State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, People's Republic of China.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010 Jul;76(13):4578-82. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00448-10. Epub 2010 May 7.
3-Ketosteroid-Delta(1)-dehydrogenase, KsdD(M), was identified by targeted gene disruption and augmentation from Mycobacterium neoaurum NwIB-01, a newly isolated strain. The difficulty of separating 4-androstene-3,17-dione (AD) from 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (ADD) is a key bottleneck to the microbial transformation of phytosterols in industry. This problem was tackled via genetic manipulation of the KsdD-encoding gene. Mutants in which KsdD(M) was inactivated or augmented proved to be good AD(D)-producing strains.
3-酮类固醇-Δ(1)-脱氢酶(KsdD(M))是通过靶向基因敲除和扩增从一株新分离的分枝杆菌 NwIB-01 中鉴定得到的。从植物甾醇中微生物转化分离 4-雄烯-3,17-二酮(AD)和 1,4-雄二烯-3,17-二酮(ADD)的困难是工业上的一个关键瓶颈。通过对 KsdD 编码基因的遗传操作解决了这个问题。证明失活或扩增 KsdD(M)的突变体能很好地生产 AD(D)。