Abstract
Glyoxylate is an important chemical building block which is currently produced by chemical or electrochemical oxidation methods We herein described the achievement of microbial glyoxylate production from renewable biomass by metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli. The synthetic ribulose-1-phosphate pathway was expressed to produce glycolate from xylose. Additional genomic modifications including the inactivation of malate synthase genes aceB/glcB and glyoxylate carboligase gene gcl were performed to prevent the consumption of glyoxylate. The constructed strain was found to accumulate 0.13g/L glyoxylate in shake flask cultivations. Further overexpression of glycolate oxidase and catalase significantly improved glyoxylate production to 0.74g/L, which is the highest titer reported to date. These results demonstrate that microbial fermentation has a promising potential to manufacture glyoxylate from renewable feedstocks.
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