期刊
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
卷 70, 期 11, 页码 3512-3520出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.2c00014
关键词
isopentenol utilization pathway; isoprenoids; agri-food natural products; pathway engineering; process engineering
资金
- Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision Grant [R-279-000-531-592]
Engineering microbes to produce isoprenoids faces limitations due to competition between product formation and cell growth. This study optimized the utilization pathway of isopentenols in Escherichia coli and successfully synthesized high yields of lycopene, beta-carotene, and R-(-)-linalool. These findings are important for cost-effective production of agri-food isoprenoids.
Engineering microbes to produce isoprenoids can be limited by the competition between product formation and cell growth because biomass and isoprenoids are naturally derived from central metabolism. Recently, a two-step synthetic pathway was developed to partially decouple isoprenoid formation from central carbon metabolism. The pathway used exogenously added isopentenols as substrates. In the present study, we systematically optimized this isopentenol utilization pathway in Escherichia coli by comparing enzyme variants from different species, tuning enzyme expression levels, and using a two-stage process. Under the optimal conditions found in this study, similar to 300 mg/L lycopene was synthesized from 2 g/L isopentenol in 24 h. The strain could be easily modified to synthesize two other isoprenoid molecules efficiently (248 mg/L beta-carotene or 364 mg/L R-(-)-linalool produced from 2 g/L isopentenol). This study lays a solid foundation for producing agri-food isoprenoids at high titer/productivity from cost-effective feedstocks.
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