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ArticleACS synthetic biology2018

Engineering a Coenzyme A Detour To Expand the Product Scope and Enhance the Selectivity of the Ehrlich Pathway.

William B Black, Edward King, Yixi Wang, Ana Jenic, Andrew T Rowley, Kosuke Seki, Ray Luo, Han Li

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Article in ACS synthetic biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

William B Black
Edward King
Yixi Wang
Ana Jenic
Andrew T Rowley
Kosuke Seki
University of California, Irvine · US

Funding

AMBER force field consortium: a coherent biomolecular simulation platformR01GM079383 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CIEPLAK, PIOTR, DUAN, YONG · 2007 to 2017
$4.7M
AMBER/PBSA: An Open-Source Computer Program for Accurate and Scalable Solvation Analysis ofBiomoleculesR01GM093040 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI LUO, RAY · 2010 to 2018
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079383NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093040
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Ehrlich pathway is a major route for the renewable production of higher alcohols. However, the product scope of the Ehrlich pathway is restricted, and the product selectivity is suboptimal. Here, we demonstrate that a Coenzyme A (CoA) detour, which involves conversion of the 2-keto acids into acyl-CoAs, expands the biological toolkit of reaction chemistries available in the Ehrlich pathway to include the gamut of CoA-dependent enzymes. As a proof-of-concept, we demonstrated the first biosynthesis of a tertiary branched-alcohol, pivalcohol, at a level of ∼10 mg/L from glucose in Escherichia coli, using a pivalyl-CoA mutase from Xanthobacter autotrophicus. Furthermore, engineering an enzyme in the CoA detour, the Lactobacillus brevis CoA-acylating aldehyde dehydrogenase, allowed stringent product selectivity. Targeted production of 3-methyl-1-butanol (3-MB) in E. coli mediated by the CoA detour showed a 3-MB:side-product (isobutanol) ratio of >20, an increase over the ratios previously achieved using the conventional Ehrlich pathway.

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Aldehyde DehydrogenaseCoenzyme AEscherichia coliIntramolecular TransferasesLevilactobacillus brevisMetabolic EngineeringPentanolsPlasmidsXanthobacterAldehyde DehydrogenaseCoenzyme AIntramolecular Transferasesisopentyl alcoholPentanolsEhrlich pathwayhigher alcoholmetabolic engineeringpivalyl-CoA mutasetertiary branched-chemicals

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PMID30433765
PMCPMC7195871
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