Metabolic engineering of 3‐hydroxypropionic acid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli
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Abstract
3-Hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) can be produced in microorganisms as a versatile platform chemical. However, owing to the toxicity of the intermediate product 3-hydroxypropionaldehyde (3-HPA), the minimization of 3-HPA accumulation is critical for enhancing the productivity of 3-HP. In this study, we identified a novel aldehyde dehydrogenase, GabD4 from Cupriavidus necator, and found that it possessed the highest enzyme activity toward 3-HPA reported to date. To augment the activity of GabD4, several variants were obtained by site-directed and saturation mutagenesis based on homology modeling. Escherichia coli transformed with the mutant GabD4_E209Q/E269Q showed the highest enzyme activity, which was 1.4-fold higher than that of wild type GabD4, and produced up to 71.9 g L(-1) of 3-HP with a productivity of 1.8 g L(-1) h(-1) . To the best of our knowledge, these are the highest 3-HP titer and productivity values among those reported in the literature. Additionally, our study demonstrates that GabD4 can be a key enzyme for the development of industrial 3-HP-producing microbial strains, and provides further insight into the mechanism of aldehyde dehydrogenase activity.
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