期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 161, 期 4, 页码 445-449出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2012.08.013
关键词
Cyanobacteria; Fatty acid; Thermostable lipases; Biofuel
资金
- Arizona State University
- US Department of Energy ARPA-E grant [DE-AR0000011]
We have developed a genetic system we call thermorecovery that allows us to lyse cyanobacterial cultures and hydrolyze membrane lipids to release free fatty acids (FFAs), a biofuel precursor. The system uses thermostable lipases encoded by genes from thermophilic organisms that have been transferred into the cyanobacterial genome and can be synthesized by turning off CO2 availability and subsequently activated by increasing the concentrated culture temperature. When synthesized in FFA-producing strains, the lipase Fnl from Fervidobacterium nodosum Rt17-B1 released the most FFA. Of the seven candidate lipases investigated, Fnl-synthesizing strains yielded 42.7 +/- 1.5 mg/l FFA at 47 degrees C. We also determined that the optimal production conditions for SD338, the Synechocystis strain synthesizing Fnl, was to keep the cell concentrates at 46 degrees C for two days after a one-day CO2 limitation pretreatment of the culture. A 4-l continuous semi-batch production experiment with SD338 showed that daily harvested cultures (1 l) released an average of 43.9 +/- 6.6 mg fatty acid and this productivity lasted for at least 20 days without significant decline. This improved thermorecovery process can be used in conjunction with other means to genetically engineer cyanobacteria to produce biofuels or biofuel precursors as the final step in recovery of membrane lipids. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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