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Area of Science:

  • Biochemistry
  • Metabolic Engineering
  • Natural Product Biosynthesis

Background:

  • Lipopeptides are crucial natural products with antibiotic properties.
  • Modifying lipid moieties is key to balancing efficacy and toxicity but is synthetically challenging.
  • Daptomycin is a clinically significant lipopeptide antibiotic.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To engineer the lipidation process in lipopeptide biosynthesis.
  • To alter the lipid profile of lipopeptides by modifying both primary and secondary metabolism.
  • To achieve high-purity, natural production of daptomycin.

Main Methods:

  • Swapped the fatty acyl AMP ligase (FAAL) gene (dptF) with foreign FAAL homologs to improve fatty acyl specificity.
  • Introduced the Mycobacterium type I fatty acid synthase operon (MvFAS-Ib/MvAcpS) and Cryptosporidium thioesterase (CpTEII).
  • Engineered Streptomyces roseosporus to biosynthesize decanoic acid, eliminating the need for external supplementation.

Main Results:

  • Improved fatty acyl specificity for decanoic acid in the lipidation process.
  • Enriched the fatty acid pool with decanoic acid.
  • Achieved the first high-purity, natural production of daptomycin through complete lipidation engineering.

Conclusions:

  • Engineering secondary and primary metabolism can effectively alter lipopeptide lipid profiles.
  • This study provides a foundational lipidation engineering approach for controlling lipopeptide biosynthesis.
  • The developed method enables controlled, high-purity natural production of lipopeptide antibiotics.