微藻脂肪合成与代谢调控

随着能源与环境问题的日益严峻,利用微藻生产生物柴油已经成为研究者们关注的焦点。与传统油料作物相比,微藻具有生长速度快、含油量高、不占用耕地等优势,是极具潜力的生物燃料生产原料。虽然许多微藻在压力条件下会在细胞内积累脂肪,特别是中性脂肪三酰甘油(TAG),它是生产生物柴油的主要原料,但目前对于微藻脂肪的合成和代谢调控还了解的很少。为了更好地理解和操纵微藻脂肪代谢以增强脂肪积累,本文综述了微藻脂肪合成与代谢调控的研究进展,包括TAG生物合成途径,提高脂肪积累的生化调控和基因工程策略,阐述了营养控制对脂肪积累的影响,总结了增强脂肪酸合成途径、增强Kennedy途径、调控TAG旁路途经、抑制脂肪合成的竞争途径、抑制脂肪的分解代谢等5种基因工程策略,同时也对微藻脂肪代谢研究的发展进行了展望。

Lipid Biosynthesis and Metabolic Regulation in Microalgae

With the increasingly severe energy and environmental problems,biodiesel from microalgae has become a hot topic.Compared with traditional oil crops,microalgae have advantages of rapid growth,high lipid content,non-occupation of arable land,etc.,which have been considered as a highly potential feedstock of biofuels.Although neutral lipids,especially triacylglycerols(TAG) which are the main feedstock of biodiesel production,can be accumulated in many algal cells under stress conditions,little is known about m...