Abstract

BackgroundClostridium cellulovorans is a mesophilic, cellulosome-producing bacterium containing 57 genomic cellulosomal enzyme-encoding genes. In addition to cellulosomal proteins, C. cellulovorans also secretes non-cellulosomal proteins to degrade plant cell wall polysaccharides. Unlike other cellulosome-producing Clostridium species, C. cellulovorans can metabolize all major plant cell wall polysaccharides (cellulose, hemicelluloses, and pectins). In this study, we performed a temporal proteome analysis of C. cellulovorans to reveal strategies underlying plant cell wall polysaccharide degradation.ResultsWe cultured C. cellulovorans with five different carbon sources (glucose, cellulose, xylan, galactomannan, and pectin) and performed proteome analysis on cellular and secreted proteins. In total, we identified 1895 cellular proteins and 875 secreted proteins. The identified unique carbohydrate-degrading enzymes corresponding to each carbon source were annotated to have specific activity against each carbon source. However, we identified pectate lyase as a unique enzyme in C. cellulovorans cultivated on xylan, which was not previously associated with xylan degradation. We performed k-means clustering analysis for elucidation of temporal changes of the cellular and secreted proteins in each carbon sources. We found that cellular proteins in most of the k-means clusters are involved in carbohydrate metabolism, amino acid metabolism, translation, or membrane transport. When xylan and pectin were used as the carbon sources, the most increasing k-means cluster contained proteins involved in the metabolism of cofactors and vitamins. In case of secreted proteins of C. cellulovorans cultured either on cellulose or xylan, galactomannan, and pectin, the clusters with the most increasing trend contained either 25 cellulosomal proteins and five non-cellulosomal proteins or 8–19 cellulosomal proteins and 9–16 non-cellulosomal proteins, respectively. These differences might reflect mechanisms for degrading cellulose of other carbon source. Co-abundance analysis of the secreted proteins revealed that proteases and protease inhibitors accumulated coordinately. This observation implies that the secreted protease inhibitors and proteases protect carbohydrate-degrading enzymes from an attack from the plant.ConclusionIn this study, we clarified, for the first time, the temporal proteome dynamics of cellular and secreted proteins in C. cellulovorans. This data will be valuable in understanding strategies employed by C. cellulovorans for degrading major plant cell wall polysaccharides.

Highlights

  • Clostridium cellulovorans is a mesophilic, cellulosome-producing bacterium containing 57 genomic cellulosomal enzyme-encoding genes

  • We focused on the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium cellulovorans, which was originally isolated from wood fermenters in 1984 [9]

  • We choose xylan and galactomannan as hemicelluloses because xylan is the main component of hemicellulose in hardwood [8] and galactomannan is the main component of hemicellulose in plant seeds [22]

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Clostridium cellulovorans is a mesophilic, cellulosome-producing bacterium containing 57 genomic cellulosomal enzyme-encoding genes. In addition to cellulosomal proteins, C. cellulovorans secretes noncellulosomal proteins to degrade plant cell wall polysaccharides. Unlike other cellulosome-producing Clostridium species, C. cellulovorans can metabolize all major plant cell wall polysaccharides (cellulose, hemicelluloses, and pectins). We performed a temporal proteome analysis of C. cellulovorans to reveal strategies underlying plant cell wall polysaccharide degradation. The saccharification of polysaccharides derived from plant cell walls is the limiting step in the production of second-generation biofuels from inedible biomass [5]. Plant cell walls are mainly composed of three polysaccharides: cellulose, hemicelluloses (xylan, xyloglucan, glucuronoxylan, glucomannan, and galactomannan), and pectins [6, 7]. It is necessary to degrade all types of plant cell wall-derived polysaccharides for efficient biofuel production

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