酿酒酵母gpd1和hor2基因在大肠杆菌中的共表达

利用途径工程的方法,在大肠杆菌中构建一条新的产甘油的代谢途径。从酿酒酵母(Saccharomycescerevisiae)克隆3_磷酸甘油脱氢酶基因(gpd1)和3_磷酸甘油酯酶基因(hor2 ) ,并将两个基因串连到启动子trc的下游,构建由trc启动子控制的能高效表达的多顺反子重组质粒pSE_gpd1_hor2 ,将重组质粒导入大肠杆菌BL2 1菌株中,构建得到的重组菌株GxB_gh能将葡萄糖转化为甘油。结果表明重组菌株GxB_gh以葡萄糖为底物进行发酵,甘油产量为4 6 6 7g L ,葡萄糖的转化率为4 2 87%。这为利用工程菌绿色生产甘油进行了前期的探索,也为进一步构建能生产1,3_丙二醇的工程菌打下了良好的基础。     

重组毕赤酵母表达工程植酸酶发酵过渡相参数相关分析

微生物发酵是一个涉及不同尺度的互相关联的复杂生物系统的过程 ,将重组毕赤酵母表达工程植酸酶过渡相的在线和离线参数进行了相关分析研究。通过对发酵过程的在线细胞代谢生理参数 (OUR)和环境参数 (DO)的变化进行相关分析表明 :甘油和葡萄糖碳源对AOX合成的阻遏强度不同 ,葡萄糖的阻遏性明显强于甘油 ,相对于醇氧化酶启动子 ,葡萄糖为强阻遏性底物。根据甲醇代谢途径关键酶酶活性变化 ,推测出各代谢途径流量分布的变化 ,即甲醇诱导后糖酵解途径和三羧酸循环途径代谢流比例下降 ,而磷酸戊糖途径中代谢流通量上升 ,甲醇完全氧化代谢流成为主要代谢流 ,与过渡相在线参数pH、OUR(CER)和RQ等相关分析的甲醇代谢途径的变化结果一致。此外 ,建立了生产过程在线控制与分析的标准 :当OUR和CER逐渐增大 ,则可判断甲醇已被利用和启动子已被甲醇成功诱导 ,即工程植酸酶开始启动表达.     

纤维素酶在木质纤维素生物质转化中的应用研究

选育得到纤维素酶高产菌株里氏木霉突变菌株(Trichoderma reesei) 813A,优化了其发酵产酶条件。利用该菌株所产纤维素酶对天然木质纤维素的水解糖化过程进行研究,确定了实验条件下最优的糖化条件(温度50℃, pH 4.5,酶浓度6～8 FPU/mL,底物浓度2%)。以玉米叶和杨树叶为天然纤维素原料,水解糖化率分别达到86.2％和56.0%。通过酿酒酵母(Saccharomyces cerevisiae)将糖化液转化为酒精,产乙醇浓度达到 5%～5.8%,转化率为79.4%～92.1%。     

在GPD1中整合表达蜜二糖酶基因改善酒精发酵水平*

依据同源重组的原理将来源于粟酒裂殖酵母的α-半乳糖苷酶基因m el整合到工业酿酒酵母染色体的甘油合成途径关键酶基因GPD1中,通过G418抗性筛选得到重组子。实验数据表明,重组子S.cerevisiaeMG1利用蜜二糖的能力显著提高,产甘油能力下降。引入外源基因后酵母性状与亲代相比没有显著差异,但生长时具自絮凝能力。MG1分别以玉米粉、小麦淀粉为原料进行浓醪酒精发酵,与亲代工业酿酒酵母比较,发酵液乙醇浓度得到提高,甘油含量降低,蜜二糖消耗殆尽。     

微生物混合培养从D山梨醇产生维生素C前体——2-酮基-L-古龙酸

氧化葡萄糖酸杆菌 (Gluconobacteroxydans)SCB3 2 9以D 山梨醇为底物培养时可产生微量 2 酮基 L 古龙酸 ;而葡萄糖酸杆菌 (Gluconobactersp .)SCB1 1 0能将D 山梨醇以较高效率转化为L 山梨糖 ,但不产 2 酮基 L 古龙酸。将两种微生物在以山梨醇为底物的培养基中混合培养 ,其代谢产物经分离提纯后进行熔点测定、元素分析、红外吸收光谱测定等 ,确定其主要的代谢产物是 2 酮基 L 古龙酸。     

酵母属间原生质体融合改进菌株木糖发酵性能

通过单倍体分离和紫外诱变,获得了１４株树干毕赤酵母（Ｐｉｃｈｉａｓｔｉｐｉｔｉｓ）７１２４和酿酒酵母（Ｓａｃｈａｒｏｍｙｃｅｓｃｅｒｅｖｉｓｉａｅ）１３００的营养缺陷型突变株。用聚乙二醇（ＰＥＧ）和电诱导融合及致死融合等方法,实现了树干毕赤酵母和酿酒酵母的属间原生质体融合。融合子能发酵木糖产生酒精,其厌氧发酵木糖和木糖葡萄糖混合液的能力明显优于亲株,耐酒精的性能也比亲株树干毕赤酵母７１２４有所提高。融合子经ＤＮＡ含量、细胞体积测定和稳定性能实验证明为稳定融合子。     

酿酒酵母L-阿拉伯糖转化乙醇代谢工程的研究进展

L-阿拉伯糖是木质纤维素原料中一种重要的五碳糖组分,但传统的乙醇生产菌株酿酒酵母(Saccharomyces cerevisiae)不能利用L-阿拉伯糖。通过代谢途径工程手段,在酿酒酵母中引入L-阿拉伯糖初始代谢途径可以获得能利用L-阿拉伯糖乙醇发酵的重组菌株。并且,通过代谢途径的疏通以及吸收系统的优化可以强化重组菌株代谢L-阿拉伯糖的能力。笔者从以上角度综述了近年来酿酒酵母转化L-阿拉伯糖生产乙醇的研究进展。     

酿酒酵母 L-阿拉伯糖转化乙醇代谢工程的研究进展简

L-阿拉伯糖是木质纤维素原料中一种重要的五碳糖组分,但传统的乙醇生产菌株酿酒酵母（ Saccharomyces cerevisiae）不能利用L 阿拉伯糖。通过代谢途径工程手段,在酿酒酵母中引入L 阿拉伯糖初始代谢途径可以获得能利用L 阿拉伯糖乙醇发酵的重组菌株。并且,通过代谢途径的疏通以及吸收系统的优化可以强化重组菌株代谢L 阿拉伯糖的能力。笔者从以上角度综述了近年来酿酒酵母转化L 阿拉伯糖生产乙醇的研究进展。     

融合株SPSC发酵生产酒精的工艺研究 Ⅰ.絮凝速率、发酵过程的最适温度和pH值

酿酒酵母属(S. cereviae)变异株和粟酒裂殖酵母属(S. pombe)变异株进行属间原生质体融合得到融合株SPSC,该融合株比S. cereviae具有强的自身絮凝能力。以葡萄糖浓度150g/L的底物在30～44℃的温度范围内进行摇瓶厌氧发酵,获得最佳温度范围为34～38℃,最高发酵温度为40℃。在有效容积2.35L悬浮床反应器中,在pH值3.0～5.0范围内进行连续发酵,获得最适发酵pH为3.5～4.5。     

中国人肝脏细胞色素P450 2E1表达——基因型与表型的关系

细胞色素P450(CYP)2E1代谢激活多种致癌物并参与酒精代谢和自由基形成,其基因启动子区RsaⅠ单核苷酸多态与酒精性肝病和某些癌症如食管癌和肺癌的易感性相关.以免疫印迹和特异底物的方法研究了RsaⅠ识别的不同基因型肝脏标本中CYP2E1蛋白含量及其功能活性的差异.结果表明,c1/c1基因型(n=28)的蛋白含量((124.0±83.9)pmol/mg)高于携带至少一个c2等位基因的变异基因型((65.5 ± 38.9)pmol/mg,n=22),差异有极显著性(P<0.01).c1/c1基因型的肝微粒体代谢4-硝基苯酚的活性也同样显著高于变异基因型((198.4 ± 27.8)pmol/(min· mg)比 (101.2 ± 18.1)pmol/(min·mg),P <0.01)).结果证明,CYP2E1表达水平和酶活性的个体差异与RsaⅠ识别的基因多态有关,这与分子流行病学研究发现的c1/c1基因型是某些癌症的遗传易感因素一致.     

辅酶工程在酿酒酵母木糖代谢工程中的研究进展

辅酶工程（cofactor engineering）是代谢工程的一个重要分支,它通过改变辅酶的再生途径,达到改变细胞内代谢产物构成的目的。介绍了酿酒酵母(Saccharomyces cerevisiae)木糖代谢工程中,利用辅酶工程解决氧化还原平衡问题的研究进展,包括引入转氢酶系统,增加代谢中可利用的NADPH,实现NADH的厌氧氧化等策略。同时介绍了改变XR、XDH辅酶偏好的研究进展。     

产乙醇工程菌研究进展

伴随着21世纪的到来,低油价的时代也悄然落幕。简要概述了燃料乙醇产生菌代谢工程的研究进展,包括了利用淀粉、戊糖及纤维素的工程酵母构建,运动发酵单胞菌利用戊糖工程菌的构建,引入外源乙醇合成途径的大肠埃希氏菌和产酸克雷伯氏菌等。对燃料乙醇的重视将促进开发能利用廉价原料和要求粗放的工程菌株用于高产乙醇的生产过程,以降低成本和能耗,其中能利用生淀粉的工程酵母及利用木质纤维素水解物的运动发酵单胞菌工程菌有较大的工业化潜力。     

Stoichiometric network constraints on xylose metabolism by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Metabolic pathway engineering is constrained by the thermodynamic and stoichiometric feasibility of enzymatic activities of introduced genes. Engineering of xylose metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has focused on introducing genes for the initial xylose assimilation steps from Pichia stipitis, a xylose-fermenting yeast, into S. cerevisiae, a yeast traditionally used in ethanol production from hexose. However, recombinant S. cerevisiae created in several laboratories have used xylose oxidatively rather than in the fermentative manner that this yeast metabolizes glucose. To understand the differences between glucose and engineered xylose metabolic networks, we performed a flux balance analysis (FBA) and calculated extreme pathways using a stoichiometric model that describes the biochemistry of yeast cell growth. FBA predicted that the ethanol yield from xylose exhibits a maximum under oxygen-limited conditions, and a fermentation experiment confirmed this finding. Fermentation results were largely consistent with in silico phenotypes based on calculated extreme pathways, which displayed several phases of metabolic phenotype with respect to oxygen availability from anaerobic to aerobic conditions. However, in contrast to the model prediction, xylitol production continued even after the optimum aeration level for ethanol production was attained. These results suggest that oxygen (or some other electron accepting system) is required to resolve the redox imbalance caused by cofactor difference between xylose reductase and xylitol dehydrogenase, and that other factors limit glycolytic flux when xylose is the sole carbon source.     

Metabolic engineering of a phosphoketolase pathway for pentose catabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Low ethanol yields on xylose hamper economically viable ethanol production from hemicellulose-rich plant material with Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A major obstacle is the limited capacity of yeast for anaerobic reoxidation of NADH. Net reoxidation of NADH could potentially be achieved by channeling carbon fluxes through a recombinant phosphoketolase pathway. By heterologous expression of phosphotransacetylase and acetaldehyde dehydrogenase in combination with the native phosphoketolase, we installed a functional phosphoketolase pathway in the xylose-fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain TMB3001c. Consequently the ethanol yield was increased by 25% because less of the by-product xylitol was formed. The flux through the recombinant phosphoketolase pathway was about 30% of the optimum flux that would be required to completely eliminate xylitol and glycerol accumulation. Further overexpression of phosphoketolase, however, increased acetate accumulation and reduced the fermentation rate. By combining the phosphoketolase pathway with the ald6 mutation, which reduced acetate formation, a strain with an ethanol yield 20% higher and a xylose fermentation rate 40% higher than those of its parent was engineered.     

Furfural, 5-hydroxymethyl furfural, and acetoin act as external electron acceptors during anaerobic fermentation of xylose in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The electron acceptors acetoin, acetaldehyde, furfural, and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) were added to anaerobic batch fermentation of xylose by recombinant, xylose utilising Saccharomyces cerevisiae TMB 3001. The intracellular fluxes during xylose fermentation before and after acetoin addition were calculated with metabolic flux analysis. Acetoin halted xylitol excretion and decreased the flux through the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway. The yield of ethanol increased from 0.62 mol ethanol/mol xylose to 1.35 mol ethanol/mol xylose, and the cell more than doubled its specific ATP production after acetoin addition compared to fermentation of xylose only. This did, however, not result in biomass growth. The xylitol excretion was also decreased by furfural and acetaldehyde but was unchanged by HMF. Thus, furfural present in lignocellulosic hydrolysate can be beneficial for ethanolic fermentation of xylose. Enzymatic analyses showed that the reduction of acetoin and furfural required NADH, whereas the reduction of HMF required NADPH. The enzymatic activity responsible for furfural reduction was considerably higher than for HMF reduction and also in situ furfural conversion was higher than HMF conversion.     

Improved ethanol production by a xylose-fermenting recombinant yeast strain constructed through a modified genome shuffling method

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Xylose is the second most abundant carbohydrate in the lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysate. The fermentation of xylose is essential for the bioconversion of lignocelluloses to fuels and chemicals. However the wild-type strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are unable to utilize xylose. Many efforts have been made to construct recombinant yeast strains to enhance xylose fermentation over the past few decades. Xylose fermentation remains challenging due to the complexity of lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysate. In this study, a modified genome shuffling method was developed to improve xylose fermentation by S. cerevisiae. Recombinant yeast strains were constructed by recursive DNA shuffling with the recombination of entire genome of P. stipitis with that of S. cerevisiae. RESULTS: After two rounds of genome shuffling and screening, one potential recombinant yeast strain ScF2 was obtained. It was able to utilize high concentration of xylose (100 g/L to 250 g/L xylose) and produced ethanol. The recombinant yeast ScF2 produced ethanol more rapidly than the naturally occurring xylose-fermenting yeast, P. stipitis, with improved ethanol titre and much more enhanced xylose tolerance. CONCLUSION: The modified genome shuffling method developed in this study was more effective and easier to operate than the traditional protoplast fusion based method. Recombinant yeast strain ScF2 obtained in this was a promising candidate for industrial cellulosic ethanol production. In order to further enhance its xylose fermentation performance, ScF2 needs to be additionally improved by metabolic engineering and directed evolution.     

酿酒酵母转化木糖生产化学品的研究进展

木糖的有效利用是木质纤维素生产生物燃料或化学品经济性转化的基础。30年来,通过理性代谢改造和适应性进化等工程策略,显著提高了传统乙醇发酵微生物——酿酒酵母Saccharomyces cerevisiae的木糖代谢能力。因此,近年来在酿酒酵母中利用木糖生产化学品的研究逐步展开。研究发现,酿酒酵母分别以木糖和葡萄糖为碳源时,其转录组和代谢组存在明显差异。与葡萄糖相比,木糖代谢过程中细胞整体呈现出Crabtree-negative代谢特征,如有限的糖酵解途径活性减少了丙酮酸到乙醇的代谢通量,以及增强的胞质乙酰辅酶A合成和呼吸能量代谢等,这都有利于以丙酮酸或乙酰辅酶A为前体的下游产物的有效合成。文中对酿酒酵母木糖代谢途径改造与优化、木糖代谢特征以及以木糖为碳源合成化学品的细胞工厂构建等方面进行了详细综述,并对木糖作为重要碳源在大宗化学品生物合成中存在的困难和挑战以及未来研究方向进行了总结与展望。     

Comparative study on a series of recombinant flocculent Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with different expression levels of xylose reductase and xylulokinase

Ethanol production from xylose is important for the utilization of lignocellulosic biomass as raw materials. Recently, we reported the development of an industrial xylose-fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain, MA-R4, which was engineered by chromosomal integration to express the genes encoding xylose reductase and xylitol dehydrogenase from Pichia stipitis along with S. cerevisiae xylulokinase gene constitutively using the alcohol-fermenting flocculent yeast strain, IR-2. IR-2 has the highest xylulose-fermenting ability of the industrial diploid strains, making it a useful host strain for genetically engineering xylose-utilizing S. cerevisiae. To optimize the activities of xylose metabolizing enzymes in the metabolic engineering of IR-2 for further improvement of ethanol production from xylose, we constructed a set of recombinant isogenic strains harboring different combinations of genetic modifications present in MA-R4, and investigated the effect of constitutive expression of xylulokinase and of different levels of xylulokinase and xylose reductase activity on xylose fermentation. This strain comparison showed that constitutive expression of xylulokinase increased ethanol production from xylose at the expense of xylitol excretion, and that high activity of xylose reductase resulted in an increased rate of xylose consumption and an increased glycerol yield. Moreover, strain MA-R6, which has moderate xylulokinase activity, grew slightly better but accumulated more xylitol than strain MA-R4. These results suggest that fine-tuning of introduced enzyme activity in S. cerevisiae is important for improving xylose fermentation to ethanol.     

Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for efficient anaerobic alcoholic fermentation of L-arabinose

For cost-effective and efficient ethanol production from lignocellulosic fractions of plant biomass, the conversion of not only major constituents, such as glucose and xylose, but also less predominant sugars, such as l-arabinose, is required. Wild-type strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the organism used in industrial ethanol production, cannot ferment xylose and arabinose. Although metabolic and evolutionary engineering has enabled the efficient alcoholic fermentation of xylose under anaerobic conditions, the conversion of l-arabinose into ethanol by engineered S. cerevisiae strains has previously been demonstrated only under oxygen-limited conditions. This study reports the first case of fast and efficient anaerobic alcoholic fermentation of l-arabinose by an engineered S. cerevisiae strain. This fermentation was achieved by combining the expression of the structural genes for the l-arabinose utilization pathway of Lactobacillus plantarum, the overexpression of the S. cerevisiae genes encoding the enzymes of the nonoxidative pentose phosphate pathway, and extensive evolutionary engineering. The resulting S. cerevisiae strain exhibited high rates of arabinose consumption (0.70 g h(-1) g [dry weight](-1)) and ethanol production (0.29 g h(-1) g [dry weight](-1)) and a high ethanol yield (0.43 g g(-1)) during anaerobic growth on l-arabinose as the sole carbon source. In addition, efficient ethanol production from sugar mixtures containing glucose and arabinose, which is crucial for application in industrial ethanol production, was achieved.     

Crabtree/Warburg-like aerobic xylose fermentation by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Bottlenecks in the efficient conversion of xylose into cost-effective biofuels have limited the widespread use of plant lignocellulose as a renewable feedstock. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae ferments glucose into ethanol with such high metabolic flux that it ferments high concentrations of glucose aerobically, a trait called the Crabtree/Warburg Effect. In contrast to glucose, most engineered S. cerevisiae strains do not ferment xylose at economically viable rates and yields, and they require respiration to achieve sufficient xylose metabolic flux and energy return for growth aerobically. Here, we evolved respiration-deficient S. cerevisiae strains that can grow on and ferment xylose to ethanol aerobically, a trait analogous to the Crabtree/Warburg Effect for glucose. Through genome sequence comparisons and directed engineering, we determined that duplications of genes encoding engineered xylose metabolism enzymes, as well as TKL1, a gene encoding a transketolase in the pentose phosphate pathway, were the causative genetic changes for the evolved phenotype. Reengineered duplications of these enzymes, in combination with deletion mutations in HOG1, ISU1, GRE3, and IRA2, increased the rates of aerobic and anaerobic xylose fermentation. Importantly, we found that these genetic modifications function in another genetic background and increase the rate and yield of xylose-to-ethanol conversion in industrially relevant switchgrass hydrolysate, indicating that these specific genetic modifications may enable the sustainable production of industrial biofuels from yeast. We propose a model for how key regulatory mutations prime yeast for aerobic xylose fermentation by lowering the threshold for overflow metabolism, allowing mutations to increase xylose flux and to redirect it into fermentation products.