Construction of knock-out mutants of Escherichia coli BW25113 for improved polyhydroxyalkanoate production
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) is linear polyester produced through fermentation of sugar or lipid. Biosynthesis of PHA involves three enzymes which are acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase, acetoacetyl-CoA reductase and PHA synthase. Under growth conditions, PHA is synthesized when excess carbon source...
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2017
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| Summary: | Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) is linear polyester produced through fermentation of
sugar or lipid. Biosynthesis of PHA involves three enzymes which are acetyl-CoA
acetyltransferase, acetoacetyl-CoA reductase and PHA synthase. Under growth
conditions, PHA is synthesized when excess carbon sources and essential nutrients
are limited. Comamonas sp. is one of the strains commonly used for PHA
production. However, the strain consist of PHA depolymerase gene in its genome
which will influence PHA production. Thus, E. coli was used as a host for PHA
production since its genome is well characterized and no depolymerase gene was
reported. In this work, PHA biosynthesis operon of Comamonas sp. EB172 was
introduced into Escherichia coli BW25113 through pGEM’-T vector. The strain was
used for further modification to enhance PHA production thorough metabolic
engineering approach. Metabolic engineering through one-step single deletion
approach was carried out to identify specific gene related to PHA metabolism in E.
coli. Seven genes pgi, frdC, fdnG, focA gltA, pta, and poxB were found to be
associated with PHA metabolism. In addition, P1 transduction was conducted to
introduce multiple knock-outs in order to enhance PHA production from E. coli. A
deletion of two genes of E. coli BW25113 frdCgltA::kan/pGEM’-phaCABCo has
produced 53 wt.% of PHA compared to the control strain E. coli BW25113/pGEM’-
phaCABCo which was 46 wt.%, respectively. Finally, a combination of three genes
deletion were found to give highest PHA production at 64 wt.% as engineered E. coli
BW25113 frdCgltApta::kan/pGEM’-phaCABCo. PHA profiling of was compared with
Comamonas sp. EB172 and it showed the engineered strain is about 3-fold higher
compared to Comamonas sp. EB172 which is only 23 wt.%. Overall, the results
indicate that the genes deletion has enhanced PHA production and the genes of frdC,
fdnG, focA and gltA were first to report that improve PHA production in E. coli. |
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