1. Regulating ehrlich and demethiolation pathways for alcohols production by the expression of ubiquitin-protein ligase gene HUWE1
- Author
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Hong-Mei Li, Rui-Sang Liu, Quan Zhang, Kai-Zhi Jia, Ya-Jie Tang, Yang-Hua Xu, and Shi-Tao Xia
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0301 basic medicine ,Propanols ,Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases ,030106 microbiology ,Saccharomyces cerevisiae ,Gene Expression ,Sulfides ,Article ,Metabolic engineering ,Ligase Gene ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Methionine ,Biosynthesis ,Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal ,Amino Acids ,Gene Library ,Regulation of gene expression ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Computational Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,Ubiquitin ligase ,030104 developmental biology ,Metabolic Engineering ,chemistry ,Biochemistry ,Suppression subtractive hybridization ,Alcohols ,biology.protein ,Metabolic Networks and Pathways - Abstract
Ehrlich and demethiolation pathways as two competing branches converted amino acid into alcohols. Controlling both pathways offers considerable potential for industrial applications including alcohols overproduction, flavor-quality control and developing new flavors. While how to regulate ehrlich and demethiolation pathways is still not applicable. Taking the conversion of methionine into methionol and methanethiol for example, we constructed two suppression subtractive cDNA libraries of Clonostachys rosea by using suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) technology for screening regulators controlling the conversion. E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase gene HUWE1 screened from forward SSH library was validated to be related with the biosynthesis of end products. Overexpressing HUWE1 in C. rosea and S. cerevisiae significantly increased the biosynthesis of methanethiol and its derivatives in demethiolation pathway, while suppressed the biosynthesis of methional and methionol in ehrlich pathway. These results attained the directional regulation of both pathways by overexpressing HUWE1. Thus, HUWE1 has potential to be a key target for controlling and enhancing alcohols production by metabolic engineering.
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- 2016