Comparative transcriptomic and lipidomic analysis of oleic environment adaptation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: insight into metabolic reprogramming and lipid membrane expansion

Abstract

With staggering progress on genetic manipulation strategies, Saccharomyces cerevisiae is becoming an ideal cell factory for the de novo biosynthesis of lipid compounds. However, due to their hydrophobicity, lipids tend to be accumulated within intracellular spaces and cause a high burden on cell activity and induce product inhibition effect, which ultimately restricted the lipids biomanufacturing for industrial application. Herein, an oleic acid stress (OAS) model was applied for the long-time domestication of BY4741 cells, and a subclone of A-22 was obtained through a series of acclimation (0.1% glucose and 0.2% oleic acid), showing increased accumulation of both biomass and intracellular lipid droplets compared to WT. Comparative transcriptome analysis indicated that compared to fatty acid metabolism, most transcripts enriched in the pathways of glucose catabolism (glycolysis and citrate cycle) and lipid synthesis (phospholipid and sterol) were down-regulated under OAS. While interestingly, most the above transcripts tended to be ‘restored’ in adapted strain A-22. In addition, for physical adaptation, significant increase of phosphatidylcholines was identified by lipidomic analysis, which probably caused the subsequent subcellular expansion of peroxisomes and lipid droplets as observed in the adapted strain, since phosphatidylcholines are the major constituent of their membranes. The present study systematically investigated both the phenotype change and molecular mechanism on adaptation of S. cerevisiae towards oily environment. Detailed information on functional transcripts may provide novel rational modification targets to reinforce the hydrophobic lipids biosynthesis within S. cerevisiae engineered cell factory.

Keywords

Oleic acid stress / Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Lipidomics / Comparative transcriptome / Lipid droplets / Phosphatidylcholine

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Funding

the National Key Research and Development Project of China(2019YFA0905300)