C4-dicarboxylic acid transporter for increasing oil yield of mucor circinelloides

Abstract

A C4-dicarboxylic acid transporter and its encoding gene C4mt gene can increase oil yield of Mucor circinelloides, the C4mt gene may be cloned from the high-yield M. circinelloides WJ11, and the C4mt gene is transformed into M. circinelloides deficient strain Mu402, the C4mt gene can be integrated into the genome of M. circinelloides by homologous recombination to obtain recombinant strain Mu-C4mt. The total fatty acid content of the Mu-C4mt strain can be increased by 25.30% and the intracellular lipid content may reach up to 16.34% of the dry biomass.

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