生物技术通报 ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (11): 75-88.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2025-0153

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5-氨基乙酰丙酸(5-ALA)的生物合成研究进展

吕欢欢1(), 张高阳1(), 王赛笛1, 孙忠科1, 李成伟1, 罗德平2()   

  1. 1.河南工业大学生物工程学院,郑州 450001
    2.河南工业大学前沿交叉科学与技术学院,郑州 450001
  • 收稿日期:2025-01-20 出版日期:2025-11-26 发布日期:2025-12-09
  • 通讯作者: 张高阳,男,博士,讲师,研究方向 :植物遗传合成;E-mail: gaoyangzhang@haut.edu.cn
    罗德平,男,博士,教授,研究方向 :生物质转化、活性天然产物全合成;E-mail: dpluo@haut.edu.cn
  • 作者简介:吕欢欢,女,硕士研究生,研究方向 :代谢产物合成;E-mail: lvhuanhuan@stu.haut.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    河南省重大科技专项(231100110300);河南工业大学高层次人才基金项目(2021BS017)

Advances in the Biosynthesis of 5-aminolevulinic Acid (5-ALA)

LYU Huan-huan1(), ZHANG Gao-yang1(), WANG Sai-di1, SUN Zhong-ke1, LI Cheng-wei1, LUO De-ping2()   

  1. 1.College of Biological Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001
    2.College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001
  • Received:2025-01-20 Published:2025-11-26 Online:2025-12-09

摘要:

5-氨基乙酰丙酸(5-ALA)是生物体内天然存在一种非蛋白质类氨基酸,目前已被广泛应用于医药、保健、农业和动物添加剂等领域。5-ALA主要通过化学和生物法合成,但由于化学合成的工艺复杂性和成本问题限制了其规模化发展,而生物合成法以其环保、高效等优势彰显了其工业化发展的巨大潜力。近年来,由于合成生物学和代谢工程等交叉学科的迅猛发展,5-ALA的生物合成已逐渐成为研究热点。本文回溯了过去几十年5-ALA生物合成的发展历程,总结并梳理了基于C4和C5途径、辅因子再生途径、三羧酸循环等途径、用于高效细胞工厂构建的各种代谢工程策略的研究进展,重点阐述了基于生物传感器的动态调控和高通量筛选方法的建立等策略在菌株代谢工程改造中的应用和重要性,并就进一步提高5-ALA的合成产量,打破其工业化应用的瓶颈提出了几点策略和展望,以期为5-ALA的高效合成和产业制造提供一定的参考和研究依据。

关键词: 5-氨基乙酰丙酸, 生物合成, 代谢工程, 动态调控, 生物传感器

Abstract:

5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is a non-protein amino acid naturally occurring in living organisms, and has been widely used in the fields of medicine, health care, agriculture and animal additives, etc. 5-ALA is mainly synthesized by chemical and biological methods, but the complexity of the chemical synthesis process and cost problems have limited its large-scale development, and biosynthesis method has highlighted its great potential for industrial development due to its advantages of environmental protection and high efficiency. The biosynthesis method, with its advantages of environmental protection and high efficiency, has shown its great potential for industrial development. In recent years, the biosynthesis of 5-ALA has gradually become a research hotspot due to the rapid development of interdisciplinary disciplines such as synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. In this paper, we reviewed the development of 5-ALA biosynthesis in the past decades, summarized the progress of various metabolic engineering strategies based on the C4 and C5 pathways, cofactor regeneration pathway, tricarboxylic acid cycle and other pathways for the construction of high-efficiency cell factories, and highlighted the application and significance of the dynamic regulation based on biosensors and the establishment of high-throughput screening methods in the metabolic engineering modification of the bacterial strains. We also put forward several strategies and prospects for further improving the synthetic yield of 5-ALA and breaking the bottleneck of its industrial application, with a view to providing certain references and research bases for the efficient synthesis and industrial manufacturing of 5-ALA.

Key words: 5-aminolevulinic acid, biosynthesis, metabolic engineering, dynamic regulation, biosensors