Increasing free-energy (ATP) conservation in maltose-grown Saccharomyces cerevisiae by expression of a heterologous maltose phosphorylase
2011
de Kok, Stefan | Yilmaz, Duygu | Suir, Erwin | Pronk, Jack T. | Daran, Jean-Marc | van Maris, Antonius J.A.
Increasing free-energy conservation from the conversion of substrate into product is crucial for further development of many biotechnological processes. In theory, replacing the hydrolysis of disaccharides by a phosphorolytic cleavage reaction provides an opportunity to increase the ATP yield on the disaccharide. To test this concept, we first deleted the native maltose metabolism genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The knockout strain showed no maltose-transport activity and a very low residual maltase activity (0.03μmolmgprotein⁻¹min⁻¹). Expression of a maltose phosphorylase gene from Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis and the MAL11 maltose-transporter gene resulted in relatively slow growth (μₐₑᵣₒbᵢc 0.09±0.03h⁻¹). Co-expression of Lactococcus lactis β-phosphoglucomutase accelerated maltose utilization via this route (μₐₑᵣₒbᵢc 0.21±0.01h⁻¹, μₐₙₐₑᵣₒbᵢc 0.10±0.00h⁻¹). Replacing maltose hydrolysis with phosphorolysis increased the anaerobic biomass yield on maltose in anaerobic maltose-limited chemostat cultures by 26%, thus demonstrating the potential of phosphorolysis to improve the free-energy conservation of disaccharide metabolism in industrial microorganisms.
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