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Polysaccharide hydrolysis with engineered Escherichia coli for the production of biocommodities

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Escherichia coli can ferment a broad range of sugars, including pentoses, hexoses, uronic acids, and polyols. These features make E. coli a suitable microorganism for the development of biocatalysts to be used in the production of biocommodities and biofuels by metabolic engineering. E. coli cannot directly ferment polysaccharides because it does not produce and secrete the necessary saccharolytic enzymes; however, there are many genetic tools that can be used to confer this ability on this prokaryote. The construction of saccharolytic E. coli strains will reduce costs and simplify the production process because the saccharification and fermentation can be conducted in a single reactor with a reduced concentration or absence of additional external saccharolytic enzymes. Recent advances in metabolic engineering, surface display, and excretion of hydrolytic enzymes provide a framework for developing E. coli strains for the so-called consolidated bioprocessing. This review presents the different strategies toward the development of E. coli strains that have the ability to display and secrete saccharolytic enzymes to hydrolyze different sugar-polymeric substrates and reduce the loading of saccharolytic enzymes.

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This work was supported by the Mexican Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) technological innovation grants: 2010-13879, 2011-154298, and 2012-184417; and from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: grant DGAPA/PAPIIT/UNAM IT200312. The authors wish to thank Drs. Guillermo Gosset and Ricardo Oropeza from the Instituto de Biotecnología and Jaime Ortega from CINVESTAV-IPN for many helpful discussions regarding the topic of this review.

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Muñoz-Gutiérrez, I., Martinez, A. Polysaccharide hydrolysis with engineered Escherichia coli for the production of biocommodities. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 40, 401–410 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-013-1245-y

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