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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 141, 期 42, 页码 16877-16883出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b08585
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- U.C. Berkeley Tang Distinguished Scholars Program
- NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers, a National Science Foundation-supported center for Chemical Innovation [CHE-1901635]
- National Institutes of Health [1S10RR023679, 1S10RR16634-01]
Polymers are an important class of materials that are used for a broad range of applications, from drug delivery to packaging. Given their widespread use, a major challenge in this area is the development of technology for their production from renewable sources and efforts to promote their efficient recycling and biodegradation. In this regard, the synthesis of polyesters based on the natural polyhydroxyalkanoate (PRA) pathway offers an attractive route for producing sustainable polymers. However, monomer diversity in naturally occurring polyesters can be limited with respect to the design of polymers with material properties suitable for various applications. In this work, we have engineered a pathway to produce alpha-methyl-branched PHA. In the course of this work, we have also identified a PHA polymerase (CapPhaEC) from activated sludge from wastewater treatment that demonstrates a higher capacity for incorporation of alpha-branched monomer units than those previously identified or engineered. Production in Escherichia coli allows the construction of microbial strains that produce the copolyesters with 21-36% branched monomers using glucose and propionate as carbon sources. These polymers have typical weight-average molar masses (M-w) in the range (1.7-2.0) x 10(5) g mol(-1) and display no observable melting transition, only relatively low glass transition temperatures from -13 to -20 degrees C. The lack of a melting transition indicates that these polymers are amorphous materials with no crystallinity, which is in contrast to the natural poly(hydroxybutyrate) homopolymer. Our results expand the utility of PHA-based pathways and provide biosynthetic access to alpha-branched polyesters to enrich the properties of bio-based sustainable polymers.
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