生物技术通报 ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2): 252-262.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2021-0443

• 综述与专论 • 上一篇    下一篇

透明质酸的生物合成及其代谢工程的研究进展

马艳琴1(), 邱益彬2(), 李莎1(), 徐虹1   

  1. 1.南京工业大学食品与轻工学院,南京 211816
    2.南京林业大学轻工与食品学院,南京 210037
  • 收稿日期:2021-04-06 出版日期:2022-02-26 发布日期:2022-03-09
  • 作者简介:马艳琴,女,硕士研究生,研究方向:透明质酸的生物合成;E-mail: mayan_qin@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金项目(22008122);江苏省高等学校自然科学研究项目(20KJB530018);生物基材料与绿色造纸国家重点实验室开放基金(GZKF202013)

Research Progress in the Biosynthesis and Metabolic Engineering of Hyaluronic Acid

MA Yan-qin1(), QIU Yi-bin2(), LI Sha1(), XU Hong1   

  1. 1. College of Food Science and Light Industry,Nanjing Tech University,Nanjing 211816
    2. College of Light Industry and Food Engineering,Nanjing Forestry University,Nanjing 210037
  • Received:2021-04-06 Published:2022-02-26 Online:2022-03-09

摘要:

透明质酸(hyaluronic acid,HA)是广泛存在于生物体内的功能性糖胺高分子聚合物,在日化、医疗和食品领域应用前景广阔。随着基因工程与代谢工程等合成生物学技术的发展,人们对HA的生物合成过程和机理解析越发深入的同时,也伴随一些新的挑战来临。该综述从分子生物学角度总结了HA的关键合成酶基因及合成途径,对不同来源的HA合成酶进行了氨基酸序列比对分析,并详细描述了HA在常用微生物宿主中生产的安全性、底物不平衡性、发酵低溶氧性等瓶颈问题及其相应的合成生物学策略开发,从而归纳出了目前微生物中高产HA的有效策略,为进一步推动HA的绿色生物制造提供了重要的科学依据和理论支撑。

关键词: 透明质酸, 透明质酸合成酶, 基因工程, 代谢工程, 枯草芽孢杆菌, 谷氨酸棒状杆菌

Abstract:

Hyaluronic acid(HA),a functional glycosamine polymer widely existing in organism,presents broad potential applications in daily-use chemicals,medicine and food. With the development of synthetic biology technologies such as genetic engineering and metabolic engineering,some new challenges are emerging while the biosynthesis process and mechanism of HA have been studied in depth. This review summarizes the key genes and pathways of HA synthase from the perspective of molecular biology,aligns and analyses the amino acid sequence of HA synthase from different sources. It also describes in detail the bottleneck issues such as the safety of HA production,substrate imbalance and low oxygen solubility in fermentation,and introduces the development of strategies on corresponding synthetic biology in commonly used microbial hosts,thereby induces the effective strategies for high-yield HA by microorganism. This review may provide an important support for further promoting the green biomanufacturing of HA.

Key words: hyaluronic acid, hyaluronic acid synthase, genetic engineering, metabolic engineering, Bacillus subtilis, Corynebacterium glutamicum