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Reference: Guo Q, et al. (2024) Advances in the metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Yarrowia lipolytica for the production of β-carotene. Crit Rev Biotechnol 44(3):337-351

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Abstract

β-Carotene is one kind of the most important carotenoids. The major functions of β-carotene include the antioxidant and anti-cardiovascular properties, which make it a growing market. Recently, the use of metabolic engineering to construct microbial cell factories to synthesize β-carotene has become the latest model for its industrial production. Among these cell factories, yeasts including Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Yarrowia lipolytica have attracted the most attention because of the: security, mature genetic manipulation tools, high flux toward carotenoids using the native mevalonate pathway and robustness for large-scale fermentation. In this review, the latest strategies for β-carotene biosynthesis, including protein engineering, promoters engineering and morphological engineering are summarized in detail. Finally, perspectives for future engineering approaches are proposed to improve β-carotene production.

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Guo Q, Peng QQ, Li YW, Yan F, Wang YT, Ye C, Shi TQ
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