Exploiting a heterologous construction of the 3-hydroxypropionic acid carbon fixation pathway with mesaconate as an indicator in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Abstract

The 3-Hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) pathway is one of the six known natural carbon fixation pathways, in which the carbon species used is bicarbonate. It has been considered to be the most suitable pathway for aerobic CO₂ fixation among the six natural carbon fixation pathways. Mesaconate is a high value-added derivative in the 3-HP pathway and can be used as a co-monomer to produce fire-retardant materials and hydrogels. In this study, we use mesaconate as a reporting compound to evaluate the construction and optimization of the sub-part of the 3-HP pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Combined with fine-tuning of the malonyl-CoA reductase (MCR-C and MCR-N) expression level and optimization of 3-Hydroxypropionyl-CoA synthase, the 3-HP sub-pathway was optimized using glucose or ethanol as the substrate, with the productions of mesaconate reaching 90.78 and 61.2 mg/L, respectively.

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Funding

Key Technologies Research and Development Program(2018YFA0900100)

Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China(2021M690321)