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. 2024 Mar 15;104(4):2398-2405.
doi: 10.1002/jsfa.13162. Epub 2023 Dec 7.

Engineering the synthesis of unsaturated fatty acids by introducing desaturase improved the stress tolerance of yeast

Dingkang Wang  1   2 , Liying Hao  3 , Xue Jiao  1 , Zhiluo Que  1 , Jun Huang  1 , Yao Jin  1 , Rongqing Zhou  1 , Zhonghui Wang  1 , Chongde Wu  1
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Engineering the synthesis of unsaturated fatty acids by introducing desaturase improved the stress tolerance of yeast

Dingkang Wang et al. J Sci Food Agric. .

Abstract

Background: Yeast is often used to build cell factories to produce various chemicals or nutrient substances, which means the yeast has to encounter stressful environments. Previous research reported that unsaturated fatty acids were closely related to yeast stress resistance. Engineering unsaturated fatty acids may be a viable strategy for enhancing the stress resistance of cells.

Results: In this study, two desaturase genes, OLE1 and FAD2 from Z. rouxii, were overexpressed in S. cerevisiae to determine how unsaturated fatty acids affect cellular stress tolerance of cells. After cloning and plasmid recombination, the recombinant S. cerevisiae cells were constructed. Analysis of membrane fatty acid contents revealed that the recombinant S. cerevisiae with overexpression of OLE1 and FAD2 genes contained higher levels of fatty acids C16:1 (2.77 times), C18:1 (1.51 times) and C18:2 (4.15 times) than the wild-type S. cerevisiae pY15TEF1. In addition, recombinant S. cerevisiae cells were more resistant to multiple stresses, and exhibited improved membrane functionality, including membrane fluidity and integrity.

Conclusion: These findings demonstrated that strengthening the expression of desaturases was beneficial to stress tolerance. Overall, this study may provide a suitable means to build a cell factory of industrial yeast cells with high tolerance during biological manufacturing. © 2023 Society of Chemical Industry.

Keywords: Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Zygosaccharomyces rouxii; membrane fluidity; membrane integrity; stress tolerance; unsaturated fatty acid.

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