Nonsterilized Fermentation of Crude Glycerol for Polyhydroxybutyrate Production by Metabolically Engineered Vibrio natriegens

Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is an attractive biodegradable polymer that can be produced through the microbial fermentation of organic wastes or wastewater. However, its mass production has been restricted by the poor utilization of organic wastes due to the presence of inhibitory substances, slow microbial growth, and high energy input required for feedstock sterilization. Here, Vibrio natriegens, a fast-growing bacterium with a broad substrate spectrum and high tolerance to salt and toxic substances, was genetically engineered to enable efficient PHB production from nonsterilized fermentation of organic wastes. The key genes encoding the PHB biosynthesis pathway of V. natriegens were identified through base editing and overexpressed. The metabolically engineered strain showed 166-fold higher PHB content (34.95 wt %) than the wide type when using glycerol as a substrate. Enhanced PHB production was also achieved when other sugars were used as feedstock. Importantly, it outperformed the engineered Escherichia coli MG1655 in PHB productivity (0.053 g/L/h) and tolerance to toxic substances in crude glycerol, without obvious activity decline under nonsterilized fermentation conditions. Our work demonstrates the great potential of engineered V. natriegens for low-cost PHB bioproduction and lays a foundation for exploiting this strain as a next-generation model chassis microorganism in synthetic biology.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

ACS synthetic biology - 12(2023), 11 vom: 17. Nov., Seite 3454-3462

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Hui-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jia-Qi [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Qi-Zhong [VerfasserIn]
He, Ru Li [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Zhou-Hua [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Jun-Lu [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Wei-Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Dong-Feng [VerfasserIn]
Li, Wen-Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Crude glycerol
Glycerol
Hydroxybutyrates
Journal Article
Nonsterilized fermentation
Organic wastes
PDC6A3C0OX
Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)
Polyhydroxybutyrates
Vibrio natriegens

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Date Completed 14.02.2024

Date Revised 14.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acssynbio.3c00498

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363486232