重组大肠杆菌产琥珀酸研究进展

The Progress of Recombinant Escherichia coli for Production of Succinic Acid

摘要:

琥珀酸作为一种优秀的C4平台化合物, 广泛用于生物高分子、食品与医药等行业, 市场潜在需求量巨大。采用微生物发酵法生产琥珀酸, 可利用廉价的可再生资源, 实现石油的原料替代, 而且过程污染小, 环境友好, 且在发酵过程中可吸收固定温室气体CO2, 开辟了其利用的新途径, 近年来引起了广泛关注。在丁二酸生产菌株中, 大肠杆菌由于其遗传背景清楚, 易操作易调 控, 培养基要求简单, 生长迅速等优点, 近年来被广泛用于研究以获得产琥珀酸优秀生产菌株。本工作系统综述了产琥珀酸大肠杆菌构建中所采用的基因工程策略及代谢工程技术, 并探讨了今后研究的方向。

Abstract:

Succinic acid is regarded as C4 platform chemical, which has a huge potential market with wide applications in biopolymer, food, medicine, and so on. Production of succinic acid by microorganism fermentation has attracted much attention in recent times. By fermentation, succinic acid could be produced from renewable resources in place of petroleum with low cost and low pollution; especially CO2 could be fixed by microorganism to form the product, which is a promising way to deal with the green gas. Some E. coli have been chosen as good succinic acid producing strains because of their clear genetic backgrounds, convenience to be modified and controlled, and good growth properties with low nutrients requirements. The progress of genetic engineering strategy and metabolic engineering technology for construction of succinic aicd producing recombinant E. coli has been introduced in this paper with the discussion of the future research in this area.