Engineering of a robust Escherichia coli chassis and exploitation for large-scale production processes.

Metabolic Engineering
Martin ZieglerRalf Takors

Abstract

In large-scale bioprocesses microbes are exposed to heterogeneous substrate availability reducing the overall process performance. A series of deletion strains was constructed from E. coli MG1655 aiming for a robust phenotype in heterogeneous fermentations with transient starvation. Deletion targets were hand-picked based on a list of genes derived from previous large-scale simulation runs. Each gene deletion was conducted on the premise of strict neutrality towards growth parameters in glucose minimal medium. The final strain of the series, named E. coli RM214, was cultivated continuously in an STR-PFR (stirred tank reactor - plug flow reactor) scale-down reactor. The scale-down reactor system simulated repeated passages through a glucose starvation zone. When exposed to nutrient gradients, E. coli RM214 had a significantly lower maintenance coefficient than E. coli MG1655 (Δms = 0.038 gGlucose/gCDW/h, p < 0.05). In an exemplary protein production scenario E. coli RM214 remained significantly more productive than E. coli MG1655 reaching 44% higher eGFP yield after 28 h of STR-PFR cultivation. This study developed E. coli RM214 as a robust chassis strain and demonstrated the feasibility of engineering microbial hosts for large-...Continue Reading

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