期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 23, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23020773
关键词
Escherichia coli; metabolic engineering; fructose-6-phosphate accumulation; synergetic carbon fermentation; N-acetylglucosamine
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [32172767]
- Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program [cxgc-ias-16]
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition Project [2004DA125184G2101]
This study presents a synergistic substrate co-utilization strategy to improve the production efficiency of GlcNAc by adjusting carbon flux distribution. By blocking the main glucose catabolism pathways and introducing the GlcNAc production module, high stoichiometric yield of GlcNAc was achieved.
N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) is an amino sugar that has been widely used in the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industries. Recently, microbial production of GlcNAc has been developed. One major challenge for efficient biosynthesis of GlcNAc is to achieve appropriate carbon flux distribution between growth and production. Here, a synergistic substrate co-utilization strategy was used to address this challenge. Specifically, glycerol was utilized to support cell growth and generate glutamine and acetyl-CoA, which are amino and acetyl donors, respectively, for GlcNAc biosynthesis, while glucose was retained for GlcNAc production. Thanks to deletion of the 6-phosphofructokinase (PfkA and PfkB) and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (ZWF) genes, the main glucose catabolism pathways of Escherichia coli were blocked. The resultant mutant showed a severe defect in glucose consumption. Then, the GlcNAc production module containing glucosamine-6-phosphate synthase (GlmS*), glucosamine-6-phosphate N-acetyltransferase (GNA1*) and GlcNAc-6-phosphate phosphatase (YqaB) expression cassettes was introduced into the mutant, to drive the carbon flux from glucose to GlcNAc. Furthermore, co-utilization of glucose and glycerol was achieved by overexpression of glycerol kinase (GlpK) gene. Using the optimized fermentation medium, the final strain produced GlcNAc with a high stoichiometric yield of 0.64 mol/mol glucose. This study offers a promising strategy to address the challenge of distributing carbon flux in GlcNAc production.
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