ArticleNature communications2022
Kinetic compartmentalization by unnatural reaction for itaconate production.
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- Toward engineered microbial chassis for growth-production balancing.Synthetic and systems biotechnology · 2027Review
- Gallium-Containing Agents for Tumor Diagnosis and Therapy: Current Status and Future Prospects.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Review
- Metabolic rewiring for enhanced itaconate yield through heterotrophic COJournal of biological engineering · 2026Article
- Biosensor-guided directed evolution of aldehyde dehydrogenase for improved adipic acid production from caprolactone.Journal of biological engineering · 2026Article
- Engineering and Application of Biosensors for Aromatic Compounds Production inMicroorganisms · 2025Review
- Reprogramming immunity with itaconate: metabolic mechanisms and therapeutic perspectives.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025Review
- Itaconic Acid: A Regulator of Immune Responses and Inflammatory Metabolism.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- Hierarchical metabolic engineering for rewiring cellular metabolism.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Engineering thioesterase as a driving force for novel itaconate production via its degradation scheme.Metabolic engineering communications · 2024Article
- Metabolite itaconate in host immunoregulation and defense.Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2023Review
- Improving pathway prediction accuracy of constraints-based metabolic network models by treating enzymes as microcompartments.Synthetic and systems biotechnology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Physical compartmentalization of metabolism using membranous organelles in eukaryotes is helpful for chemical biosynthesis to ensure the availability of substrates from competitive metabolic reactions. Bacterial hosts lack such a membranous system, which is one of the major limitations for efficient metabolic engineering. Here, we employ kinetic compartmentalization with the introduction of an unnatural enzymatic reaction by an engineered enzyme as an alternative strategy to enable substrate availability from competitive reactions through kinetic isolation of metabolic pathways. As a proof of concept, we kinetically isolate the itaconate synthetic pathway from the tricarboxylic acid cycle in Escherichia coli, which is natively separated by mitochondrial membranes in Aspergillus terreus. Specifically, 2-methylcitrate dehydratase is engineered to alternatively catalyze citrate and kinetically secure cis-aconitate for efficient production using a high-throughput screening system. Itaconate production can be significantly improved with kinetic compartmentalization and its strategy has the potential to be widely applicable.
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