生物传感器
定向进化
小分子
配体(生物化学)
合成生物学
计算生物学
代谢工程
定向分子进化
生物化学
己二酸
化学
生物
酶
基因
突变体
受体
有机化学
作者
Alex A. Javanpour,Chang C. Liu
标识
DOI:10.1021/acssynbio.1c00316
摘要
Genetically encoded biosensors are valuable for the optimization of small-molecule biosynthesis pathways, because they transduce the production of small-molecule ligands into a readout compatible with high-throughput screening or selection in vivo. However, engineering biosensors with appropriate response functions and ligand preferences remains challenging. Here, we show that the continuous hypermutation system, OrthoRep, can be effectively applied to evolve biosensors with a high dynamic range, reprogrammed activity toward desired noncognate ligands, and proper operational range for coupling to biosynthetic pathways. In particular, we encoded the allosteric transcriptional factor, BenM, on OrthoRep such that the propagation of host yeast cells resulted in BenM's rapid and continuous diversification. When these cells were subjected to cycles of culturing and sorting on BenM activity in the presence and absence of its cognate ligand, muconic acid, or the noncognate ligand, adipic acid, we obtained multiple BenM variants that respond to their corresponding ligands. These biosensors outperform previously engineered BenM-based biosensors by achieving a substantially greater dynamic range (up to ∼180-fold induction) and broadened operational range. The expression of select BenM variants in the presence of a muconic acid biosynthetic pathway demonstrated sensitive biosensor activation without saturating response, which should enable pathway and host engineering for higher production of muconic and adipic acids. Given the streamlined manner in which high-performance and versatile biosensors were evolved using OrthoRep, this study provides a template for generating custom biosensors for metabolic pathway engineering and other biotechnology goals.
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