Improvement of Squalene Production from CO2 in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 by Metabolic Engineering and Scalable Production in a Photobioreactor
- Authors
- Choi, Sun Young; Wang, Jin-Young; Kwak, Ho Seok; Lee, Sun-Mi; Um, Youngsoon; Kim, Yunje; Sim, Sang Jun; Choi, Jong-il; Woo, Han Min
- Issue Date
- 7월-2017
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Keywords
- Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942; protein engineering; metabolic engineering; squalene; CO2 conversion; scalable production
- Citation
- ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, v.6, no.7, pp.1289 - 1295
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
- Volume
- 6
- Number
- 7
- Start Page
- 1289
- End Page
- 1295
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/82889
- DOI
- 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00083
- ISSN
- 2161-5063
- Abstract
- The push-and-pull strategy for metabolic engineering was successfully demonstrated in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, a model photosynthetic bacterium, to produce squalene from CO2. Squalene synthase (SQS) was fused to either a key enzyme (farnesyl diphosphate synthase) of the methylerythritol phosphate pathway or the beta-subunit of phycocyanin (CpcB1). Engineered cyanobacteria with expression of a fusion CpcB1-SQS protein showed a squalene production level (7.16 +/- 0.05 mg/L/OD730) that was increased by 1.8-fold compared to that of the control strain expressing SQS alone. To increase squalene production further, the gene dosage for CpcB1.SQS protein expression was increased and the fusion protein was expressed under a strong promoter, yielding 11.98 +/- 0.49 mg/L/OD730 of squalene, representing a 3.1-fold increase compared to the control. Subsequently, the best squalene producer was cultivated in a scalable photobioreactor (6 L) with light optimization, which produced 7.08 +/- 0.5 mg/L/OD730 squalene (equivalent to 79.2 mg per g dry cell weight). Further optimization for photobioprocessing and strain development will promote the construction of a solar-to-chemical platform.
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