粘质沙雷氏菌发酵生产D-乳酸的研究

本文对粘质沙雷氏菌发酵生产D-乳酸进行了研究。以粘质沙雷氏菌G1(Serratia marcescens G1)为出发菌种,摇瓶试验确定了发酵培养方式:前12 h为菌体生长阶段,有氧培养,温度28℃,pH值7.0;后36 h为D-乳酸合成积累阶段,无氧培养,温度44℃,pH值6.0。且发现使用葡萄糖为碳源时更有利于D-乳酸的合成积累。采用缺失2,3-丁二醇合成能力的基因工程菌株R1为出发株,经筛选后得到耐受较高浓度乳酸盐的菌株R150,以R150为发酵菌种,在3.7 L发酵罐上采用两阶段发酵法,并通过增加起始菌体浓度的方法,发酵生成的D-乳酸浓度达到83.5 g/L,光学纯度达到98.9%。本研究成果为使用粘质沙雷氏菌发酵生产D-乳酸的深入研究打下了基础。     

木糖发酵生产高纯度D-乳酸大肠杆菌工程菌LHY02的构建

高效利用木糖发酵生产D-乳酸或其他生物质产品,是充分利用木质纤维素的一个关键问题。以高效利用木糖产L-乳酸的Escherichia coli WL204为出发菌株,采用RED基因置换技术将ldhL基因置换为ldhA基因,获得一株能利用木糖产D-乳酸的大肠杆菌工程菌株Escherichia coli LHY02,该菌株利用10%木糖发酵,D-乳酸产量达到84.4 g/L,产物光学纯度达到99.5%。此外,该菌株仍然具有较好的利用葡萄糖产D-乳酸的能力。     

鼠李糖乳杆菌D-乳酸脱氢酶基因ldhD的敲除

聚乳酸由可再生原料L-乳酸合成,是目前应用的最环保的生物塑料之一。鼠李糖乳杆菌JCM1553中的L-乳酸和D-乳酸,它们是由代谢途径中的L-乳酸脱氢酶和D-乳酸脱氢酶分别催化丙酮酸而生成。L-乳酸的光学纯度对于L-乳酸的应用至关重要。因此,为了获取光学纯的L-乳酸,需要敲除该鼠李糖乳杆菌编码D-乳酸脱氢酶的基因ldhD以阻断相关的D-乳酸代谢途径。本研究采用pK18mobsacB自杀质粒运用重叠延伸PCR和同源重组技术成功构建得到重组鼠李糖乳杆菌菌株JCM1553-△ldhD。构建的缺失突变体JCM1553-△ldhD菌株没有引入外源基因,完全符合食品、药品安全要求,发酵液中检测到的L-乳酸含量为99.92%,光学纯度达到99.84%,显著优于野生型菌株。     

代谢工程改造大肠杆菌生产乳酸的研究进展

乳酸是自然界中最小的手性分子,广泛应用于食品、医药和化工等领域,同时也是合成生物可降解塑料——聚乳酸的前体。目前,化学合成法和微生物发酵法是生产乳酸的两种主要方法,而后者在底物的可再生性、产物光学纯度和环境友好等方面均具有潜在优势。自然界中许多微生物细胞都能合成和积累乳酸,如大肠杆菌、酿酒酵母和乳酸菌等。与乳酸菌、芽胞乳杆菌和谷氨酸棒状杆菌等乳酸生产菌株相比,大肠杆菌具有生长速度快、营养要求简单、易于高密度发酵、代谢网络清楚、遗传操作方法成熟和产物乳酸光学纯度高等优势。本文中,笔者介绍了乳酸的研究现状及其在工业生产领域中的作用,系统综述了国内外通过代谢工程改造大肠杆菌生产乳酸的研究进展,在此基础上展望了乳酸生产研究的发展方向,以期为其工业应用提供参考。     

D-乳酸产生菌的研究进展

D-乳酸作为一种重要的工业有机酸,是许多手性物质的中间体,特别是高光学纯度D-乳酸因其可以提高聚乳酸材料的性能而广泛应用。微生物发酵法是目前D-乳酸的主要生产方法,而菌种在发酵生产中占有非常重要的地位,是决定整个生产过程的关键。就近几十年来产D-乳酸常用菌株、菌种进化、研究方法、存在问题及前景做一综述。     

大肠杆菌琥珀酸和乙酸合成途径的删除及其重组菌株的D-乳酸发酵

菌株CICIM B0013-030 (B0013,ack-pta,pps,pflB) 可积累D-乳酸作为主要发酵产物,然而副产物琥珀酸和乙酸的含量分别高达乳酸的11.9％和7.1％。为构建副产物含量低的产D-乳酸重组大肠杆菌菌株,本研究删除了菌株B0013-030的琥珀酸 (frdA) 和乙酸 (tdcDE) 合成途径,并考察了重组菌株在摇瓶和发酵罐中经两阶段发酵 (好氧生长菌体和厌氧发酵产酸) 利用葡萄糖发酵D-乳酸的性能。结果表明,分别构建含有frdA::difGm和tdcDE::difGm突变盒的重组质粒,并利用Red重组系统将突变盒整合于染色体上的目的基因,再利用Xer重组系统去除抗生素抗性基因,依次获得了重组菌株B0013-040B (B0013-030,frdA) 和B0013-050B (B0013-040B,tdcDE)。摇瓶发酵结果表明,frdA基因的删除使得菌株B0013-040B副产物琥珀酸的含量降低了80.8％;在7 L发酵罐中进行乳酸发酵,菌株B0013-040B的D-乳酸产量达114.5 g/L,光学纯度大于99.9％,但仍积累1.0 g/L琥珀酸和5.4 g/L乙酸。进一步删除了tdcD和tdcE基因的菌株B0013-050B,在7 L发酵罐中生产111.9 g/L D-乳酸,乙酸和琥珀酸的合成量分别降低为0.4 g/L,其他副产物含量也维持较低水平,表明该菌株具有较优良的D-乳酸发酵性能。     

基因工程菌发酵生产L-乳酸研究进展

乳酸是重要的工业平台化学品。随着聚乳酸产业的兴起,对高质量L-乳酸的需求量也不断增加。为了进一步降低L-乳酸发酵成本,提高菌株的工业适应性,各种现代生物技术已经应用到L-乳酸发酵菌种的改造上来。文中简要综述了近年来使用乳酸菌、酵母、大肠杆菌及米根霉等基因工程菌株发酵生产L-乳酸的技术进展。     

L-乳酸调控乳酸产生菌产物光学纯度的分析

发酵初期在米根霉菌发酵培养基中添加L-乳酸可以调控发酵产物乳酸的光学纯度。随着L-乳酸添加量的增加,所产L-乳酸的光学纯度随之增加,当L-乳酸的添加量≥1.5g/L时,D-乳酸不再产生。同时,L-乳酸的产量、生物量、糖转化率也随之降低。该调控方法对乳酸菌调控产L-乳酸光学纯度影响不大,对大肠杆菌发酵调控产D-乳酸光学纯度没有效果。     

利用农业废弃物发酵生产D-乳酸

利用农业废弃物玉米芯酶解液替代葡萄糖作为碳源,棉籽粕替代酵母膏作为氮源发酵生产D-乳酸。结果表明:在初始还原糖质量浓度为100 g/L(葡萄糖88.5 g/L,木糖11.5 g/L)、棉籽粕3.5 g/L、每升发酵体积添加3 U的中性蛋白酶以及pH 6.5的情况下,采取补料发酵措施,菌株Sporolactobacillus sp.YBS1-5在90 h内产生了111.8 g/L的D-乳酸,糖酸转化率为87%,光学纯度达98%以上,生产强度达1.24 g/(L·h)。本文提供了一种利用农业废弃物发酵产D-乳酸的新途径。     

L-乳酸生产菌种选育技术

随着聚乳酸作为生物可降解塑料的迅速发展,采用现代高新技术来选育L-乳酸纯度高、产量高、转化率高、能够利用木塘和适于发酵生产工艺要求的优良菌株,已成为国内外研究机构和企业关注的热点.本文对L-乳酸生产菌株的选育技术进展进行综述.     

Homofermentative production of D- or L-lactate in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli RR1

We investigated metabolic engineering of fermentation pathways in Escherichia coli for production of optically pure D- or L-lactate. Several pta mutant strains were examined, and a pta mutant of E. coli RR1 which was deficient in the phosphotransacetylase of the Pta-AckA pathway was found to metabolize glucose to D-lactate and to produce a small amount of succinate by-product under anaerobic conditions. An additional mutation in ppc made the mutant produce D-lactate like a homofermentative lactic acid bacterium. When the pta ppc double mutant was grown to higher biomass concentrations under aerobic conditions before it shifted to the anaerobic phase of D-lactate production, more than 62.2 g of D-lactate per liter was produced in 60 h, and the volumetric productivity was 1.04 g/liter/h. To examine whether the blocked acetate flux could be reoriented to a nonindigenous L-lactate pathway, an L-lactate dehydrogenase gene from Lactobacillus casei was introduced into a pta ldhA strain which lacked phosphotransacetylase and D-lactate dehydrogenase. This recombinant strain was able to metabolize glucose to L-lactate as the major fermentation product, and up to 45 g of L-lactate per liter was produced in 67 h. These results demonstrate that the central fermentation metabolism of E. coli can be reoriented to the production of D-lactate, an indigenous fermentation product, or to the production of L-lactate, a nonindigenous fermentation product.     

7 The Molecular Biology of Tryptophan Synthase: A Model for Protein–Protein Interaction

Abstract

The use of plastic produced from non-renewable resources constitutes a major environmental problem of the modern society. Polylactide polymers (PLA) have recently gained enormous attention as one possible substitution of petroleum derived polymers. A prerequisite for high quality PLA production is the provision of optically pure lactic acid, which cannot be obtained by chemical synthesis in an economical way. Microbial fermentation is therefore the commercial option to obtain lactic acid as monomer for PLA production. However, one major economic hurdle for commercial lactic acid production as basis for PLA is the costly separation procedure, which is needed to recover and purify the product from the fermentation broth. Yeasts, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae (bakers yeast) offer themselves as production organisms because they can tolerate low pH and grow on mineral media what eases the purification of the acid. However, naturally yeasts do not produce lactic acid. By metabolic engineering, ethanol was exchanged with lactic acid as end product of fermentation. A vast amount of effort has been invested into the development of yeasts for lactic acid production since the first paper on this topic by Dequin and process insight. If pH stress is used as basis for DNA microarray analyses, in order to improve the host, what exactly is addressed? Growth? Or productivity? They might be connected, but can be negatively correlated. A better growing strain might not be a better producer. So if the question was growth, the answer might not be what was initially intended (productivity).

A major task for the future is to learn to ask the right questions – a lot of studies intended to lead to better productivity, did lead to interesting results, but NOT to better production strains.

Taking together what we learned from lactic acid production with yeasts, we see a bright future for bulk and fine chemical production with these versatile hosts.     

Recent advances in lactic acid production by microbial fermentation processes

Fermentative production of optically pure lactic acid has roused interest among researchers in recent years due to its high potential for applications in a wide range of fields. More specifically, the sharp increase in manufacturing of biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA) materials, green alternatives to petroleum-derived plastics, has significantly increased the global interest in lactic acid production. However, higher production costs have hindered the large-scale application of PLA because of the high price of lactic acid. Therefore, reduction of lactic acid production cost through utilization of inexpensive substrates and improvement of lactic acid production and productivity has become an important goal. Various methods have been employed for enhanced lactic acid production, including several bioprocess techniques facilitated by wild-type and/or engineered microbes. In this review, we will discuss lactic acid producers with relation to their fermentation characteristics and metabolism. Inexpensive fermentative substrates, such as dairy products, food and agro-industrial wastes, glycerol, and algal biomass alternatives to costly pure sugars and food crops are introduced. The operational modes and fermentation methods that have been recently reported to improve lactic acid production in terms of concentrations, yields, and productivities are summarized and compared. High cell density fermentation through immobilization and cell-recycling techniques are also addressed. Finally, advances in recovery processes and concluding remarks on the future outlook of lactic acid production are presented.     

Efficient production of polylactic acid and its copolymers by metabolically engineered Escherichia coli

Polylactic acid (PLA) is one of the promising biodegradable polymers, which has been produced in a rather complicated two-step process by first producing lactic acid by fermentation followed by ring opening polymerization of lactide, a cyclic dimer of lactic acid. Recently, we reported the production of PLA and its copolymers by direct fermentation of metabolically engineered Escherichia coli equipped with the evolved propionate CoA-transferase and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase using glucose as a carbon source. When employing these initially constructed E. coli strains, however, it was necessary to use an inducer for the expression of the engineered genes and to feed succinate for proper cell growth. Here we report further metabolic engineering of E. coli strain to overcome these problems for more efficient production of PLA and its copolymers. This allowed efficient production of PLA and its copolymers without adding inducer and succinate. The finally constructed recombinant E. coli JLXF5 strain was able to produce P(3HB-co-39.6 mol% LA) having the molecular weight of 141,000 Da to 20 g l⁻¹ with a polymer content of 43 wt% in a chemically defined medium by the pH-stat fed-batch culture.     

Biosynthesis of lactate-containing polyesters by metabolically engineered bacteria

Due to increasing concerns about environmental problems, climate change and limited fossil resources, bio-based production of chemicals and polymers is gaining attention as one of the solutions to these problems. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are polyesters that can be produced by microbial fermentation. PHAs are synthesized using monomer precursors provided from diverse metabolic pathways and are accumulated as distinct granules inside the cells. On the other hand, most so-called bio-based polymers including polybutylene succinate, polytrimethylene terephthalate, and polylactic acid (PLA) are synthesized by a chemical process using monomers produced by fermentation. PLA, an attractive biomass-derived plastic, is currently synthesized by heavy metal-catalyzed ring opening polymerization of L-lactide that is made from fermentation-derived L-lactic acid. Recently, a complete biological process for the production of PLA and PLA copolymers from renewable resources has been developed by direct fermentation of recombinant bacteria employing PHA biosynthetic pathways coupled with a novel metabolic pathway. This could be accomplished by establishing a pathway for generating lactyl-CoA and engineering PHA synthase to accept lactyl-CoA as a substrate combined with systems metabolic engineering. In this article, we review recent advances in the production of lactate-containing homo- and co-polyesters. Challenges remaining to efficiently produce PLA and its copolymers and strategies to overcome these challenges through metabolic engineering combined with enzyme engineering are discussed.     

重组大肠杆菌产琥珀酸研究进展

琥珀酸作为一种优秀的C4平台化合物, 广泛用于生物高分子、食品与医药等行业, 市场潜在需求量巨大。采用微生物发酵法生产琥珀酸, 可利用廉价的可再生资源, 实现石油的原料替代, 而且过程污染小, 环境友好, 且在发酵过程中可吸收固定温室气体CO2, 开辟了其利用的新途径, 近年来引起了广泛关注。在丁二酸生产菌株中, 大肠杆菌由于其遗传背景清楚, 易操作易调 控, 培养基要求简单, 生长迅速等优点, 近年来被广泛用于研究以获得产琥珀酸优秀生产菌株。本工作系统综述了产琥珀酸大肠杆菌构建中所采用的基因工程策略及代谢工程技术, 并探讨了今后研究的方向。     

L-鸟氨酸发酵菌种的代谢工程研究进展

L-鸟氨酸是一种非蛋白类氨基酸参与尿素代谢及生物多胺类的合成,其对人体具有治疗肝脏疾病、增强免疫力等作用,被广泛应用于医疗、保健、食品等领域。工业上生产鸟氨酸主要有化学法、酶法及工业发酵法。其中,发酵法因其生产成本及环境保护等方面的优势而逐渐成为研究的焦点。本文归纳了近年来采用基因工程技术选育鸟氨酸高产菌种最新研究进展,重点讨论了产鸟氨酸谷氨酸棒杆菌的代谢工程改造策略,并对未来的研究方向进行了预测。     

长链二元酸发酵菌种创制和工艺研究进展

长链二元酸作为合成多种高附加值化学品的原料,已广泛应用于化工、农业和医药等领域,目前全球对于长链二元酸的需求呈逐年增长态势。化学法合成长链二元酸对反应条件要求严苛且工艺复杂,而微生物发酵合成在经济性和难易度等方面具有无可比拟的优势。本文综述了长链二元酸的合成方法,包括化学合成法和微生物发酵法,分子工程选育高产菌株的进展以及生物发酵法生产长链二元酸的产业化现状,并就其存在的问题进行了探讨,最后对合成生物学创制长链二元酸高产菌株进行了总结和展望。     

Microbial production of lactic acid: the latest development

Lactic acid is an important platform chemical for producing polylactic acid (PLA) and other value-added products. It is naturally produced by a wide spectrum of microbes including bacteria, yeast and filamentous fungi. In general, bacteria ferment C5 and C6 sugars to lactic acid by either homo- or hetero-fermentative mode. Xylose isomerase, phosphoketolase, transaldolase, l- and d-lactate dehydrogenases are the key enzymes that affect the ways of lactic acid production. Metabolic engineering of microbial strains are usually needed to produce lactic acid from unconventional carbon sources. Production of d-LA has attracted much attention due to the demand for producing thermostable PLA, but large scale production of d-LA has not yet been commercialized. Thermophilic Bacillus coagulans strains are able to produce l-lactic acid from lignocellulose sugars homo-fermentatively under non-sterilized conditions, but the lack of genetic tools for metabolically engineering them severely affects their development for industrial applications. Pre-treatment of agriculture biomass to obtain fermentable sugars is a pre-requisite for utilization of the huge amounts of agricultural biomass to produce lactic acid. The major challenge is to obtain quality sugars of high concentrations in a cost effective-way. To avoid or minimize the use of neutralizing agents during fermentation, genetically engineering the strains to make them resist acidic environment and produce lactic acid at low pH would be very helpful for reducing the production cost of lactic acid.