High–level β–carotene production from xylose by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae without overexpression of a truncated HMG1 (tHMG1)
Abstract
β-Carotene is a natural pigment and health-promoting metabolite, and has been widely used in the nutraceutical, feed, and cosmetic industries. Here, we engineered a GRAS yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce β-carotene from xylose, the second most abundant and inedible sugar component of lignocellulose biomass. Specifically, a β-carotene biosynthetic pathway containing crtYB, crtI, and crtE from Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous was introduced into a xylose-fermenting S. cerevisiae. The resulting strain produced β-carotene from xylose at a titer threefold higher than from glucose. Interestingly, overexpression of tHMG1, which has been reported as a critical genetic perturbation to enhance metabolic fluxes in the mevalonate pathway and β-carotene production in yeast when glucose is used, did not further improve the production of β-carotene from xylose. Through fermentation profiling, metabolites analysis, and transcriptional studies, we found the advantages of using xylose as a carbon source, instead of glucose, for β-carotene production to be a more respiratory feature of xylose consumption, a larger cytosolic acetyl-CoA pool, and an upregulated expression level of rate-limiting genes in the β-carotene-producing pathway, including ACS1 and HMG1. As a result, 772.8 mg/L of β-carotene was obtained in a fed-batch bioreactor culture with xylose feeding. Considering the inevitable large scale production of xylose when cellulosicmore »
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- University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, IL (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), Urbana, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation; China Scholarship Council; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1651205
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1991878
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018420; 201606350094
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Biotechnology and Bioengineering
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 117; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0006-3592
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS; glucose; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; tHMG1; xylose; β‐carotene
Citation Formats
Sun, Liang, Atkinson, Christine A., Lee, Ye‐Gi, and Jin, Yong‐Su. High–level β–carotene production from xylose by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae without overexpression of a truncated HMG1 (tHMG1). United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1002/bit.27508.
Sun, Liang, Atkinson, Christine A., Lee, Ye‐Gi, & Jin, Yong‐Su. High–level β–carotene production from xylose by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae without overexpression of a truncated HMG1 (tHMG1). United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.27508
Sun, Liang, Atkinson, Christine A., Lee, Ye‐Gi, and Jin, Yong‐Su. Fri .
"High–level β–carotene production from xylose by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae without overexpression of a truncated HMG1 (tHMG1)". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.27508. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1651205.
@article{osti_1651205,
title = {High–level β–carotene production from xylose by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae without overexpression of a truncated HMG1 (tHMG1)},
author = {Sun, Liang and Atkinson, Christine A. and Lee, Ye‐Gi and Jin, Yong‐Su},
abstractNote = {β-Carotene is a natural pigment and health-promoting metabolite, and has been widely used in the nutraceutical, feed, and cosmetic industries. Here, we engineered a GRAS yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce β-carotene from xylose, the second most abundant and inedible sugar component of lignocellulose biomass. Specifically, a β-carotene biosynthetic pathway containing crtYB, crtI, and crtE from Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous was introduced into a xylose-fermenting S. cerevisiae. The resulting strain produced β-carotene from xylose at a titer threefold higher than from glucose. Interestingly, overexpression of tHMG1, which has been reported as a critical genetic perturbation to enhance metabolic fluxes in the mevalonate pathway and β-carotene production in yeast when glucose is used, did not further improve the production of β-carotene from xylose. Through fermentation profiling, metabolites analysis, and transcriptional studies, we found the advantages of using xylose as a carbon source, instead of glucose, for β-carotene production to be a more respiratory feature of xylose consumption, a larger cytosolic acetyl-CoA pool, and an upregulated expression level of rate-limiting genes in the β-carotene-producing pathway, including ACS1 and HMG1. As a result, 772.8 mg/L of β-carotene was obtained in a fed-batch bioreactor culture with xylose feeding. Considering the inevitable large scale production of xylose when cellulosic biomass-based bioeconomy is implemented, our results suggest xylose utilization is a promising strategy for overproduction of carotenoids and other isoprenoids in engineered S. cerevisiae.},
doi = {10.1002/bit.27508},
journal = {Biotechnology and Bioengineering},
number = 11,
volume = 117,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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