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Metabolic Engineering of Microorganisms to Produce Isoprene OPEN ACCESS Freely available online & Bioch ial em b ic ro a ic l T M e f c o h l n o a n l o r Journal of g u y o J ISSN: 1948-5948 Microbial & Biochemical Technology Review Article Metabolic Engineering of Microorganisms to Produce Isoprene Piyush Sethia, Manmeet Ahuja, Vidhya Rangaswamy* High Value Chemicals, Breakthrough R & D, Reliance Industries Limited, Reliance Corporate Park, Thane Belapur Road, Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai, India ABSTRACT Isoprene is an industrially important five carbon compound primarily used for production of high quality synthetic rubber. Two major pathways are involved in isoprene synthesis. The mevalonate pathway is present in eukaryotes, archaebacteria and cytosol of higher plants whereas the non-mevalonate pathway exists in many eubacteria and plastids in algae/plants. There have been continuous efforts to study and understand the phenomenon of biological production of isoprene for more than half a century. Although, the current feasibility and cost advantage of chemical processes leading to production of isoprene seems to be far from being dominated by a suitable biological substitute, the fear of extinction of non-renewable resources (raw material for chemical processes) in the near future prompts for a colossal expectation from the synthetic biology community. Technological advances in the field of metabolic engineering have made it possible to vigorously modify and swap genes among different organisms and push the limits for microorganisms to over-produce isoprene to an enormous extent. This review touches upon the limitations faced while improving isoprene titres and the meticulous strategies used to overcome them. It analyzes recent approaches that have resulted in significant improvement of biologically produced isoprene, summarizes the lessons learned from them, and compiles an exhaustive list of potential gene targets that could facilitate prospective research in this widespread arena. Keywords: Isoprene; MEP/DXP pathway; MVA pathway; Metabolic engineering; Flux INTRODUCTION synthetic biology/metabolic engineering, isoprene production by microorganisms is a feasible and attractive alternative. Anticancer Isoprene, a naturally produced cell metabolite, is a volatile compound taxol and antimalarial drug artemisinin are both compound emitted from the leaves of many plant species. A commercially produced by microorganisms with engineered/ brief history about the discovery of isoprene as a cell metabolite modified isoprenoid pathways [6,7]. Several studies and patents during the early second half of the twentieth century has been in recent times demonstrating genetic modifications enhancing exquisitely described by Professor Guivi Sanadze, the person who production of isoprene from microorganisms have been published the first report of emission of isoprene from plants published. [1]. Speculations regarding the native role of isoprene dictates its function as a thermoprotectant and a potential plant defence MECHANISM OF ISOPRENE PRODUCTION mechanism against the invading parasites [2,3]. Isoprene is an important chemical used in the production of synthetic rubber, Biosynthesis of isoprenoids is from the basic building blocks medicines and pesticides. The commercially valuable isoprenoid isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate family of organic compounds are produced using isoprene (DMAPP) which are synthesised from two naturally occurring as a monomeric building block. Chemical synthesis of such pathways-methylerythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway and isoprenoids is hindered by factors which include depletion of mevalonate (MVA) pathway. The removal of pyrophosphate fossil fuels and the complexity of the molecules. Harvesting of from DMAPP results in generation of isoprene and is catalysed isoprene which is gaseous above 34°C from plants is not feasible by an enzyme, isoprene synthase. It is considered as a key enzyme and therefore isoprene is exclusively produced through chemical involved in biosynthesis of isoprene and is usually found in the synthesis from petrochemicals [4,5]. With the recent advances in chloroplasts of various plant species [8-10]. Several variants Correspondence to: Vidhya Rangaswamy, High Value Chemicals, Breakthrough R & D, Reliance Industries Limited, Reliance Corporate Park, Thane Belapur Road, Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai, India, Tel: +91-22-79678831, E-mail: [email protected] Received: October 11, 2018; Accepted: April 30, 2019; Published: May 07, 2019 Citation: Sethia P, Ahuja M, Rangaswamy V (2019) Metabolic Engineering of Microorganisms to Produce Isoprene. J Microb Biochem Technol 11: 419. doi: 10.4172/1948-5948.1000419 Copyright: © 2019 Sethia P, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. J Microb Biochem Technol, Vol. 11 Iss. 4 No: 419 73 Sethia P, et al. OPEN ACCESS Freely available online of isoprene synthases have been identified and tested towards Escherichia coli improving isoprene production [11-13]. Moreover, certain bacterial Efforts to improve isoprene and isoprenoid production in species such as Bacillus subtilis are also known to produce isoprene E. coli have focused on the overexpression of (a) endogenous naturally despite lacking a homolog of isoprene synthase from MEP pathway genes as well as (b) heterologous genes [26,27]. plant sources [14-16]. In case of the native MEP genes, the pathway constructs were METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF MEP cloned as one super operon into a suitable expression plasmid where transcription was driven from a strong promoter and a PATHWAY translation initiation region placed in front of each gene. In this The MEP pathway is of prokaryotic origin and present in most study, isoprene production titre with modifications of the MEP bacterial species, including Escherichia coli and B. subtilis, as well as pathway improved up to 3.04 mg/L [26]. Overexpression of dxs/ plastids in plants and blue green algae [17,18]. Intricate regulatory dxr/idi in the specific order consistent with that of the metabolic control of this pathway has given rise to a prodigious demand for pathway resulted in a production yield of 2.7 mg/g/h [19]. In case its extensive in-depth exploration, particularly in heterologous of heterologous expression, overexpression of dxs and dxr genes hosts. Optimizations of the MEP pathway are worth pursuing since from B. subtilis in E. coli resulted in an enhancement of isoprene the calculated theoretical yields of isoprene from glucose are higher production giving a yield of 314 mg/L [27]. Besides, Type II idi with MEP as compared to the MVA pathway. IPP and DMAPP when expressed in E. coli was found to enhance the production synthesis via this pathway requires glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate of lycopene in comparison with the Type I idi [28]. Yang et al. and pyruvate as initial substrates. The common bacterial host reported an approach with hybrid MVA pathway utilizing upper in metabolic engineering viz. E. coli, uses the MEP pathway and pathway genes from Enterococcus faecalis possessing mvaS A110G it consists of seven enzymatic reactions (Figure 1). The genes mutant and achieved 6.3 g/L isoprene titre [29]. Combinatorial identified as bottlenecks in various studies are dxs, dxr and idi approaches towards combining MVA and MEP pathways have also [19-21]. Other studies have identified overexpression of IspD, IspF yielded promising results producing 24 g/L isoprene [30]. and IspE which resulted in increased production of isoprenoids Bacillus subtilis [22-24]. The observed efflux of methylerythritol cyclodiphosphate (MEC) has also been noted as a rate limiting step in isoprenoid This organism’s fast growth rate and GRAS (generally recognised as production. Overexpression of IspG, which is an iron-sulfur safe) status makes it a promising microbial host for the production cluster protein in the MEP pathway, led to diminished MEC efflux of isoprenoids. Overexpression of DXS resulted in production of thereby bypassing the bottleneck and enhancing the production of 3.73 ng/ml/OD600 while overexpression of both DXS and DXR isoprenoids [25]. Bacillus subtilis gave nearly identical yields but resulted in the loss of diauxic growth of the strain [31]. Amorphadiene, the precursor of the anti-malarial MEP/DXP Pathway MVA Pathway Pyruvate Glyceraldehyde-3- Acetyl-CoA phosphate Acetyl-CoA Acetyl transferase; AtoB; HmgR Dxp synthase; Dxs Acetoacetyl-CoA 1-Deoxy-D-xylulose-5- (DXP) HMG-CoA synthase; HmgS DXP reductoisomerase; Dxr HMG-CoA 2-C-methyl-D- erythritol-4-phosphate HMG-CoA reductase; HmgR CDP-ME synthase; IspD Mevalonate (MVA) CDP-methyl-D- erythritol Mevalonate kinase; MK CDP-ME kinase; IspE Mevalonic-5-monophosphate CDP-methyl-D- erythritol-2-phosphate Mevalonate-5-phosphate kinase; PMK MECP synthase; IspF Mevalonic-5-diphosphate 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol- 2,4-diphosphate Mevalonate-5-diphosphate decarboxylase; PMD HMBPP synthase; IspG IPP 1-Hydroxy-2-methyl-2-(E)- IPP isomerase; Idi/Fni butenyl-4-diphosphate HMBPP reductase; IspH DMAPP Isoprene synthase; IspS Isoprene Figure 1: Pathways. J Microb Biochem Technol, Vol. 11 Iss. 4 No: 419 74 Sethia P, et al. OPEN ACCESS Freely available online drug Artemisinin, was produced at ~20 mg/L with overexpression diene [42]. Comparison of upper and lower MVA pathway genes of DXS, IDI and ADS (Amorpha-4,11-diene Synthase) coupled with from S. pneumoniae, E. faecalis, S.
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