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n-Butanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is limited by the availability of coenzyme A and cytosolic acetyl-CoA

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Title
n-Butanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is limited by the availability of coenzyme A and cytosolic acetyl-CoA
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Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13068-016-0456-7
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Virginia Schadeweg, Eckhard Boles

Abstract

Butanol isomers are regarded as more suitable fuel substitutes than bioethanol. n-Butanol is naturally produced by some Clostridia species, but due to inherent problems with clostridial fermentations, industrially more relevant organisms have been genetically engineered for n-butanol production. Although the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae holds significant advantages in terms of scalable industrial fermentation, n-butanol yields and titers obtained so far are only low. Here we report a thorough analysis and significant improvements of n-butanol production from glucose with yeast via the acetoacetyl-CoA-derived pathway. First, we established an improved n-butanol pathway by testing various isoenzymes of different pathway reactions. This resulted in n-butanol titers around 15 mg/L in synthetic medium after 74 h. As the initial substrate of the n-butanol pathway is acetyl-coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) and most intermediates are bound to coenzyme A (CoA), we increased CoA synthesis by overexpression of the pantothenate kinase coaA gene from Escherichia coli. Supplementation with pantothenate increased n-butanol production up to 34 mg/L. Additional reduction of ethanol formation by deletion of alcohol dehydrogenase genes ADH1-5 led to n-butanol titers of 71 mg/L. Further expression of a mutant form of an ATP independent acetylating acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, adhE(A267T/E568K), converting acetaldehyde into acetyl-CoA, resulted in 95 mg/L n-butanol. In the final strain, the n-butanol pathway genes, coaA and adhE (A267T/E568K), were stably integrated into the yeast genome, thereby deleting another alcohol dehydrogenase gene, ADH6, and GPD2-encoding glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. This led to a further decrease in ethanol and glycerol by-product formation and elevated redox power in the form of NADH. With the addition of pantothenate, this strain produced n-butanol up to a titer of 130 ± 20 mg/L and a yield of 0.012 g/g glucose. These are the highest values reported so far for S. cerevisiae in synthetic medium via an acetoacetyl-CoA-derived n-butanol pathway. By gradually increasing substrate supply and redox power in the form of CoA, acetyl-CoA, and NADH, and decreasing ethanol and glycerol formation, we could stepwise increase n-butanol production in S. cerevisiae. However, still further bottlenecks in the n-butanol pathway must be deciphered and improved for industrially relevant n-butanol production levels.

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Country Count As %
Japan 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Unknown 114 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 25%
Student > Master 21 18%
Researcher 14 12%
Student > Bachelor 11 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 28 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 34 29%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 27 23%
Chemical Engineering 12 10%
Engineering 6 5%
Chemistry 3 3%
Other 9 8%
Unknown 26 22%
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#7,355,485
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#482
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