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ArticleBiotechnology for biofuels and bioproducts2022

Adaptive laboratory evolution and shuffling of Escherichia coli to enhance its tolerance and production of astaxanthin.

Qian Lu, Xiao-Ling Zhou, Jian-Zhong Liu

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Article in Biotechnology for biofuels and bioproducts, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Advances in adaptive laboratory evolution applications forSynthetic and systems biotechnology · 2025
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  6. Production of Astaxanthin Using CBFD1/HFBD1 fromBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Qian LuInstitute of Synthetic Biology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China.
Xiao-Ling ZhouInstitute of Synthetic Biology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China.
Jian-Zhong LiuInstitute of Synthetic Biology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China. lssljz@mail.sysu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1570-3214
Sun Yat-sen University · CN

Funding

Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation 2019B1515210006National Key R&D Program of China 2020YFA0906900National Natural Science Foundation of China 31901024National Natural Science Foundation of China 32071422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAstaxanthin is one of the strongest antioxidants in nature and has been widely used in aquaculture, food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Numerous stresses caused in the process of a large scale-culture, such as high acetate concentration, high osmolarity, high level of reactive oxygen species, high glucose concentration and acid environment, etc., limit cell growth to reach the real high cell density, thereby affecting astaxanthin production.

resultsWe developed an adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) strategy to enhance the production of chemicals by improving strain tolerance against industrial fermentation conditions. This ALE strategy resulted in 18.5% and 53.7% increases in cell growth and astaxanthin production in fed-batch fermentation, respectively. Whole-genome resequencing showed that 65 mutations with amino acid substitution were identified in 61 genes of the shuffled strain Escherichia coli AST-4AS. CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) and activation (CRISPRa) revealed that the shuffled strain with higher astaxanthin production may be associated with the mutations of some stress response protein genes, some fatty acid biosynthetic genes and rppH. Repression of yadC, ygfI and rcsC, activation of rnb, envZ and recC further improved the production of astaxanthin in the shuffled strain E. coli AST-4AS. Simultaneous deletion of yadC and overexpression of rnb increased the production of astaxanthin by 32% in the shuffled strain E. coli AST-4AS.

conclusionThis ALE strategy will be powerful in engineering microorganisms for the high-level production of chemicals.

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AstaxanthinBiosynthesisEscherichia coliGenomic engineeringTolerance

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