Capnophilic lactic fermentation (CLF) represents an attractive biotechnological process for biohydrogen production and synthesis of L-lactic acid from acetate and CO2. The present study focuses on a genetic manipulation approach of the Thermotoga neapolitana DSM33003 strain to enhance lactic acid synthesis by the heterologous expression of a thermostable acetyl-CoA synthetase that catalyses the irreversible acetate assimilation. Because of the scarcity of available genetic tools, each transformation step was optimized for T. neapolitana DSM33003 to cope with the specific needs of the host strain. Batch fermentations with and without an external source of acetate revealed a strongly increased lactate production (up to 2.5 g/L) for the recombinant strain compared to wild type. In the engineered bacterium, the assimilation of CO2 into lactic acid was increased 1.7 times but the hydrogen yield was impaired in comparison to the wild type strain. Analysis of fermentation yields revealed an impaired metabolism of hydrogen in the recombinant strain that should be addressed in future studies. These results offer an important prospective for the development of a sustainable approach that combines carbon capture, energy production from renewable source, and the synthesis of high value-added products, which will be addressed in future studies.

Improvement of CO2 and Acetate Coupling into Lactic Acid by Genetic Manipulation of the Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Thermotoga neapolitana / Esercizio, Nunzia; Lanzilli, Mariamichela; Vastano, Marco; Xu, Zhaohui; Landi, Simone; Caso, Lucio; Gallo, Carmela; Nuzzo, Genoveffa; Manzo, Emiliano; Fontana, Angelo; D'Ippolito, Giuliana. - In: MICROORGANISMS. - ISSN 2076-2607. - 9:8(2021), p. 1688. [10.3390/microorganisms9081688]

Improvement of CO2 and Acetate Coupling into Lactic Acid by Genetic Manipulation of the Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Thermotoga neapolitana

Esercizio, Nunzia;Lanzilli, Mariamichela;Vastano, Marco;Landi, Simone;Gallo, Carmela;Manzo, Emiliano;Fontana, Angelo;
2021

Abstract

Capnophilic lactic fermentation (CLF) represents an attractive biotechnological process for biohydrogen production and synthesis of L-lactic acid from acetate and CO2. The present study focuses on a genetic manipulation approach of the Thermotoga neapolitana DSM33003 strain to enhance lactic acid synthesis by the heterologous expression of a thermostable acetyl-CoA synthetase that catalyses the irreversible acetate assimilation. Because of the scarcity of available genetic tools, each transformation step was optimized for T. neapolitana DSM33003 to cope with the specific needs of the host strain. Batch fermentations with and without an external source of acetate revealed a strongly increased lactate production (up to 2.5 g/L) for the recombinant strain compared to wild type. In the engineered bacterium, the assimilation of CO2 into lactic acid was increased 1.7 times but the hydrogen yield was impaired in comparison to the wild type strain. Analysis of fermentation yields revealed an impaired metabolism of hydrogen in the recombinant strain that should be addressed in future studies. These results offer an important prospective for the development of a sustainable approach that combines carbon capture, energy production from renewable source, and the synthesis of high value-added products, which will be addressed in future studies.
2021
Improvement of CO2 and Acetate Coupling into Lactic Acid by Genetic Manipulation of the Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Thermotoga neapolitana / Esercizio, Nunzia; Lanzilli, Mariamichela; Vastano, Marco; Xu, Zhaohui; Landi, Simone; Caso, Lucio; Gallo, Carmela; Nuzzo, Genoveffa; Manzo, Emiliano; Fontana, Angelo; D'Ippolito, Giuliana. - In: MICROORGANISMS. - ISSN 2076-2607. - 9:8(2021), p. 1688. [10.3390/microorganisms9081688]
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