Yeast transcriptional device libraries enable precise synthesis of value-added chemicals from methanol

Abstract Natural methylotrophs are attractive methanol utilization hosts, but lack flexible expression tools. In this study, we developed yeast transcriptional device libraries for precise synthesis of value-added chemicals from methanol. We synthesized transcriptional devices by fusing bacterial DNA-binding proteins (DBPs) with yeast transactivation domains, and linking bacterial binding sequences (BSs) with the yeast core promoter. Three DBP–BS pairs showed good activity when working with transactivation domains and the core promoter of PAOX1 in the methylotrophic yeast, Pichia pastoris. Fine-tuning of the tandem BSs, spacers and differentiated input promoters further enabled a constitutive transcriptional device library (cTRDL) composed of 126 transcriptional devices with an expression strength of 16–520% and an inducible TRDL (iTRDL) composed of 162 methanol-inducible transcriptional devices with an expression strength of 30–500%, compared with PAOX1. Selected devices from iTRDL were adapted to the dihydromonacolin L biosynthetic pathway by orthogonal experimental design, reaching 5.5-fold the production from the PAOX1-driven pathway. The full factorial design of the selected devices from the cTRDL was adapted to the downstream pathway of dihydromonacolin L to monacolin J. Monacolin J production from methanol reached 3.0-fold the production from the PAOX1-driven pathway. Our engineered toolsets ensured multilevel pathway control of chemical synthesis in methylotrophic yeasts.

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