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Zhong Y, Gu J, Shang C, Deng J, Liu Y, Cui Z, Lu X, Qi Q. Sustainable succinic acid production from lignocellulosic hydrolysates by engineered strains of Yarrowia lipolytica at low pH. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2024; 408:131166. [PMID: 39067709 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2024.131166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2024] [Revised: 06/17/2024] [Accepted: 07/25/2024] [Indexed: 07/30/2024]
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Succinic acid (SA) is a valuable C4 platform chemical with diverse applications. Lignocellulosic biomass represents an abundant and renewable carbon resource for microbial production of SA. However, the presence of toxic compounds in pretreated lignocellulosic hydrolysates poses challenges to cell metabolism, leading to inefficient SA production. Here, engineered Yarrowia lipolytica Hi-SA2 was shown to utilize glucose and xylose from corncob hydrolysate to produce 32.6 g/L SA in shaking flasks. The high concentration of undetoxified hydrolysates significantly inhibited yeast growth and SA biosynthesis, with furfural identified as the key inhibitor. Through overexpressing glutathione synthetase encoding gene YlGsh2, the tolerance of engineered strain to furfural and toxic hydrolysate was significantly improved. In a 5-L bioreactor, Hi-SA2-YlGsh2 strain produced 45.34 g/L SA within 32 h, with a final pH of 3.28. This study provides a sustainable process for bio-based SA production, highlighting the efficient SA synthesis from lignocellulosic biomass through low pH fermentation.
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- Yutao Zhong
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, PR China.
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Kumar V, Kumar P, Maity SK, Agrawal D, Narisetty V, Jacob S, Kumar G, Bhatia SK, Kumar D, Vivekanand V. Recent advances in bio-based production of top platform chemical, succinic acid: an alternative to conventional chemistry. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS 2024; 17:72. [PMID: 38811976 PMCID: PMC11137917 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-024-02508-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2024] [Accepted: 04/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024]
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Succinic acid (SA) is one of the top platform chemicals with huge applications in diverse sectors. The presence of two carboxylic acid groups on the terminal carbon atoms makes SA a highly functional molecule that can be derivatized into a wide range of products. The biological route for SA production is a cleaner, greener, and promising technological option with huge potential to sequester the potent greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. The recycling of renewable carbon of biomass (an indirect form of CO2), along with fixing CO2 in the form of SA, offers a carbon-negative SA manufacturing route to reduce atmospheric CO2 load. These attractive attributes compel a paradigm shift from fossil-based to microbial SA manufacturing, as evidenced by several commercial-scale bio-SA production in the last decade. The current review article scrutinizes the existing knowledge and covers SA production by the most efficient SA producers, including several bacteria and yeast strains. The review starts with the biochemistry of the major pathways accumulating SA as an end product. It discusses the SA production from a variety of pure and crude renewable sources by native as well as engineered strains with details of pathway/metabolic, evolutionary, and process engineering approaches for enhancing TYP (titer, yield, and productivity) metrics. The review is then extended to recent progress on separation technologies to recover SA from fermentation broth. Thereafter, SA derivatization opportunities via chemo-catalysis are discussed for various high-value products, which are only a few steps away. The last two sections are devoted to the current scenario of industrial production of bio-SA and associated challenges, along with the author's perspective.
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- Vinod Kumar
- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, UK.
- Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247667, India.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Studies of Engineering and Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, 495009, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy, Hyderabad, Telangana, 502284, India.
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- Biochemistry and Biotechnology Area, Material Resource Efficiency Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248005, India
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, UK
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Bioengineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 603203, India
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, 05029, Republic of Korea
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- School of Bioengineering & Food Technology, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, 173229, India
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- Centre for Energy and Environment, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302017, India
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Zhou S, Zhang Y, Wei Z, Park S. Recent advances in metabolic engineering of microorganisms for the production of monomeric C3 and C4 chemical compounds. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2023; 377:128973. [PMID: 36972803 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.128973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Revised: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Bio-based C3 and C4 bi-functional chemicals are useful monomers in biopolymer production. This review describes recent progresses in the biosynthesis of four such monomers as a hydroxy-carboxylic acid (3-hydroxypropionic acid), a dicarboxylic acid (succinic acid), and two diols (1,3-propanediol and 1,4-butanediol). The use of cheap carbon sources and the development of strains and processes for better product titer, rate and yield are presented. Challenges and future perspectives for (more) economical commercial production of these chemicals are also briefly discussed.
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- Shengfang Zhou
- The Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Medicinal Plant of Jiangsu Province, School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Medicinal Plant of Jiangsu Province, School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Medicinal Plant of Jiangsu Province, School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China
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- School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea.
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An N, Chen X, Sheng H, Wang J, Sun X, Yan Y, Shen X, Yuan Q. Rewiring the microbial metabolic network for efficient utilization of mixed carbon sources. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 48:6313286. [PMID: 34215883 PMCID: PMC8788776 DOI: 10.1093/jimb/kuab040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 06/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Carbon sources represent the most dominant cost factor in the industrial biomanufacturing of products. Thus, it has attracted much attention to seek cheap and renewable feedstocks, such as lignocellulose, crude glycerol, methanol, and carbon dioxide, for biosynthesis of value-added compounds. Co-utilization of these carbon sources by microorganisms not only can reduce the production cost but also serves as a promising approach to improve the carbon yield. However, co-utilization of mixed carbon sources usually suffers from a low utilization rate. In the past few years, the development of metabolic engineering strategies to enhance carbon source co-utilization efficiency by inactivation of carbon catabolite repression has made significant progress. In this article, we provide informative and comprehensive insights into the co-utilization of two or more carbon sources including glucose, xylose, arabinose, glycerol, and C1 compounds, and we put our focus on parallel utilization, synergetic utilization, and complementary utilization of different carbon sources. Our goal is not only to summarize strategies of co-utilization of carbon sources, but also to discuss how to improve the carbon yield and the titer of target products.
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- Ning An
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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Xu C, Alam MA, Wang Z, Peng Y, Xie C, Gong W, Yang Q, Huang S, Zhuang W, Xu J. Co-fermentation of succinic acid and ethanol from sugarcane bagasse based on full hexose and pentose utilization and carbon dioxide reduction. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2021; 339:125578. [PMID: 34298250 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Revised: 07/11/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The full utilization of carbohydrates in lignocellulosic biomass is essential for an efficient biorefining process. In this study, co-fermentation was performed for processing ethanol and succinic from sugarcane bagasse. By optimizing the co-fermentation conditions, nutrition and feeding strategies, a novel process was developed to make full utilization of the glucose and xylose in the hydrolysate of sugarcane bagasse. The achieved concentrations of succinic acid and ethanol reached to 22.1 and 22.0 g/L, respectively, and could realize the conversion of 100 g SCB raw material into 8.6 g ethanol and 8.7 g succinic acid. It is worth mentioning that the CO2 released from S. cerevisiae in co-fermentation system was recycled by A. succinogenes to synthesize succinic acid, realized CO2 emission reduction in the process of lignocellulosic biomass biorefinery. This study provided a clue for efficient biorefinery of lignocellulosic biomass and reduction greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Chao Xu
- Institute of Bast Fiber Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410205, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China; Zhengzhou Tuoyang Industrial Co, Ltd, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
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- Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
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- Institute of Bast Fiber Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410205, China
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- Institute of Bast Fiber Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410205, China
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- Institute of Bast Fiber Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410205, China
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- Institute of Bast Fiber Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410205, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Marine Natural Products and Combinatorial Biosynthesis Chemistry, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning 530007, China
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- College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China; Zhengzhou Tuoyang Industrial Co, Ltd, Zhengzhou 450001, China; Zhengzhou University Industrial Technology Research Institute Co, Ltd, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
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Stylianou E, Pateraki C, Ladakis D, Damala C, Vlysidis A, Latorre-Sánchez M, Coll C, Lin CSK, Koutinas A. Bioprocess development using organic biowaste and sustainability assessment of succinic acid production with engineered Yarrowia lipolytica strain. Biochem Eng J 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2021.108099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Han S, Kim Y, Karanjikar M, San KY, Bennett GN. Genetic sensor-regulators functional in Clostridia. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2020; 47:609-620. [DOI: 10.1007/s10295-020-02303-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This study addressed the functionality of genetic circuits carrying natural regulatory elements of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 in the presence of the respective inducer molecules. Specifically, promoters and their regulators involved in diverse carbon source utilization were characterized using mCherryOpt or beta-galactosidase as a reporter. Consequently, most of the genetic circuits tested in this study were functional in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 in the presence of an inducer, leading to the expression of reporter proteins. These genetic sensor-regulators were found to be transferable to another Clostridium species, such as Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052. The gradual expression of reporter protein was observed as a function of the carbohydrates of interest. A xylose-inducible promoter allows a titratable and robust expression of a reporter protein with stringency and efficacy. This xylose-inducible circuit was seen to enable induction of the expression of reporter proteins in the presence of actual sugar mixtures incorporated in woody hydrolysate wherein glucose and xylose are present as predominant carbon sources.
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- SongI Han
- grid.21940.3e 0000 0004 1936 8278 Department of Bioengineering Rice University 77005 Houston TX USA
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- grid.427405.0 Technology Holding LLC 84119 West Valley City UT USA
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- grid.21940.3e 0000 0004 1936 8278 Department of Bioengineering Rice University 77005 Houston TX USA
- grid.21940.3e 0000 0004 1936 8278 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Rice University 77005 Houston TX USA
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- grid.21940.3e 0000 0004 1936 8278 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Rice University 77005 Houston TX USA
- grid.21940.3e 0000 0004 1936 8278 Department of BioSciences Rice University 77005 Houston TX USA
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