euglena gracilis contributions to the environment

28, 15871592. To the best of our knowledge, there are currently no reports of a commercial -tocopherol production using E. gracilis. doi: 10.1007/s11746-017-3050-7, Maurice, L.Q., Lander, H., Edwards, T., and Harrison, W.E. Metabol. 70, 27202726. Thermoplasticization of euglenoid -1,3-glucans by mixed esterification. However, further studies are needed to confirm this proposed regulatory role. (2018). Rep. 6, 18. The effect of -glucans on porcine leukocytes. Sci. Phycol. In a heterogeneous environment, the cells move into the red circle. Nevertheless, ascorbate and other bioproducts like vitamin E remain an important component of commercially available food supplements based on E. gracilis cell mass (Barsanti and Gualtieri, 2018). doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2018.02.001, Barsanti, L., Passarelli, V., Evangelista, V., Frassanito, A.M., and Gualtieri, P. (2011). Sci. Initial transcriptomic studies indicated that amino acid synthesis pathways in E. gracilis were similar to those used by plants and bacteria (O'Neill et al., 2015b). (2014). Photosynthesis of Euglena gracilis under cobalamin-sufficient and -limited growing conditions. doi: 10.1080/00021369.1986.10867518, Shigeoka, S., Toshio, O., Yoshihisa, N., and Shozaburo, K. (1987). Fish Shellfish Immunol. PLoS ONE 8, 16. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.2709, PubMed Abstract | CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar, Ak Sonat, F., Alcay, S., Toker, M.B., Peker, S., and Ustuner, B. They possess two flagellae, one long, one short, which can allow the organisms to move. The 8-desaturase of Euglena gracilis: an alternate pathway for synthesis of 20-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids. 78, 110. In principle, enzymatic hydrolysis and conversion processes could be applied to paramylon. Biophys. Mol. 245, 274282. Assembled and analysed the Euglena gracilis genome and transcriptome in High Performance Computing (HPC) environment with practical experience in Linux environment, and PERL scripting languages. 50, 10631065. 21, 114. Another way to produce biogas consisting mostly of methane from microalgal biomass is through anaerobic digestion by a consortium of microorganisms. The study showed that Agrobacterium-mediated transformation was superior to electroporation and biolistic bombardment, resulting in stable E. gracilis transformants. Contribution to journal Article peer-review Cell 5, 11751183. Phytoplankton play a vital role in the aquatic ecosystem [1,2].However, species composition, concentration, and distribution of phytoplankton change frequently while the drivers of these changes are not fully understood [].Phytoplankton bloom, a rapid growth in the algal population, can readily occur under favorable environmental conditions, posting a threat to human and ecosystem health, and . J. Biol. Paramylon also can act as a potent antioxidant protecting mice from acute hepatic injury induced by CCl4 treatment and was shown to alleviate non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in mice caused by a combination of streptozocin injection and high fat diet when orally administered at a dosage of 1 or 3 g/kg bodyweight (BW) per day, respectively (Sugiyama et al., 2009; Nakashima et al., 2018a). doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.09.167, Nakashima, A., Yamada, K., Iwata, O., Sugimoto, R., Atsuji, K., Ogawa, T., et al. (2018). J. Phycol. The flagellum they use for locomotion, which is slightly shorter than its body, beats by spinning at 40 Hz in close proximity to the cell body ().As for most flagellates, the swimming motion of E. gracilis is rototraslatory and inherently 3D. For example, knock-down of the starch degradation kinases 1 and 2 using RNAi was shown to lead to a 1.2 and 1.4-fold increase in WE accumulation, respectively, under anaerobic growth conditions (Kimura and Ishikawa, 2018). Wax ester and lipophilic compound profiling of Euglena gracilis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry: toward understanding of wax ester fermentation under hypoxia. Korn, E.D. Acta (BBA) Enzymol. Mol. doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2018.08.007, Traber, M.G. 11, 28082820. Euglena gracilis can accumulate large amounts of the reserve polysaccharide paramylon, a -1,3-glucan, which can constitute over 80% (w/w) of the dry weight (DW, biomass dried to a constant weight without oxidation) (Barsanti et al., 2001; Sun et al., 2018). Food Chem. J. Chem. doi: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2012.12.002. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02009, Rodrguez-Zavala, J.S., Ortiz-Cruz, M.A., Mendoza-Hernndez, G., and Moreno-Snchez, R. (2010). doi: 10.2174/0929867003374705, Papadaki, A., Mallouchos, A., Efthymiou, M.-N., Gardeli, C., Kopsahelis, N., Aguieiras, E.C.G., et al. Algal Res. doi: 10.1007/s00449-015-1363-1. DW titres per L of MT cultures have been shown to fall short of HT cultures in comparative experiments by around 30% (w/w), although it has been suggested that the PT and HT metabolisms could complement each other under MT conditions (Ogbonna et al., 2002; Hasan et al., 2017). Functional characterization of D-galacturonic acid reductase, a key enzyme of the ascorbate biosynthesis pathway, from Euglena gracilis. doi: 10.1002/fsn3.828, Nakashima, A., Suzuki, K., Asayama, Y., Konno, M., Saito, K., Yamazaki, N., et al. 2019). Trends Plant Sci. Comparison of the methods for determining degree of polymerization of water-insoluble -1,3-glucans. doi: 10.1006/abbi.1999.1167, Wang, Y., Seppnen-Laakso, T., Rischer, H., and Wiebe, M.G. Also, development of molecular tools for strain improvement are emerging rapidly, making E. gracilis a noteworthy challenger for microalgae such as Chlorella spp. doi: 10.1016/j.fsi.2018.04.003, Yamane, Y.-,I., Utsunomiya, T., Watanabe, M., and Sasaki, K. (2001). The deduced amino acid sequence of the cDNA shows 79%, 79%, 79% and 80% similarity to human, mouse, Danio rerio MMAAs and M. extorquens MeaB, respectively. doi: 10.3945/an.114.006254, Tucci, S., Vacula, R., Krajcovic, J., Proksch, P., and Martin, W. (2010). 13, 5965. Paramylon, which is exclusively found in euglenoids is already present in the market as a potent immunostimulatory agent. 16, 3441. Appl. J. Biochem. In the first step of this process, E. gracilis is cultivated under inexpensive PT conditions (Arashida and Mitra, 2015). Sci. Future challenges include achieving the economy of large-scale cultivation. U.S. Patent No 7.645,604. Scope of algae as third generation biofuels. In this context, E. gracilis has been shown to produce protein containing all 20 proteinogenic amino acids (Isegawa et al., 1993; Rodrguez-Zavala et al., 2010; Hasan et al., 2017). Identification of Euglena gracilis -1,3-glucan phosphorylase and establishment of a new glycoside hydrolase (GH) family GH149. The performance of paramylon in this study was as effective as or more effective than two commercially available -glucan products for animal feed that were derived from yeast (Levine et al., 2013). Two alternative metabolic routes to -carotene have been identified biochemically or via transcriptomics in E. gracilis: the methylerythritol phosphate and the mevalonate pathway (Disch et al., 1998; Kim et al., 2004; O'Neill et al., 2015b). The direct contribution to prey capture represents a novel function . Euglena gracilis has a pathway for the synthesis of EPA and subsequently DHA (Figure 2D), and the enzymes within this pathway have been characterised biochemically. doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00147. There are several factors influencing -tocopherol levels in E. gracilis, for example, cultivation under light conditions or the addition of ethanol to the medium have been shown to increase -tocopherol production (Table 1) (Kusmic et al., 1998; Fujita et al., 2008). doi: 10.1006/abbi.1993.1383, Koch, M., Lemke, R., Heise, K.-P., and Mock, H.-P. (2003). -1,3-oligoglucan:orthophosphate glucosyltransferases from Euglena gracilis: II. doi: 10.1007/s10811-013-9979-5, Malkoff, D.B., and Buetow, D.E. 270, 8492. Nutr. Euglena gracilis as source of the antioxidant vitamin E. Effects of culture conditions in the wild strain and in the natural mutant WZSL. Anti-fibrotic activity of Euglena gracilis and paramylon in a mouse model of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Eur. In vivo 3, 243247. Phycol. Figure 2. Furthermore, substantial research has been performed to improve the WE yields specifically. Determination of the nutritive value of Euglena gracilis protein by in vitro digestion experiments and rat feeding tests. (2012). doi: 10.1002/apj.1805, Yamada, K., Suzuki, H., Takeuchi, T., Kazama, Y., Mitra, S., Abe, T., et al. Cancer Lett. J. Phycol. A green and efficient technology for sequential extraction of lipid and paramylon from Euglena gracilisEuglena gracilis (2016). 25, 90100. Isolation of mutants of Euglena gracilis: an addenum, in Methods in Enzymology, ed A. San Pietro (Cambridge: Academic Press), 2329. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2008.06.039, Rice, P.J., Adams, E.L., Ozment-Skelton, T., Gonzalez, A.J., Goldman, M.P., Lockhart, B.E., et al. We address this by genome, RNA and protein sequencing: the E. gracilis genome is >2Gb, with 36,526 predicted proteins. The vicious cycle of vitamin a deficiency: a review. 10, 6774. Hydrolytic endo--1,3-glucanases: random cleavage of the polysaccharide chain (Takeda et al., 2015). Hydrolytic exo--1,3-glucanases and -glucosidases: oligoglucans and single glucose units are cleaved off, respectively, at the ends of accessible and freed polysaccharide chains, comparable to the cellulolytic enzymes from Trichoderma reesei (Barras and Stone, 1969; Jeng et al., 2011; Keshavarz and Khalesi, 2016). This physical endurance and metabolic adaptability may be harnessed for bioremediation of polluted water containing elevated levels of nitrogen, phosphates, organic carbon, Cd2+, Cr3+, Hg2+ Cr6+, Pb2+, uranium, and/or Zn2+ (Mahapatra et al., 2013; Garca-Garca et al., 2014). doi: 10.1007/s11095-018-2553-8, Shibakami, M., and Sohma, M. (2018). Chem. Biochem. Fatty acid content in wild type and WZSL mutant of Euglena gracilis. Like other photosynthetic microorganisms, E. gracilis produces -carotene as a protective pigment to ward off photo-oxidative damage to chloroplasts. Biomol. It has already been used on a commercial scale for ingredients in foods and cosmetics and has undergone research in other fields too. In addition, the enzyme ascorbate peroxidase reduces excess hydrogen peroxide to water by oxidation of ascorbate (Shigeoka et al., 1980; Ishikawa et al., 2010; Hasan et al., 2017). For example, mice treated with 2,4,6-trinitrochlorobenzene, which would usually induce atopic dermatitis (AD)-like skin lesions, were fed with paramylon at 1% (w/w) of their diet. (2015). Large scale cultivation of genetically modified microalgae: a new era for environmental risk assessment. 109, 21602172. Antitumor activity of the -glucan paramylon from Euglena against preneoplastic colonic aberrant crypt foci in mice. Microscopic image of paramylon granules (B). saccharophila. 207, 8390. Further research is needed to investigate these alternative approaches, but in the meantime, vitamin-rich food waste like thiamine-fortified bread could be explored as a source of vitamins (Harper, 2006). 58, 15041505. 4, 115. Bioeng. doi: 10.1007/s00253-011-3311-6, Chae, S.R., Hwang, E.J., and Shin, H.S. For example, when preneoplastic aberrant crypt foci (marker for colon cancer risk) were induced in the colon of mice by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine treatment, the subsequent inclusion of 2% (w/w) paramylon into their diet reduced the development of colon cancer by 50% (Bird, 1995; Watanabe et al., 2013). 142, 121126. doi: 10.1271/bbb.80062, Ishikawa, T., Tajima, N., Nishikawa, H., Gao, Y., Rapolu, M., Shibata, H., et al. In an RNAi experiment, the latter enzyme has been shown to be essential for the ascorbate-dependent growth of the organism. doi: 10.3945/jn.111.148080, Disch, A., Schwender, J., Mller, C., Lichtenthaler, H.K., and Rohmer, M. (1998). doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-14077-6, Torihara, K., and Kishimoto, N. (2015). 64, 415419. Alteration of wax ester content and composition in Euglena gracilis with gene silencing of 3-ketoacyl-coa thiolase isozymes. Large . Therefore, protein sourced from E. gracilis could provide an alternative to supplement a vegetarian diet (US Department of Agriculture., 2018). Microalgae have been proposed as a source of feedstock for the production of biofuels such as biodiesel because of the high amounts of lipids, mostly FAs and WE, accumulated during the growth of some microalgal species (Matos, 2017). Molecular structure of paramylon (A). J. Appl. Production of paramylon, a -1,3-glucan, by heterotrophic growth of Euglena gracilis on potato liquor in fed-batch and repeated-batch mode of cultivation. Paramylon molecules are arranged as an intermolecular triple helix forming microfibrils, which in turn make up fibres. Growth and chemical composition of Spirulina maxima and Spirulina platensis biomass at different temperatures. Algal Res. PT cultivation of E. gracilis is currently favoured, probably due to lower cost and relative ease of set-up, but HT cultivation for higher yields of cell mass and paramylon could soon become reality. doi: 10.1007/s10811-017-1235-y, Kiss, J.Z., Vasoconcelos, A.C., and Triemer, R.E. J. 36, 111. Received: 28 December 2018; Accepted: 29 April 2019; Published: 15 May 2019. Microb. 31, 107115. Biol. Another example is the production of self-assembling -1,3-glucan nanofibres derived from paramylon (Shibakami et al., 2013a). Phytochemistry 116, 2127. Biotechnol. doi: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.08.005, Shibakami, M., Tsubouchi, G., and Hayashi, M. (2014). Biosci. Carbohydrate Polymers 196, 339347. Nutr. (2018). Sci. 30, 367373. Eng. Biochem. Consequently, it may be a viable commercial strategy to use E. gracilis to produce these high-value products with biofuel commodities as a co-product (Barsanti and Gualtieri, 2018). However, more studies would be needed to elucidate the nature of the observed effects and to confirm quantifiable benefits for the animals. World Intellectual Property Organization. J. Appl. Biogas and bio-oil can also be produced from microalgal carbohydrates via thermochemical conversion processes like gasification at high temperatures or pyrolysis in the absence of oxygen, respectively (Behera et al., 2014). 2016, Gissibl et al. Advertisement randellpierre23 Answer: J. Appl. (2017). Euglena is a rare organism that combines both plant and animal cell characteristics to efficiently absorb nutrients. 13, 195205. Microalgae-based carbohydrates for biofuel production. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.03.007, Psomiadou, E., Tsimidou, M., and Boskou, D. (2000). 54, 255259. 37, 178185. J. Clin. This is followed by the extraction of the WEs with an organic solvent and column purification, resulting in the production of a source of biofuel (Arashida and Mitra, 2015; Matos, 2017). doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.09.008, Giese, E., Dekker, R., Barbosa, A., da Silva, M., and da Silva, R. (2011). (a) Culturing Euglena gracilis Klebs as batch cultures under 210 mol m-2 s-1; (b) Euglena gracilis Klebs growing under 210 mol m-2 s-1 at the exponential phase (Images by C.K. AC is supported by a Cancer Institute New South Wales Early Career Fellowship (Project Number: ECF171114). J. Agricult. PT cultivation produces ~20-fold less biomass (between 2 and 3 g DW/L culture) compared to HT and MT cultivation (Table 1) (Grimm et al., 2015; Hasan et al., 2017). Euglena gracilis is used as model organism for various microbiological, molecular biological and biotechnological studies. (1993). doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034223, Ntefidou, M., Ldtke, T., Ahmad, M., and Hder, D.-P. (2006). 97, 322329. Rep. 7, 113. -tocopherol content of greek virgin olive oils. Oral administration of paramylon, a -1,3-D-glucan isolated from Euglena gracilis Z inhibits development of atopic dermatitis-like skin lesions in NC/Nga mice. 7:108. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00108. Enhanced curdlan production in Agrobacterium sp. doi: 10.1023/a:1008105416065, Bumer, D., Preisfeld, A., and Ruppel, H.G. Photoactivated adenylyl cyclase controls phototaxis in the flagellate Euglena gracilis. Ammonia- and light-induced degradation of paramylum in Euglena gracilis. (2001). Front. Absorption, transport, and tissue delivery of vitamin E. Mol. Res. 57, 37033714. Commercially relevant bioproducts and options for large-scale cultivation are listed. Interactions between photoautotrophic and heterotrophic metabolism in photoheterotrophic cultures of Euglena gracilis. The cell motion of Euglena gracilis in homogeneous and heterogeneous light environments was analyzed. Incubation of originally granular paramylon with bases like sodium hydroxide has been shown to yield soluble nanofibers. doi: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2011.07.018, Mahapatra, D.M., Chanakya, H.N., and Ramachandra, T.V. 8, 118. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA117.000936, Kusmic, C., Barsacchi, R., Barsanti, L., Gualtieri, P., and Passarelli, V. (1998). 79, 371378. Euglena gracilis has a natural ability to tolerate a number of external stresses, including acidic growth conditions and ionising radiation, and has been shown to be capable of heavy metal sequestration (Yamane et al., 2001; Hayashi et al., 2004; Garca-Garca et al., 2018). doi: 10.2741/4160, Harper, C. (2006). (2001). 7, 139147. Purification and properties of the -1,3-glucan exo-hydrolase. 2011; Sanghvi and Martin 2010 ). 56, 251258. Therefore, E. gracilis cell mass can be considered an excellent vitamin A supplement and could improve a vitamin A-poor diet. Some species can form green or red "blooms" in ponds or lakes. Oral delivery and gastrointestinal absorption of soluble glucans stimulate increased resistance to infectious challenge. As another target for a metabolic engineering approach, trans-2-enoyl-CoA reductase has been identified as a potentially rate-limiting enzyme in the FA synthesis pathway of E. gracilis (Inui et al., 2017). (2017). Commun. J. Pharmacol. (2018). Biotechnol. doi: 10.1016/0304-3835(95)03788-X. At this time, microalgae-derived biofuels are not economically feasible because they are not competitive with fossil fuels due to their higher production costs. A better understanding of the E. gracilis pathway for -carotene biosynthesis (Figure 2A) could hold the key to further improve the yields. Influence of fatty acid composition of raw materials on biodiesel properties. 1128, 220226. Delta-9 Elongases and Their Use in Making Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids. Biofuels 8, 8091. Food Sci. Soc. 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Euglena gracilis, which began to appear 500 million years ago, is a species of unicellular organisms that live mostly in freshwater ( Goto and Beneragama, 2010) and has no cell walls, giving it dual characteristics of plants and animals, which enable this microalga to adopt photosynthetic, heterotrophic, and mixotrophic conditions during Isolation and properties of -tocopherol methyltransferase in Euglena gracilis. For example, expression of the Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 fructose-1,6-/sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase gene in E. gracilis chloroplasts was shown to significantly enhance its photosynthetic activity, as well as the paramylon yield (by almost 2-fold), the WE yield under anaerobic conditions (~100-fold) and the biomass yield (~2-fold) (Ogawa et al., 2015). (2013). Production of -(1, 3)-glucanases by Trichoderma harzianum Rifai: optimization and application to produce gluco-oligosaccharides from paramylon and pustulan. Purification and properties of laminaribiose phosphorylase (EC 2.4. Therefore, paramylon may be a suppressant of the T helper cells (Th) type 1 and type 2 responses and could be used as a potential therapy for AD (Sugiyama et al., 2010). doi: 10.1111/bph.13625. doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2018.11.022, Kim, D., Filtz, M.R., and Proteau, P.J. (1968). Only recently, it has been shown that microwave pretreatment of the granules can be used to enhance the activity of paramylon-degrading enzymes, yielding soluble immunostimulating hydrolysis products (Gissibl et al., 2018). Biochem. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a077454, Sun, A., Hasan, M.T., Hobba, G., Nevalainen, H., and Te'o, J. Food Funct. Microb. In the Western world, major health conditions like cardiovascular and neurological diseases have been linked directly to a lack of long-chain -3 PUFAs, especially eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), in the dietary intake (Deckelbaum and Torrejon, 2012; Innis, 2014). doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.1986.tb00031.x, Kitaoka, M., Sasaki, T., and Taniguchi, H. (1993). doi: 10.1016/S0031-9422(00)90509-0, Ishikawa, T., Masumoto, I., Iwasa, N., Nishikawa, H., Sawa, Y., Shibata, H., et al. 84, 659672. doi: 10.1007/s00253-001-0901-8, Ogbonna, J.C., Tomiyamal, S., and Tanaka, H. (1998). Effects of vitamin C on health: a review of evidence. 28, 423436. AG was supported by an international Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship. Besides random mutagenesis, targeted silencing of single genes has shown potential for improving WE yields. 1A) is around 50 m in length. Production of very long chain polyunsaturated omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in plants. Vitaminol. Therefore, it has been widely applied in many fields, such as in food, supplements, and cosmetics (Gong et al. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Bumbak, F., Cook, S., Zachleder, V., Hauser, S., and Kovar, K. (2011). (2013). Algae need their vitamins. Euglena is an unusual organism that can both make its own food and eat what it finds in the water. However, it has also been shown that -tocopherol titres per g DW decrease under MT/HT cultivation (without ethanol) over time (Grimm et al., 2015; Hasan et al., 2017). Nutr. (2009). The typical ascorbate titre of a PT-cultivated E. gracilis is around 4 mg/g DW or 8 mg/L culture, whereas it is negligible for E. gracilis cultivated under HT conditions (Shigeoka et al., 1980; Hasan et al., 2017). However, the current chemical synthesis of oligosaccharides is still laborious and product yields are very low despite some advances in the field, whereas enzymatic synthesis has been considered as a technically feasible option (Plante et al., 2001; Ogawa et al., 2014). Anti-HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) activity of sulfated paramylon. Biotechnol. Med. 277, 3682536831. Biotechnol. doi: 10.1101/228015, Fang, H., Kang, J., and Zhang, D. (2017). Crit. doi: 10.1021/bi034731y, Milani, A., Basirnejad, M., Shahbazi, S., and Bolhassani, A. This biomass yield would be comparable to or higher than those obtained with some microalgae grown under HT conditions (Table 1) (Bumbak et al., 2011). (2014). doi: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1984.tb08258.x, Isegawa, Y., Nakano, Y., and Kitaoka, S. (1987). (1963). Cell Res. (2018). 494, 379383. Enzymes of the FA biosynthesis pathway in E. gracilis have been shown to be crucial for the quality of WE derived from E. gracilis. Synthesis of vitamin B1. Its most studied wild-type strains are Z and bacillaris, but their discrimination by standard molecular methods is difficult.Therefore, we decided to test the suitability of MALDI-TOF MS (matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry . The alga Euglena gracilis (E. gracilis) has recently gained attention as a health food, but its effects on human gut microbiota remain unknown. -glucan in foods and its physiological functions. Single cell protein production of Euglena gracilis and carbon dioxide fixation in an innovative photo-bioreactor. For example, silencing of the genes coding for the E. gracilis 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase (EgKAT) isozymes EgKAT 1, EgKAT 2 and EgKAT 3 via RNAi lead to an increased production of short-chain WEs, and an artificial biodiesel inferred from the lipid composition before and after gene silencing indicated an improvement of cold flow properties (Nakazawa et al., 2015). doi: 10.4172/2167-7972.1000102, Gissibl, A., Care, A., Parker, L.M., Iqbal, S., Hobba, G., Nevalainen, H., et al. 426, 125134. Phycol. Degradation of paramylon by Euglena gracilis. Enzyme Microb. J. Protozool. 77, 273279. A history of vitamin E. Ann. 57, 6369. Heterotrophic cultivation of Euglena gracilis Z for efficient production of -tocopherol. Euglena gracilis, a microalgal species . The overall titre can be increased to 86.5 mg/L culture by the fed-batch two-step (MT to PT) cultivation method discussed above (Takeyama et al., 1997). Prod. Appl. Univ. Eukaryot. The unique ascorbate synthesis pathway from E. gracilis (Figure 2B) has been elucidated using radiotracer experiments, as well as transcriptomic and proteomic studies (Ishikawa and Shigeoka, 2008; O'Neill et al., 2015b; Hasan et al., 2017). (2018). Euglena in time: evolution, control of central metabolic processes and multi-domain proteins in carbohydrate and natural product biochemistry. 314, 10791086. 2, 113. (2013). Advanced aviation fuels: a look ahead via a historical perspective. Euglena gracilis is a promising alternative supplement because it's a source of dietary protein, pro vitamins, lipids and the -1,3-glucan paramylon, in fact, studies have demonstrated that microalgae biomass can be a potential substitute for soybean and fish meal (Aemiro et al. Lipids 45, 263273. Eur. Algae acquire vitamin B12 through a symbiotic relationship with bacteria. (2013). PLoS ONE 13, 114. Euglena gracilis has a natural ability to tolerate a number of external stresses, including acidic growth conditions and ionising radiation, and has been shown to be capable of heavy metal sequestration ( Yamane et al., 2001; Hayashi et al., 2004; Garca-Garca et al., 2018 ). (2006). Prod. The cell motion of Euglena gracilis in homogeneous and heterogeneous light environments was analyzed. There are a few isolated reports on genetic manipulation of E. gracilis. Eng. 591, 13601370. Phycologia 50, 156169. The promising future of microalgae: current status, challenges, and optimization of a sustainable and renewable industry for biofuels, feed, and other products. Impact of -1,3-glucan isolated from Euglena gracilis on corneal epithelial cell migration and on wound healing in a rat alkali burn model. 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