Coordinated β-glucosidase activity with the cellulosome is effective for enhanced lignocellulose saccharification
2021
Qi, Kuan | Chen, Chao | Yan, Fei | Feng, Yingang | Bayer, Edward A. | Kosugi, Akihiko | Cui, Qiu | Liu, Ya-Jun
Consolidated bio-saccharification (CBS) technology employs cellulosome-producing bacterial cells, rather than fungal cellulases, as biocatalysts for cost-effective production of lignocellulosic sugars. Extracellular β-glucosidase (BGL) expression in the whole-cell arsenal is indispensable, due to severe cellobiose inhibition of the cellulosome. However, high-level BGL expression in Clostridium thermocellum is challenging, and the optimal BGL production level for efficient cellulose saccharification is currently unknown. Herein, we obtained new CBS biocatalysts by transforming BGL-expressing plasmids into C. thermocellum, which produced abundant BGL proteins and hydrolyzed cellulose effectively. The optimal ratio of extracellular BGL-to-cellulosome activity was determined to be in a range of 5.5 to 21.6. Despite the critical impact of BGL, both excessive BGL expression and its assembly on the cellulosome via type I cohesin-dockerin interaction led to reduced cellulosomal activity, which further confirmed the importance of coordinated BGL expression with the cellulosome. This study will further promote industrial CBS application in lignocellulose conversion.
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