Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 196, Issue -, Pages 263-272Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.07.104
Keywords
Crude glycerol; Evolutionary engineering; Intracellular metabolic profiling; Fumaric acid; Rhizopus oryzae
Funding
- National 973 Project of China [2012CB721001, 2012CB721101, 2013CB733904]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31400081]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [65141028]
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Rhizopus oryzae is strictly inhibited by biodiesel-based by-product crude glycerol, which results in low fumaric acid production. In this study, evolutionary engineering was employed to activate the glycerol utilization pathway for fumaric acid production. An evolved strain G80 was selected, which could tolerate and utilize high concentrations of crude glycerol to produce 14.9 g/L fumaric acid with a yield of 0.248 g/g glycerol. Key enzymes activity analysis revealed that the evolved strain displayed a significant upregulation in glycerol dissimilation, pyruvate consumption and reductive tricarboxylic acid pathways, compared with the parent strain. Subsequently, intracellular metabolic profiling analysis showed that amino acid biosynthesis, tricarboxylic acid cycle, fatty acid and stress response metabolites accounted for metabolic difference between two strains. Moreover, a glycerol fed-batch strategy was optimized to obtain the highest fumaric acid production of 25.5 g/L, significantly increased by 20.9-fold than that of the parent strain of 1.2 g/L. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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