Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-14-2017
Publication Title
Journal of Bacteriology
Department
Thayer School of Engineering
Abstract
Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum has been engineered to produce ethanol at ∼90% theoretical yield and titer of 70 g/L. Its ethanol-producing ability has drawn attention to its metabolic pathways, which could potentially be transferred to other organisms of interest. Here we report that the iron-containing AdhA is important for ethanol production in the high-ethanol strain of T. saccharolyticum (LL1049). A single-gene deletion of adhA in LL1049 reduced ethanol production by ∼50%, whereas multiple gene deletions of all annotated alcohol dehydrogenases except adhA and adhE did not affect ethanol production. Deletion of adhA in wild-type T. saccharolyticum reduced NADPH-linked ADH activity (acetaldehyde-reducing) by 93%.
DOI
10.1128/JB.00542-16
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Zheng, Tianyong; Olson, Daniel G.; Murphy, Sean J.; Shao, Xiongjun; Tian, Liang; and Lynd, Lee, "Both adhE and a Separate NADPH-Dependent Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene, adhA, Are Necessary for High Ethanol Production in Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum" (2017). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1025.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1025