Microbial synthesis of wax esters
Microbial synthesis of wax esters
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ymben.2021.08.002
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发表时间：
2021-08-24
影响因子：
8.4
通讯作者：
Xie, Dongming
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作者：
Soong, Ya-Hue Valerie;Zhao, Le;Xie, Dongming
利用低成本可再生和可持续原料微生物合成蜡酯（WE）是实现生物制造成本效益的一条有前途的途径。 WE 是工业上的高价值分子，广泛应用于化学、制药和食品行业。由于天然WE资源有限，WE生产主要依赖于相当昂贵的原材料的化学合成，因此从开发高效的微生物细胞工厂寻求解决方案。在这里，我们报告对解脂耶氏酵母和大肠杆菌进行改造，以生产迄今为止最高水平的WE。首先，研究了编码不同来源的脂肪酰辅酶A还原酶和蜡酯合酶的关键基因，并对两种不同解脂耶氏酵母宿主的表达系统进行了比较和优化，以提高WE产量和菌株稳定性。为了提高代谢途径效率，比较了包括葡萄糖、游离脂肪酸、大豆油和废弃食用油（WCO）在内的不同碳源，并优化了相应的途径工程策略。研究发现，使用 WCO 等脂质底物替代葡萄糖可使 WE 产量增加 60 倍。工程酵母能够在 120 小时内从 WCO 中产生 7.6 g/L WE，产量为 0.31 (g/g)，产生的 WE 占酵母 DCW 的 57%。之后，对生长速度比酵母更快的大肠杆菌 BL21 (DE3) 进行了改造，显着提高了 WE 生产率。表达系统和底物补料策略的优化导致在 1 L 生物反应器中 40 小时内产生 3.7-4.0 g/L WE。在疏水性底物作为唯一碳源的情况下，解脂耶氏酵母和大肠杆菌产生的主要细胞内WE是C36、C34和C32，按丰度递减的顺序排列，并且大部分是不饱和的。这项工作为WE的大规模生物制造铺平了道路。
Microbial synthesis of wax esters (WE) from low-cost renewable and sustainable feedstocks is a promising path to achieve cost-effectiveness in biomanufacturing. WE are industrially high-value molecules, which are widely used for applications in chemical, pharmaceutical, and food industries. Since the natural WE resources are limited, the WE production mostly rely on chemical synthesis from rather expensive starting materials, and therefore solution are sought from development of efficient microbial cell factories. Here we report to engineer the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica and bacterium Escherichia coli to produce WE at the highest level up to date. First, the key genes encoding fatty acyl-CoA reductases and wax ester synthase from different sources were investigated, and the expression system for two different Y. lipolytica hosts were compared and optimized for enhanced WE production and the strain stability. To improve the metabolic pathway efficiency, different carbon sources including glucose, free fatty acid, soybean oil, and waste cooking oil (WCO) were compared, and the corresponding pathway engineering strategies were optimized. It was found that using a lipid substrate such as WCO to replace glucose led to a 60-fold increase in WE production. The engineered yeast was able to produce 7.6 g/L WE with a yield of 0.31 (g/g) from WCO within 120 h and the produced WE contributed to 57% of the yeast DCW. After that, E. coli BL21 (DE3), with a faster growth rate than the yeast, was engineered to significantly improve the WE production rate. Optimization of the expression system and the substrate feeding strategies led to production of 3.7-4.0 g/L WE within 40 h in a 1-L bioreactor. The predominant intracellular WE produced by both Y. lipolytica and E. coli in the presence of hydrophobic substrates as sole carbon sources were C36, C34 and C32, in an order of decreasing abundance and with a large proportion being unsaturated. This work paved the way for the biomanufacturing of WE at a large scale.