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Eiben CB, de Rond T, Bloszies C, Gin J, Chiniquy J, Baidoo EEK, Petzold CJ, Hillson NJ, Fiehn O, Keasling JD. Mevalonate Pathway Promiscuity Enables Noncanonical Terpene Production. ACS Synth Biol 2019; 8:2238-2247. [PMID: 31576747 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) make the six-carbon compounds homoisopentenyl pyrophosphate (HIPP) and homodimethylallyl pyrophosphate (HDMAPP) that are incorporated into 16, 17, and 18 carbon farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) analogues. In this work we heterologously expressed the lepidopteran modified mevalonate pathway, a propionyl-CoA ligase, and terpene cyclases in E. coli to produce several novel terpenes containing 16 carbons. Changing the terpene cyclase generated different novel terpene product profiles. To further validate the new compounds we confirmed 13C propionate was incorporated, and that the masses and fragmentation patterns were consistent with novel 16 carbon terpenes by GC-QTOF. On the basis of the available farnesyl pyrophosphate analogues lepidoptera produce, this approach should greatly expand the reachable biochemical space with applications in areas where terpenes have traditionally found uses.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christopher B. Eiben
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
| | - Tristan de Rond
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
| | - Clayton Bloszies
- National Institute of Health West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States
| | - Jennifer Gin
- Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Department of Energy Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
| | - Jennifer Chiniquy
- Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Department of Energy Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
| | - Edward E. K. Baidoo
- Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Department of Energy Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
| | - Christopher J. Petzold
- Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Department of Energy Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
| | - Nathan J. Hillson
- Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Department of Energy Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
| | - Oliver Fiehn
- National Institute of Health West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States
| | - Jay D. Keasling
- Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark
- Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Institute for Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, China
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