摘要
Abstract
Fatty acids,as crucial industrial chemicals,are faced with sustainability challenges with regards to their conventional production methods.Herein,we employed Corynebacterium glutamicum(C.glutamicum)as a platform to systematically enhance fatty acid synthesis efficiency via multidimensional metabolic engineering strategies,including markerless gene knockout or integration by the suicide plasmid pK18mobsacB.First,overexpression of zwf(glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase),a key gene in the pentose phosphate pathway(PPP),resulted in the generation of strain NC-fl.This strain could maintain normal growth and glucose consumption rates.More importantly,it could increase intracellular NADPH levels by 41.14%.Total fatty acid production reached(356.58±25.66)mg/L,representing a 15.05%improvement over the strain NC-e6.Subsequently,attenuation of gltA expression,encoding a key TCA cycle enzyme,in strain NC-f2 redirected acetyl-CoA flux towards fatty acid biosynthesis.As a result of this metabolic shift,both cell growth and glucose consumption rates decreased,while the total fatty acid production could be improved by 32.71%.Knockout of the polyketide synthase gene pks13 was performed to block mycolic acid synthesis,then accordingly enhance fatty acid accumulation.Such a new strain NC-f3 led to a 21.98%increase in total fatty acid production compared to strain NC-f2.Finally,the strain NC-f4,with overexpression of the thioesterase gene Cgl2451,exhibited enhanced fatty acid hydrolysis.The yield of fatty acid could reach(651.01±62.6)mg/L in this case,representing a 12.78%increase relative to NC-f3 and a 110.04%increase relative to NC-e6.Overall,optimization using multiple metabolic engineering strategies significantly enhanced the capability of fatty acid synthesis in C.glutamicum.关键词
谷氨酸棒杆菌/脂肪酸/NADPH/柠檬酸合酶/硫酯酶Key words
Corynebacterium glutamicum/fatty acid/NADPH/citrate synthase/thioesterase分类
化学化工