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BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 114, Issue 2, Pages 463-467Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/bit.26067
Keywords
oxygen uptake; metabolic burden; synthetic biology; flux balance analysis; energy metabolism
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- National Science Foundation [DBI 1356669, MCB1453147, CBET 1438125]
- Human Frontier Science Program [RGY0076/2015]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure [1356669] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1438125] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1453147] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Our recent C-13-metabolic flux analysis (C-13-MFA) study indicates that energy metabolism becomes a rate-limiting factor for fatty acid overproduction in E. coli strains (after Push-Pull-Block based genetic modifications). To resolve this bottleneck, Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb, a membrane protein facilitating O-2 transport) was introduced into a fatty-acid-producing strain to promote oxygen supply and energy metabolism. The resulting strain, FAV50, achieved 70% percent higher fatty acid titer than the parent strain in micro-aerobic shake tube cultures. In high cell-density bioreactor fermentations, FAV50 achieved free fatty acids at a titer of 7.02g/L (51% of the theoretical yield). In addition to Push-Pull-Block-Power strategies, our experiments and flux balance analysis also revealed the fatty acid over-producing strain is sensitive to metabolic burden and oxygen influx, and thus a careful evaluation of the cost-benefit tradeoff with the guidance of fluxome analysis will be fundamental for the rational design of synthetic biology strains. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2017;114: 463-467. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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