One-step Fermentative Production of Aromatic Polyesters from Glucose by Metabolically Engineered Escherichia Coli Strains

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2018 Jan 10

PMID 29311546

Citations 29

Authors

Jung Eun Yang

Si Jae Park

Won Jun Kim

Hyeong Jun Kim

Bumjoon J Kim

Hyuk Lee

Jihoon Shin

Sang Yup Lee

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Abstract

Aromatic polyesters are widely used plastics currently produced from petroleum. Here we engineer Escherichia coli strains for the production of aromatic polyesters from glucose by one-step fermentation. When the Clostridium difficile isocaprenoyl-CoA:2-hydroxyisocaproate CoA-transferase (HadA) and evolved polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase genes are overexpressed in a D-phenyllactate-producing strain, poly(52.3 mol% 3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB)-co-47.7 mol% D-phenyllactate) can be produced from glucose and sodium 3HB. Also, various poly(3HB-co-D-phenyllactate) polymers having 11.0, 15.8, 20.0, 70.8, and 84.5 mol% of D-phenyllactate are produced from glucose as a sole carbon source by additional expression of Ralstonia eutropha β-ketothiolase (phaA) and reductase (phaB) genes. Fed-batch culture of this engineered strain produces 13.9 g l of poly(61.9 mol% 3HB-co-38.1 mol% D-phenyllactate). Furthermore, different aromatic polyesters containing D-mandelate and D-3-hydroxy-3-phenylpropionate are produced from glucose when feeding the corresponding monomers. The engineered bacterial system will be useful for one-step fermentative production of aromatic polyesters from renewable resources.

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