期刊
BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS
卷 14, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-021-01965-3
关键词
Fatty acid ethyl esters; Wax ester synthase; R; toruloides; Enzyme engineering; Biodiesel; Metabolic engineering
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21878013, 2191101491]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFA0900100]
- Foundation of Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University [2018BCE004]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering
By constructing FAEE biosynthetic pathways, mutating the bifunctional enzyme, and employing different cultivation strategies, the production of FAEEs in Rhodotorula toruloides was successfully improved. Most of the produced FAEEs were secreted out of the cell, which could greatly reduce downstream processing costs.
Background Production of biofuels and green chemicals by microbes is currently of great interest due to the increasingly limited reserves of fossil fuels. Biodiesel, especially fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs), is considered as an attractive alternative because of its similarity with petrodiesel and compatibility with existing infrastructures. Cost-efficient bio-production of FAEEs requires a highly lipogenic production host that is suitable for large-scale fermentation. As a non-model oleaginous yeast that can be cultured to an extremely high cell density and accumulate over 70% cell mass as lipids, Rhodotorula toruloides represents an attractive host for FAEEs production. Results We first constructed the FAEE biosynthetic pathways in R. toruloides by introducing various wax ester synthase genes from different sources, and the bifunctional wax ester synthase/acyl-CoA-diacyglycerol acyltransferase (WS/DGAT) gene from Acinetobacter baylyi was successfully expressed, leading to a production of 826 mg/L FAEEs through shake-flask cultivation. We then mutated this bifunctional enzyme to abolish the DGAT activity, and further improved the titer to 1.02 g/L. Finally, to elevate the performance of Delta ku70-AbWS* in a bioreactor, both batch and fed-batch cultivation strategies were performed. The FAEEs titer, productivity and yield were 4.03 g/L, 69.5 mg/L/h and 57.9 mg/g (mg FAEEs/g glucose) under batch cultivation, and 9.97 g/L, 90.6 mg/L/h, and 86.1 mg/g under fed-batch cultivation. It is worth mentioning that most of the produced FAEEs were secreted out of the cell, which should greatly reduce the cost of downstream processing. Conclusion We achieved the highest FAEEs production in yeast with a final titer of 9.97 g/L and demonstrated that the engineered R. toruloides has the potential to serve as a platform strain for efficient production of fatty acid-derived molecules.
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