CELLULAR PRODUCTION OF SIALYLATED DI- AND/OR OLIGOSACCHARIDES

    公开(公告)号:US20240200021A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18555663

    申请日:2022-04-15

    申请人: INBIOSE N.V.

    摘要: The present invention is in the technical field of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. More particularly, the present invention is in the technical field of metabolically engineered cells of microorganisms and the use of said cells in a fermentation. The present invention describes a metabolically engineered cell of a microorganism and a method by fermentation with said cell for production of a sialylated di- and/or oligosaccharide. The metabolically engineered cell comprises a pathway for production of said sialylated di- and/or oligosaccharide, synthesizes sialic acid, expresses at least one sialyltransferase, preferably is modified in the expression or activity of at least one sialyltransferase, is modified to have a fully or partially knocked out or rendered less functional sialic acid catabolic pathway and is modified for overexpression of an endogenous sialic acid transporter and/or expression, preferably overexpression, of an exogenous, homologous and/or heterologous sialic acid transporter. Furthermore, the present invention provides for purification of said sialylated di- and/or oligosaccharide from the cultivation, preferably fermentation.