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. 2021 Mar 26;14(4):295. doi: 10.3390/ph14040295

Table 2.

Relevant engineering strategies performed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for terpenoid production (adapted from [7]).

Compound Titer Strategy References
Amorpha-4,11-diene >40 g/L Overexpression of ADS, upc2-1
Integration of genes copies using control of galactose-inducible promoters: 3 copies of tHMG1, and ERG10, 13, 12, 8, and IDI1
Deletion of gal80Δ
Downregulation of ERG9
[60]
Artemisinic acid 25 g/L Overexpression of ADS, CYP71AV1, CPR1, CYB5, ALDH1 and ADH1 from A. annua, HEM1, and CTT1 under control of
galactose-inducible promoters
Deletion of gal80Δ
Downregulation of ERG9
[27]
Farnesene 130 g/L Overexpression of ADA, xPK, PTA,
NADH-HMGr, Farnesene synthase
Deletion of adh1 Δ, ald4 Δ, ald6Δ, gpp1Δ, gal2Δ, bdh1Δ
Overexpression of enzymes of the MVA pathway to Erg20
Downregulation of ERG9
[26]
Bisabolone >900 mg/L Overexpression of tHMG1, ERG20, upc2-1 and bisabolene synthase
Downregulation of ERG9
[66]
Alpha-Santalene 92 mg/L Overexpression of tHMG1
Deletion of Ipp1Δ, dpp1Δ
Downregulation of ERG9
[61]
Patchoulol 42.1 mg/L Overexpression of ERG20 and PatTps177
Downregulation of ERG9
[67]
(S)-Linalool 0.26 mg/L Overexpression of Erg20 and (S)-linalool synthase
Diploid
[68]
Geraniol 1.69 g/L 2μ plasmid of PTEF1-tVoGES-(GGGS)-ERG20WW fusion protein
2μ plasmid of PTEF1-tHMG1, PPGK1-IDI1, PTEF1- upc2.1
PHXT1-ERG20, oye2Δ
[69]
Sabinene 1.75 mg/L 2μ plasmid of PTDH3-ERG20 (F96W-N127W)- sabinene synthase (Salvia pomifera) fusion protein
Diploid ERG9/erg9, ERG20/erg20,
PGal1-HMG2 (K6R), PTDH3-HMG2 (K6R) × 2
[70]