Abstract
A new series comprising phenylacetyl-homoserine lactones (HSLs), caffeoyl-HSL and feruloyl-HSL, was biologically synthesized using an artificial de novo biosynthetic pathway. We developed an Escherichia coli system containing artificial biosynthetic pathways that yield phenylacetyl-HSLs from simple carbon sources. These artificial biosynthetic pathways contained the LuxI-type synthase gene (rpaI) in addition to caffeoyl-CoA and feruloyl-CoA biosynthetic genes, respectively. Finally, the yields for caffeoyl-HSL and feruloyl-HSL were 97.1 ± 10.3 and 65.2 ± 5.7 mg/l, respectively, by tyrosine-overproducing E. coli with a L-methionine feeding strategy. In a quorum sensing (QS) competition assay, feruloyl-HSL and p-coumaroyl-HSL antagonized the QS receptor TraR in Agrobacterium tumefaciens NT1, whereas caffeoyl-HSL did not.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2104-2111 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by a grant from the Next-Generation BioGreen 21 Program (SSAC, Grant No. PJ0110842017), Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by The Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Keywords
- Artificial biosynthesis
- Caffeoyl-HSL
- Feruloyl-HSL
- Phenylacetyl homoserine lactone