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ACS Synth Biol ; 11(12): 3966-3972, 2022 12 16.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36441576

ABSTRACT

Bioconversion of key intermediate metabolites such as mevalonate into various useful chemicals is a promising strategy for microbial production. However, the conversion of mevalonate into isoprenoids requires a supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Light-driven ATP regeneration using microbial rhodopsin is an attractive module for improving the intracellular ATP supply. In the present study, we demonstrated the ATP-consuming conversion of mevalonate to isoprenol using rhodopsin-expressing Escherichia coli cells as a whole-cell catalyst in a medium that does not contain energy cosubstrate, such as glucose. Heterologous genes for the synthesis of isoprenol from mevalonate, which requires three ATP molecules for the series of reactions, and a delta-rhodopsin gene derived from Haloterrigena turkmenica were cointroduced into E. coli. To evaluate the conversion efficiency of mevalonate to isoprenol, the cells were suspended in a synthetic medium containing mevalonate as the sole carbon source and incubated under dark or light illumination (100 µmol m-2 s-1). The specific isoprenol production rates were 10.0 ± 0.9 and 20.4 ± 0.7 µmol gDCW-1 h-1 for dark and light conditions, respectively. The conversion was successfully enhanced under the light condition. Furthermore, the conversion efficiency increased with increasing illumination intensity, suggesting that ATP regenerated by the proton motive force generated by rhodopsin using light energy can drive ATP-consuming reactions in the whole-cell catalyst.


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Escherichia coli , Mevalonic Acid , Mevalonic Acid/metabolism , Escherichia coli/genetics , Escherichia coli/metabolism , Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism , Rhodopsin/genetics , Rhodopsin/metabolism , Sugars/metabolism
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Metab Eng ; 72: 227-236, 2022 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35346842

ABSTRACT

In microbial fermentative production, ATP regeneration, while crucial for cellular processes, conflicts with efficient target chemical production because ATP regeneration exhausts essential carbon sources also required for target chemical biosynthesis. To wrestle with this dilemma, we harnessed the power of microbial rhodopsins with light-driven proton pumping activity to supplement with ATP, thereby facilitating the bioproduction of various chemicals. We first demonstrated a photo-driven ATP supply and redistribution of metabolic carbon flows to target chemical synthesis by installing already-known delta rhodopsin (dR) in Escherichia coli. In addition, we identified novel rhodopsins with higher proton pumping activities than dR, and created an engineered cell for in vivo self-supply of the rhodopsin-activator, all-trans-retinal. Our concept exploiting the light-powering ATP supplier offers a potential increase in carbon use efficiency for microbial productions through metabolic reprogramming.


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Proton Pumps , Rhodopsin , Adenosine Triphosphate/genetics , Carbon/metabolism , Light , Optogenetics , Proton Pumps/chemistry , Proton Pumps/genetics , Proton Pumps/metabolism , Protons , Rhodopsin/chemistry , Rhodopsin/genetics , Rhodopsin/metabolism , Rhodopsins, Microbial/genetics
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