1. Genetic strategies for improving hyaluronic acid production in recombinant bacterial culture
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Enzo Bento Queiroz, Antonio Milton Vieira Gomes, Hugo Costa Paes, Daniel Gusmão de Morais, João Heitor Colombelli Manfrão-Netto, Nádia Skorupa Parachin, and Ana C de Oliveira Junqueira
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Male ,Microbiological culture ,Heterologous ,Streptococcus ,General Medicine ,Biology ,engineering.material ,Glucuronic acid ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,law.invention ,Microbiology ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,law ,Hyaluronic acid ,Fermentation ,Recombinant DNA ,engineering ,Animals ,Biopolymer ,Hyaluronic Acid ,Chickens ,Biotechnology - Abstract
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a biopolymer of repeating units of glucuronic acid and N-acetylglucosamine. Its market was valued at USD 8.9 billion in 2019. Traditionally, HA has been obtained from rooster comb-like animal tissues and fermentative cultures of attenuated pathogenic streptococci. Various attempts have been made to engineer a safe micro-organism for HA synthesis; however, the HA titres obtained from these attempts are in general still lower than those achieved by natural, pathogenic producers. In this scenario, ways to increase HA molecule length and titres in already constructed strains are gaining attention in the last years, but no recent publication has reviewed the main genetic strategies applied to improve HA production on heterologous hosts. In light of that, we hereby compile the advances made in the engineering of micro-organisms to improve HA synthesis.
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- 2021