Dynamic control of toxic natural product biosynthesis by an artificial regulatory circuit |
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Affiliation: | 1. College of Pharmacy, Research Institute of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, PR China;2. TCM and Ethnomedicine Innovation & Development Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, PR China |
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Abstract: | To mimic the delicately regulated metabolism in nature for improved efficiency, artificial and customized regulatory components for dynamically controlling metabolic networks in multiple layers are essential in laboratory engineering. For this purpose, a novel regulatory component for controlling vanillin biosynthetic pathway was developed through directed evolution, which was responsive to both the product vanillin and substrate ferulic acid, with different capacities. This regulatory component facilitated pathway expression via dynamic control of the intracellular substrate and product concentrations. As vanillin is an antimicrobial compound, low pathway expression and vanillin formation levels enabled better cell growth at an early stage, and the product feedback-activated pathway expression at later stages significantly improved biosynthesis efficiency. This novel multiple-layer dynamic control was demonstrated effective in managing the trade-off between cell growth and production, leading to improved cell growth and vanillin production compared to the conventional or quorum-sensing promoter-controlled pathway. The multiple-layer dynamic control enabled by designed regulatory components responsive to multiple signals shows potential for wide applications in addition to the dynamic controls based on biosynthetic intermediate sensing and quorum sensing reported to date. |
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Keywords: | Dynamic control Feedback activation HucR regulatory protein Directed evolution |
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