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MICROBIAL CELL FACTORIES
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-019-1067-3
Keywords
Microbial electrosynthesis; Bioelectrochemical systems; Succinate; CO2 fixation
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- Key Deployment Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [ZDRW-ZS-2016-3]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31522002]
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin [15JCYBJC49400]
- Tianjin Key Technology R&D program of Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission [11ZCZDSY08600]
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Background: Electrochemical energy is a key factor of biosynthesis, and is necessary for the reduction or assimilation of substrates such as CO2. Previous microbial electrosynthesis (MES) research mainly utilized naturally electroactive microbes to generate non-specific products. Results: In this research, an electroactive succinate-producing cell factory was engineered in E. coli T110(pMtrABC, pFccA-CymA) by expressing mtrABC, fccA and cymA from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, which can utilize electricity to reduce fumarate. The electroactive T110 strain was further improved by incorporating a carbon concentration mechanism (CCM). This strain was fermented in an MES system with neutral red as the electron carrier and supplemented with HCO3+, which produced a succinate yield of 1.10 mol/mol glucose-a 1.6-fold improvement over the parent strain T110. Conclusions: The strain T110(pMtrABC, pFccA-CymA, pBTCA) is to our best knowledge the first electroactive microbial cell factory engineered to directly utilize electricity for the production of a specific product. Due to the versatility of the E. coli platform, this pioneering research opens the possibility of engineering various other cell factories to utilize electricity for bioproduction.
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