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BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 120, Issue 8, Pages 2160-2174Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.28487
Keywords
adsorbent resins combination; cell-waste removal; in situ product recovery; metabolic engineering; semi-continuous cultivation; Taxanes
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In this study, an in situ product recovery method using three different commercial resins was used to increase the production of oxygenated acetated taxanes, including the anticancer drug paclitaxel. Through screening and optimization, the best resin combination and concentration were determined, resulting in a taxane yield of 783 mg/L. Additionally, the use of resin combinations led to the discovery of 8 uncharacterized taxanes. The resin treatment also reduced the production of reactive oxygen species in yeast cell waste.
In situ product recovery is an efficient way to intensify bioprocesses as it can perform adsorption of the desired natural products in the cultivation. However, it is common to use only one adsorbent (liquid or solid) to perform the product recovery. For this study, the use of an in situ product recovery method with three combined commercial resins (HP-20, XAD7HP, and HP-2MG) with different chemical properties was performed. A new yeast strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was engineered using CRISPR Cas9 (strain EJ2) to deliver heterologous expression of oxygenated acetylated taxanes that are precursors of the anticancer drug Taxol & REG; (paclitaxel). Microscale cultivations using a definitive screening design (DSD) were set to get the best resin combinations and concentrations to retrieve high taxane titers. Once the best resin treatment was selected by the DSD, semi-continuous cultivation in high throughput microscale was performed to increase the total taxanes yield up to 783 & PLUSMN; 33 mg/L. The best T5 & alpha;-yl Acetate yield obtained was up to 95 & PLUSMN; 4 mg/L, the highest titer of this compound ever reported by a heterologous expression. It was also observed that by using a combination of the resins in the cultivation, 8 additional uncharacterized taxanes were found in the gas chromatograms compared to the dodecane overlay method. Lastly, the cell-waste reactive oxygen species concentrations from the yeast were 1.5-fold lower in the resin's treatment compared to the control with no adsorbent aid. The possible future implications of this method could be critical for bioprocess intensification, allowing the transition to a semi-continuous flow bioprocess. Further, this new methodology broadens the use of different organisms for natural product synthesis/discovery benefiting from clear bioprocess intensification advantages.
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