Zhang Xinyi, Cheng Shu, Yang Jing, Lu Li, Deng Zixin, Bian Guangkai, Liu Tiangang
Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, China.
Center of Materials Synthetic Biology, CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 518055, Shenzhen, China.
Synth Syst Biotechnol. 2024 Dec 24;10(2):381-390. doi: 10.1016/j.synbio.2024.12.008. eCollection 2025 Jun.
Pneumocandin B (PB) is a lipohexapeptide synthesized by and serves as the precursor for the widely used antifungal drug caspofungin acetate (Cancidas®). However, the low titer of PB results in fermentation and purification costs during caspofungin production, limiting its widespread clinical application. Here, we engineered an efficient PB-producing strain of by systems metabolic engineering strategies, including multi-omics analysis and multilevel metabolic engineering. We overexpressed four rate-limiting enzymes: thioesterase GLHYD, two cytochrome P450s GLP450s, and chorismate synthase GLCS; knocked out two competing pathways responsible for producing 6-methylsalicylic acid and pyranidine E; and overexpressed the global transcriptional activator GLHYP. As a result, the PB titer increased by 108.7 % to 2.63 g/L at the shake-flask level through combinatorial strategies. Our study provides valuable insights into achieving high-level production of PB and offers general guidance for developing efficient fungal cell factories to produce polyketide synthase-non-ribosomal peptide synthetase hybrid metabolites.
棘白菌素B(PB)是一种由[具体合成菌]合成的脂环六肽,是广泛使用的抗真菌药物醋酸卡泊芬净(Cancidas®)的前体。然而,PB的低产量导致卡泊芬净生产过程中的发酵和纯化成本较高,限制了其广泛的临床应用。在此,我们通过系统代谢工程策略,包括多组学分析和多层次代谢工程,构建了一株高效生产PB的[具体菌株]。我们过表达了四种限速酶:硫酯酶GLHYD、两种细胞色素P450酶GLP450s和分支酸合酶GLCS;敲除了两条负责生产6-甲基水杨酸和吡喃啶E的竞争途径;并过表达了全局转录激活因子GLHYP。结果,通过组合策略,摇瓶水平下PB的产量提高了108.7%,达到2.63 g/L。我们的研究为实现PB的高水平生产提供了有价值的见解,并为开发高效的真菌细胞工厂生产聚酮合酶-非核糖体肽合成酶杂合代谢产物提供了一般指导。
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