Increased Accumulation of Medium-Chain Fatty Acids by Dynamic Degradation of Long-Chain Fatty Acids in Mucor circinelloides

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dc.contributor.authorHussain, Syed Ammar
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Alexis
dc.contributor.authorKhan, Md. Ahsanul Kabir
dc.contributor.authorNosheen, Shaista
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Yao
dc.contributor.authorKoffas, Mattheos A. G.
dc.contributor.authorGarre, Victoriano
dc.contributor.authorLee, Soo Chan
dc.contributor.authorSong, Yuanda
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-19T15:22:04Z
dc.date.available2021-04-19T15:22:04Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-05
dc.date.updated2021-04-19T15:22:04Z
dc.description.abstractConcerns about global warming, fossil-fuel depletion, food security, and human health have promoted metabolic engineers to develop tools/strategies to overproduce microbial functional oils directly from renewable resources. Medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs, C8–C12) have been shown to be important sources due to their diverse biotechnological importance, providing benefits ranging from functional lipids to uses in bio-fuel production. However, oleaginous microbes do not carry native pathways for the production of MCFAs, and therefore, diverse approaches have been adapted to compensate for the requirements of industrial demand. Mucor circinelloides is a promising organism for lipid production (15–36% cell dry weight; CDW) and the investigation of mechanisms of lipid accumulation; however, it mostly produces long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs). To address this challenge, we genetically modified strain M. circinelloides MU758, first by integrating heterologous acyl-ACP thioesterase (TE) into fatty acid synthase (FAS) complex and subsequently by modifying the β-oxidation pathway by disrupting the acyl-CoA oxidase (ACOX) and/or acyl-CoA thioesterase (ACOT) genes with a preference for medium-chain acyl-CoAs, to elevate the yield of MCFAs. The resultant mutant strains (M-1, M-2, and M-3, respectively) showed a significant increase in lipid production in comparison to the wild-type strain (WT). MCFAs in M-1 (47.45%) was sharply increased compared to the wild type strain (2.25%), and it was further increased in M-2 (60.09%) suggesting a negative role of ACOX in MCFAs production. However, MCFAs in M-3 were much decreased compared to M-1, suggesting a positive role of ACOT in MCFAs production. The M-2 strain showed maximum lipid productivity (~1800 milligram per liter per day or mg/L.d) and MCFAs productivity (~1100 mg/L.d). Taken together, this study elaborates on how the combination of two multidimensional approaches, TE gene over-expression and modification of the ?-oxidation pathway via substantial knockout of specific ACOX gene, significantly increased the production of MCFAs. This synergistic approach ultimately offers a novel opportunity for synthetic/industrial biologists to increase the content of MCFAs.
dc.description.departmentBiology
dc.identifierdoi: 10.3390/genes11080890
dc.identifier.citationGenes 11 (8): 890 (2020)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/509
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 United States
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectMucor circinelloides
dc.subjectmetabolic engineering
dc.subjectacyl-ACP-Thioesterase
dc.subjectacyl-CoA-oxidase
dc.subjectacyl-CoA-thioesterase
dc.subjectβ-oxidation pathway
dc.subjectgreen biofuels
dc.subjectfunctional lipids
dc.titleIncreased Accumulation of Medium-Chain Fatty Acids by Dynamic Degradation of Long-Chain Fatty Acids in Mucor circinelloides
dc.typeArticle

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