Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages 1719-1726Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201400809
Keywords
Acrolein; Adaptive laboratory evolution; -glutamyl-L-cysteinylglycine; Glutathione; Glutathione disulfide
Funding
- Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW)
- Federal Ministry of Traffic, Innovation and Technology (bmvit)
- Styrian Business Promotion Agency SFG
- Standortagentur Tirol
- Government of Lower Austria
- ZIT - Technology Agency of the City of Vienna through the COMET-Funding Program
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Glutathione is an important natural tripeptide mainly used because of its antioxidative properties. Commercial glutathione is microbially synthesized by yeasts and the growing demand requires the development of new production strains. An adaptive laboratory evolution strategy using acrolein as a selection agent was employed to obtain strains with an enhanced glutathione accumulation phenotype accompanied by an acrolein resistance phenotype. Two particularly interesting isolates were obtained: one with a high volumetric productivity for glutathione reaching 8.3 mg(glutathione)/L h, which is twice as high as the volumetric productivity of its parental strain. This strain reached an elevated intracellular glutathione content of 3.9%. A second isolate with an even higher acrolein tolerance exhibited a lower volumetric productivity of 5.8 mg(glutathione)/L h due to a growth phenotype. However, this evolved strain accumulated glutathione in 3.3-fold higher concentration compared to its parental strain and reached a particularly high glutathione content of almost 6%. The presented results demonstrate that acrolein is a powerful selection agent to obtain high glutathione accumulation strains in an adaptive laboratory evolution experiment.
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