論文

国際誌
2022年2月18日

Engineered Mutants of a Marine Photosynthetic Purple Nonsulfur Bacterium with Increased Volumetric Productivity of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Bioplastics.

ACS synthetic biology
  • Choon Pin Foong
  • ,
  • Mieko Higuchi-Takeuchi
  • ,
  • Kenji Ohtawa
  • ,
  • Takuya Asai
  • ,
  • Hanqin Liu
  • ,
  • Yasuyuki Ozeki
  • ,
  • Keiji Numata

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開始ページ
909
終了ページ
920
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1021/acssynbio.1c00537

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are green and sustainable bioplastics that could replace petrochemical synthetic plastics without posing environmental threats to living organisms. In addition, sustainable PHA production could be achieved using marine photosynthetic purple nonsulfur bacteria (PNSBs) that utilize natural seawater, sunlight, carbon dioxide gas, and nitrogen gas for growth. However, PHA production using marine photosynthetic PNSBs has not been economically feasible yet due to its high cost and low productivity. In this work, strain improvement, using genome-wide mutagenesis coupled with high-throughput screening via fluorescence-activated cell sorting, we were able to create Rhodovulum sulfidophilum mutants with enhanced volumetric PHA productivity, with an up to 1.7-fold increase. The best selected mutants (E6 and E6M4) reached the stationary growth phase 1 day faster and accumulated the maximum PHA content 2 days faster than the wild type. Maximizing volumetric PHA productivity before the stationary growth phase is indeed an additional advantage for R. sulfidophilum as a growth-associated PHA producer.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.1c00537
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35061943
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1021/acssynbio.1c00537
  • PubMed ID : 35061943

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