Modular Co-culture Engineering of Yarrowia Lipolytica for Amorphadiene Biosynthesis

Overview

Journal Microb Cell Fact

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialties Biotechnology
Microbiology

Date 2022 Dec 31

PMID 36587216

Authors

Monireh Marsafari

Fidelis Azi

Shaohua Dou

Peng Xu

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Abstract

Amorphadiene is the precursor to synthesize the antimalarial drug artemisinin. The production of amorphadiene and artemisinin from metabolically engineered microbes may provide an alternate to plant secondary metabolite extraction. Microbial consortia can offer division of labor, and microbial co-culture system can be leveraged to achieve cost-efficient production of natural products. Using a co-culture system of Y. lipolytica Po1f and Po1g strains, subcellular localization of ADS gene (encoding amorphadiene synthase) into the endoplasmic reticulum, co-utilization of mixed carbon source, and enlargement of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) surface area, we were able to significantly improve amorphadiene production in this work. Using Po1g/PPtM and Po1f/AaADSER/iGFMPDU strains and co-utilization of 5 µM sodium acetate with 20 g/L glucose in YPD media, amorphadiene titer were increased to 65.094 mg/L. The enlargement of the ER surface area caused by the deletion of the PAH1 gene provided more subcellular ER space for the action of the ADS-tagged gene. It further increased the amorphadiene production to 71.74 mg/L. The results demonstrated that the importance of the spatial localization of critical enzymes, and manipulating metabolic flux in the co-culture of Y. lipolytica can be efficient over a single culture for the bioproduction of isoprenoid-related secondary metabolites in a modular manner.

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