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Luo Z, Pan F, Zhu Y, Du S, Yan Y, Wang R, Li S, Xu H. Synergistic Improvement of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Production with Synthetic Scaffolds and System Pathway Engineering. ACS Synth Biol 2022; 11:2766-2778. [PMID: 35939037 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Engineered synthetic scaffolds to organize metabolic pathway enzymes and system pathway engineering to fine-tune metabolic fluxes play essential roles in microbial production. Here, we first obtained the most favorable combination of key enzymes for 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) synthesis through the C5 pathway by screening enzymes from different sources and optimizing their combination in different pathways. Second, we successfully constructed a multienzyme complex assembly system with PduA*, which spatially recruits the above three key enzymes for 5-ALA synthesis in a designable manner. By further optimizing the ratio of these key enzymes in synthetic scaffolds, the efficiency of 5-ALA synthesis through the C5 pathway was significantly improved. Then, the competitive metabolism pathway was fine-tuned by rationally designing different antisense RNAs, further significantly increasing 5-ALA titers. Furthermore, for efficient 5-ALA synthesis, obstacles of NADH and NADPH imbalances and feedback inhibition of the synthesis pathway were also overcome through engineering the NADPH regeneration pathway and transport pathway, respectively. Finally, combining these strategies with further fermentation optimization, we achieved a final 5-ALA titer of 11.4 g/L. These results highlight the importance of synthetic scaffolds and system pathway engineering to improve the microbial cell factory production performance.
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- Zhengshan Luo
- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China.,College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China.,College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China.,College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China.,College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China.,College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China.,College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China.,College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China.,College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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Qin Z, Wang D, Luo R, Li T, Xiong X, Chen P. Using Unnatural Protein Fusions to Engineer a Coenzyme Self-Sufficiency System for D-Phenyllactic Acid Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2021; 9:795885. [PMID: 34976983 PMCID: PMC8718758 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.795885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The biosynthetic production of D-penyllactic acid (D-PLA) is often affected by insufficient supply and regeneration of cofactors, leading to high production cost, and difficulty in industrialization. In this study, a D-lactate dehydrogenase (D-LDH) and glycerol dehydrogenase (GlyDH) co-expression system was constructed to achieve coenzyme NADH self-sufficiency and sustainable production of D-PLA. Using glycerol and sodium phenylpyruvate (PPA) as co-substrate, the E. coli BL21 (DE3) harboring a plasmid to co-express LfD-LDH and BmGlyDH produced 3.95 g/L D-PLA with a yield of 0.78 g/g PPA, similar to previous studies. Then, flexible linkers were used to construct fusion proteins composing of D-LDH and GlyDH. Under the optimal conditions, 5.87 g/L D-PLA was produced by expressing LfD-LDH-l3-BmGlyDH with a yield of 0.97 g/g PPA, which was 59.3% increased compared to expression of LfD-LDH. In a scaled-up reaction, a productivity of 5.83 g/L/h was reached. In this study, improving the bio-catalytic efficiency by artificial redox self-equilibrium system with a bifunctional fusion protein could reduce the bio-production cost of D-PLA, making this bio-production of D-PLA a more promising industrial technology.
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- Zhao Qin
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
- *Correspondence: Dan Wang,
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- Ee Taek Hwang
- Center for Convergence Bioceramic Materials, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering & Technology, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28160, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Convergence Bioceramic Materials, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering & Technology, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28160, Republic of Korea
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Zhang Y, Wang Y, Wang S, Fang B. Engineering bi-functional enzyme complex of formate dehydrogenase and leucine dehydrogenase by peptide linker mediated fusion for accelerating cofactor regeneration. Eng Life Sci 2017; 17:989-996. [PMID: 32624849 DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201600232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2016] [Revised: 03/01/2017] [Accepted: 03/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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This study reports the application of peptide linker in the construction of bi-functional formate dehydrogenase (FDH) and leucine dehydrogenase (LeuDH) enzymatic complex for efficient cofactor regeneration and L-tert leucine (L-tle) biotransformation. Seven FDH-LeuDH fusion enzymes with different peptide linker were successfully developed and displayed both parental enzyme activities. The incorporation order of FDH and LeuDH was investigated by predicting three-dimensional structures of LeuDH-FDH and FDH-LeuDH models using the I-TASSER server. The enzymatic characterization showed that insertion of rigid peptide linker obtained better activity and thermal stability in comparison with flexible peptide linker. The production rate of fusion enzymatic complex with suitable flexible peptide linker was increased by 1.2 times compared with free enzyme mixture. Moreover, structural analysis of FDH and LeuDH suggested the secondary structure of the N-, C-terminal domain and their relative positions to functional domains was also greatly relevant to the catalytic properties of the fusion enzymatic complex. The results show that rigid peptide linker could ensure the independent folding of moieties and stabilized enzyme structure, while the flexible peptide linker was likely to bring enzyme moieties in close proximity for superior cofactor channeling.
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- Yonghui Zhang
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen P. R. China.,The Key Lab for Synthetic Biotechnology of Xiamen City Xiamen University Xiamen Fujian P. R. China.,The Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province Xiamen University Xiamen Fujian P. R. China
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Sun T, Li B, Nie Y, Wang D, Xu Y. Enhancement of asymmetric bioreduction of N,N-dimethyl-3-keto-3-(2-thienyl)-1-propanamine to corresponding (S)-enantiomer by fusion of carbonyl reductase and glucose dehydrogenase. BIORESOUR BIOPROCESS 2017. [DOI: 10.1186/s40643-017-0151-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Shahbaz Mohammadi H, Mostafavi SS, Soleimani S, Bozorgian S, Pooraskari M, Kianmehr A. Response surface methodology to optimize partition and purification of two recombinant oxidoreductase enzymes, glucose dehydrogenase and d -galactose dehydrogenase in aqueous two-phase systems. Protein Expr Purif 2015; 108:41-47. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2015.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2014] [Revised: 01/03/2015] [Accepted: 01/05/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Whole-cell biotransformation systems for reduction of prochiral carbonyl compounds to chiral alcohol in Escherichia coli. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6750. [PMID: 25342633 PMCID: PMC4208033 DOI: 10.1038/srep06750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2014] [Accepted: 10/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Lactobacillus brevis alcohol dehydrogenase (Lb-ADH) catalyzes reduction of prochiral carbonyl compounds to chiral alcohol and meanwhile consumes its cofactor NADH into NAD+, while the cofactor regeneration can be catalyzed by Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase (Cb-FDH). This work presents three different Escherichia coli whole-cell biocatalyst systems expressing recombinant ADH/FDH, FDH-LIN1-ADH and FDH-LIN2-ADH, respectively, all of which display very high efficacies of prochiral carbonyl conversion with respect to conversion rates and enantiomeric excess values. ADH/FDH represents co-expression of Lb-ADH and Cb-FDH under different promoters in a single vector. Fusion of Lb-ADH and Cb-FDH by a linker peptide LIN1 (GGGGS)2 or LIN2 (EAAAK)2 generates the two bifunctional enzymes FDH-LIN1-ADH and FDH-LIN2-ADH, which enable efficient asymmetric reduction of prochiral ketones in whole-cell biotransformation.
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Kianmehr A, Pooraskari M, Mousavikoodehi B, Mostafavi SS. Recombinant d-galactose dehydrogenase partitioning in aqueous two-phase systems: effect of pH and concentration of PEG and ammonium sulfate. BIORESOUR BIOPROCESS 2014. [DOI: 10.1186/s40643-014-0006-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Diversion of flux toward sesquiterpene production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by fusion of host and heterologous enzymes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 77:1033-40. [PMID: 21148687 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01361-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The ability to transfer metabolic pathways from the natural producer organisms to the well-characterized cell factory Saccharomyces cerevisiae is well documented. However, as many secondary metabolites are produced by collaborating enzymes assembled in complexes, metabolite production in yeast may be limited by the inability of the heterologous enzymes to collaborate with the native yeast enzymes. This may cause loss of intermediates by diffusion or degradation or due to conversion of the intermediate through competitive pathways. To bypass this problem, we have pursued a strategy in which key enzymes in the pathway are expressed as a physical fusion. As a model system, we have constructed several fusion protein variants in which farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPPS) of yeast has been coupled to patchoulol synthase (PTS) of plant origin (Pogostemon cablin). Expression of the fusion proteins in S. cerevisiae increased the production of patchoulol, the main sesquiterpene produced by PTS, up to 2-fold. Moreover, we have demonstrated that the fusion strategy can be used in combination with traditional metabolic engineering to further increase the production of patchoulol. This simple test case of synthetic biology demonstrates that engineering the spatial organization of metabolic enzymes around a branch point has great potential for diverting flux toward a desired product.
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Enantioselective reduction of prochiral ketones by engineered bifunctional fusion proteins. Biotechnol Appl Biochem 2010; 56:131-40. [PMID: 20590527 DOI: 10.1042/ba20100143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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NADPH-dependent oxidoreductases are useful catalysts for the production of chiral synthons. However, preparative applications of oxidoreductases require efficient methods for in situ regeneration of the expensive nicotinamide cofactors. An advantageous method for cofactor regeneration is the construction of bifunctional fusion proteins composed of two enzymes, one catalysing the reduction reaction and the other one mediating the recycling of cofactors. Herein, we describe the in-frame fusion between an NADP+-accepting mutant of FDH (formate dehydrogenase) from Mycobacterium vaccae N10 and KR [3-ketoacyl-(acyl-carrier-protein) reductase] from Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942. The generation of linker insertion mutants led to a fusion protein exhibiting 100 and 80% of the enzymatic activities of native KR and FDH respectively. Escherichia coli cells expressing the fusion protein showed an approx. 2-fold higher initial reaction rate in the production of chiral alcohols than cells expressing the enzymes separately. The application of the engineered fusion protein in whole-cell bioreduction of pentafluoroacetophenone resulted in a substrate conversion of 99.97% with an excellent enantiomeric excess of 99.9% (S)-1-(pentafluorophenyl)ethanol.
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Conrado RJ, Varner JD, DeLisa MP. Engineering the spatial organization of metabolic enzymes: mimicking nature's synergy. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2008; 19:492-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2008.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 238] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2008] [Revised: 07/24/2008] [Accepted: 07/29/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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