.6 was reached, ethanol and 0.5 mM IPTG both were added, and the culture was continued at 20 °C for 16 h. In order to improve the biocatalytic efficiency, the concentrations of ethanol pretreatment were also studied. The influence of the different concentrations (i.e., 1%, 2%, 3%, 4% and 5%) of ethanol pretreatment on 5AVA production were discussed. Moreover, the effects of different types of metal additions (i.e., Fe2+, Mn2+, Mg2+, Mo2+, Co2+, Ca2+, Zn2+, Cu2+ and Fe3+ at constant concentrations of 3 mM) on yield were also investigated.
Conditions and scale-up of bioconversions
For 5AVA bioconversion, the cells were firstly harvested by centrifugation at 10,000 rpm for 10 min after 16 h culture, then washed with potassium phosphate buffer (PKB, 50 mM, pH 8.0) twice, and then resuspended in 2 mL (OD600 = 40) reaction mixture containing 5 g/L of L-lys HCl. The bioconversion reactions were performed at 37 °C and pH 8.0, with 250 rpm shaking for 12 h. For the scale-up of bioconversion, the cell culture was concentrated, and suspended in 400 mL (OD600 = 80) PKB buffer with 40 g/L of L-lys HCl. Other reaction conditions include: 25% NH4OH was used to adjust the pH value to 8.0; aeration rate was set as 1 vvm; 30 g/L of L-lys HCl was added after 12 h bioconversion; additional L-lys HCl was added after 24 h bioconversion.
Analytical procedures
The optical density was determined by using an UltrospecTM 2100 pro UV/visible spectrophotometer (USA). Extracellular L-lys and 5AVA were quantified using a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system (1260 series, Aglient Co., Ltd, CA, USA) equipped with a UV detector. To monitor the concentrations of 5AVA and L-lys, the method of phenyl isothiocyanate (PITC), described in our previous article, was adopted in this work10. Quantitative determination of 2K6AC was not performed due to the lack of its standard substrate. For liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) identification of 5AVA and 6A2KCA, exact mass spectra was explored with a Bruker micrOTOF-Q II mass spectrometer, using the time of flight (TOF) technique as well as equipped with an ESI source operating in negative mode (Burker Co., Ltd, USA). The intermediate 2K6AC and 5AVA were qualitatively verified by LC-MS (see Fig. 7). As shown in Fig. 7A, the approximate retention time of 5AVA and 2K6AC was 7.2 and 8.9 min, respectively. According to Fig. 7B,C, the [M-H]- of 5AVA and 2K6AC were 251.0905 and 279.0832, respectively.
Data availability
The datasets generated during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFC0906000); the funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31870655); the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Project No. 2018CDQYHG0010). We thank Ms. Jie Zhang for help with protein expression.
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Wrote the paper: Jie Cheng. Prepared the figures: Jie Cheng, Qing Luo and Huaichuan Duan. Manuscript editing and review: Jie Cheng, Hao Peng and Yin Zhang. Conceived and designed the experiments: Jianping Hu and Yao Lu.
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Cheng, J., Luo, Q., Duan, H. et al. Efficient whole-cell catalysis for 5-aminovalerate production from L-lysine by using engineered Escherichia coli with ethanol pretreatment. Sci Rep 10, 990 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57752-x
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