Kluyveromyces as promising yeast cell factories for industrial bioproduction: From bio-functional design to applications

Yibin Qiu, Peng Lei, Rui Wang, Liang Sun, Zhengshan Luo, Sha Li, Hong Xu

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Abstract

As the two most widely used Kluyveromyces yeast, Kluyveromyces marxianus and K. lactis have gained increasing attention as microbial chassis in biocatalysts, biomanufacturing and the utilization of low-cost raw materials owing to their high suitability to these applications. However, due to slow progress in the development of molecular genetic manipulation tools and synthetic biology strategies, Kluyveromyces yeast cell factories as biological manufacturing platforms have not been fully developed. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the attractive characteristics and applications of Kluyveromyces cell factories, with special emphasis on the development of molecular genetic manipulation tools and systems engineering strategies for synthetic biology. In addition, future avenues in the development of Kluyveromyces cell factories for the utilization of simple carbon compounds as substrates, the dynamic regulation of metabolic pathways, and for rapid directed evolution of robust strains are proposed. We expect that more synthetic systems, synthetic biology tools and metabolic engineering strategies will adapt to and optimize for Kluyveromyces cell factories to achieve green biofabrication of multiple products with higher efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Article number108125
JournalBiotechnology Advances
Volume64
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2023

Keywords

  • Genetic toolkit
  • Industrial application
  • Kluyveromyces
  • Renewable resource utilization
  • Synthetic biology
  • Yeast cell factory

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