Thermoascus aurantiacus is a promising source of enzymes for biomass deconstruction under thermophilic conditions
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Thermoascus aurantiacus is a promising source of enzymes for biomass deconstruction under thermophilic conditions
Shara D McClendon1, 2,
Tanveer Batth1, 2,
Christopher J Petzold1, 2,
Paul D Adams1, 2,
Blake A Simmons1, 3 and
Steven W Singer1, 4, 5Email author
https://doi.org/10.1186/1754-6834-5-54
© McClendon et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
Received: 6 June 2012
Accepted: 13 July 2012
Published: 28 July 2012
Abstract
Background
Thermophilic fungi have attracted increased interest for their ability to secrete enzymes that deconstruct biomass at high temperatures. However, development of thermophilic fungi as enzyme producers for biomass deconstruction has not been thoroughly investigated. Comparing the enzymatic activities of thermophilic fungal strains that grow on targeted biomass feedstocks has the potential to identify promising candidates for strain development. Thielavia terrestris and Thermoascus aurantiacus were chosen for characterization based on literature precedents.
Results
Thermoascus aurantiacus and Thielavia terrestris were cultivated on various biomass substrates and culture supernatants assayed for glycoside hydrolase activities. Supernatants from both cultures possessed comparable glycoside hydrolase activities when incubated with artificial biomass substrates. In contrast, saccharifications of ionic liquid pretreated switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) revealed that T. aurantiacus enzymes released more glucose than T. terrestris enzymes over a range of protein mass loadings and temperatures. Temperature-dependent saccharifications demonstrated that the T. aurantiacus proteins retained higher levels of activity compared to a commercial enzyme mixture sold by Novozymes, Cellic CTec2, at elevated temperatures. Enzymes secreted by T. aurantiacus released glucose at similar protein loadings to CTec2 on dilute acid, ammonia fiber expansion, or ionic liquid pretreated switchgrass. Proteomic analysis of the T. aurantiacus culture supernatant revealed dominant glycoside hydrolases from families 5, 7, 10, and 61, proteins that are key enzymes in commercial cocktails.
Conclusions
T. aurantiacus produces a complement of secreted proteins capable of higher levels of saccharification of pretreated switchgrass than T. terrestris enzymes. The T. aurantiacus enzymatic cocktail performs at the same level as commercially available enzymatic cocktail for biomass deconstruction, without strain development or genetic modifications. Therefore, T. aurantiacus provides an excellent platform to develop a thermophilic fungal system for enzyme production for the conversion of biomass to biofuels.
Keywords
Thermoascus aurantiacus
Thielavia terrestris
- GH 61
- Polysaccharide monooxygenases
- Fungal secretome
- Ammonia fiber expansion
- Ionic liquid
- 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate
- Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Background
The secretomes of thermophilic fungi have been recently identified as promising sources of enzymes for improving the biochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels [1]. Readily culturable thermophilic fungi are saprophytic and found in a range of environments, such as compost, where decomposition of organic matter occurs at elevated temperatures [2]. Glycoside hydrolase (GH) enzymes from thermophilic fungi function from 60–80°C [1, 3–5], whereas commercial fungal cocktails produced by mesophilic fungi perform optimally at 50°C. Performing saccharifications of pretreated biomass at elevated temperatures contributes to increased conversion rates [6] resulting in shorter incubation times and lower enzyme loadings, as well as reducing the risk of downstream contamination by competing microorganisms for fermentable sugars. Therefore, thermophilic fungi may provide new enzymatic cocktails that are optimized for the industrial biochemical conversion of biomass to sugars for fermentation to biofuels.
Prior to fermentation, lignocellulosic biomass (e.g., corn stover, switchgrass) is typically pretreated chemically to reduce its recalcitrant properties. Pretreatment increases the efficiency of subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis of plant polysaccharides. Certain ionic liquids (ILs) have shown excellent promise in generating cellulose from biomass that readily hydrolyzed by enzymatic cocktails [7]. The majority of ILs that are effective biomass solvents are also toxic to microbes, however fungi have been shown to grow in the presence of high concentrations of some ILs [8]. Recently, a strain of the thermotolerant fungus Aspergillus fumigatus was grown on switchgrass in the presence of 5% 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride, abbreviated as [C4mim]Cl, secreting high amounts of cellulase and hemicellulase enzymes. These GHs were shown to retain residual activity in up to 20% [C4mim]Cl [9]. In addition, increased IL tolerance has been demonstrated for thermophilic glycoside hydrolases from bacteria [10, 11] and archaea [12], suggesting a correlation between thermotolerance and IL tolerance. Therefore, thermophilic fungal enzymes may express enzymes that are tolerant to residual IL present in pretreated biomass, enabling a more cost-effective IL conversion process with minimal washing required after pretreatment.
In addition, culture supernatants of thermophilic fungi have been instrumental in identifying new accessory proteins that improve cellulose hydrolysis. Increased glucose release from pretreated barley straw was observed with mixtures of Cellulclast and Novozymes 188 cocktails supplemented with thermophilic fungal crude extracts, indicating that thermophilic fungi produce enhancers for cellulose hydrolysis [13]. Biochemical and proteomic studies identified these enhancement factors as proteins that are members of GH family 61. Addition of purified GH61 proteins from thermophilic fungi Thielavia terrestris or Thermoascus aurantiacus to a commercial Trichoderma reesei enzyme cocktail gave improved cellulose hydrolysis, resulting in 2-fold lower protein loading requirements [14]. Detailed characterization of GH61 from Thermoascus aurantiacus demonstrated that these proteins are Cu-containing monoxygenases that oxidize cellulose chains, facilitating glycoside hydrolase depolymerization [15]. These discoveries demonstrate the potential for studying thermophilic fungi as sources of proteins to improve hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass.
Our aim is to gain an understanding of the mechanisms that thermophilic fungi use to deconstruct biomass and develop industrially relevant enzyme cocktails for saccharification of pretreated biomass. Previous studies of thermophilic fungi have indicated that Thielavia terrestris and Thermoascus aurantiacus are promising species for the production of a thermophilic enzymatic cocktail for a lignocellulose deconstruction [13]. In this work, enzymatic hydrolytic activities of supernatants from T. aurantiacus and T. terrestris grown on untreated and chemically pretreated biomass were compared. This comparison, performed on artificial biomass substrates and pretreated biomass, established T. aurantiacus as a promising system to develop thermophilic enzymatic cocktails.
Results
Growth of thermophilic fungi on biomass substrates
Thielavia terrestis NRRL 8126 and Thermoascus aurantiacus ATCC 26904 were cultured on ethanol-extracted switchgrass (SG), ammonia fiber expansion treated switchgrass (AFEX-SG), 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ([C2mim][OAc]) treated switchgrass (IL-SG), and microcrystalline cellulose (MCC, Sigma #435244) for 3 days at 50°C. Culture supernatants were separated from fungal mycelia and remaining solids by filtration. The protein concentrations of the supernatants were estimated using both Bradford and BCA methods (Table 1). Since the BCA method is sensitive to the reducing sugars present in the supernatant, the proteins were precipitated using acetone to remove components that may interfere with the protein assay [16]. Values using either assay were comparable, except those generated with AFEX-SG; the higher levels of protein observed by SDS-PAGE in the supernatants from the AFEX-SG grown cultures were more consistent with the estimates obtained for the Bradford assay (see below).
Table 1
Estimated protein concentrations of culture supernatants using two protein assay methods
1
Strain | Carbon source | Bradford method (mg/mL) | BCA method (mg/mL) |
|---|---|---|---|
| SG | 1.0 ± 0.2 | 1.1 ± 0.1 |
AFEX SG | 5.7 ± 0.2 | 2.1 ± 0.1 | |
IL SG | 2.1 ± 0.1 | 2.0 ± 0.1 | |
MCC | 0.9 ± 0.3 | - | |
| SG | 0.8 ± 0.2 | 1.1 ± 0.1 |
AFEX SG | 3.1 ± 0.1 | 1.3 ± 0.1 | |
IL SG | 1.5 ± 0.2 | 1.0 ± 0.1 | |
MCC | 1.4 ± 0.2 | - |
Supernatant activities on artificial substrates
Table 2
Secreted cellulase and hemicellulase activities (U/mg or mU/mg) from thermophilic fungi grown on complex biomass substrates
1,2,3
Strain/Carbon source | CMC (U/mg) | pNPC (mU/mg) | pNPG (mU/mg) | Xylan (U/mg) | pNPX (mU/mg) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||
Switchgrass | 0.17 ± 0.03 | 34.4 ± 1.31 | 177.3 ± 2.71 | 0.67 ± 0.01 | 8.8 ± 0.81 |
AFEX Switchgrass | 0.04 ± 0.01 | 25.7 ± 0.40 | 45.6 ± 1.71 | 0.10 ± 0.02 | 12.4 ± 1.63 |
IL Switchgrass | 0.02 ± 0.01 | 9.8 ± 0.26 | 54.8 ± 0.43 | 0.35 ± 0.01 | 10.3 ± 1.09 |
Microcrystalline Cellulose | 1.94 ± 0.22 | 12.5 ± 1.60 | 93.8 ± 12.86 | 1.90 ± 0.62 | 6.92 ± 0.49 |
| |||||
Switchgrass | 0.79 ± 0.02 | 11.3 ± 0.62 | 26.1 ± 1.14 | 2.44 ± 0.38 | 5.7 ± 0.47 |
AFEX Switchgrass | 0.24 ± 0.01 | 3.7 ± 0.07 | 5.7 ± 1.21 | 0.66 ± 0.05 | 0.8 ± 0.37 |
IL Switchgrass | 0.23 ± 0.02 | 7.8 ± 0.25 | 5.7 ± 0.23 | 1.02 ± 0.05 | 3.8 ± 0.41 |
Microcrystalline Cellulose | 1.24 ± 0.23 | 16.2 ± 4.38 | 6.9 ± 1.76 | 3.27 ± 1.12 | 4.17 ± 1.27 |
Prominent band | Description | Predicted MW | Peptides (95%)1 | % Sequence coverage (95)2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
∼50 kDa | Possible GH 7 Cellobiohydrolase [GenBank: CAD79781] | 48 kDa | 250 | 72 |
∼35 kDa | GH 5 Endoglucanase [GenBank: CAZ67882]/GH10 Xylanase [GenBank: CAB65468] | 37 kDa/36 kDa | 249/176 | 72/65 |
∼25 kDa | GH 61 [PDB: 3ZUD_A] | 24 kDa | 60 | 93 |
Discussion
In this work, we have shown that culture supernatant recovered from growth of T. aurantiacus on AFEX-SG exhibited high levels of saccharification activity on IL-SG. The higher levels of protein in the supernatants from the AFEX-SG grown supernatants may be due to additional nitrogenous compounds formed during the AFEX process [18]. The T. aurantiacus activity was 2–4 fold higher than the culture supernatant from T. terrestris at comparable protein amounts. CMCase activity was not predictive of saccharification activity, as supernatants from T. aurantiacus showed up to 11.5-fold lower activity on CMC compared to supernatants from T. terrestris. Cellobiohydrolase (pNPC) and β-glucosidase (pNPG) activities correlated with overall saccharification activities, demonstrating that exo-acting cellulases are critical for efficient saccharification of cellulose to glucose [19].
T. aurantiacus supernatant saccharification activities were comparable to the commercial enzymatic mixture Cellic CTec2 at 50°C at similar protein mass loadings and retained higher levels of activity up to 70°C. The temperature stability of the T. aurantiacus enzyme mixture is consistent with assays performed on purified endoglucanase and cellobiohydrolase enzymes from T. aurantiacus strains [4]. Cellic CTec2 has been shown to produce oxidized sugar products gluconic acid and cellobionic acid, suggesting the presence of GH61, a recently discovered Cu-containing cellulose monoxygenase expressed by many fungi, in the enzyme mixtures [20]. GH 61 from T. aurantiacus has been shown to reduce enzyme loadings 2-fold with Celluclast/N188 enzymatic cocktails from Novozymes and to be part of a cellulose oxidoreductase enzymatic system with cellobiose dehydrogenase that is synergistic with the well-studied hydrolytic system [13, 15]. The presence of a prominent band in the corresponding to a GH61 protein at ∼25 kDA in SDS-PAGE analysis of the T. aurantiacus supernatants suggests that it may contribute to the high observed saccharification activity of T aurantiacus supernatants. The observed dominance of GH7, GH5, GH61 and GH10 in the AFEX-SG grown T. aurantiacus supernatants is similar to the GH profile of an optimal mixture of enzymes for glucose release from pretreated corn stover that was designed through computational modeling and high-throughput assays, a method referred to as GENPLANT [21]. The similarity between the GENPLANT-designed cocktail and the T. aurantiacus supernatants suggests that T. aurantiacus possesses very favorable properties for efficient cellulose hydrolysis.
Using chemical/UV mutagenesis and plate-based screeing, strains of Trichoderma reesei have been developed that secrete large amounts of cellulases and these strains are the basis for industrial production of cellulases for biomass deconstruction [22]. T. aurantiacus is an attractive candidate for a similar program of mutagenesis and screening, because it already secretes large amounts of cellulase enzymes, as demonstrated in the work described here, and it has a readily observed sexual state that could be used to select for specific mutations to enhance secretion of cellulases and remove deleterious mutations that accumulate during random mutagenesis and screening [23]. Therefore, T. aurantiacus has the potential to be a useful fungal species to understand cellulase secretion and biomass deconstruction under thermophilic conditions.
In conclusion, cultivation of T. aurantiacus and T. terrestris on biomass substrates revealed that T. aurantiacus grown on AFEX-pretreated switchgrass afforded high levels of cellulase enzymes in culture supernatants that were used to saccharify pretreated switchgrass at higher temperature and lower protein loadings than Cellic CTec2. Proteomic analysis of the supernatant demonstrated that the high activity could be attributed to the presence of high levels of proteins from the GH5, GH7, GH10 and GH61 families, which have been shown to be key enzymes in efficient cellulose hydrolysis. This work demonstrates that T. aurantiacus is a promising platform for the production of thermophilic enzymes for biomass deconstruction [1].
Methods
Materials
Fungal strains Thermoascus aurantiacus ATCC 26904 and Thielavia terrestris NRRL 8126 were obtained from American Type Cell Culture Collection. The fungal strains were maintained on potato dextorse agar (PDA) slants at 4°C. Ethanol-washed and [C2mim][OAc]-treated switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) were prepared as previously described [11]. Ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX)-treated and dilute acid-treated switchgrass were obtained as generous gifts and prepared using previously reported techniques [24, 25]. Composition (cellulose:xylan:lignin content as percentage) of each biomass substrate is as follows: untreated switchgrass (35.1:20:21.2), IL-SG (51:21.4:18.5), AFEX-SG (36:20.8:20), and dilute acid-treated switchgrass (54:7.8:31.5). All chemicals, media, and other substrates were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO) unless otherwise noted.
Thermophilic fungal cultivation
For each fungal strain, spores from a PDA slant were used to inoculate 50 mL of potato dextrose broth (PDB) and cultured at 50°C, 150 rpm. The seed culture was used to inoculate 50 mL culture flasks with biomass substrate (10 g/L), corn steep liquor (50% solids, concentrate of corn solubles) (10 g/L), sodium chloride (2 g/L), potassium phosphate (5 g/L), calcium chloride dihydrate (0.1 g/L), magnesium chloride heptahydrate (0.5 g/L), zinc (II) sulfate heptahydrate (0.002 g/L), manganese (II) chloride tetrahydrate (0.008 g/L), iron (II) sulfate heptahydrate (0.001 g/L), copper (II) sulfate heptahydrate (0.006 g/L), cobalt (II) chloride hexahydrate (0.0002 g/L) and adjusted to pH 5 prior to autoclaving. Fungi were cultured at 50°C, 150 rpm for 3 days. After cultivation, cultures were filtered with Miracloth (EMD Millipore, Billerica, MA) to remove mycelia, followed by a 0.45-μm filter with a cellulose acetate membrane (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA) for spore removal. The clarified supernatant was stored at 4°C. Crude enzymes were produced in duplicate cultures and used for all subsequent experiments.
Protein and glycoside hydrolase assays
Protein concentrations were determined using both Bradford assay (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA) and bicinchoninic (BCA) assay (Pierce® BCA Protein Assay Kit, Thermo Scientific, Rockford, IL) methods using a 96-well plate (200 μL reaction volume) with bovine serum albumin as the standard. For BCA samples and standards, proteins were first precipitated with acetone and resuspended in 50 mM sodium acetate before measuring final concentration to remove interfering sugar residues [26]. All specific activities reported in this work were calculated using Bradford protein values. Endoglucanase and xylanase activities were assessed using the DNS (3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid) method using carboxymethylcellulose and birchwood xylan as substrates, respectively, with either glucose or xylose as the standard [27]. The enzyme reaction volume was 80 μL followed by 80 μL of DNS solution to measure released reducing sugars. One unit (U) of cellulase or xylanase activity was defined as the amount of crude protein releasing μmol of reducing sugar per min per mL of supernatant volume. Cellobiohydrolase (pNPC), β-d-glucosidase (pNPG), and β-d-xylosidase (pNPX) activities were determined using their respective p-nitrophenyl sugar substrates. 90 μL of sugar substrate was incubated with 10 μL of diluted enzyme, incubated for 30 min and quenched with 50 μL of 2% cold sodium bicarbonate. The absorbance of released p-nitrophenol was measured at 410 nm. Activities using p-nitrophenyl substrates were calculated as μmol p-nitrophenol released min-1 mg-1 crude protein. Due to possibility of color interference of the crude enzymes, samples were heat killed at 95°C overnight and used to remove background.
Biomass saccharification
Saccharifications were performed in the presence of 2% (w/v) of AFEX-SG, IL-SG, or dilute-acid pretreated switchgrass. Each mixture was prepared in 50 mM sodium acetate, pH 5.0 with the designated amount of enzymes (g protein per g glucan in biomass), which were added after the reaction mixture was prewarmed to the reaction temperature to a final volume of 1 mL in a 1.5 mL Eppendorf tube. Saccharifications were carried out at specified temperatures in a shaker for 72 hours. In time-course studies on IL-SG (5 mL, performed in 15 mL Falcon tubes), 500 μL samples were removed at designated time points. All hydrolysates were collected via centrifugation at 21,000xg for 5 min and 0.45-μm filtered to remove large biomass particles prior to sugar analysis. After filtration, samples were kept frozen at −20°C and thawed prior to analysis. Glucose and cellobiose concentrations were measured on an Agilent 1200 Series HPLC system equipped with an Aminex HPX-87H column (Bio-Rad) and Refractive Index Detector. Samples were run with an isocratic 4 mM sulfuric acid mobile phase. Sugar concentrations were determined using standards containing both glucose and cellobiose. Glucan conversion (mass of glucose plus cellobiose) was calculated using estimated glucan contents of pretreated switchgrass.
Proteomic analysis of thermophilic fungal secretomes
For SDS-PAGE analysis, supernatants were concentrated 50-fold with 10,000 MWCO PES ultrafiltration column (Vivaspin 500, Sartorius, Germany), loaded onto an 8 – 16% Tris-glycine Mini gel (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) and run at 130 V for 90 minutes. Gels were stained with GelCode Blue Safe Protein Stain (Thermo Scientific). After staining and extensive rinsing, target protein bands were excised and digested using trypsin [28].
Samples were analyzed on an ABSciex TripleTOF 5600 (ABSciex, Foster City, CA) coupled to Eskigent nano-lc systems (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA). Peptide samples were injected onto a Pepmap100 μ-guard column (Dionex, Sunnyvale, CA) via a Famos Autosampler (Dionex) and washed for 10 minutes with Buffer A (2% Acetonitrile, 0.1% Formic Acid) at 15 μL/min. Peptides were eluted onto an Acclaim Pepmap100 C18 column (75 μm x 150 mm, 300 nL/min flow rate; Dionex) via a gradient consisting of initial starting condition of 5% buffer B (98% Acetonitrile, 0.1% Formic Acid), increasing B to 10% in 2 minutes followed by a 58 minute ramp to 35% B. Subsequently, B was increased to 90% over 3 minutes and held for 7 minutes followed by a ramp back down to 5% B for 15 minutes to re-equilibrate the column to the original condition. Peptides were introduced to the mass spectrometer by using a Nanospray III source (ABSciex) operating in positive-ion mode (2400 V) and data acquired with Analyst TF 1.5.1. The TripleTOF 5600 was operated in information dependent acquisition (IDA) mode whereby the ten most intense ions within 400 m/z to 1250 m/z mass range exceeding 150 counts (charge states 2–5) were selected for MS/MS analysis (high sensitivity mode, UNIT resolution with rolling collision energy). MS/MS spectra were scanned from 100 m/z to 1600 m/z and were collected for a total accumulation time of 200 ms. Former parent ions were excluded for 16 seconds following MS/MS acquisition. The acquired spectra were exported as.mgf files from Peakview version 1.1.1 (ABSciex) and processed with Mascot version 2.3.02 with a peptide tolerance of ±50 ppm and MS/MS tolerance of ±0.1 Da; variable modification was Oxidation (M) with up to one missed cleavage for trypsin. As a limited number of protein sequences from Thermoascus aurantiacus are available, searches were performed against sequenced T. aurantaicus proteins available in GenBank combined with a full ORF database from Thielavia terrestris obtained through the Genome Portal of the Joint Genome Institute [29], a list of common contaminants (e.g., trypsin, human keratin) and consisted of 10,007 sequences. Mascot DAT files were uploaded into Scaffold version 3.5 and searched via X!Tandem with the same sequences and parameters.
Abbreviations
- AFEX:
Ammonia Fiber Expansion pretreatment
- BCA:
Bicinchronic Acid
- bG:
beta-Glucosidase
- [C2mim][OAc]:
1-ethyl, 3-methyl imidazolium acetate
- CBH:
Cellobiohydrolase
- CMC:
Carboxymethyl Cellulose
- IL:
Iionic Liquid pretreatment (in this work, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate)
- MCC:
Microcrystalline Cellulose
- SG:
Switchgrass.
Declarations
Acknowledgements
Novozymes (Davis, CA) is acknowledged for the generous gift of enzyme cocktails (Cellic CTec2). Bruce Dale (Michigan State University; Great Lakes Bioenergy Center) is acknowledged for providing AFEX-treated switchgrass and Mike Himmel (National Renewable Energy Laboratory; BioEnergy Science Center) is acknowledged for providing dilute acid-treated switchgrass. We thank Dr. Ken Vogel at the United States Department of Agriculture, Lincoln, NE, for supplying switchgrass. This work was performed as part of the DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute (http://www.jbei.org) supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, through contract DE-AC02-05CH11231 between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy.
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