Metabolic engineering of Torulopsis glabrata for malate production.

Xiulai Chen, Guoqiang Xu, Nan Xu, Wei Zou, Pan Zhu, Liming Liu, Jian Chen

State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China; Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China; Laboratory of Food Microbial-Manufacturing Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.

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The yeast Torulopsis glabrata CCTCC M202019, which is used for industrial pyruvate production, was chosen to explore the suitability of engineering this multi-vitamin auxotrophic yeast for increased malate production. Various metabolic engineering strategies were used to manipulate carbon flux from pyruvate to malate: (i) overexpression of pyruvate carboxylase and malate dehydrogenase; (ii) identification of the bottleneck in malate production by model iNX804; (iii) simultaneous overexpression of genes RoPYC, RoMDH and SpMAE1. Using these strategies, 8.5gL(-1) malate was accumulated in the engineered strain T.G-PMS, which was about 10-fold greater than that of the control strain T.G-26. The results presented here suggest that T. glabrata CCTCC M202019 is a promising candidate for industrial malate production. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Xiulai Chen, Guoqiang Xu, Nan Xu, Wei Zou, Pan Zhu, Liming Liu, Jian Chen. Metabolic engineering of Torulopsis glabrata for malate production. Metabolic engineering. 2013 Sep;19:10-6

PMID: 23707987

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