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ArticleMetabolic engineering2019

Developing a pyruvate-driven metabolic scenario for growth-coupled microbial production.

Jian Wang, Ruihua Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yaping Yang, Yuheng Lin, Yajun Yan

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Article in Metabolic engineering, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jian WangSchool of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Ruihua ZhangSchool of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Yan ZhangSchool of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Yaping YangSchool of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Yuheng LinBiotecEra Inc., 220 Riverbend Rd., Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Yajun YanSchool of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA. Electronic address: yajunyan@uga.edu.
University of Georgia · USBiotecEra (United States) · US

Funding

Engineering Dynamic Control of Natural Product Biosynthesis in BacteriaR35GM128620 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI Yajun Yan · 2018 to 2026
$3.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128620
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial-based chemical synthesis serves as a promising approach for sustainable production of industrially important products. However, limited production performance caused by metabolic burden or genetic variations poses one of the major challenges in achieving an economically viable biomanufacturing process. To address this issue, one superior strategy is to couple the product synthesis with cellular growth, which renders production obligatory for cell survival. Here we create a pyruvate-driven metabolic scenario in engineered Escherichia coli for growth-coupled bioproduction, with which we demonstrate its application in boosting production of anthranilate and its derivatives. Deletion of a minimal set of endogenous pyruvate-releasing pathways engenders anthranilate synthesis as the salvage route for pyruvate generation to support cell growth, concomitant with simultaneous anthranilate production. Further introduction of native and non-native downstream pathways affords production enhancement of two anthranilate-derived high-value products including L-tryptophan and cis, cis-muconic acid from different carbon sources. The work reported here presents a new growth-coupled strategy with demonstrated feasibility for promoting microbial production.

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Escherichia coliMetabolic EngineeringMetabolic Networks and PathwaysPyruvic AcidSorbic AcidTryptophanmuconic acidPyruvic AcidSorbic AcidTryptophanAnthranilateGrowth couplingMetabolic engineeringPyruvate-driven system

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PMID31348998
PMCPMC6744941
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