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Assembly of biosynthetic pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a marker recyclable integrative plasmid toolbox

  • Lidan Ye 1,2 ,
  • Xiaomei Lv 1 ,
  • Hongwei Yu , 1
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  • 1. Institute of Bioengineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Received date: 21 May 2016

Accepted date: 09 Aug 2016

Published date: 17 Mar 2017

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2017 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

A robust and versatile tool for multigene pathway assembly is a key to the biosynthesis of high-value chemicals. Here we report the rapid construction of biosynthetic pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a marker recyclable integrative toolbox (pUMRI) developed in our research group, which has features of ready-to-use, convenient marker recycling, arbitrary element replacement, shuttle plasmid, auxotrophic marker independence, GAL regulation, and decentralized assembly. Functional isoprenoid biosynthesis pathways containing 4–11 genes with lengths ranging from ~10 to ~22 kb were assembled using this toolbox within 1–5 rounds of reiterative recombination. In combination with GAL-regulated metabolic engineering, high production of isoprenoids (e.g., 16.3 mg∙g‒1 dcw carotenoids) was achieved. These results demonstrate the wide range of application and the efficiency of the pUMRI toolbox in multigene pathway construction of S. cerevisiae.

Cite this article

Lidan Ye , Xiaomei Lv , Hongwei Yu . Assembly of biosynthetic pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a marker recyclable integrative plasmid toolbox[J]. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2017 , 11(1) : 126 -132 . DOI: 10.1007/s11705-016-1597-8

Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21406196 and 21576234), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. LQ14B060005), and Qianjiang Talents Project.
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