Affiliation:
1. Center for Microbial Biotechnology, BioCentrum-DTU, Building 223, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
2. Scientific Affairs, Alpharma ApS, Dalslandsgade 11, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Streptomyces tenebrarius
is an industrially important microorganism, producing an antibiotic complex that mainly consists of the aminoglycosides apramycin, tobramycin carbamate, and kanamycin B carbamate. When
S. tenebrarius
is used for industrial tobramycin production, kanamycin B carbamate is an unwanted by-product. The two compounds differ only by one hydroxyl group, which is present in kanamycin carbamate but is reduced during biosynthesis of tobramycin.
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C metabolic flux analysis was used for elucidating connections between the primary carbon metabolism and the composition of the antibiotic complex. Metabolic flux maps were constructed for the cells grown on minimal medium with glucose or with a glucose-glycerol mixture as the carbon source. The addition of glycerol, which is more reduced than glucose, led to a three-times-greater reduction of the kanamycin portion of the antibiotic complex. The labeling indicated an active Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway, which was previously considered to be nonfunctional in
Streptomyces
. The activity of the pentose phosphate (PP) pathway was low (10 to 20% of the glucose uptake rate). The fluxes through Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) and ED pathways were almost evenly distributed during the exponential growth on glucose. During the transition from growth phase to production phase, a metabolic shift was observed, characterized by a decreased flux through the ED pathway and increased fluxes through the EMP and PP pathways. Higher specific NADH and NADPH production rates were calculated in the cultivation on glucose-glycerol, which was associated with a lower percentage of nonreduced antibiotic kanamycin B carbamate.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
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