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Title: Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP)-bypass mevalonate pathways for isopentenol production

Abstract

Branched C 5 alcohols are promising biofuels with excellent combustion properties. A mevalonate (MVA)-based isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway for C 5 alcohols was constructed in Escherichia coli using genes from several organisms, and the pathway was optimized to achieve over 50% theoretical yield. Although the MVA pathway is energetically less efficient than the native methylerythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway, implementing the MVA pathway in bacterial hosts such as E. coli is advantageous due to its lack of endogenous regulation. The MVA and MEP pathways intersect at isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP), the direct precursor to isoprenoid-derived C 5 alcohols and initial precursor to longer chain terpenes, which makes independent regulation of the pathways difficult. In pursuit of the complete "decoupling" of the MVA pathway from native cellular regulation, we designed novel IPP-bypass MVA pathways for C 5 alcohol production by utilizing promiscuous activities of two enzymes, phosphomevalonate decarboxylase (PMD) and an E. coli-endogenous phosphatase (AphA). These bypass pathways have reduced energetic requirements, are further decoupled from intrinsic regulation, and are free from IPP-related toxicity. In addition to these benefits, we demonstrate that reduced aeration rate has less impact on the bypass pathway than the original MVA pathway. Finally, we showed that performance of themore » bypass pathway was primarily determined by the activity of PMD. We designed PMD mutants with improved activity and demonstrated titer increases in the mutant strains. These modified pathways would be a good platform for industrial production of isopentenol and related chemicals such as isoprene.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [1]
  1. Joint BioEnergy Inst. (JBEI), Emeryville, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Joint BioEnergy Inst. (JBEI), Emeryville, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1393030
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1400019
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Metabolic Engineering
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 34; Journal ID: ISSN 1096-7176
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING

Citation Formats

Kang, Aram, George, Kevin W., Wang, George, Baidoo, Edward, Keasling, Jay D., and Lee, Taek Soon. Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP)-bypass mevalonate pathways for isopentenol production. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/j.ymben.2015.12.002.
Kang, Aram, George, Kevin W., Wang, George, Baidoo, Edward, Keasling, Jay D., & Lee, Taek Soon. Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP)-bypass mevalonate pathways for isopentenol production. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2015.12.002
Kang, Aram, George, Kevin W., Wang, George, Baidoo, Edward, Keasling, Jay D., and Lee, Taek Soon. 2015. "Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP)-bypass mevalonate pathways for isopentenol production". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2015.12.002. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1393030.
@article{osti_1393030,
title = {Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP)-bypass mevalonate pathways for isopentenol production},
author = {Kang, Aram and George, Kevin W. and Wang, George and Baidoo, Edward and Keasling, Jay D. and Lee, Taek Soon},
abstractNote = {Branched C 5 alcohols are promising biofuels with excellent combustion properties. A mevalonate (MVA)-based isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway for C 5 alcohols was constructed in Escherichia coli using genes from several organisms, and the pathway was optimized to achieve over 50% theoretical yield. Although the MVA pathway is energetically less efficient than the native methylerythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway, implementing the MVA pathway in bacterial hosts such as E. coli is advantageous due to its lack of endogenous regulation. The MVA and MEP pathways intersect at isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP), the direct precursor to isoprenoid-derived C 5 alcohols and initial precursor to longer chain terpenes, which makes independent regulation of the pathways difficult. In pursuit of the complete "decoupling" of the MVA pathway from native cellular regulation, we designed novel IPP-bypass MVA pathways for C 5 alcohol production by utilizing promiscuous activities of two enzymes, phosphomevalonate decarboxylase (PMD) and an E. coli-endogenous phosphatase (AphA). These bypass pathways have reduced energetic requirements, are further decoupled from intrinsic regulation, and are free from IPP-related toxicity. In addition to these benefits, we demonstrate that reduced aeration rate has less impact on the bypass pathway than the original MVA pathway. Finally, we showed that performance of the bypass pathway was primarily determined by the activity of PMD. We designed PMD mutants with improved activity and demonstrated titer increases in the mutant strains. These modified pathways would be a good platform for industrial production of isopentenol and related chemicals such as isoprene.},
doi = {10.1016/j.ymben.2015.12.002},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1393030}, journal = {Metabolic Engineering},
issn = {1096-7176},
number = ,
volume = 34,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

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