利用代谢工程技术提高工业微生物对胁迫的抗性

代谢工程是工业微生物菌种改造的平台技术,不仅可用于改变微生物细胞内的代谢流向,也可以用于改善工业微生物的生理功能。在工业生产过程中,微生物细胞会面临多种胁迫作用,这些胁迫诱导的基因调节作用,都有可能影响细胞的许多重要生理功能,从而影响生物转化过程的效率。从工业应用的观点出发,选择生产性能良好、对发酵过程中的主要胁迫因素有较强耐受性的菌株至关重要。以下评述了借鉴传统代谢工程技术和反向代谢工程技术来提高工业微生物对胁迫抗性的若干研究策略,提出了该领域目前存在的问题,以及利用代谢工程技术改善微生物胁迫抗性——即微生物生理功能工程的发展方向。

Improving industrial microbial stress resistance by metabolic engineering: a review

Metabolic engineering is a technologic platform for industrial strain improvement and aims not only at modifying microbial metabolic fluxes, but also improving the physiological performance of industrial microbes. Microbes will meet multiple stresses in industrial processes. Consequently, elicited gene responses might result in a decrease in overall cell fitness and the efficiency of biotransformation. Thus, it is crucial to develop robust and productive microbial strains that can be integrated into industrial-scale bioprocesses. In this review, we focus on the progress of these novel methods and strategies for engineering stress-tolerance phenotypes referring to rational metabolic engineering and inverse metabolic engineering in recent years. In addition, we also address problems existing in this area and future research needs of microbial physiological functionality engineering.