Journal
METABOLIC ENGINEERING
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages 398-408Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2009.08.005
Keywords
Geobacillus; Metabolic engineering; Bioethanol; Thermophile
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- DTI Technology Programme: New and Renewable Energy
- BBSRC
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E002994/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/E002994/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We describe the metabolic engineering of two strains of Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius to divert their fermentative carbon flux from a mixed acid pathway, to one in which ethanol becomes the major product. This involved elimination of the lactate dehydrogenase and pyruvate formate lyase pathways by disruption of the ldh and pflB genes, respectively, together with upregulation of expression of pyruvate dehydrogenase. Unlike the situation in Escherichia coli, pyruvate dehydrogenase is active under anaerobic conditions in thermophilic bacilli, but expressed sub-optimally for a role as the primary fermentation pathway. Mutants We re initially characterised in batch culture using glucose as carbon substrate and strains with all three modifications shown to for methanol efficiently and rapidly at temperatures in excess of 60 degrees C in yields in excess of 90% of theoretical. the strain containing the 3 modifications, TM242, was also shown to efficiently ferment cellobiose and a mixed hexose and pentose feed. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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