查尔酮合酶
柚皮素
代谢工程
查尔酮
生物化学
合成生物学
黄烷酮
ATP合酶
酶
化学
类黄酮
生物
生物合成
计算生物学
立体化学
抗氧化剂
作者
Hyun Gyu Hwang,Alfonsina Milito,Jae‐Seong Yang,Sungho Jang,Gyoo Yeol Jung
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.ymben.2022.12.006
摘要
Flavonoids are a group of secondary metabolites from plants that have received attention as high value-added pharmacological substances. Recently, a robust and efficient bioprocess using recombinant microbes has emerged as a promising approach to supply flavonoids. In the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway, the rate of chalcone synthesis, the first committed step, is a major bottleneck. However, chalcone synthase (CHS) engineering was difficult because of high-level conservation and the absence of effective screening tools, which are limited to overexpression or homolog-based combinatorial strategies. Furthermore, it is necessary to precisely regulate the metabolic flux for the optimum availability of malonyl-CoA, a substrate of chalcone synthesis. In this study, we engineered CHS and optimized malonyl-CoA availability to establish a platform strain for naringenin production, a key molecular scaffold for various flavonoids. First, we engineered CHS through synthetic riboswitch-based high-throughput screening of rationally designed mutant libraries. Consequently, the catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km) of the optimized CHS enzyme was 62% higher than that of the wild-type enzyme. In addition to CHS engineering, we designed genetic circuits using transcriptional repressors to fine-tune the malonyl-CoA availability. The best mutant with synergistic effects of the engineered CHS and the optimized genetic circuit produced 98.71 mg/L naringenin (12.57 mg naringenin/g glycerol), which is the highest naringenin concentration and yield from glycerol in similar culture conditions reported to date, a 2.5-fold increase compared to the parental strain. Overall, this study provides an effective strategy for efficient production of flavonoids.
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