Maxime Lecomte , Wenfan Cao , Julie Aubert , David James Sherman , Hélène Falentin , Clémence Frioux , Simon Labarthe
{"title":"Revealing the dynamics and mechanisms of bacterial interactions in cheese production with metabolic modelling","authors":"Maxime Lecomte , Wenfan Cao , Julie Aubert , David James Sherman , Hélène Falentin , Clémence Frioux , Simon Labarthe","doi":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cheese taste and flavour properties result from complex metabolic processes occurring in microbial communities. A deeper understanding of such mechanisms makes it possible to improve both industrial production processes and end-product quality through the design of microbial consortia. In this work, we caracterise the metabolism of a three-species community consisting of <em>Lactococcus lactis</em>, <em>Lactobacillus plantarum</em> and <em>Propionibacterium freudenreichii</em> during a seven-week cheese production process. Using genome-scale metabolic models and omics data integration, we modeled and calibrated individual dynamics using monoculture experiments, and coupled these models to capture the metabolism of the community. This model accurately predicts the dynamics of the community, enlightening the contribution of each microbial species to organoleptic compound production. Further metabolic exploration revealed additional possible interactions between the bacterial species. This work provides a methodological framework for the prediction of community-wide metabolism and highlights the added value of dynamic metabolic modeling for the comprehension of fermented food processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":18483,"journal":{"name":"Metabolic engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096717624000302/pdfft?md5=ff6cbb44138856d374b3d067863cae70&pid=1-s2.0-S1096717624000302-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140068561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Harnish Mukesh Naik , Xiangchen Cai , Pranay Ladiwala , Jayanth Venkatarama Reddy , Michael J. Betenbaugh , Maciek R. Antoniewicz
{"title":"Elucidating uptake and metabolic fate of dipeptides in CHO cell cultures using 13C labeling experiments and kinetic modeling","authors":"Harnish Mukesh Naik , Xiangchen Cai , Pranay Ladiwala , Jayanth Venkatarama Reddy , Michael J. Betenbaugh , Maciek R. Antoniewicz","doi":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The rapidly growing market of biologics including monoclonal antibodies has stimulated the need to improve biomanufacturing processes including mammalian host systems such as Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. Cell culture media formulations continue to be enhanced to enable intensified cell culture processes and optimize cell culture performance. Amino acids, major components of cell culture media, are consumed in large amounts by CHO cells. Due to their low solubility and poor stability, certain amino acids including tyrosine, leucine, and phenylalanine can pose major challenges leading to suboptimal bioprocess performance. Dipeptides have the potential to replace amino acids in culture media. However, very little is known about the cleavage, uptake, and utilization kinetics of dipeptides in CHO cell cultures. In this study, replacing amino acids, including leucine and tyrosine by their respective dipeptides including but not limited to Ala-Leu and Gly-Tyr, supported similar cell growth, antibody production, and lactate profiles. Using <sup>13</sup>C labeling techniques and spent media studies, dipeptides were shown to undergo both intracellular and extracellular cleavage in cultures. Extracellular cleavage increased with the culture duration, indicating cleavage by host cell proteins that are likely secreted and accumulate in cell culture over time. A kinetic model was built and for the first time, integrated with <sup>13</sup>C labeling experiments to estimate dipeptide utilization rates, in CHO cell cultures. Dipeptides with alanine at the N-terminus had a higher utilization rate than dipeptides with alanine at the C-terminus and dipeptides with glycine instead of alanine at N-terminus. Simultaneous supplementation of more than one dipeptide in culture led to reduction in individual dipeptide utilization rates indicating that dipeptides compete for the same cleavage enzymes, transporters, or both. Dipeptide utilization rates in culture and cleavage rates in cell-free experiments appeared to follow Michaelis-Menten kinetics, reaching a maximum at higher dipeptide concentrations. Dipeptide utilization behavior was found to be similar in cell-free and cell culture environments, paving the way for future testing approaches for dipeptides in cell-free environments prior to use in large-scale bioreactors. Thus, this study provides a deeper understanding of the fate of dipeptides in CHO cell cultures through an integration of cell culture, <sup>13</sup>C labeling, and kinetic modeling approaches providing insights in how to best use dipeptides in media formulations for robust and optimal mammalian cell culture performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":18483,"journal":{"name":"Metabolic engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140068560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Celeste B. Marsan , Sung Gyung Lee , Ankim Nguyen , Angela R. Gordillo Sierra , Sarah M. Coleman , Sierra M. Brooks , Hal S. Alper
{"title":"Leveraging a Y. lipolytica naringenin chassis for biosynthesis of apigenin and associated glucoside","authors":"Celeste B. Marsan , Sung Gyung Lee , Ankim Nguyen , Angela R. Gordillo Sierra , Sarah M. Coleman , Sierra M. Brooks , Hal S. Alper","doi":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Flavonoids are a diverse set of natural products with promising bioactivities including anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, and neuroprotective properties. Previously, the oleaginous host <em>Yarrowia lipolytica</em> has been engineered to produce high titers of the base flavonoid naringenin. Here, we leverage this host along with a set of <em>E. coli</em> bioconversion strains to produce the flavone apigenin and its glycosylated derivative isovitexin, two potential nutraceutical and pharmaceutical candidates. Through downstream strain selection, co-culture optimization, media composition, and mutant isolation, we were able to produce168 mg/L of apigenin, representing a 46% conversion rate of 2-(R/S)-naringenin to apigenin. This apigenin platform was modularly extended to produce isovitexin by addition of a second bioconversion strain. Together, these results demonstrate the promise of microbial production and modular bioconversion to access diversified flavonoids.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":18483,"journal":{"name":"Metabolic engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140049848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qitiao Hu , Simian Sun , Zhongnan Zhang , Wei Liu , Xueqing Yi , Hongtao He , Nigel S. Scrutton , Guo-Qiang Chen
{"title":"Ectoine hyperproduction by engineered Halomonas bluephagenesis","authors":"Qitiao Hu , Simian Sun , Zhongnan Zhang , Wei Liu , Xueqing Yi , Hongtao He , Nigel S. Scrutton , Guo-Qiang Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ectoine, a crucial osmoprotectant for salt adaptation in halophiles, has gained growing interest in cosmetics and medical industries. However, its production remains challenged by stringent fermentation process in model microorganisms and low production level in its native producers. Here, we systematically engineered the native ectoine producer <em>Halomonas bluephagenesis</em> for ectoine production by overexpressing <em>ectABC</em> operon, increasing precursors availability, enhancing product transport system and optimizing its growth medium. The final engineered <em>H. bluephagenesis</em> produced 85 g/L ectoine in 52 h under open unsterile incubation in a 7 L bioreactor in the absence of plasmid, antibiotic or inducer. Furthermore, it was successfully demonstrated the feasibility of decoupling salt concentration with ectoine synthesis and co-production with bioplastic P(3HB-<em>co</em>-4HB) by the engineered <em>H. bluephagenesis</em>. The unsterile fermentation process and significantly increased ectoine titer indicate that <em>H. bluephagenesis</em> as the chassis of Next-Generation Industrial Biotechnology (NGIB), is promising for the biomanufacturing of not only intracellular bioplastic PHA but also small molecular compound such as ectoine.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":18483,"journal":{"name":"Metabolic engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139937939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seung Hwan Lee , Yang Hu , Alexander Chou, Jing Chen, Ramon Gonzalez
{"title":"Metabolic flux optimization of iterative pathways through orthogonal gene expression control: Application to the β-oxidation reversal","authors":"Seung Hwan Lee , Yang Hu , Alexander Chou, Jing Chen, Ramon Gonzalez","doi":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Balancing relative expression of pathway genes to minimize flux bottlenecks and metabolic burden is one of the key challenges in metabolic engineering. This is especially relevant for iterative pathways, such as reverse β-oxidation (rBOX) pathway, which require control of flux partition at multiple nodes to achieve efficient synthesis of target products. Here, we develop a plasmid-based inducible system for orthogonal control of gene expression (referred to as the TriO system) and demonstrate its utility in the rBOX pathway. Leveraging effortless construction of TriO vectors in a plug-and-play manner, we simultaneously explored the solution space for enzyme choice and relative expression levels. Remarkably, varying individual expression levels led to substantial change in product specificity ranging from no production to optimal performance of about 90% of the theoretical yield of the desired products. We obtained titers of 6.3 g/L butyrate, 2.2 g/L butanol and 4.0 g/L hexanoate from glycerol in <em>E. coli</em>, which exceed the best titers previously reported using equivalent enzyme combinations. Since a similar system behavior was observed with alternative termination routes and higher-order iterations, we envision our approach to be broadly applicable to other iterative pathways besides the rBOX. Considering that high throughput, automated strain construction using combinatorial promoter and RBS libraries remain out of reach for many researchers, especially in academia, tools like the TriO system could democratize the testing and evaluation of pathway designs by reducing cost, time and infrastructure requirements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":18483,"journal":{"name":"Metabolic engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139916916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Menglei Li, Jiayao Chen, Keqin He, Changsheng Su, Yilu Wu, Tianwei Tan
{"title":"Corynebacterium glutamicum cell factory design for the efficient production of cis, cis-muconic acid","authors":"Menglei Li, Jiayao Chen, Keqin He, Changsheng Su, Yilu Wu, Tianwei Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cis, <em>cis</em>-muconic acid (MA) is widely used as a key starting material in the synthesis of diverse polymers. The growing demand in these industries has led to an increased need for MA. Here, we constructed recombinant <em>Corynebacterium glutamicum</em> by systems metabolic engineering, which exhibit high efficiency in the production of MA. Firstly, the three major degradation pathways were disrupted in the MA production process. Subsequently, metabolic optimization strategies were predicted by computational design and the shikimate pathway was reconstructed, significantly enhancing its metabolic flux. Finally, through optimization and integration of key genes involved in MA production, the recombinant strain produced 88.2 g/L of MA with the yield of 0.30 mol/mol glucose in the 5 L bioreactor. This titer represents the highest reported titer achieved using glucose as the carbon source in current studies, and the yield is the highest reported for MA production from glucose in <em>Corynebacterium glutamicum</em>. Furthermore, to enable the utilization of more cost-effective glucose derived from corn straw hydrolysate, we subjected the strain to adaptive laboratory evolution in corn straw hydrolysate. Ultimately, we successfully achieved MA production in a high solid loading of corn straw hydrolysate (with the glucose concentration of 83.56 g/L), resulting in a titer of 19.9 g/L for MA, which is 4.1 times higher than that of the original strain. Additionally, the glucose yield was improved to 0.33 mol/mol. These provide possibilities for a greener and more sustainable production of MA.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":18483,"journal":{"name":"Metabolic engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139900209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yang Gu , Yaru Jiang , Changfan Li , Jiang Zhu , Xueyao Lu , Jianyue Ge , Mengchen Hu , Jieying Deng , Jingbo Ma , Zhiliang Yang , Xiaoman Sun , Feng Xue , Guocheng Du , Peng Xu , He Huang
{"title":"High titer production of gastrodin enabled by systematic refactoring of yeast genome and an antisense-transcriptional regulation toolkit","authors":"Yang Gu , Yaru Jiang , Changfan Li , Jiang Zhu , Xueyao Lu , Jianyue Ge , Mengchen Hu , Jieying Deng , Jingbo Ma , Zhiliang Yang , Xiaoman Sun , Feng Xue , Guocheng Du , Peng Xu , He Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Gastrodin, a phenolic glycoside, is a prominent component of <em>Gastrodia elata</em>, which is renowned for its sedative, hypnotic, anticonvulsant, and neuroprotective activities. Engineering heterologous production of plant natural products in microbial host represents a safe, cost-effective, and scalable alternative to plant extraction. Here, we present the construction of an engineered <em>Yarrowia lipolytica</em> yeast that achieves a high-titer production of gastrodin. We systematically refactored the yeast genome by enhancing the flux of the shikimate pathway and optimizing the glucosyl transfer system. We introduced more than five dozen of genetic modifications onto the yeast genome, including enzyme screening, alleviation of rate-limiting steps, promoter selection, genomic integration site optimization, downregulation of competing pathways, and elimination of gastrodin degradation. Meanwhile, we developed a Copper-induced Antisense-Transcriptional Regulation (CATR) tool. The developed CATR toolkit achieved dynamic repression and activation of violacein synthesis through the addition of copper in <em>Y. lipolytica</em>. This strategy was further used to dynamically regulate the pyruvate kinase node to effectively redirect glycolytic flux towards the shikimate pathway while maintaining cell growth at proper rate. Taken together, these efforts resulted in 9477.1 mg/L of gastrodin in shaking flaks and 13.4 g/L of gastrodin with a yield of 0.149 g/g glucose in a 5-L bioreactor, highlighting the potential for large-scale and sustainable production of gastrodin from microbial fermentation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":18483,"journal":{"name":"Metabolic engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140012849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-level production of Rhodiola rosea characteristic component rosavin from D-glucose and L-arabinose in engineered Escherichia coli","authors":"Lijun Li , Moshi Liu , Huiping Bi , Tao Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rosavin is the characteristic component of <em>Rhodiola rosea</em> L., an important medicinal plant used widely in the world that has been reported to possess multiple biological activities. However, the endangered status of wild Rhodiola has limited the supply of rosavin. In this work, we successfully engineered an <em>Escherichia coli</em> strain to efficiently produce rosavin as an alternative production method. Firstly, cinnamate: CoA ligase from <em>Hypericum calycinum</em>, cinnamoyl-CoA reductase from <em>Lolium perenne</em>, and uridine diphosphate (UDP)-glycosyltransferase (UGT) from <em>Bacillus subtilis</em> (Bs-YjiC) were selected to improve the titer of rosin in <em>E. coli</em>. Subsequently, four UGTs from the UGT91R subfamily were identified to catalyze the formation of rosavin from rosin, with SlUGT91R1 from <em>Solanum lycopersicum</em> showing the highest activity level. Secondly, production of rosavin was achieved for the first time in <em>E. coli</em> by incorporating the SlUGT91R1 and UDP-arabinose pathway, including UDP-glucose dehydrogenase, UDP-xylose synthase, and UDP-xylose 4-epimerase, into the rosin-producing stain, and the titer reached 430.5 ± 91.4 mg/L. Thirdly, a two-step pathway derived from <span>L</span>-arabinose, composed of <span>L</span>-arabinokinase and UDP-sugar pyrophosphorylase, was developed in <em>E. coli</em> to further optimize the supply of the precursor UDP-arabinose. Furthermore, 1203.7 ± 32.1 mg/L of rosavin was produced from <span>D</span>-glucose and <span>L</span>-arabinose using shake-flask fermentation. Finally, the production of rosavin reached 7539.1 ± 228.7 mg/L by fed-batch fermentation in a 5-L bioreactor. Thus, the microbe-based production of rosavin shows great potential for commercialization. This work provides an effective strategy for the biosynthesis of other valuable natural products with arabinose-containing units from <span>D</span>-glucose and <span>L</span>-arabinose.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":18483,"journal":{"name":"Metabolic engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140012850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emanuel Gonçalves , Marco Sciacovelli , Ana S.H. Costa , Maxine Gia Binh Tran , Timothy Isaac Johnson , Daniel Machado , Christian Frezza , Julio Saez-Rodriguez
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Post-translational regulation of metabolism in fumarate hydratase deficient cancer cells” [Metabol. Eng. 45 (2018) 149–157]","authors":"Emanuel Gonçalves , Marco Sciacovelli , Ana S.H. Costa , Maxine Gia Binh Tran , Timothy Isaac Johnson , Daniel Machado , Christian Frezza , Julio Saez-Rodriguez","doi":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.01.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18483,"journal":{"name":"Metabolic engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096717624000089/pdfft?md5=607a1439effef13758fe1d21982abea8&pid=1-s2.0-S1096717624000089-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139512864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph Christian Utomo , Hailey Brynn Barrell , Rahul Kumar , Jessica Smith , Maximilian Simon Brant , Hector De la Hoz Siegler , Dae-Kyun Ro
{"title":"Reconstructing curcumin biosynthesis in yeast reveals the implication of caffeoyl-shikimate esterase in phenylpropanoid metabolic flux","authors":"Joseph Christian Utomo , Hailey Brynn Barrell , Rahul Kumar , Jessica Smith , Maximilian Simon Brant , Hector De la Hoz Siegler , Dae-Kyun Ro","doi":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Curcumin is a polyphenolic natural product from the roots of turmeric (<em>Curcuma longa</em>). It has been a popular coloring and flavoring agent in food industries with known health benefits. The conventional phenylpropanoid pathway is known to proceed from phenylalanine via <em>p</em>-coumaroyl-CoA intermediate. Although hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA: shikimate hydroxycinnamoyl transferase (HCT) plays a key catalysis in the biosynthesis of phenylpropanoid products at the downstream of <em>p</em>-coumaric acid, a recent discovery of caffeoyl-shikimate esterase (CSE) showed that an alternative pathway exists. Here, the biosynthetic efficiency of the conventional and the alternative pathway in producing feruloyl-CoA was examined using curcumin production in yeast. A novel modular multiplex genome-edit (MMG)-CRISPR platform was developed to facilitate rapid integrations of up to eight genes into the yeast genome in two steps. Using this MMG-CRISPR platform and metabolic engineering strategies, the alternative CSE phenylpropanoid pathway consistently showed higher titers (2–19 folds) of curcumin production than the conventional pathway in engineered yeast strains. In shake flask cultures using a synthetic minimal medium without phenylalanine, the curcumin production titer reached up to 1.5 mg/L, which is three orders of magnitude (∼4800-fold) improvement over non-engineered base strain. This is the first demonstration of <em>de novo</em> curcumin biosynthesis in yeast. Our work shows the critical role of CSE in improving the metabolic flux in yeast towards the phenylpropanoid biosynthetic pathway. In addition, we showcased the convenience and reliability of modular multiplex CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in constructing complex synthetic pathways in yeast.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":18483,"journal":{"name":"Metabolic engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096717624000272/pdfft?md5=f3bc030566b0810672408444dd3bb38f&pid=1-s2.0-S1096717624000272-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139916937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}