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ArticleMetabolites2025

Construction of a Plasmid-Free

Zihan Zhang, Baodong Hu, Jingwen Zhou, Jianghua Li, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Xinrui Zhao

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Zihan ZhangScience Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122, China.
Baodong HuScience Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122, China.
Jingwen ZhouScience Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3949-3733
Jianghua LiScience Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122, China.
Jian ChenScience Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122, China.
Guocheng DuScience Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122, China.
Xinrui ZhaoScience Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122, China.

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Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China 32021005Jiangsu Basic Research Center for Synthetic Biology BK20233003National First-class Discipline Program of Light Industry Technology and Engineering LITE2018-08
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Abstract

backgroundHeme is an important cofactor and plays crucial roles in the correct folding of hemoproteins. The synthesis of heme can be enhanced by the plasmid-based expression of heme biosynthetic genes. However, plasmid-based expression is genetically unstable and requires the utilization of antibiotics to maintain high copy numbers of plasmids.

methodsThe rate-limiting steps in heme biosynthesis were first analyzed based on previous studies and the accumulation of heme intermediates was achieved by adding heme precursor (5-aminolevulinic acid, ALA). Next, the intracellular accumulation of porphyrin was increased by deleting the porphyrin transporter TolC. Finally, the heme synthetic genes were modified by integrating the

resultsAn enhanced heme supply HEME2 strain was obtained with a heme titer of 0.14 mg/L, which was 4.60-fold higher than that of the C41(DE3) strain. The HEME2 strain was applied to produce human hemoglobin and leghemoglobin. The titer and peroxidase activity of human hemoglobin were 1.29-fold and 42.4% higher in the HEME2-hHb strain than the values in the control strain C41-hHb. In addition, the peroxidase activity and heme content of leghemoglobin were increased by 39.2% and 53.4% in the HEME2-sHb strain compared to the values in the control strain C41-sHb.

conclusionsA plasmid-free

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biosynthesishemehemoglobinplasmid-freerate-limiting steps

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PMID40137115
PMCPMC11943725

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