Evolution of D-lactate dehydrogenase activity from glycerol dehydrogenase and its utility for D-lactate production from lignocellulose
Evolution of D-lactate dehydrogenase activity from glycerol dehydrogenase and its utility for D-lactate production from lignocellulose
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1111085108
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发表时间:
2011-11-22
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Shanmugam, K. T.
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作者:
Wang, Qingzhao;Ingram, Lonnie O.;Shanmugam, K. T.
Lactic acid, an attractive, renewable chemical for production of biobased plastics (polylactic acid, PLA), is currently commercially produced from food-based sources of sugar. Pure optical isomers of lactate needed for PLA are typically produced by microbial fermentation of sugars at temperatures below 40 degrees C. Bacillus coagulans produces L(+)-lactate as a primary fermentation product and grows optimally at 50 degrees C and pH 5, conditions that are optimal for activity of commercial fungal cellulases. This strain was engineered to produce D(-)-lactate by deleting the native ldh (L-lactate dehydrogenase) and alsS (acetolactate synthase) genes to impede anaerobic growth, followed by growth-based selection to isolate suppressor mutants that restored growth. One of these, strain QZ19, produced about 90 g L-1 of optically pure D(-)-lactic acid from glucose in