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Tran KT, Maeda T, Sanchez-Torres V, Wood TK. Beneficial knockouts in Escherichia coli for producing hydrogen from glycerol. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 99:2573-81. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-6338-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2014] [Revised: 12/12/2014] [Accepted: 12/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Kurosawa K, Radek A, Plassmeier JK, Sinskey AJ. Improved glycerol utilization by a triacylglycerol-producing Rhodococcus opacus strain for renewable fuels. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2015; 8:31. [PMID: 25763105 PMCID: PMC4355421 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0209-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2014] [Accepted: 01/21/2015] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Glycerol generated during renewable fuel production processes is potentially an attractive substrate for the production of value-added materials by fermentation. An engineered strain MITXM-61 of the oleaginous bacterium Rhodococcus opacus produces large amounts of intracellular triacylglycerols (TAGs) for lipid-based biofuels on high concentrations of glucose and xylose. However, on glycerol medium, MITXM-61 does not produce TAGs and grows poorly. The aim of the present work was to construct a TAG-producing R. opacus strain capable of high-cell-density cultivation at high glycerol concentrations. RESULTS An adaptive evolution strategy was applied to improve the conversion of glycerol to TAGs in R. opacus MITXM-61. An evolved strain, MITGM-173, grown on a defined medium with 16 g L(-1) glycerol, produced 2.3 g L(-1) of TAGs, corresponding to 40.4% of the cell dry weight (CDW) and 0.144 g g(-1) of TAG yield per glycerol consumed. MITGM-173 was able to grow on high concentrations (greater than 150 g L(-1)) of glycerol. Cultivated in a medium containing an initial concentration of 20 g L(-1) glycerol, 40 g L(-1) glucose, and 40 g L(-1) xylose, MITGM-173 was capable of simultaneously consuming the mixed substrates and yielding 13.6 g L(-1) of TAGs, representing 51.2% of the CDM. In addition, when 20 g L(-1) glycerol was pulse-loaded into the culture with 40 g L(-1) glucose and 40 g L(-1) xylose at the stationary growth phase, MITGM-173 produced 14.3 g L(-1) of TAGs corresponding to 51.1% of the CDW although residual glycerol in the culture was observed. The addition of 20 g L(-1) glycerol in the glucose/xylose mix resulted in a TAG yield per glycerol consumed of 0.170 g g(-1) on the initial addition and 0.279 g g(-1) on the pulse addition of glycerol. CONCLUSION We have generated a TAG-producing R. opacus MITGM-173 strain that shows significantly improved glycerol utilization in comparison to the parental strain. The present study demonstrates that the evolved R. opacus strain shows significant promise for developing a cost-effective bioprocess to generate advanced renewable fuels from mixed sugar feedstocks supplemented with glycerol.
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- Kazuhiko Kurosawa
- />Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- />Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
- />Present address: Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Systems Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Juelich, 52425 Juelich, Germany
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- />Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- />Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
- />Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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Metabolic engineering as a tool for enhanced lactic acid production. Trends Biotechnol 2014; 32:637-44. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2014.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2014] [Revised: 10/02/2014] [Accepted: 10/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Efficient selective and atom economic catalytic conversion of glycerol to lactic acid. Nat Commun 2014; 5:5084. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2014] [Accepted: 08/26/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Yang Y, Yuan C, Dou J, Han X, Wang H, Fang H, Zhou C. Recombinant expression of glpK and glpD genes improves the accumulation of shikimic acid in E. coli grown on glycerol. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 30:3263-72. [PMID: 25269547 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-014-1753-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2014] [Accepted: 09/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Shikimic acid (SA) is an industrially important chiral compound used in diverse commercial applications, and the insufficient supply by isolation from plants and expensive chemical synthesis of SA has increased the importance of developing strategies for SA synthesis. In our previous studies, glycerol was observed to be an effective carbon source for SA accumulation in E. coli DHPYAAS-T7, where the PTS operon (ptsHIcrr) and aroL and aroK genes were inactivated, and the tktA, glk, aroE, aroF (fbr) , and aroB genes were overexpressed. For further investigation of the effects of glycerol aerobic fermentation on SA accumulation in E. coli BL21(DE3), the glpD, glpK genes and tktA, glk, aroE, aroF (fbr) , aroB genes were overexpressed simultaneously. The results indicated that SA production was increased 5.6-fold, while the yield was increased 5.3-fold over that of parental strain in shake flasks. It is demonstrated that the aerobic fermentation of glycerol associated with glpD and glpK gene overexpression increased glycerol flux, resulting in higher SA accumulation in E. coli BL21(DE3)-P-DK.
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- Yang Yang
- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, 24 Tong Jia Xiang, Nanjing, 210009, People's Republic of China
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Rodrigues AL, Becker J, de Souza Lima AO, Porto LM, Wittmann C. Systems metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for gram scale production of the antitumor drug deoxyviolacein from glycerol. Biotechnol Bioeng 2014; 111:2280-9. [PMID: 24889673 DOI: 10.1002/bit.25297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2014] [Revised: 04/24/2014] [Accepted: 05/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Deoxyviolacein is a microbial drug with biological activity against tumors, gram-positive bacteria, and fungal plant pathogens. Here, we describe an Escherichia coli strain for heterologous production of this high-value drug from glycerol. Plasmid-based expression of the deoxyviolacein cluster vioABCE was controlled by the araBAD promoter and induction by L-arabinose. Through elimination of L-arabinose catabolism in E. coli, the pentose sugar could be fully directed to induction of deoxyviolacein biosynthesis and was no longer metabolized, as verified by (13) C isotope experiments. Deletion of the araBAD genes beneficially complemented with previously described (i) engineering of the pentose phosphate pathway, (ii) chorismate biosynthesis, (iii) tryptophan biosynthesis, (iv) improved supply of L-serine, (v) elimination of tryptophan repression, and (vi) of tryptophan catabolism. Subsequent screening of the created next-generation producer E. coli dVio-8 identified glycerol as optimum carbon source and a level of 100 mg L(-1) of L-arabinose as optimum for induction. Transferred to a glycerol-based fed-batch process, E. coli dVio-8 surpassed the gram scale and produced 1.6 g L(-1) deoxyviolacein. With straightforward extraction from culture broth and purification by flash chromatography, deoxyviolacein was obtained at >99.5% purity. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2014;111: 2280-2289. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- André Luis Rodrigues
- Institute of Systems Biotechnology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany; Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for efficient free fatty acid production from glycerol. Metab Eng 2014; 25:82-91. [PMID: 25014174 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2014.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2014] [Revised: 06/23/2014] [Accepted: 06/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Crude glycerol, generated as waste by-product in biodiesel production process, has been considered as an important carbon source for converting to value-added bioproducts recently. Free fatty acids (FFAs) can be used as precursors for the production of biofuels or biochemicals. Microbial biosynthesis of FFAs can be achieved by introducing an acyl-acyl carrier protein thioesterase into Escherichia coli. In this study, the effect of metabolic manipulation of FFAs synthesis cycle, host genetic background and cofactor engineering on FFAs production using glycerol as feed stocks was investigated. The highest concentration of FFAs produced by the engineered stain reached 4.82g/L with the yield of 29.55% (g FFAs/g glycerol), about 83% of the maximum theoretical pathway value by the type II fatty acid synthesis pathway. In addition, crude glycerol from biodiesel plant was also used as feedstock in this study. The FFA production was 3.53g/L with a yield of 24.13%. The yield dropped slightly when crude glycerol was used as a carbon source instead of pure glycerol, while it still can reach about 68% of the maximum theoretical pathway yield.
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Niu D, Tian K, Prior BA, Wang M, Wang Z, Lu F, Singh S. Highly efficient L-lactate production using engineered Escherichia coli with dissimilar temperature optima for L-lactate formation and cell growth. Microb Cell Fact 2014; 13:78. [PMID: 24884499 PMCID: PMC4075936 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-13-78] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2014] [Accepted: 05/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED L-Lactic acid, one of the most important chiral molecules and organic acids, is produced via pyruvate from carbohydrates in diverse microorganisms catalyzed by an NAD+-dependent L-lactate dehydrogenase. Naturally, Escherichia coli does not produce L-lactate in noticeable amounts, but can catabolize it via a dehydrogenation reaction mediated by an FMN-dependent L-lactate dehydrogenase. In aims to make the E. coli strain to produce L-lactate, three L-lactate dehydrogenase genes from different bacteria were cloned and expressed. The L-lactate producing strains, 090B1 (B0013-070, ΔldhA::diflldD::Pldh-ldhLca), 090B2 (B0013-070, ΔldhA::diflldD::Pldh-ldhStrb) and 090B3 (B0013-070, ΔldhA::diflldD::Pldh-ldhBcoa) were developed from a previously developed D-lactate over-producing strain, E. coli strain B0013-070 (ack-ptappspflBdldpoxBadhEfrdA) by: (1) deleting ldhA to block D-lactate formation, (2) deleting lldD to block the conversion of L-lactate to pyruvate, and (3) expressing an L-lactate dehydrogenase (L-LDH) to convert pyruvate to L-lactate under the control of the ldhA promoter. Fermentation tests were carried out in a shaking flask and in a 25-l bioreactor. Strains 090B1, 090B2 or 090B3 were shown to metabolize glucose to L-lactate instead of D-lactate. However, L-lactate yield and cell growth rates were significantly different among the metabolically engineered strains which can be attributed to a variation between temperature optimum for cell growth and temperature optimum for enzymatic activity of individual L-LDH. In a temperature-shifting fermentation process (cells grown at 37°C and L-lactate formed at 42°C), E. coli 090B3 was able to produce 142.2 g/l of L-lactate with no more than 1.2 g/l of by-products (mainly acetate, pyruvate and succinate) accumulated. In conclusion, the production of lactate by E. coli is limited by the competition relationship between cell growth and lactate synthesis. Enzymatic properties, especially the thermodynamics of an L-LDH can be effectively used as a factor to regulate a metabolic pathway and its metabolic flux for efficient L-lactate production. HIGHLIGHTS The enzymatic thermodynamics was used as a tool for metabolic regulation. Minimizing the activity of L-lactate dehydrogenase in growth phase improved biomass accumulation. Maximizing the activity of L-lactate dehydrogenase improved lactate productivity in production phase.
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- Dandan Niu
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology, Ministry of Education & The College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin 300457, China.
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Förster AH, Gescher J. Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Production of Mixed-Acid Fermentation End Products. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2014; 2:16. [PMID: 25152889 PMCID: PMC4126452 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2014.00016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2014] [Accepted: 05/09/2014] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Mixed-acid fermentation end products have numerous applications in biotechnology. This is probably the main driving force for the development of multiple strains that are supposed to produce individual end products with high yields. The process of engineering Escherichia coli strains for applied production of ethanol, lactate, succinate, or acetate was initiated several decades ago and is still ongoing. This review follows the path of strain development from the general characteristics of aerobic versus anaerobic metabolism over the regulatory machinery that enables the different metabolic routes. Thereafter, major improvements for broadening the substrate spectrum of E. coli toward cheap carbon sources like molasses or lignocellulose are highlighted before major routes of strain development for the production of ethanol, acetate, lactate, and succinate are presented.
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- Andreas H Förster
- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , Karlsruhe , Germany
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , Karlsruhe , Germany
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Microaerobic conversion of glycerol to ethanol in Escherichia coli. Appl Environ Microbiol 2014; 80:3276-82. [PMID: 24584248 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03863-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Glycerol has become a desirable feedstock for the production of fuels and chemicals due to its availability and low price, but many barriers to commercialization remain. Previous investigators have made significant improvements in the yield of ethanol from glycerol. We have developed a fermentation process for the efficient microaerobic conversion of glycerol to ethanol by Escherichia coli that presents solutions to several other barriers to commercialization: rate, titer, specific productivity, use of inducers, use of antibiotics, and safety. To increase the rate, titer, and specific productivity to commercially relevant levels, we constructed a plasmid that overexpressed glycerol uptake genes dhaKLM, gldA, and glpK, as well as the ethanol pathway gene adhE. To eliminate the cost of inducers and antibiotics from the fermentation, we used the adhE and icd promoters from E. coli in our plasmid, and we implemented glycerol addiction to retain the plasmid. To address the safety issue of off-gas flammability, we optimized the fermentation process with reduced-oxygen sparge gas to ensure that the off-gas remained nonflammable. These advances represent significant progress toward the commercialization of an E. coli-based glycerol-to-ethanol process.
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Koutinas AA, Vlysidis A, Pleissner D, Kopsahelis N, Lopez Garcia I, Kookos IK, Papanikolaou S, Kwan TH, Lin CSK. Valorization of industrial waste and by-product streams via fermentation for the production of chemicals and biopolymers. Chem Soc Rev 2014; 43:2587-627. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cs60293a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 380] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- X. Philip Ye
- Department of Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science, The University of Tennessee, 2506 E. J. Chapman Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
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- Department of Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science, The University of Tennessee, 2506 E. J. Chapman Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
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Recent advances in lactic acid production by microbial fermentation processes. Biotechnol Adv 2013; 31:877-902. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 607] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2012] [Revised: 04/14/2013] [Accepted: 04/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Microbial Conversion of Waste Glycerol from Biodiesel Production into Value-Added Products. ENERGIES 2013. [DOI: 10.3390/en6094739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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