Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for 7-dehydrocholesterol overproduction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

7-Dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC) has attracted increasing attentions due to its great medical value and the enlarging market demand of its ultraviolet-catalyzed product vitamin D₃. Microbial production of 7-DHC from simple carbon has been recognized as an attractive complement to the traditional sources. Even though our previous work realized 7-DHC biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the current productivity of 7-DHC is still too low to satisfy the demand of following industrialization. As increasing the compatibility between heterologous pathway and host cell is crucial to realize microbial overproduction of natural products with complex structure and relative long pathway, in this study, combined efforts in tuning the heterologous Δ²⁴-deh

SUBMITTER: Guo XJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6047132 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature