bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/614131; this version posted April 19, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 2 3 4 Engineering acetyl-CoA metabolic shortcut for eco-friendly 5 production of polyketides triacetic acid lactone in Yarrowia lipolytica 6 7 8 Huan Liu1,2, Monireh Marsafari 1, 3, Fang Wang2, Li Deng2,* and Peng Xu1,* 9 10 11 1Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering, University of 12 Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250. 13 14 2College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical 15 Technology, Beijing, China. 16 17 3Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, University of Guilan, Rasht, Islamic 18 Republic of Iran 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 * Corresponding author Tel: +1(410)-455-2474; fax: +1(410)-455-1049. E-mail address:
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[email protected] (LD). 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/614131; this version posted April 19, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 29 Abstract 30 Acetyl-CoA is the central metabolic node connecting glycolysis, Krebs cycle and 31 fatty acids synthase. Plant-derived polyketides, are assembled from acetyl-CoA and 32 malonyl-CoA, represent a large family of biological compounds with diversified 33 bioactivity. Harnessing microbial bioconversion is considered as a feasible approach 34 to large-scale production of polyketides from renewable feedstocks.