Yang Gu, Yaru Jiang, Changfan Li, Jiang Zhu, Xueyao Lu, Jianyue Ge, Mengchen Hu, Jieying Deng, Jingbo Ma, Zhiliang Yang, Xiaoman Sun, Feng Xue, Guocheng Du, Peng Xu, He Huang
Gastrodin, a phenolic glycoside, is a prominent component of Gastrodia elata, which is renowned for its sedative, hypnotic, anticonvulsant, and neuroprotective activities. Engineering heterologous production of plant natural products in microbial host represents a safe, cost-effective, and scalable alternative to plant extraction. Here, we present the construction of an engineered Yarrowia lipolytica yeast that achieves a high-titer production of gastrodin. We systematically refactored the yeast genome by enhancing the flux of the shikimate pathway and optimizing the glucosyl transfer system...
March 2024: Metabolic Engineering