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ALGAL RESEARCH-BIOMASS BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS
Volume 31, Issue -, Pages 326-333Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2018.01.018
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- United States Department of Energy [DE-SC0012556]
- United States Airforce Office of Scientific Reserach [FA9550-08-1-0179]
- National Science Foundation [NSF-PRFB-1611916]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0012556] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1611916] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Several members of the green algae possess the ability to produce lipids and/or high value compounds in significant quantities. While for several of these green algal species induction of increased lipid production has been shown, and cultivation of species for high value molecules occurs at production scale, the molecular mechanisms governing over-accumulation of molecules synthesized from isoprenoid precursors, carotenoids, for example, have received far less attention. Here, we present a calculation of the required ATP equivalencies per carbon atom and reducing power equivalencies as NADH/NADPH (NAD(P)H) per carbon atom for the isoprenoid molecules beta-carotene (C-40), astaxanthin (C-40), and squalene (C-30). We compared energetic requirements of carbohydrates, triacylglycerol, and isoprenoid molecules under a gradient of conditions of cellular stress. Our calculations revealed slightly less ATP and NAD(P) H equivalency per carbon atom between triacylglycerol and the three isoprenoid molecules. Based on our results, we propose that the driving force for differences in accumulation patterns of carotenoids vs. triacylglycerols in algal cells under stress is largely dependent on the presence and regulation of bypass mechanisms at metabolic junction bottlenecks, like pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH), within particular species. We provide a discussion of several molecular mechanisms that may influence carbon partitioning within different groups of green algae, including metabolic inhibition through accumulation of specific substrates related to ATP and reducing equivalent production (NAD(P)H) as well as cellular compartmentalization. This work contributes to the ongoing discussion of cellular homeostatic regulation during stress, as well as the potential mechanisms driving long-term carbon storage as it relates to energy and redox states within the algal cell.
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