Constructing a yeast to express the largest cellulosome complex on the cell surface

  • Marimuthu Anandharaj
    Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, 11529 Taipei, Taiwan;
  • Yu-Ju Lin
    Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, 11529 Taipei, Taiwan;
  • Rizwana Parveen Rani
    Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, 11529 Taipei, Taiwan;
  • Eswar Kumar Nadendla
    Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, 11529 Taipei, Taiwan;
  • Meng-Chiao Ho
    Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, 11529 Taipei, Taiwan;
  • Chieh-Chen Huang
    Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, 40227 Taichung, Taiwan;
  • Jan-Fang Cheng
    Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Walnut Creek, CA 94598;
  • Jui-Jen Chang
    Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, 402 Taichung, Taiwan;
  • Wen-Hsiung Li
    Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, 11529 Taipei, Taiwan;

説明

<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p> Sustainable utilization of cellulosic biomasses to produce valuable compounds is an ideal approach but hydrolysis of recalcitrant cellulose is complex and time-consuming. Several cellulolytic bacteria produced multienzyme complexes called “cellulosomes” that efficiently degrade the cellulose. Hence, we engineered the yeast <jats:italic>Kluyveromyces marxianus</jats:italic> to express the “largest cellulolytic complex,” which can accommodate up to 63 enzymes, on its cell surface. Due to the synergistic effects of cellulase in cellulosomes, our engineered yeast exhibited greater degradation efficiency and released significantly higher quantities of reducing sugars and ethanol from cellulosic substrates than any previous constructs. In future, this superb cellulosome complex may also be used for the synthesis of various biopharmaceutical products (e.g., astaxanthin and morphine) which involve multiple enzymatic conversion steps. </jats:p>

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