Substance productivity is improved by introducing a metabolic pathway for synthesis of acetyl-CoA or acetic acid from glucose-6-phosphate into yeast. Acetic acid productivity, acetyl-CoA productivity, and productivity of a substance made from acetyl-CoA-derived are improved by attenuating genes involved in the glycolytic system of yeast and introducing a phosphoketolase gene into the yeast.

The present disclosure relates to genetically engineered hematopoietic cell/s, specifically, lymphocytes, and more specifically, cells of the T cell lineage or a cell population comprising at least one of the cell/s. The disclosed cells comprises and/or expresses at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding at least one molecule involved directly or indirectly in at least one metabolic pathway. The present disclosure provides compositions, methods and uses of the engineered cells.

Quantum dots (QDs) and nanoplatelets (NPLs) are two types of nanoparticles used as scaffolds for enzymes operating in enzymatic cascades. Combinations of QDs and NPLs were surprisingly found to operate synergistically to create a greater enhancement than either alone when operating as scaffolds for enzymatic cascade reactions. A process involves providing an enzymatic cascade including a cluster of nanoparticles including both QDs and NPLs and having a plurality of enzymes bound thereto, the enzymes configured as an enzymatic cascade, such that the product of a first enzyme is a substrate of a second enzyme; contacting the cascade cluster with a substrate of the first enzyme; and allowing a reaction to proceed so that each of the plurality of enzymes acts in succession to produce an end product. The enzymes are bound to the nanoparticles via metal affinity coordination between histidine tags on the enzymes and zinc-containing surfaces of the nanoparticles.

Disclosed are genetically engineered microbial cells for the production of oligosaccharides comprising a galactose-1,4-glucose moiety at their reducing end, wherein said microbial cells are able to produce said oligosaccharides in the absence of exogenously added lactose, and a method of producing said oligosaccharides using said microbial cells.

Disclosed are an engineered yeast for efficient and rapid synthesis of erythritol and a construction method thereof. Yarrowia lipolytica is used as a synthetic chassis for genetic improvement. A method for synthesizing erythritol is as follows: using glucose as a carbon source, and a nitrogen source and an inorganic salt as raw materials, sterilizing a medium, cooling the sterilized medium before inoculating yeast Yarrowia lipolytica, performing continuous fermentation or fed-batch fermentation under the condition of oxygen supply, and purifying erythritol from a fermentation broth. Under the condition of continuous feeding, the yield of erythritol is more than 350 g/L, and the production efficiency is more than 4.5 g/L.Math.h, nearly 100% higher than that of a comparative strain.

The present invention discloses a DL-alanine-producing genetically engineered strain, as well as a method of construction and use thereof, and pertains to the field of bioengineering. According to the present invention, through enhancing the glycolysis pathway or/and introducing thermostable alanine dehydrogenase, a genetically engineered strain capable of high-yield production of alanine at 42 C. to 55 C. This strain can be used in a two-step method for producing racemic DL-alanine, which includes fermentation and subsequent addition of microbial alanine racemase. Through inactivating or deleting alanine racemase genes in this strain and then separately introducing overexpressed alanine racemase gene(s), a genetically engineered strain capable of producing racemic DL-alanine using a direct fermentation method can be constructed. When the original strain possesses a lactate synthesis pathway, blocking this lactate synthesis pathway in both the genetically engineered strains can additionally augment the proportion of a pyruvate synthesis pathway.

Provided are a method for constructing a lactic acid-producing strain, a lactic acid-producing strain and use thereof. The method for constructing lactic acid-producing strains is characterized by genetically engineering a starting strain to increase lactic acid production, wherein the engineering includes: 1) introducing a lactic acid synthesis pathway; 2) optimizing the lactic acid synthesis pathway; and 3) inhibiting by-product synthesis pathways.

The present invention discloses an L-alanine-producing genetically engineered strain, as well as a method of construction and use thereof, and pertains to the field of bioengineering. According to the present invention, through enhancing the glycolysis pathway or/and introducing a gene for thermostable alanine dehydrogenase, a genetically engineered strain capable of high-yield production of alanine under a high temperature condition of 42 C. to 55 C. can be constructed. Moreover, through knocking out alanine racemase genes, optical purity of L-alanine can be significantly increased. When the original strain possesses a lactate synthesis pathway, blocking this lactate synthesis pathway can augment the proportion of a pyruvate synthesis pathway, resulting in an additionally increased yield of L-alanine. The present invention overcomes the problems of fermentation at a low temperature, high cost and the like, which arise from the use of conventional L-alanine production techniques, enables production of L-alanine by fermentation at a high temperature of 42 C. to 55 C. with a yield of 95 g/L or higher, and is of high value to industrial application.