Supplementation with rac-GR24 Facilitates the Accumulation of Biomass and Astaxanthin in Two Successive Stages of Haematococcus pluvialis Cultivation
Supplementation with rac-GR24 Facilitates the Accumulation of Biomass and Astaxanthin in Two Successive Stages of Haematococcus pluvialis Cultivation
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补充 rac-GR24 促进雨生红球藻培养的两个连续阶段中生物量和虾青素的积累
DOI:
10.1021/acs.jafc.2c00479
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
6.1
通讯作者:
Hong-Ye Li
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作者:
Xiang Wang;Jin-Hua Mou;Zi-Hao Qin;Ting-Bin Hao;Lan Zheng;Joseph Buhagiar;Yu-Hong Liu;Srinivasan Balamurugan;Yuhe He;Carol Sze Ki Lin;Wei-Dong Yang;Hong-Ye Li
The unicellular freshwater green algaHaematococcus pluvialishas attracted much research attention due to its biosynthetic ability for large amounts of astaxanthin, a blood-red ketocarotenoid that is used in cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceuticals. Recently, numerous studies have investigated the functions of natural astaxanthin; however, the high cost of the production of astaxanthin fromH. pluvialiscultures restricts its commercial viability. There is an urgent need to fulfill commercial demands by increasing astaxanthin accumulation fromH. pluvialiscultures. In this study, we discovered that treatment ofH. pluvialiscultures at the beginning of the macrozooid stage (day 0) with 1 μMrac-GR24, a synthetic analogue of strigolactones (a class of phytohormones), led to significant increases in biomass [up to a maximum dry cell weight (DCW) of 0.53 g/L] during the macrozooid stage and astaxanthin (from 0.63 to 5.32% of DCW) during the hematocyst stage. We elucidated that this enhancement of biomass accumulation during the macrozooid stage byrac-GR24 is due to its increasing CO2utilization efficiency in photosynthesis and carbohydrate biosynthesis. We also found thatrac-GR24 stimulated the overproduction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) and antioxidant enzymes inH. pluvialiscultures, which alleviated the oxidative damage caused by reactive oxygen species generated during the hematocyst stage due to the exhaustion of nitrogen supplies. Moreover,rac-GR24 treatment ofH. pluvialissynergistically altered the activity of the pathways of fatty acid biosynthesis and astaxanthin esterification, which resulted in larger amounts of astaxanthin being generated byrac-GR24-treated cultures than by controls. In summary, we have developed a feasible and economicrac-GR24-assisted strategy that increases the amounts of biomass and astaxanthin generated byH. pluvialiscultures, and have provided novel insights into the mechanistic roles ofrac-GR24 to achieve these effects.