Escherichia coli AraJ boosts utilization of arabinose in metabolically engineered cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.

ABSTRACT: Lignocellulosic biomass can serve as an inexpensive and renewable source of carbon for the biosynthesis of commercially important compounds. L-arabinose is the second most abundant pentose sugar present in the plant materials. Model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is incapable of catabolism of L-arabinose as a source of carbon and energy. In this study, all the heterologous genes expressed in Synechocystis were derived from Escherichia coli K-12. Initially we constructed four Synechocystis strains that expressed AraBAD enzymes involved in L-arabinose catabolism, either in combination with or without one of the three arabinose transporters, AraE, AraFGH or AraJ. Among the recombinants, the strain possessing AraJ transporter was observed to be the most efficient in terms of dry bio

SUBMITTER: Ranade S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8363721 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature