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Microbial synthesis of propane by engineering valine pathway and aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase

Overview of attention for article published in Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, April 2016
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Title
Microbial synthesis of propane by engineering valine pathway and aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase
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Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13068-016-0496-z
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Lei Zhang, Yajing Liang, Wei Wu, Xiaoming Tan, Xuefeng Lu

Abstract

Propane, a major component of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) derived from fossil fuels, has widespread applications in vehicles, cooking, and ambient heating. Given the concerns about fossil fuel depletion and carbon emission, exploiting alternative and renewable source of propane have become attractive. In this study, we report the construction of a novel propane biosynthetic pathway in Escherichia coli. We constructed an aldehyde reductases (ALR)-deprived E. coli strain BW25113(DE3) Δ13 via genetic engineering, which produced sufficient isobutyraldehyde precursors and finally achieved de novo synthesis of propane (91 μg/L) by assembling the engineered valine pathway and cyanobacterial aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase (ADO). Additionally, after extensive screening of ADO mutants generated by engineering the active center to accommodate branched-chain isobutyraldehyde, we identified two ADO mutants (I127G, I127G/A48G) which exhibited higher catalytic activity for isobutyraldehyde and improved propane productivity by three times (267 μg/L). The propane biosynthetic pathway constructed here through the engineered valine pathway can produce abundant isobutyraldehyde for ADO and overcome the low availability of precursors in propane production. Furthermore, the rational design aiming at the ADO active center illustrates the plasticity and catalytic potential of ADO. These results together highlight the potential for developing a microbial biomanufacturing platform for propane.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 2%
Sweden 1 2%
China 1 2%
Unknown 38 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 27%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 22%
Student > Master 6 15%
Student > Bachelor 5 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 2%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 7 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 5%
Chemical Engineering 2 5%
Engineering 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 11 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 October 2019.
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#4,365,614
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Outputs from Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
#250
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#64,693
of 314,727 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
#10
of 44 outputs
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