Abstract
Increasing the metabolic flux of the mevalonate pathway, reducing the metabolic flux of competing pathway and utilizing the diauxie-inducible system constructed by GAL promoters are strategies commonly used in yeast metabolic engineering for the production of terpenoids. Using these strategies, we constructed a series of yeast strains with a strengthened mevalonate pathway and finally produced 336.5 mg/L nerolidol in a shake flask. The spliced HAC1 mRNA assay indicated that the unfolded protein response (UPR) occurred in the strains that we constructed. UPR strains exhibited the low transcriptional activities of GAL1 promoter. HAC1-overexpressing strain exhibited dramatically enhanced transcriptional activity of GAL1 promoter at 72 h of fermentation in flasks. HAC1 overexpression also increased the nerolidol titer by 47.7 %, reaching 497.0 mg/L and increased cell vitality. RNA-seq showed that the genes whose transcription responded to HAC1-overexpression were involved in the regulation of monocarboxylic acid metabolic processes and cellular amino acid biosynthetic process, indicating that the metabolic regulation may be part of the reason of the improved nerolidol synthesis. Our findings enrich the knowledge of the relationship between the construction of sesquiterpene-producing cell factories and UPR regulation. This study provides an effective strategy for sesquiterpene production in yeast.
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