生物技术通报 ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 237-247.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2020-1054

• 综述与专论 • 上一篇    下一篇

微生物电合成生产中链脂肪酸的基本原理及研究进展

褚娜(), 蒋永(), 曾建雄   

  1. 福建农林大学,福州 350002
  • 收稿日期:2020-08-19 出版日期:2021-05-26 发布日期:2021-06-11
  • 作者简介:褚娜,女,硕士研究生,研究方向:微生物电合成;E-mail: cn609fafu@yeah.net
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金项目(51908131)

Principle and Research Progress in Microbial Electrosynthesis of Medium-chain Fatty Acids

CHU Na(), JIANG Yong(), ZENG Jian-xiong   

  1. Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University,Fuzhou 350002
  • Received:2020-08-19 Published:2021-05-26 Online:2021-06-11

摘要:

微生物电合成(microbial electrosynthesis,MES)是一种新型微生物电化学技术,以电能驱动微生物在温和条件下转化水和CO2生成有机物。中链脂肪酸(medium-chain fatty acids,MCFAs)是指C6至C12的一元饱和羧酸,是重要的化工原料和农用产品。微生物生产MCFAs通常包括一次发酵和二次发酵过程:一次发酵即微生物将单体和多聚物氧化为中间产物丙酮酸盐,并最终生成短链脂肪酸和醇以及H2和CO2等小分子物质;二次发酵为微生物对一次发酵的产物再利用,包括碳链延长产生中链脂肪酸。MES生产MCFAs可望获得比传统有机废弃物厌氧发酵途径生产MCFAs更高的能量效率,并有望以获得高附加值产物的方式推进MES技术的实用化。综述了MES催化转化C1废气并耦合二次发酵过程进行碳链延长产生MCFAs的研究现状,分析代谢路径及功能微生物,探讨电极材料以及关键运行参数,为MES生产MCFAs的进一步发展提供重要的科学依据和技术支持。

关键词: 微生物电合成, 碳链延长, 中链脂肪酸, C1废气

Abstract:

Microbial electrosynthesis(MES)is a novel microbial electrochemical technology,which utilizes the electric energy to drive the microbial production of organic compounds from water and CO2 under mild conditions. Medium-chain fatty acids(MCFAs)are defined as saturated monocarboxylic acids with a carbon chain in the range from C6 to C12,and are important chemicals with various industrial and agricultural applications. Microbial production of MCFAs usually involves the primary and secondary fermentation process. Primary fermentation is the conversion of monomers and polymers into pyruvic acid as intermediate to produce short chain fatty acids,alcohols,H2,and CO2 as the final products. Secondary fermentation is the further reuse of the final products from primary fermentation,including the chain elongation for MCFAs production. MCFAs production in MES is expected to obtain a higher energy efficiency than that of traditional anaerobic fermentation of organic waste,and is also expected to promote the practical application of MES technology itself with high value-added products. This paper reviews recent advances of MCFAs production in MES,by integrating the catalytic conversion of C1 waste gas with secondary fermentation(chain elongation),and discusses the metabolic pathways,functional microorganisms,electrode materials,as well as key operating parameters,aiming to provide important scientific and technical support for further development of MCFAs production in MES.

Key words: microbial electrosynthesis, chain elongation, medium-chain fatty acids, C1 waste gas