ISSN 2736-1756
Advanced Journal of Microbiology Research ISSN 2241-9837 Vol. 13 (4), pp. 001-009, April, 2019. © International Scholars Journals
Review
Advances in microbial heterologous production of flavonoids
Fangchuan Du1,2, Fangkai Zhang1,2, Feifei Chen1,3, Anming Wang1*, Qiuyan Wang1, Xiaopu Yin1 and Shuling Wang1
1Research Center for Biomedicine and Health, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China.
2College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, China.
3College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, China.
Accepted 21 February, 2019
Abstract
Flavonoids are important plant specific secondary metabolites that are synthesized from the general phenylpropanoid pathway and have many pharmaceutical and nutraceutical functions. Separation of pure flavonoids from plants material is very difficult and chemical syntheses of flavonoids require extreme reaction conditions and toxic chemicals. However, in the past decades, engineered microbes are becoming increasingly important as recombinant production platforms. Cultivation of the recombinant strains in rich medium offers another choice for the production of flavonoids. In the present review, we cover the main achievements that the multi-gene pathway of phenylpropanoid is introduced as microorganisms to heterologously produce flavonoids, analyze the key factors affecting heterologous production of flavonoids in microbes, and discuss the new research prospect.
Key words: Flavonoids, metabolic engineering, natural products, synthetic biology.