Characterization of Microalgal Acetyl-CoA Synthetases with High Catalytic Efficiency Reveals Their Regulatory Mechanism and Lipid Engineering Potential

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Tao WuFeng Chen

Abstract

Acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) plays a key role in microalgal lipid biosynthesis and acetyl-CoA industrial production. In the present study, two ACSs were cloned and characterized from the oleaginous microalga Chromochloris zofingiensis. In vitro kinetic analysis showed that the Km values of CzACS1 and CzACS2 for potassium acetate were 0.99 and 0.81 mM, respectively. Moreover, CzACS1 and CzACS2 had outstanding catalytic efficiencies (kcat/Km), which were 70.67 and 79.98 s-1 mM-1, respectively, and these values were higher than that of other reported ACSs. CzACS1 and CzACS2 exhibited differential expression patterns at the transcriptional level under various conditions. Screening a recombinant library of 52 transcription factors (TFs) constructed in the present study via yeast one-hybrid assay pointed to seven TFs with potential involvement in the regulation of the two ACS genes. Expression correlation analysis implied that GATA20 was likely an important regulator of CzACS2 and that ERF9 could regulate two CzACSs simultaneously.

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