Abstract:
:High titer 1-butanol production in Escherichia coli has previously been achieved by overexpression of a modified clostridial 1-butanol production pathway and subsequent deletion of native fermentation pathways. This strategy couples growth with production as 1-butanol pathway offers the only available terminal electron acceptors required for growth in anaerobic conditions. With further inclusion of other well-established metabolic engineering principles, a titer of 15g/L has been obtained. In achieving this titer, many currently existing strategies have been exhausted, and 1-butanol toxicity level has been surpassed. Therefore, continued engineering of the host strain for increased production requires implementation of alternative strategies that seek to identify non-obvious targets for improvement. In this study, a metabolomics-driven approach was used to reveal a CoA imbalance resulting from a pta deletion that caused undesirable accumulation of pyruvate, butanoate, and other CoA-derived compounds. Using metabolomics, the reduction of butanoyl-CoA to butanal catalyzed by alcohol dehydrogenase AdhE2 was determined as a rate-limiting step. Fine-tuning of this activity and subsequent release of free CoA restored the CoA balance that resulted in a titer of 18.3g/L upon improvement of total free CoA levels using cysteine supplementation. By enhancing AdhE2 activity, carbon flux was directed towards 1-butanol production and undesirable accumulation of pyruvate and butanoate was diminished. This study represents the initial report describing the improvement of 1-butanol production in E. coli by resolving CoA imbalance, which was based on metabolome analysis and rational metabolic engineering strategies.
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Metab Engjournal_title
Metabolic engineeringauthors
Ohtake T,Pontrelli S,Laviña WA,Liao JC,Putri SP,Fukusaki Edoi
10.1016/j.ymben.2017.04.003subject
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2017-05-01 00:00:00pages
135-143eissn
1096-7176issn
1096-7184pii
S1096-7176(16)30139-2journal_volume
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