Maria O Taratynova, Ekaterina E Tikhonova, Iuliia M Fedyaeva, Dmitry A Dementev, Tigran V Yuzbashev, Andrey I Solovyev, Sergey P Sineoky, Evgeniya Y Yuzbasheva
Applied biochemistry and biotechnology 2024 MarLinalool is a pleasant-smelling monoterpenoid widely found in the essential oils of most flowers. Due to its biologically active properties, linalool has considerable commercial potential, especially in the food and perfume industries. In this study, the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica was successfully engineered to produce linalool de novo. The (S)-linalool synthase (LIS) gene from Actinidia argute was overexpressed to convert geranyl diphosphate (GPP) into linalool. Flux was diverted from farnesyl diphosphate (FPP) synthesis to GPP by introducing a mutated copy of the native ERG20F88W-N119W gene, and CrGPPS gene from Catharanthus roseus on its own and as part of a fusion with LIS. Disruption of native diacylglycerol kinase enzyme, DGK1, by oligo-mediated CRISPR-Cas9 inactivation further increased linalool production. The resulting strain accumulated 109.6 mg/L of linalool during cultivation in shake flasks with sucrose as a carbon source. CrGPPS expression in Yarrowia lipolytica increased linalool accumulation more efficiently than the ERG20F88W-N119W expression, suggesting that the increase in linalool production was predominantly influenced by the level of GPP precursor supply. © 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Maria O Taratynova, Ekaterina E Tikhonova, Iuliia M Fedyaeva, Dmitry A Dementev, Tigran V Yuzbashev, Andrey I Solovyev, Sergey P Sineoky, Evgeniya Y Yuzbasheva. Boosting Geranyl Diphosphate Synthesis for Linalool Production in Engineered Yarrowia lipolytica. Applied biochemistry and biotechnology. 2024 Mar;196(3):1304-1315
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