RESEARCH ARTICLE
Ethanol Production in Actinomycetes after Expression of Synthetic adhB and pdc
Uwe Hardter^, Marta Luzhetska^, Sandra Ebeling, Andreas Bechthold*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2012Volume: 6
First Page: 13
Last Page: 16
Publisher ID: TOBIOTJ-6-13
DOI: 10.2174/1874070701206010013
Article History:
Received Date: 28/03/2012Revision Received Date: 15/05/2012
Acceptance Date: 15/05/2012
Electronic publication date: 14/6/2012
Collection year: 2012
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Abstract
Streptomyces strains are producing many important secondary metabolites, in many cases used as pharmaceuti-cal drugs. Though the usage of these bacteria for the production of fuel has never been described. We could show, that the expression of two artificial ethanologenic genes of Zymomonas mobilis in different actinomycetes strains resulted in the production of ethanol. The synthetic genes adhB and pdc encoding an alcohol dehydrogenase and a pyruvate decarboxy-lase, respectively, were expressed in eight different Streptomyces strains. Best production was obtained using Streptomy-ces coelicolor A3(2) harboring both genes. By variation of the cultivation conditions, the amount of ethanol produced by the strain could be increased up to 2.6 g/l.