PXD070655

PXD070655 is an original dataset announced via ProteomeXchange.

Title	Growth-coupled reverse β-oxidation enables redox-balanced fatty-alcohol fermentation and strain evolution
Description	Microbial fermentation offers a sustainable alternative to fossil-derived chemical production; however efficient, scalable bioprocesses remain limited in part by the difficulty of engineering robust production hosts. Here, we demonstrate the development of a high-titer production strain of Escherichia coli by growth coupling its production of fatty alcohols through complementation of a synthetic fermentation deficit. We implemented a reverse β-oxidation (rBOX) pathway for fatty alcohols which is bioenergetically equivalent to ethanol fermentation, enabling the growth of a strain otherwise incapable of rebalancing its redox state due to the knockout of canonical fermentation. This stable, growth-coupled phenotype enabled adaptive evolution of the production strain, to accumulate mutations that increase rBOX flux and thereby accelerate growth over the course of iterative outgrowth. The evolved strains displayed a fourfold increase in maximum productivity, up to 110 ± 0.15 mg/L/hr, and a threefold increase in final titer up to 2.5 ± 0.28 g/L over the initially constructed strain. Proteomic analyses of evolved strains indicated differential expression of enzymes at key metabolic nodes and activation of latent genes with functions overlapping those of rBOX enzymes. These results establish redox-balanced growth coupling as a powerful tool for strain improvement and demonstrate rBOX as a practical synthetic fermentation pathway.
HostingRepository	PRIDE
AnnounceDate	2026-07-31
AnnouncementXML	Submission_2026-07-31_11:15:25.670.xml
DigitalObjectIdentifier
ReviewLevel	Peer-reviewed dataset
DatasetOrigin	Original dataset
RepositorySupport	Unsupported dataset by repository
PrimarySubmitter	Christopher Petzold
SpeciesList	scientific name: Escherichia coli; NCBI TaxID: NEWT:562;
ModificationList	monohydroxylated residue; deamidated residue; iodoacetamide derivatized residue
Instrument	Orbitrap Exploris 480

Revision	Datetime	Status	ChangeLog Entry
0	2025-11-12 17:03:19	ID requested
⏵ 1	2026-07-31 11:15:26	announced

Dataset with its publication pending

submitter keyword: None

Christopher Petzold
contact affiliation	Staff Scientist Biological Systems & Engineering Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720
contact email	cjpetzold@lbl.gov
lab head
Christopher Petzold
contact affiliation	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
contact email	cjpetzold@lbl.gov
dataset submitter

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PRIDE project URI

• PRIDE
  1. PXD070655
     1. Label: PRIDE project
     2. Name: Growth-coupled reverse β-oxidation enables redox-balanced fatty-alcohol fermentation and strain evolution