title: Improving monoterpene geraniol production through geranyl diphosphate synthesis regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
abstract: Monoterpenes have wide applications in the food, cosmetics, and medicine industries and have recently received increased attention as advanced biofuels. However, compared with sesquiterpenes, monoterpene production is still lagging in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this study, geraniol, a valuable acyclic monoterpene alcohol, was synthesized in S. cerevisiae. We evaluated three geraniol synthases in S. cerevisiae, and the geraniol synthase Valeriana officinalis (tVoGES), which lacked a plastid-targeting peptide, yielded the highest geraniol production. To improve geraniol production, synthesis of the precursor geranyl diphosphate (GPP) was regulated by comparing three specific GPP synthase genes derived from different plants and the endogenous farnesyl diphosphate synthase gene variants ERG20 (G) (ERG20 (K197G) ) and ERG20 (WW) (ERG20 (F96W-N127W) ), and controlling endogenous ERG20 expression, coupled with increasing the expression of the mevalonate pathway by co-overexpressing IDI1, tHMG1, and UPC2-1. The results showed that overexpressing ERG20 (WW) and strengthening the mevalonate pathway significantly improved geraniol production, while expressing heterologous GPP synthase genes or down-regulating endogenous ERG20 expression did not show positive effect. In addition, we constructed an Erg20p(F96W-N127W)-tVoGES fusion protein, and geraniol production reached 66.2 mg/L after optimizing the amino acid linker and the order of the proteins. The best strain yielded 293 mg/L geraniol in a fed-batch cultivation, a sevenfold improvement over the highest titer previously reported in an engineered S. cerevisiae strain. Finally, we showed that the toxicity of geraniol limited its production. The platform developed here can be readily used to synthesize other monoterpenes.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Jianzhi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China. houjin@sdu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hou
mesh_terms: D000080462:Acyclic Monoterpenes; D061249:Batch Cell Culture Techniques; D011756:Diphosphates / Q000378:metabolism*; D004224:Diterpenes / Q000378:metabolism*; D015536:Down-Regulation; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D007218:Industrial Microbiology; D008798:Mevalonic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D039821:Monoterpenes / Q000378:metabolism*; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000378:metabolism; D013729:Terpenes / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000080462:Acyclic Monoterpenes; D011756:Diphosphates; D004224:Diterpenes; D039821:Monoterpenes; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D012717:Sesquiterpenes; D013729:Terpenes; C511282:geranyl diphosphate; C007836:geraniol; D008798:Mevalonic Acid
keywords: Geraniol; Geraniol synthase; Geranyl pyrophosphate; Monoterpene; Saccharomyces cerevisiae