Using oils and fats to replace sugars as feedstocks for biomanufacturing: Challenges and opportunities for the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica.

More than 200 million tons of plant oils and animal fats are produced annually worldwide from oil, crops, and the rendered animal fat industry. Triacylglycerol, an abundant energy-dense compound, is the major form of lipid in oils and fats. While oils or fats are very important raw materials and functional ingredients for food or related products, a significant portion is currently diverted to or recovered as waste. To significantly increase the value of waste oils or fats and expand their applications with a minimal environmental footprint, microbial biomanufacturing is presented as an effective strategy for adding value. Though both bacteria and yeast can be engineered to use oils or fats as the biomanufacturing feedstocks, the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica is presented as one of the most attractive platforms. Y. lipolytica is oleaginous, generally regarded as safe, demonstrated as a promising industrial producer, and has unique capabilities for efficient catabolism and bioconversion of lipid substrates. This review summarizes the major challenges and opportunities for Y. lipolytica as a new biomanufacturing platform for the production of value-added products from oils and fats. This review also discusses relevant cellular and metabolic engineering strategies such as fatty acid transport, fatty acid catabolism and bioconversion, redox balances and energy yield, cell morphology and stress response, and bioreaction engineering. Finally, a review of specific product classes including long-chain diacids, wax esters, terpenes, and carotenoids with unique synthesis opportunities from oils and fats highlights the potential of Y. lipolytica.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Biotechnology Advances

• Publication date

  2023-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2023.108128PMID 36921878
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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