Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Constructing a synthetic pathway for acetyl-coenzyme A from one-carbon through enzyme design

  • Xiaoyun Lu,
  • Yuwan Liu,
  • Yiqun Yang,
  • Shanshan Wang,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Xiya Wang,
  • Zhihui Yan,
  • Jian Cheng,
  • Cui Liu,
  • Xue Yang,
  • Hao Luo,
  • Sheng Yang,
  • Junran Gou,
  • Luzhen Ye,
  • Lina Lu,
  • Zhidan Zhang,
  • Yu Guo,
  • Yan Nie,
  • Jianping Lin,
  • Sheng Li,
  • Chaoguang Tian,
  • Tao Cai,
  • Bingzhao Zhuo,
  • Hongwu Ma,
  • Wen Wang,
  • Yanhe Ma,
  • Yongjun Liu,
  • Yin Li,
  • Huifeng Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09095-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The microbial synthesis of carbon-containing compounds from single carbon precursors is desirable, yet designed pathways to achieve this goal overlap with host metabolism. Here the authors design a de novo metabolic pathway to assimilate formaldehyde into acetyl-CoA that does not overlap with known metabolic networks.