Functional pyruvate formate lyase pathway expressed with two different electron donors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae at aerobic growth
Journal article, 2015

Pyruvate formate lyase (PFL) is characterized as an enzyme functional at anaerobic conditions, since the radical in the enzyme's active form is sensitive to oxygen. In this study, PFL and its activating enzyme from Escherichia coli were expressed in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain lacking pyruvate decarboxylase and having a reduced glucose uptake rate due to a mutation in the transcriptional regulator Mth1, IMI076 (Pdc-MTH1-Delta T ura3-52). PFL was expressed with two different electron donors, reduced ferredoxin or reduced flavodoxin, respectively, and it was found that the coexpression of either of these electron donors had a positive effect on growth under aerobic conditions, indicating increased activity of PFL. The positive effect on growth was manifested as a higher final biomass concentration and a significant increase in transcription of formate dehydrogenases. Among the two electron donors reduced flavodoxin was found to be a better electron donor than reduced ferredoxin.

ferredoxin/flavodoxin NADP(+) reductase

ferredoxin

metabolic engineering

flavodoxin

aerobic growth

yeast

Author

Yiming Zhang

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Zongijie Dai

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Anastasia Krivoruchko

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Yun Chen

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Verena Siewers

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Jens B Nielsen

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology

FEMS Yeast Research

1567-1356 (ISSN) 1567-1364 (eISSN)

Vol. 15 4

Industrial Systems Biology of Yeast and A. oryzae (INSYSBIO)

European Commission (EC) (EC/FP7/247013), 2010-01-01 -- 2014-12-31.

Subject Categories

Microbiology

Areas of Advance

Life Science Engineering (2010-2018)

DOI

10.1093/femsyr/fov024

PubMed

25979691

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10/8/2017