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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 49, 期 21, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab791
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- Imperial College London Schrodinger Scholarship Scheme, BBSRC [BB/M002454/1, BB/M011321/1]
- Imperial College London's Excellence Fund for Frontier Research
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship [URF\R1\191548]
- University of Nottingham
- BBSRC [BB/M002454/1, BB/M011321/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Researchers have successfully overcome genetic instability in engineered cyanobacteria using large-scale parallel metabolic engineering, achieving the production of target products from atmospheric CO2. This approach provides a new platform for developing genetically stable cyanobacterial biocatalysts for sustainable light-driven production, avoiding the use of fossil carbon or competition with food production.
Cyanobacteria are simple, efficient, genetically-tractable photosynthetic microorganisms which in principle represent ideal biocatalysts for CO2 capture and conversion. However, in practice, genetic instability and low productivity are key, linked problems in engineered cyanobacteria. We took a massively parallel approach, generating and characterising libraries of synthetic promoters and RBSs for the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, and assembling a sparse combinatorial library of millions of metabolic pathway-encoding construct variants. Genetic instability was observed for some variants, which is expected when variants cause metabolic burden. Surprisingly however, in a single combinatorial round without iterative optimisation, 80% of variants chosen at random and cultured photoautotrophically over many generations accumulated the target terpenoid lycopene from atmospheric CO2, apparently overcoming genetic instability. This large-scale parallel metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria provides a new platform for development of genetically stable cyanobacterial biocatalysts for sustainable light-driven production of valuable products directly from CO2, avoiding fossil carbon or competition with food production.
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