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ArticleApplied microbiology and biotechnology2024

Step-by-step optimization of a heterologous pathway for de novo naringenin production in Escherichia coli.

Daniela Gomes, Joana L Rodrigues, Ligia R Rodrigues

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Article in Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Daniela GomesCEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.
Joana L RodriguesCEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal. joanarodrigues@deb.uminho.pt.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3217-2320
Ligia R RodriguesCEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.

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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia SFRH/BD/04433/2020Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UIDB/04469/2020 with DOI 10.54499/UIDB/04469/2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Naringenin is a plant polyphenol, widely explored due to its interesting biological activities, namely anticancer, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory. Due to its potential applications and attempt to overcome the industrial demand, there has been an increased interest in its heterologous production. The microbial biosynthetic pathway to produce naringenin is composed of tyrosine ammonia-lyase (TAL), 4-coumarate-CoA ligase (4CL), chalcone synthase (CHS), and chalcone isomerase (CHI). Herein, we targeted the efficient de novo production of naringenin in Escherichia coli by performing a step-by-step validation and optimization of the pathway. For that purpose, we first started by expressing two TAL genes from different sources in three different E. coli strains. The highest p-coumaric acid production (2.54 g/L) was obtained in the tyrosine-overproducing M-PAR-121 strain carrying TAL from Flavobacterium johnsoniae (FjTAL). Afterwards, this platform strain was used to express different combinations of 4CL and CHS genes from different sources. The highest naringenin chalcone production (560.2 mg/L) was achieved by expressing FjTAL combined with 4CL from Arabidopsis thaliana (At4CL) and CHS from Cucurbita maxima (CmCHS). Finally, different CHIs were tested and validated, and 765.9 mg/L of naringenin was produced by expressing CHI from Medicago sativa (MsCHI) combined with the other previously chosen genes. To our knowledge, this titer corresponds to the highest de novo production of naringenin reported so far in E. coli. KEY POINTS: • Best enzyme and strain combination were selected for de novo naringenin production. • After genetic and operational optimizations, 765.9 mg/L of naringenin was produced. • This de novo production is the highest reported so far in E. coli.

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AcyltransferasesAmmonia-LyasesBiosynthetic PathwaysCoenzyme A LigasesEscherichia coliFlavanonesCoumaric AcidsIntramolecular LyasesMetabolic EngineeringTyrosine4-coumarate-CoA ligaseAcyltransferasesAmmonia-Lyaseschalcone isomeraseCoenzyme A LigasesCoumaric AcidsFlavanonesflavanone synthetaseIntramolecular LyasesL-tyrosine ammonia-lyasenaringeninp-coumaric acidTyrosineDe novo biosynthesisEscherichia coliHeterologous productionNaringeninSynthetic biology

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