Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for production of scyllo-inositol, a drug candidate against Alzheimer's disease

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Scyllo-inositol has been identified as a potential drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, cost-efficient processes for the production of this compound are desirable. In this study, we analyzed and engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum with the aim to develop competitive scyllo-inositol producer strains. Initial studies revealed that C. glutamicum naturally produces scyllo-inositol when cultured with myo-inositol as carbon source. The conversion involves NAD+-dependent oxidation of myo-inositol to 2-keto-myo-inositol followed by NADPH-dependent reduction to scyllo-inositol. Use of myo-inositol for biomass formation was prevented by deletion of a cluster of 16 genes involved in myo-inositol catabolism (strain MB001(DE3)Δiol1). Deletion of a second cluster of four genes (oxiC-cg3390-oxiD-oxiE) related to inositol metabolism prevented conversion of 2-keto-myo-inositol to undesired products causing brown coloration (strain MB001(DE3)Δiol1Δiol2). The two chassis strains were used for plasmid-based overproduction of myo-inositol dehydrogenase (IolG) and scyllo-inositol dehydrogenase (IolW). In BHI medium containing glucose and myo-inositol, a complete conversion of the consumed myo-inositol into scyllo-inositol was achieved with the Δiol1Δiol2 strain. To enable scyllo-inositol production from cheap carbon sources, myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase (Ino1) and myo-inositol 1-phosphatase (ImpA), which convert glucose 6-phosphate into myo-inositol, were overproduced in addition to IolG and IolW using plasmid pSI. Strain MB001(DE3)Δiol1Δiol2 (pSI) produced 1.8 g/L scyllo-inositol from 20 g/L glucose and even 4.4 g/L scyllo-inositol from 20 g/L sucrose within 72 h. Our results demonstrate that C. glutamicum is an attractive host for the biotechnological production of scyllo-inositol and potentially further myo-inositol-derived products.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:67

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Metabolic engineering - 67(2021) vom: 01. Sept., Seite 173-185

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ramp, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Lehnert, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Matamouros, Susana [VerfasserIn]
Wirtz, Astrid [VerfasserIn]
Baumgart, Meike [VerfasserIn]
Bott, Michael [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

1VS4X81277
4L6452S749
Alzheimer's disease
Corynebacterium glutamicum
Inositol
Journal Article
Metabolic engineering
Myo-inositol
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Scyllitol
Scyllo-inositol
Sucrose

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Date Completed 24.11.2021

Date Revised 24.11.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ymben.2021.06.011

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM327714980