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METABOLIC ENGINEERING
Volume 45, Issue -, Pages 142-148Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2017.12.007
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- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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Euphorbiaceae are an important source of medically important diterpenoids, such as the anticancer drug ingenol-3-angelate and the antiretroviral drug prostratin. However, extraction from the genetically intractable natural producers is often limited by the small quantities produced, while the organic synthesis of terpene-derived drugs is challenging and similarly low-yielding. While transplanting the biosynthetic pathway into a heterologous host has proven successful for some drugs, it has been largely unsuccessful for diterpenoids due to their elaborate biosynthetic pathways and lack of genetic resources and tools for gene discovery. We engineered casbene precursor production in S. cerevisiae, verified the ability of six Euphorbia lathyris and Jatropha curcas cytochrome P450s to oxidize casbene, and optimized the expression of these P450s and an alcohol dehydrogenase to generate jolkinol C, achieving similar to 800 mg/L of jolkinol C and over 1 g/L total oxidized casbanes in millititer plates, the highest titer of oxidized diterpenes in yeast reported to date. This strain enables the semisynthesis of biologically active jolkinol C derivatives and will be an important tool in the elucidation of the biosynthetic pathways for ingenanes, tiglianes, and lathyranes. These findings demonstrate the ability of S. cerevisiae to produce oxidized drug precursors in quantities that are sufficient for drug development and pathway discovery.
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