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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (24): 91-98.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb20190600332

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Pyruvate Decarboxylase Gene (pdc1) of Haploid Saccharomyces Cerevisiae: Knockout and Identification

Kang Jie1,2(), Wang Changli1,2, Ge Jingping1,2()   

  1. 1Agricultural Microorganisms Technology Education Engineering Research Center, Harbin 150080
    2Key Laboratory of Microbiology of Heilongjiang Province, Life Science College, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150500
  • Received:2019-06-25 Revised:2019-07-10 Online:2020-08-25 Published:2020-08-20
  • Contact: Ge Jingping E-mail:kangjie182@126.com;gejingping@126.com

Abstract:

The aim is to inhibit the synthesis of ethanol, a by-product of haploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae H14, and increase the yield of 2,3-butanediol. The vector pWCL-pdc1 was constructed by genetic engineering to obtain the homologous recombinant fragment loxP-kanMX-loxP containing 40 bp pdc1 at both ends. The pdc1 deleted strain S. cerevisiae H14-01 (Δpdc1) was obtained by Cre/loxP technique. The shaking flask fermentation experiment was carried out with the wild type strain S. cerevisiae H14 as the control. The growth of S. cerevisiae H14-01 was significantly lower than that of the original strain. During the whole fermentation period, the maximum yield and conversion rate of 2,3-butanediol were 0.373 ±0.016 g/L and 0.005 g/g, respectively, which were 37.30% and 4.66% higher than that of the original strain, respectively. However, acetoin and 2,3-BD production was not detect in the original strain. In addition, the ethanol conversion of S. cerevisiae H14-01 decreased by 33.24%, but the glycerol production increased by 15.76%. It showed that after the carbon flow to ethanol was blocked, the production of 2, 3-butanediol could be increased, and part of the carbon flow will flow to glycerol. Therefore, the study lays a good foundation for further obtaining an engineering microbial population with high yield of 2,3-butanediol.

Key words: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 2,3-butanediol, Cre/loxP technology, pyruvate decarboxylase, gene knockout

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