生物技术通报 ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (1): 86-99.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2023-0663

• 综述与专论 • 上一篇    下一篇

生物合成法生产麦角硫因的研究进展

李亮(), 徐姗姗, 姜艳军()   

  1. 河北工业大学化工学院,天津 300130
  • 收稿日期:2023-07-12 出版日期:2024-01-26 发布日期:2024-02-06
  • 通讯作者: 姜艳军,男,博士,教授,研究方向:生物催化与转化、环境友好的化工过程;E-mail: yanjunjiang@hebut.edu.cn
  • 作者简介:李亮,女,博士,副教授,研究方向:生物工程;E-mail: liangli@hebut.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金项目(31801948);河北省省级科技计划(19226505D);河北省自然科学基金项目(C2021202005)

Research Progress in the Production of Ergothioneine by Biosynthesis

LI Liang(), XU Shan-shan, JIANG Yan-jun()   

  1. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130
  • Received:2023-07-12 Published:2024-01-26 Online:2024-02-06

摘要:

麦角硫因(ergothioneine, ERG)作为一种稀有的天然含硫组氨酸衍生物,已被证明具有强大的抗氧化性和诸多生物学功能。因此,ERG受到越来越多研究人员和产品开发人员的关注。目前,ERG已被广泛应用于食品、化妆品和医疗等行业。研究表明只有少数细菌和真菌可体内合成ERG,植物、动物和人类自身均不能直接合成ERG,只能从其他来源获取。ERG可通过生物提取法、化学合成法以及生物合成法获得,但由于传统生产方式(生物提取法和化学合成法)存在产量低、生产效率差和生产成本较高等问题,限制了该产品的规模化生产和应用。因此,亟需开发一种高效、经济且安全、可靠的ERG生产方式以满足市场的需求。近年来合成生物学快速发展,利用基因工程、蛋白质工程和代谢工程等技术提高生物合成法生产ERG的能力已逐渐成为研究热点。本文将论述ERG的生物学活性和功能,介绍ERG生物合成途径和ERG在食品、化妆品和医疗等行业的应用前景,比较ERG主要的生产方式,总结并梳理近年来采取各种工程策略通过生物合成法生产ERG的研究进展;并就如何利用基因工程、蛋白质工程和代谢工程提高ERG产量提出几点工程策略,以期为生物合成法高产ERG提供理论参考和研究思路。

关键词: 麦角硫因, 生物合成法, 生物合成途径, 基因工程, 蛋白质工程, 代谢工程, 发酵

Abstract:

Ergothioneine(ERG), a rare natural sulfur-containing histidine derivative, has been proved to have strong antioxidant property and many biological functions. Therefore, ERG has been received much more attention from researchers and product developers. Currently, ERG has been widely used in food, cosmetics and medical industries. Research shows that ERG only can be synthesized by a few bacteria and fungi. Plants, animals and humans cannot synthesize ERG directly, but it could be obtained by other sources. ERG can be obtained by bioextraction, chemical synthesis, and biosynthesis. However, because of the low yield and poor production efficiency of the traditional methods(bioextraction and chemical synthesis), the large-scale production and application of ERG is limited. Therefore, there is an urgent need for an efficient, economical, safe and reliable ERG synthesis method to meet market needs. With the rapid development of synthetic biology, the use of genetic engineering, protein engineering and metabolic engineering to improve the ability of ERG biosynthesis has gradually become an increasingly favored method. This paper will elaborate the biological characteristics and functions, briefly introduce the biosynthetic pathways of ERG and application prospects of ERG in food, cosmetics and medical industries, compare the main production methods of ERG, and summarize and sort the research progress of adopting various engineering strategies to produce ERG by biosynthesis in recent years, and propose several engineering strategies on how to use genetic engineering, protein engineering and metabolic engineering to increase the yield of ERG, which aims to provide theoretical reference and research ideas for biosynthesis high-yield of ERG.

Key words: ergothioneine, biosynthesis, biosynthetic pathway, genetic engineering, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, fermentation