Heterologous production of novel and rare C₃₀-carotenoids using Planococcus carotenoid biosynthesis genes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Members of the genus Planococcus have been revealed to utilize and degrade solvents such as aromatic hydrocarbons and alkanes, and likely to acquire tolerance to solvents. A yellow marine bacterium Planococcus maritimus strain iso-3 was isolated from an intertidal sediment that looked industrially polluted, from the Clyde estuary in the UK. This bacterium was found to produce a yellow acyclic carotenoid with a basic carbon 30 (C₃₀) structure, which was determined to be methyl 5-glucosyl-5,6-dihydro-4,4'-diapolycopenoate. In the present study, we tried to isolate and identify genes involved in carotenoid biosynthesis from this marine bacterium, and to produce novel or rare C₃₀-carotenoids with anti-oxidative activity in Escherichia coli by combinatio

SUBMITTER: Takemura M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8502411 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature