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Title: Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for co-utilization of d-galacturonic acid and d-glucose from citrus peel waste

Abstract

Pectin-rich biomasses, such as citrus peel and sugar beet pulp, hold promise as inexpensive feedstocks for microbial fermentations as enzymatic hydrolysis of their component polysaccharides can be accomplished inexpensively to yield high concentrations of fermentable sugars and D-galacturonic acid (D-galUA). In this study, we tackle a number of challenges associated with engineering a microbial strain to convert pectin-rich hydrolysates into commodity and specialty chemicals. First, we engineer D-galUA utilization into yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Second, we identify that the mechanism of D-galUA uptake into yeast is mediated by hexose transporters and that consumption of D-galUA is inhibited by D-glucose. Third, we enable co-utilization of D-galUA and D-glucose by identifying and expressing a heterologous transporter, GatA, from Aspergillus niger. Last, we demonstrate the use of this transporter for production of the platform chemical, meso-galactaric acid, directly from industrial Navel orange peel waste.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6]; ORCiD logo [7]
  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Bioengineering
  4. Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby (Denmark). Dept. of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
  5. Technische Univ. München, Freising (Germany); Max Planck Inst. of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, (Germany)
  6. Technische Univ. München, Freising (Germany)
  7. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Bioengineering; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Biological Systems & Engineering Division
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1571943
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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Protzko, Ryan J., Latimer, Luke N., Martinho, Ze, de Reus, Elise, Seibert, Tanja, Benz, J. Philipp, and Dueber, John E. Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for co-utilization of d-galacturonic acid and d-glucose from citrus peel waste. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07589-w.
Protzko, Ryan J., Latimer, Luke N., Martinho, Ze, de Reus, Elise, Seibert, Tanja, Benz, J. Philipp, & Dueber, John E. Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for co-utilization of d-galacturonic acid and d-glucose from citrus peel waste. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07589-w
Protzko, Ryan J., Latimer, Luke N., Martinho, Ze, de Reus, Elise, Seibert, Tanja, Benz, J. Philipp, and Dueber, John E. Thu . "Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for co-utilization of d-galacturonic acid and d-glucose from citrus peel waste". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07589-w. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1571943.
@article{osti_1571943,
title = {Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for co-utilization of d-galacturonic acid and d-glucose from citrus peel waste},
author = {Protzko, Ryan J. and Latimer, Luke N. and Martinho, Ze and de Reus, Elise and Seibert, Tanja and Benz, J. Philipp and Dueber, John E.},
abstractNote = {Pectin-rich biomasses, such as citrus peel and sugar beet pulp, hold promise as inexpensive feedstocks for microbial fermentations as enzymatic hydrolysis of their component polysaccharides can be accomplished inexpensively to yield high concentrations of fermentable sugars and D-galacturonic acid (D-galUA). In this study, we tackle a number of challenges associated with engineering a microbial strain to convert pectin-rich hydrolysates into commodity and specialty chemicals. First, we engineer D-galUA utilization into yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Second, we identify that the mechanism of D-galUA uptake into yeast is mediated by hexose transporters and that consumption of D-galUA is inhibited by D-glucose. Third, we enable co-utilization of D-galUA and D-glucose by identifying and expressing a heterologous transporter, GatA, from Aspergillus niger. Last, we demonstrate the use of this transporter for production of the platform chemical, meso-galactaric acid, directly from industrial Navel orange peel waste.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-07589-w},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Nov 29 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Nov 29 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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