ATP and NADPH engineering of Escherichia coli to improve the production of 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid using CRISPRi

Background: 4-Hydroxyphenylacetic acid (4HPAA) is an important raw material for the synthesis of drugs, pesticides and biochemicals. Microbial biotechnology would be an attractive approach for 4HPAA production, and cofactors play an important role in biosynthesis. Results: We developed a novel strat...

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Main Authors: He, X. (Author), Liao, Y.-L (Author), Liu, J.-Z (Author), Lu, Q. (Author), Shen, Y.-P (Author), Yan, Z.-B (Author)
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Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2021
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245 1 0 |a ATP and NADPH engineering of Escherichia coli to improve the production of 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid using CRISPRi 
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520 3 |a Background: 4-Hydroxyphenylacetic acid (4HPAA) is an important raw material for the synthesis of drugs, pesticides and biochemicals. Microbial biotechnology would be an attractive approach for 4HPAA production, and cofactors play an important role in biosynthesis. Results: We developed a novel strategy called cofactor engineering based on clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat interference (CRISPRi) screening (CECRiS) for improving NADPH and/or ATP availability, enhancing the production of 4HPAA. All NADPH-consuming and ATP-consuming enzyme-encoding genes of E. coli were repressed through CRISPRi. After CRISPRi screening, 6 NADPH-consuming and 19 ATP-consuming enzyme-encoding genes were identified. The deletion of the NADPH-consuming enzyme-encoding gene yahK and the ATP-consuming enzyme-encoding gene fecE increased the production of 4HPAA from 6.32 to 7.76 g/L. Automatically downregulating the expression of the pabA gene using the Esa-PesaS quorum-sensing-repressing system further improved the production of 4HPAA. The final strain E. coli 4HPAA-∆yfp produced 28.57 g/L of 4HPAA with a yield of 27.64% (mol/mol) in 2-L bioreactor fed-batch fermentations. The titer and yield are the highest values to date. Conclusion: This CECRiS strategy will be useful in engineering microorganisms for the high-level production of bioproducts. © 2021, The Author(s). 
650 0 4 |a 4-Hydroxyphenylacetic acid 
650 0 4 |a ATP engineering 
650 0 4 |a Biochemistry 
650 0 4 |a Bioproducts 
650 0 4 |a biotechnology 
650 0 4 |a carboxylic acid 
650 0 4 |a Cofactor engineering 
650 0 4 |a coliform bacterium 
650 0 4 |a CRISPRi 
650 0 4 |a Encoding (symbols) 
650 0 4 |a Encoding genes 
650 0 4 |a enzyme 
650 0 4 |a Enzymes 
650 0 4 |a Escherichia coli 
650 0 4 |a Escherichia coli 
650 0 4 |a Escherichia coli 
650 0 4 |a Fed-batch fermentation 
650 0 4 |a Genes 
650 0 4 |a genetic engineering 
650 0 4 |a High-level production 
650 0 4 |a Microbial biotechnology 
650 0 4 |a NADPH engineering 
650 0 4 |a Novel strategies 
650 0 4 |a Palindromic 
650 0 4 |a Quorum-sensing 
650 0 4 |a Signal encoding 
700 1 |a He, X.  |e author 
700 1 |a Liao, Y.-L.  |e author 
700 1 |a Liu, J.-Z.  |e author 
700 1 |a Lu, Q.  |e author 
700 1 |a Shen, Y.-P.  |e author 
700 1 |a Yan, Z.-B.  |e author 
773 |t Biotechnology for Biofuels