Kim Soyoung Jang Yong Jae Gong Gyeongtaek Lee, Sun-Mi Um Youngsoon Kim Kyoung Heon Ko Ja Kyong 2024-01-12T02:35:27Z 2024-01-12T02:35:27Z 2022-11-21 2022-11 1475-2859 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/75941 Background A representative hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium Cupriavidus necator H16 has attracted much attention as hosts to recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) into a biodegradable polymer, poly(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB). Although C. necator H16 has been used as a model PHB producer, the PHB production rate from CO2 is still too low for commercialization. Results Here, we engineer the carbon fixation metabolism to improve CO2 utilization and increase PHB production. We explore the possibilities to enhance the lithoautotrophic cell growth and PHB production by introducing additional copies of transcriptional regulators involved in Calvin Benson Bassham (CBB) cycle. Both cbbR and regA-overexpressing strains showed the positive phenotypes for 11% increased biomass accumulation and 28% increased PHB production. The transcriptional changes of key genes involved in CO2-fixing metabolism and PHB production were investigated. Conclusions The global transcriptional regulator RegA plays an important role in the regulation of carbon fixation and shows the possibility to improve autotrophic cell growth and PHB accumulation by increasing its expression level. This work represents another step forward in better understanding and improving the lithoautotrophic PHB production by C. necator H16. English BioMed Central Engineering Cupriavidus necator H16 for enhanced lithoautotrophic poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) production from CO2 Article 10.1186/s12934-022-01962-7 1 Microbial Cell Factories, v.21, no.1 Microbial Cell Factories 21 1 Y scie scopus 000879168300002 Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology CARBON-DIOXIDE RUBISCO EXPRESSION GROWTH COLI PHOTOSYNTHESIS ASSIMILATION FIXATION GENES CBBR Transcriptional regulator Carbon dioxide fixation Lithoautotrophic culture Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) Cupriavidus necator H16 Calvin Benson Bassham (CBB) cycle