Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (8): 12-24.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2021-0815

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Engineering Non-conventional Yeast Cell Factory for the Biosynthesis of Natural Products

YE Min(), GAO Jiao-qi, ZHOU Yong-jin()   

  1. 1. Division of Biotechnology,Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Dalian 116023
    2. Dalian Key Laboratory of Energy Biotechnology,Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Dalian 116023
  • Received:2021-06-29 Online:2021-08-26 Published:2021-09-10
  • Contact: ZHOU Yong-jin E-mail:yemin18@dicp.ac.cn;zhouyongjin@dicp.ac.cn

Abstract:

Natural products have been widely applied in medical,cosmetic and food industries. With the increasing of people’s demand,the green sustainable producing process is urgently needed. Recently,microbial cell factories for synthesizing natural products have been rapidly developing,and the current common-used cell factory hosts include Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli. Non-conventional yeasts have becoming very potential cell factory hosts due to their specific advantages,such as high-cell-density aerobic fermentation,tolerance to a wide range of temperature and pH,and wide substrate spectrum(long-chain hydrocarbons,fatty acids and methanol). In this review,we summarized recent progresses on engineering non-conventional yeasts for the synthesis of natural products mainly terpenoids and flavonoids,and introduced common engineering methods and strategies. On this basis,we systematically discussed their strengths and weaknesses of novel non-conventional yeasts cell factories,and finally listed the challenges and opportunities while using non-conventional yeasts cell factories for the synthesis of natural products.

Key words: non-conventional yeasts, terpenoids, flavonoids, microbial cell factories, synthetic biology