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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 9, Pages 3772-3783Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15149
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Thraustochytriumis a unicellular marine protist for the commercial production of very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (VLCPUFAs). Biosynthesis of these VLCPUFAs in the protist is catalysed by a PUFA synthase comprising three subunits, each with multiple catalytic domains. Among these domains, two tandem FabA-like dehydratase domains (DH1 and DH2) in subunit-C together are responsible for introducing double bonds in VLCPUFAs. Domain swapping analysis in yeast showed that the defective phenotype of aScfas1mutant could be complemented by expressing an engineeredScFAS1gene in which the DH domain was replaced by a single DH1 or mutated DH2 of the two. Heterologous expression of the PUFA synthase inE.colishowed that the mutation of DH1 of the two or deletion of DH1 or substitution of DH1 with DH2 resulted in the complete loss of activity in the biosynthesis of VLCPUFAs. Mutation of DH2 of the two or deletion of the DH2 domain produced a small amount of DPA, but not docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). These results indicate that each of the two FabA-like domains of the PUFA synthase possesses distinct function. DH1 domain is essential for the biosynthesis of VLCPUFAs, but DH2 domain is required for the biosynthesis of DHA.
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