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. 2023 Jan 27;14:437. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36007-z

Fig. 4. Biosynthetic pathway engineering for the production of 24-epi-ergosterol.

Fig. 4

a Enhancing 24-epi-ergosterol production by regulating the expression level of Ar207, ACC1, and ERG5. The expression level of Ar207 was regulated by various promoters, including PTEF1, PTDH3, PERG4, PERG5, PCIT2, and PGAL1. The expression of ACC1 and ERG5 was enhanced by replacing the endogenous promoter with PGAL10 and PCIT2, respectively. P-Ar207 the promoter chosen for Ar207, PTEF1 the promoter of TEF1 (encoding translation elongation factor 1), PTDH3 the promoter of TDH3 (encoding triose-phosphate dehydrogenase), PERG4 the promoter of ERG4 (encoding Δ24(28)-sterol reductase), PERG5 the promoter of ERG5 (encoding C-22 sterol desaturase), PCIT2 the promoter of CIT2 (encoding citrate synthase), PGAL1 the promoter of GAL1 (encoding galactokinase), ACC1 acetyl-CoA carboxylase, ERG5 C-22 sterol desaturase. b Fermentation profiles of YQE729 and YQE734 in fed-batch bioreactors. Time courses of cell growth, titer of 24-epi-ergosterol, and the ratio of 24-epi-ergosterol to late sterols were obtained by analyzing samples every 4–8 h. a, b Data were presented as mean values ± SD from three independent biological replicates (n = 3). a The circles represent individual data points. Significance (p value) was evaluated by a two-sided t-test, no significance (n.s.) presents p > 0.05. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.