Nan Qin, Fanghuan Zhu, Youmeng Liu, Dehua Liu, Zhen Chen
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Abstract
1,6-Hexamethylenediamine (HMD) and 1,6-hexanediol (HDO) are pivotal C6 platform chemicals with extensive applications as key monomers in the synthesis of nylons, polyurethanes, and polyesters. The biological production of HMD and HDO from cheap and renewable bioresources represents an environmentally benign strategy for the sustainable chemical industry. Herein, we report the development of a novel biocatalytic route for the direct conversion of d-glucose to HMD and HDO in Escherichia coli. This was achieved through the integration of an adipic acid synthesis module with conversion modules tailored for HMD and HDO production. The study entailed a comprehensive optimization of pathway enzymes, protein expression, and precursor supply. Furthermore, a co-culture fermentation strategy was employed to enhance the efficiency of labor division, resulting in a two-strain cocultivation process that yielded 16.62 mg/L of HMD and 214.93 mg/L of HDO using glucose as the sole carbon source. This study establishes a foundational framework for the advancement of sustainable biological production processes for HMD and HDO from renewable resources.
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The journal is particularly interested in studies on the design and synthesis of new genetic circuits and gene products; computational methods in the design of systems; and integrative applied approaches to understanding disease and metabolism.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Design and optimization of genetic systems
Genetic circuit design and their principles for their organization into programs
Computational methods to aid the design of genetic systems
Experimental methods to quantify genetic parts, circuits, and metabolic fluxes
Genetic parts libraries: their creation, analysis, and ontological representation
Protein engineering including computational design
Metabolic engineering and cellular manufacturing, including biomass conversion
Natural product access, engineering, and production
Creative and innovative applications of cellular programming
Medical applications, tissue engineering, and the programming of therapeutic cells
Minimal cell design and construction
Genomics and genome replacement strategies
Viral engineering
Automated and robotic assembly platforms for synthetic biology
DNA synthesis methodologies
Metagenomics and synthetic metagenomic analysis
Bioinformatics applied to gene discovery, chemoinformatics, and pathway construction
Gene optimization
Methods for genome-scale measurements of transcription and metabolomics
Systems biology and methods to integrate multiple data sources
in vitro and cell-free synthetic biology and molecular programming
Nucleic acid engineering.