Journal
ENZYME AND MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 7, Pages 937-943Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2005.08.025
Keywords
Clostridium acetobutylicum; ester; isoamyl; isoamyl acetate; butyl acetate; butyl butyrate; alcohol acetyltransterase
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- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [0824629] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Genetic engineering has improved the product yield of a variety of compounds by overexpressing, inactivating, or introducing new genes in microbial systems. The production of flavor-enhancing ester compounds is an emerging area of heterologous gene expression for desired product yield in Escherichia coli. Isoamyl acetate, butyl acetate, ethyl acetate, and butyl butyrate are reported here to be produced by expressing Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes ATF1 or ATF2 and the strawberry gene SAAT in E. coli when the appropriate substrates are provided. Increasing the concentration of alcohol added to the reaction generally resulted in increased ester production. ATF1 expression was found to produce more isoamyl acetate and butyl acetate than ATF2 expression or SAAT expression in the strains and culture conditions examined. Additionally, SAAT expression resulted in greater isoamyl acetate and butyl acetate production than ATF2 expression. Butyl butyrate is produced by cell-free extracts of E. coli harboring SAAT but not ATF1 or ATF2. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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