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Drop-in biofuel production using fatty acid photodecarboxylase from Chlorella variabilis in the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica

Bruder, Stefan ; Moldenhauer, Eva Johanna ; Lemke, Robert Denis ; Ledesma-Amaro, Rodrigo ; Kabisch, Johannes (2022)
Drop-in biofuel production using fatty acid photodecarboxylase from Chlorella variabilis in the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica.
In: Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2019, 12
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00013038
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Drop-in biofuel production using fatty acid photodecarboxylase from Chlorella variabilis in the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
Language: English
Date: 2022
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2019
Publisher: Springer Nature
Journal or Publication Title: Biotechnology for Biofuels
Volume of the journal: 12
Collation: 13 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00013038
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Origin: Secondary publication
Abstract:

Background: Oleaginous yeasts are potent hosts for the renewable production of lipids and harbor great potential for derived products, such as biofuels. Several promising processes have been described that produce hydrocarbon drop-in biofuels based on fatty acid decarboxylation and fatty aldehyde decarbonylation. Unfortunately, besides fatty aldehyde toxicity and high reactivity, the most investigated enzyme, aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase, shows unfavorable catalytic properties which hindered high yields in previous metabolic engineering approaches.

Results: To demonstrate an alternative alkane production pathway for oleaginous yeasts, we describe the production of diesel-like, odd-chain alkanes and alkenes, by heterologously expressing a recently discovered light-driven oxidase from Chlorella variabilis (CvFAP) in Yarrowia lipolytica. Initial experiments showed that only strains engineered to have an increased pool of free fatty acids were susceptible to sufficient decarboxylation. Providing these strains with glucose and light in a synthetic medium resulted in titers of 10.9 mg/L of hydrocarbons. Using custom 3D printed labware for lighting bioreactors, and an automated pulsed glycerol fed-batch strategy, intracellular titers of 58.7 mg/L were achieved. The production of odd-numbered alkanes and alkenes with a length of 17 and 15 carbons shown in previous studies could be confirmed.

Conclusions: Oleaginous yeasts such as Yarrowia lipolytica can transform renewable resources such as glycerol into fatty acids and lipids. By heterologously expressing a fatty acid photodecarboxylase from the algae Chlorella variabilis hydrocarbons were produced in several scales from microwell plate to 400 mL bioreactors. The lighting turned out to be a crucial factor in terms of growth and hydrocarbon production, therefore, the evaluation of different conditions was an important step towards a tailor-made process. In general, the developed bioprocess shows a route to the renewable production of hydrocarbons for a variety of applications ranging from being substrates for further enzymatic or chemical modification or as a drop-in biofuel blend.

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-130380
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Keywords: Drop-in biofuels, Clean fuels, Microbial biodiesel, Fatty acid photodecarboxylase, Hydrocarbons, Alkane, Oleaginous yeast, Yarrowia lipolytica

Classification DDC: 500 Science and mathematics > 570 Life sciences, biology
600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 660 Chemical engineering
Divisions: 10 Department of Biology > Computer-aided Synthetic Biology
Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2022 13:36
Last Modified: 28 Feb 2023 12:42
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/13038
PPN: 50534646X
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