Compositions and methods for activation and overexpression of secondary metabolites in microorganisms

    公开(公告)号:US20230250390A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-10

    申请号:US17947421

    申请日:2022-09-19

    摘要: Methods and compositions herein provide non-naturally occurring γ-butyrolactones (GBLs) in racemic mixtures that increase efficiency and effectiveness of screening for production of antibiotics, and enhance yields and express silent pathways. Non-naturally occurring GBLs were synthesized and found to stimulate antibiotic production in several different streptomycete strains. Antibiotic production by Streptomyces coelicolor was induced by a racemic mixture of non-cognate stereoisomers of VB-D, seven of which are non-naturally occurring. Further, novel A-factor-type GBL analogs stimulated antibiotic production in S. coelicolor. Synthesis in response to the treatment with the non-cognates GBL was observed for known compounds including undecylprodigiosin, desferrioxamine and streptorubin B, as was synthesis of a compound of unknown structure. A group of 37 additional microbial strains was screened by principal component analysis to determine optimal concentrations of each of a panel of four non-cognate synthetic GBLs for addition to cultures with optimal stimulation of secondary metabolites, and large scale fermentations were analyzed and product enhancement by the GBLs was observed.

    Mutant of Acid Phosphatase and Application Thereof

    公开(公告)号:US20220204953A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17694779

    申请日:2022-03-15

    IPC分类号: C12N9/16 C12N15/70 C12P17/04

    摘要: Disclosed is a mutant of acid phosphatase and an application thereof, belonging to the technical field of biological engineering. The disclosure provides a mutant of acid phosphatase PaAPaseMu3. By expressing the mutant of acid phosphatase PaAPaseMu3 in Escherichia coli and using a whole-cell conversion method, L-ascorbic acid is transformed into L-ascorbate-2-phosphate. Moreover, a catalytic system of the mutant of acid phosphatase PaAPaseMu3 is optimized from the aspects of reaction pH and temperature, so that a yield of L-ascorbate-2-phosphate can reach 90.1 g/L and a molar yield can reach 75.1%. Therefore, the problems of a high substrate cost, environmental pollution and the like before are greatly reduced, laying a foundation for the industrial green production of L-ascorbate-2-phosphate.

    Compositions and methods for the biosynthesis of 1,4-butanediol and its precursors

    公开(公告)号:US11371046B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US15270578

    申请日:2016-09-20

    申请人: Genomatica, Inc.

    摘要: The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial biocatalyst including a microbial organism having a 4-hydroxybutanoic acid (4-HB) biosynthetic pathway having at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding 4-hydroxybutanoate dehydrogenase, succinyl-CoA synthetase, CoA-dependent succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, or α-ketoglutarate decarboxylase, wherein the exogenous nucleic acid is expressed in sufficient amounts to produce monomeric 4-hydroxybutanoic acid (4-HB). Also provided is a non-naturally occurring microbial biocatalyst including a microbial organism having 4-hydroxybutanoic acid (4-HB) and 1,4-butanediol (BDO) biosynthetic pathways, the pathways include at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding 4-hydroxybutanoate dehydrogenase, succinyl-CoA synthetase, CoA-dependent succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, 4-hydroxybutyrate:CoA transferase, 4-butyrate kinase, phosphotransbutyrylase, α-ketoglutarate decarboxylase, aldehyde dehydrogenase, alcohol dehydrogenase or an aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase, wherein the exogenous nucleic acid is expressed in sufficient amounts to produce 1,4-butanediol (BDO). Additionally provided are methods for the production of 4-HB and BDO.