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Learning and animal movement
(2021)
Integrating diverse concepts from animal behavior, movement ecology, and machine learning, we develop an overview of the ecology of learning and animal movement. Learning-based movement is clearly relevant to ecological problems, but the subject is rooted firmly in psychology, including a distinct terminology. We contrast this psychological origin of learning with the task-oriented perspective on learning that has emerged from the field of machine learning. We review conceptual frameworks that characterize the role of learning in movement, discuss emerging trends, and summarize recent developments in the analysis of movement data. We also discuss the relative advantages of different modeling approaches for exploring the learning-movement interface. We explore in depth how individual and social modalities of learning can matter to the ecology of animal movement, and highlight how diverse kinds of field studies, ranging from translocation efforts to manipulative experiments, can provide critical insight into the learning process in animal movement.
Background: Filamentous fungi are excellent lignocellulose degraders, which they achieve through producing carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes). CAZyme production is highly orchestrated and gene expression analysis has greatly expanded understanding of this important biotechnological process. The thermophilic fungus Thermoascus aurantiacus secretes highly active thermostable enzymes that enable saccharifications at higher temperatures; however, the genome-wide measurements of gene expression in response to CAZyme induction are not understood. Results: A fed-batch system with plant biomass-derived sugars D-xylose, L-arabinose and cellobiose established that these sugars induce CAZyme expression in T. aurantiacus. The C5 sugars induced both cellulases and hemicellulases, while cellobiose specifically induced cellulases. A minimal medium formulation was developed to enable gene expression studies of T. aurantiacus with these inducers. It was found that d-xylose and L-arabinose strongly induced a wide variety of CAZymes, auxiliary activity (AA) enzymes and carbohydrate esterases (CEs), while cellobiose facilitated lower expression of mostly cellulase genes. Furthermore, putative orthologues of different unfolded protein response genes were up-regulated during the C5 sugar feeding together with genes in the C5 sugar assimilation pathways. Conclusion: This work has identified two additional CAZyme inducers for T. aurantiacus, L-arabinose and cellobiose, along with D-xylose. A combination of biochemical assays and RNA-seq measurements established that C5 sugars induce a suite of cellulases and hemicellulases, providing paths to produce broad spectrum thermotolerant enzymatic mixtures.
In times of global climate change and the fear of dwindling resources, we are facing different considerable challenges such as the replacement of fossil fuel–based energy carriers with the coincident maintenance of the increasing energy supply of our growing world population. Therefore, CO2 capturing and H2 storing solutions are urgently needed. In this study, we demonstrate the production of a functional and biotechnological interesting enzyme complex from acetogenic bacteria, the hydrogen-dependent CO2 reductase (HDCR), in the well-known model organism Escherichia coli. We identified the metabolic bottlenecks of the host organisms for the production of the HDCR enzyme complex. Here we show that the recombinant expression of a heterologous enzyme complex transforms E. coli into a whole-cell biocatalyst for hydrogen-driven CO2 reduction to formate without the need of any external co-factors or endogenous enzymes in the reaction process. This shifts the industrial platform organism E. coli more and more into the focus as biocatalyst for CO2-capturing and H2-storage. Key points: A functional HDCR enzyme complex was heterologously produced in E. coli; The metabolic bottlenecks for HDCR production were identified; HDCR enabled E. coli cell to capture and store H2 and CO2 in the form of formate.
In Zeiten der globalen Klimaerwärmung und des Klimawandels werden Strategien zur Vermeidung, Reduzierung oder Wiederverwertung von CO2-Emissionen sowie die Abkehr von fossilen Energieträgern immer wichtiger. Aus diesem Grund finden Technologien zur Bindung, Speicherung und Wiederverwertung von CO2 immer größere Aufmerksamkeit und diverse chemische als auch biologische Ansätze werden verfolgt. Eine dieser Möglichkeiten umfasst die Reduktion von CO2 mit Hilfe von molekularem Wasserstoff. Im Prozess der direkten Hydrogenierung von CO2 zu Ameisensäure bzw. Formiat wird nicht nur CO2 gebunden, sondern ebenfalls H2 in flüssiger Form gespeichert. Die Ameisensäure weist gegenüber dem hochflüchtigen Wasserstoffgas verschiedene Vorteile auf und zählt zu der Gruppe der flüssigen, organischen Wasserstoffspeicherverbindungen. Daneben ist das Einsatzgebiet von Ameisensäure als Ausgangstoff für Chemikalien oder als mikrobielle Kohlenstoffquelle sehr vielseitig und die Verbindung erfreut sich zunehmenden Interesses.
Die Natur hält biologische Katalysatoren (Enzyme) für die Reduktion von CO2 bereit. Die Gruppe der obligat anaeroben, acetogenen Bakterien verwendet so genannte Formiatdehydrogenasen als CO2-Reduktasen, um CO2 im Wood-Ljungdahl-Weg (WLP) der Bakterien fixieren zu können. Diese Enzyme katalysieren die reversible 2-Elektronen Reduktion von CO2 zu Ameisensäure. Kürzlich konnte aus den beiden Vertretern A. woodii (mesophil) und T. kivui (thermophil) ein neuartiger, cytoplasmatischer Enzymkomplex isoliert werden. Dieser Enzymkomplex koppelt die Reduktion von CO2 direkt an die Oxidation von H2 und wird deshalb als Wasserstoff-abhängige CO2-Reduktase bezeichnet (engl. hydrogen-dependent CO2 reductase, HDCR). Die HDCR katalysiert dabei die reversible Hydrogenierung von CO2 zu Formiat mit annähernd gleicher Kinetik und gleichen Umsatzraten. Die bei der CO2 Reduktion erreichten Umsatzraten übertrafen dabei bisherige chemische als auch biologische Katalysatoren um mehre Größenordnungen.
Im Hinblick auf die besonderen katalytischen Eigenschaften der HDCRs wurde in dieser Arbeit die biotechnologische Anwendbarkeit der Enzyme als Biokatalysatoren zur Speicherung und Sequestrierung von H2 und CO2 in Form von Ameisensäure untersucht. Im Speziellen wurde ein HDCR-basiertes Ganz-Zell-System für das thermophile Bakterium T. kivui entwickelt. Um eine Ganz-Zell basierte Umwandlung von H2 und CO2 zu Formiat zu gewährleisten, wurde zuvor die Weiterverwertung des Formiats zu Acetat im WLP gestoppt. Durch eine Reduktion des zellulären ATP-Gehalts konnte eine weitere Prozessierung des aus der HDCR-Reaktion gebildeten Formiats im Zellstoffwechsel des Bakteriums unterbunden werden. Die Formiatbildung aus H2 und CO2 wurde in Zellsuspensionen von T. kivui untersucht und charakterisiert. Hier zeigten T. kivui Zellen die höchste spezifische Formiatbildungsrate, die bis dato in der Literatur genannt wurde. Ebenfalls wurde in dieser Arbeit die Umwandlung von Synthesegas (H2 + CO2 und CO) und CO zu Formiat geprüft. Bioenergetisch entkoppelte und auf CO-adaptierte T. kivui Zellen konnten in der Tat Synthesegas exklusiv zu Formiat umsetzen. Um die CO-Verwertung zu Acetat und Formiat im Stoffwechsel der Rnf- (A. woodii) und Ech-Acetogenen (T. kivui) verstehen zu können, wurden Mutanten von Δhdcr, ΔcooS, ΔhydBA, Δrnf and Δech2 von A. woodii und T. kivui zur Hilfe genommen. In beiden Organismen war die CO-basierte Formiatbildung vom Vorhandensein eines funktionalen HDCR-Enzymkomplexes abhängig.
Für eine mögliche biotechnologische Anwendung wurde die Maßstabsvergrößerung des Ganz-Zell-Systems angestrebt und hin zum Bioreaktormaßstab mit kontrollierten Prozessbedingungen skaliert. Diese Arbeit demonstriert die effiziente Umwandlung von H2 und CO2 zu Formiat und vice versa unter Verwendung eines Rührkesselreaktors. Der Prozess zeigte eine Effizienz von 100% für die Umwandlung von CO2 zu Formiat und spezifische Raten von 48.3 mmol g-1 h-1 wurden von A. woodii Zellen erreicht. Die spezifische H2-Produktionsrate (qH2) aus der Ameisensäureoxidation betrug 27.6 mmol g-1 h-1 und mehr als 2.12 M Ameisensäure konnte über einen Zeitraum von 195 h oxidiert werden. Wichtige Parameter der Enzymkatalyse wie Wechselzahl (engl. turnover frequency, TOF) und katalytische Produktivität (engl. turnover number, TON) wurden ebenfalls im Versuch bestimmt. Basierend auf dem generierten Prozessverständnis und der effizienten Reversibilität der katalysierten Reaktionen wurde abschließend ein Ganz-Zell-basierter Bioreaktoraufbau gewählt, der die vielfache Speicherung und Freisetzung von H2 in einem einzigen Rührkesselreaktor und unter Verwendung des gleichen Katalysators ermöglicht. Über eine Prozesszeit von 2 Wochen und 15 CO2 Reduktions-/Formiat Oxidations-Zyklen konnte so im Mittel 330 mM Formiat produziert und oxidiert werden.
Zusammenfassend thematisiert diese Arbeit die biotechnologische Anwendbarkeit eines Ganz-Zell-Systems zur Speicherung und Sequestrierung von H2 und CO2 in Form von Formiat und vice versa. Die katalytische Aktivität der betrachteten Organismen fußt dabei auf der Aktivität eines neuartigen Enzymkomplexes, der erstmals in der Gruppe der acetogenen Bakterien entdeckt wurde. Der als Wasserstoff-abhängige CO2-Reduktase bezeichnete Enzymkomplex könnte die zukünftige Konzipierung Enzym-inspirierter und effizienter chemischer Katalysatoren vorantreiben. Auch der Einsatz des Enzyms/der Zellen in so genannten Hydrogelen oder die Etablierung elektrochemischer Prozesse sind vorstellbar. Diese Arbeit stellt somit eine Basis für mögliche zukünftige Anwendungen des etablierten Ganz-Zell-Systems von A. woodii und T. kivui im Bereich der Wasserstoffökonomie dar.
In the published article, there was an error regarding the affiliation for Diana Abondano Almeida. As well as having affiliation 2, they should also have Department of Wildlife-/Zoo-Animal-Biology and Systematics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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