Microbial lipids from industrial wastes using xylose-utilizing Ashbya gossypii strains

Supplementary data to this article can be found online at https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122054.
This work presents the exploitation of waste industrial by-products as raw materials for the production of microbial lipids in engineered strains of the filamentous fungus Ashbya gossypii. A lipogenic xylose-utilizing strain was used to apply a metabolic engineering approach aiming at relieving regulatory mechanisms to further increase the biosynthesis of lipids. Three genomic manipulations were applied: the overexpression of a feedback resistant form of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase enzyme; the expression of a truncated form of Mga2, a regulator of the main 9 desaturase gene; and the overexpression of an additional copy of DGA1 that codes for diacylglycerol acyltransferase. The performance of the engineered strain was evaluated in culture media containing mixed formulations of corn-cob hydrolysates, sugarcane molasses or crude glycerol. Our results demonstrate the efficiency of the engineered strains, which were able to accumulate about 40% of cell dry weight (CDW) in lipid content using organic industrial wastes as feedstocks.
This work was supported by: the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (grant numbers BIO2014-56930-PandBIO2017-88435R) and the Junta de Castilla y León (grant number SA016P17); the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2019, PhD grant PD/ BD/113812/2015 to R. Silva (Doctoral Program in Applied and Environmental Microbiology), the MultiBiorefinery project (POCI-010145-FEDER-016403) and the BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-010145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. DDF was recipient of USAL predoctoral fellowship from the University of Salamanca.
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