Development of Schizochytrium Sp. Strain HS01 with High-DHA and Low-saturated Fatty Acids Production by Multi-pronged Adaptive Evolution

Overview

Journal Biotechnol Lett

Specialties Biochemistry
Biotechnology

Date 2023 Jun 21

PMID 37341820

Authors

Huichang Zhong

Meng Zhang

Liyi Chen

Weifeng Liu

Yong Tao

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Abstract

Purpose: Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an important omega-3 unsaturated fatty acid and has been widely applied in medicine, food additives, and feed ingredients. The fermentative production of DHA using microorganisms, including Schizochytrium sp., attracted much attention due to its high production efficiency and environment friendly properties. An efficient laboratory evolution approach was used to improve the strain's performance in this study.

Methods: A multi-pronged laboratory evolution approach was applied to evolve high-yield DHA-producing Schizochytrium strain. We further employed comparative transcriptional analysis to identify transcriptional changes between the screened strain HS01 and its parent strain GS00.

Results: After multiple generations of ALE, a strain HS01 with higher DHA content and lower saturated fatty acids content was obtained. Low nitrogen conditions were important for enhancing DHA biosynthesis in HS01. The comparative transcriptional analysis results indicated that during the fermentation process of HS01, the expression of key enzymes in the glycolysis, the pentose phosphate pathway and the tricarboxylic acid cycle were up-regulated, while the expression of polyketide synthase genes and fatty acid synthesis genes were similar to those in GS00.

Conclusion: The results suggest that the improved DHA production capacity of HS01 is not due to enhancement of the DHA biosynthesis pathway, but rather related to modulation of central metabolism pathways.

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