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Highly efficient dual-enzyme cascade catalysis for the synthesis of raspberry ketone from p-hydroxybenzylidene acetone
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Shanshan HUANG1, Ayuan JIN1, Wei SONG1, 2, Jing WU1, 2
Acta Microbiologica Sinica | 2026, 66(8) : 4119 - 4134
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Acta Microbiologica Sinica | 2026, 66(8): 4119-4134
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Highly efficient dual-enzyme cascade catalysis for the synthesis of raspberry ketone from p-hydroxybenzylidene acetone
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Shanshan HUANG1, Ayuan JIN1, Wei SONG1, 2, Jing WU1, 2
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  • 1.School of Life Sciences and Health Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
  • 2.Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
Published: 2026-08-04 doi: 10.13343/j.cnki.wsxb.20260167
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Raspberry ketone (RK) is a high-value natural aromatic compound widely used in food, flavors and fragrances, and daily chemical products. Traditional plant extraction methods are constrained by raw material availability and high separation costs, while chemical synthesis suffers from high environmental burden and difficulties in meeting market demand for natural-source products. Biocatalytic synthesis represents the core direction for its green manufacturing. However, existing systems remain limited by bottlenecks such as insufficient enzyme activity and substrate tolerance, poor stability of cofactor regeneration systems, and product titers insufficient for industrial needs. [Objective] To construct an efficient, stable, and scalable biocatalytic synthetic system for RK, overcoming existing technical bottlenecks. [Methods] A flavin-independent ene-reductase from Arabidopsis thaliana, AtQOR, was screened and coupled with formate dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus buchneri, LbFDH, to construct an NADPH self-recycling dual-enzyme cascade system. By optimizing vector copy number and gene expression order, an engineered strain co-expressing both enzymes was constructed, and the optimal strain, Escherichia coli 02, was selected. Key reaction conditions for whole-cell biocatalysis were systematically optimized, and a scale-up experiment was performed in a 1 L fermenter using a fed-batch strategy. The product was quantitatively analyzed and structurally verified using gas chromatography (GC) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. [Results] The selected AtQOR exhibited a specific activity of 10.35 U/mg in catalyzing the conversion of p-hydroxybenzylidene acetone to RK. Under optimal reaction conditions, E. coli 02 produced 37.88 g/L of raspberry ketone from 40 g/L p‑hydroxybenzylidene acetone in 12 h, with a conversion rate of 93.54%. Using a fed‑batch strategy in a 1 L fermenter, the RK titer reached 54.32 g/L in only 10 h, with a conversion rate of 89.43%, and the product was confirmed to be a high-purity target compound. [Conclusion] The dual-enzyme cascade catalytic system constructed in this study substantially overcomes the existing titer bottleneck in RK biosynthesis, providing an efficient, stable, and scalable technological solution for its industrial green manufacturing.

raspberry ketone  /  ene-reductase  /  dual-enzyme cascade catalysis  /  cofactor regeneration  /  whole-cell biocatalysis
Shanshan HUANG, Ayuan JIN, Wei SONG, Jing WU. Highly efficient dual-enzyme cascade catalysis for the synthesis of raspberry ketone from p-hydroxybenzylidene acetone[J]. Acta Microbiologica Sinica, 2026 , 66 (8) : 4119 -4134 . DOI: 10.13343/j.cnki.wsxb.20260167
  • General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(22378165)
  • Jiangsu Province University Innovative Research Team Project(JUSRP202413001)
Year 2026 volume 66 Issue 8
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doi: 10.13343/j.cnki.wsxb.20260167
  • Receive Date:2026-03-02
  • Online Date:2026-08-21
  • Published:2026-08-04
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  • Received:2026-03-02
  • Accepted:2026-03-29
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General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(22378165)
Jiangsu Province University Innovative Research Team Project(JUSRP202413001)
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    1.School of Life Sciences and Health Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
    2.Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

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表12种不同金属材料的力学参数

Family
属数
Number of
genus
种数
Number of
species
占总种数比例
Percentage of
total species (%)

Genus
种数
Number of
species
占总种数比例
Percentage of total
species (%)
鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae 2 11 5.26 鹅膏菌属 Amanita 10 4.78
小菇科 Mycenaceae 2 12 5.74 丝盖伞属 Inocybe 5 2.39
多孔菌科 Polyporaceae 8 14 6.70 蜡蘑属 Laccaria 5 2.39
红菇科 Russulaceae 3 23 11.00 小皮伞属 Marasmius 6 2.87
小菇属 Mycena 11 5.26
光柄菇属 Pluteus 5 2.39
红菇属 Russula 17 8.13
栓菌属 Trametes 5 2.39
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