Abstract

pH regulation is a serious concern in the industrial fermentation process as pH adjustment heavily utilizes acid/base and pollutes the environment. Under pH-stress conditions, microbial growth and production of valuable target products may be severelyaffected. Furthermore, some strains generating acidic or alkaline products require self pH regulation and increased tolerance against pH-stress. For pH control, synthetic biology has provided advanced engineering approaches to construct robust and more intelligent microbial strains, exhibiting tolerance to pH-stress to cope with limitations of pH regulation. This study reviewed the current progress of advanced strain evolution strategies to engineer pH-stress tolerant strains via synthetic biology. In addition, a large number of pH-responsive elements, including promoters, riboswitches, and some proteins have been investigated and applied for construction of pH-responsive genetic circuits and intelligent pH-responsive microbial strains.

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