Engineering Clostridium acetobutylicum for production of kerosene and diesel blendstock precursors
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Processes for the biotechnological production of kerosene and diesel blendstocks are often economically unattractive due to low yields and product titers. Recently, Clostridium acetobutylicum fermentation products acetone, butanol, and ethanol (ABE) were shown to serve as precursors for catalytic upgrading to higher chain-length molecules that can be used as fuel substitutes. To produce suitable kerosene and diesel blendstocks, the butanol:acetone ratio of fermentation products needs to be increased to 2-2.5:1, while ethanol production is minimized. Here we show that the overexpression of selected proteins changes the ratio of ABE products relative to the wild type ATCC 824 strain. Overexpression of the native alcohol/aldehyde dehydrogenase (AAD) has been reported to primarily increase ethanol formation in C. acetobutylicum. We found that overexpression of the AAD(D485G) variant increased ethanol titers by 294%. Catalytic upgrading of the 824(aad(D485G)) ABE products resulted in a blend with nearly 50wt%≤C9 products, which are unsuitable for diesel. To selectively increase butanol production, C. beijerinckii aldehyde dehydrogenase and C. ljungdhalii butanol dehydrogenase were co-expressed (strain designate 824(Cb ald-Cl bdh)), which increased butanol titers by 27% to 16.9gL(-1) while acetone and ethanol titers remained essentially unaffected. The solvent ratio from 824(Cb ald-Cl bdh) resulted in more than 80wt% of catalysis products having a carbon chain length≥C11 which amounts to 9.8gL(-1) of products suitable as kerosene or diesel blendstock based on fermentation volume. To further increase solvent production, we investigated expression of both native and heterologous chaperones in C. acetobutylicum. Expression of a heat shock protein (HSP33) from Bacillus psychrosaccharolyticus increased the total solvent titer by 22%. Co-expression of HSP33 and aldehyde/butanol dehydrogenases further increased ABE formation as well as acetone and butanol yields. HSP33 was identified as the first heterologous chaperone that significantly increases solvent titers above wild type C. acetobutylicum levels, which can be combined with metabolic engineering to further increase solvent production.
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Another promising approach to convert ethanol (and other short-chain alcohols) to jet (or biodiesel) fuels is via extractive catalytic upgrading directly from the fermentation broth.
“Another promising approach to convert ethanol (and other short-chain alcohols) to jet (or biodiesel) fuels is via extractive catalytic upgrading directly from the fermentation broth (Anbarasan et al., 2012; Bormann et al., 2014; Sreekumar et al., 2014, 2015; Baer et al., 2016).”
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- Authors
- Bormann, S., Baer, Z. C., Sreekumar, S., Kuchenreuther, J. M., Dean Toste, F., Blanch, H. W., & Clark, D. S.
- Affiliations
- Energy Biosciences Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Blanch, Harvey W.
- Clark, Douglas S.
- Venue
- Metabolic Engineering
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-09
- Volume
- 25
- Pages
- 124-130
- ISSN
- 1096-7176 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2105798835
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 2.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Metabolic Engineering (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Energy Biosciences Institute
- PROMOS
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
- Keywords
- Clostridium acetobutylicum, kerosene, acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation, butanol production, aldehyde dehydrogenase, Bacillus psychrosaccharolyticus, catalytic upgrading, solvent ratio, protein overexpression, fuel production, strain engineering
- MeSH terms
- Alcohol Oxidoreductases, Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, Bacterial Proteins, Gasoline, Kerosene, Species Specificity, Genetic Enhancement, Clostridium acetobutylicum, Biofuels, Metabolic Engineering
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