The application discloses a recombinant
Yarrowia lipolytica
engineering bacterium for synthesizing
borneol from scratch, a construction method and application thereof. The recombinant
Yarrowia lipolytica
engineering bacterium is constructed by integrating a multi-
gene tandem
expression cassette containing an orange-flower base
pyrophosphate synthase coding
gene, a
borneol base
pyrophosphate synthase coding
gene and a hydrolytic
enzyme coding gene into a
genome H1 site of
Yarrowia lipolytica ATCC 201249 by
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology. The application first constructs the recombinant Yarrowia lipolytica
engineering bacterium for synthesizing
borneol from scratch by using a simple
carbon source. The engineering bacterium does not need to add any
terpene precursor externally, and only uses simple carbon sources such as glucose and
sucrose as substrates. The borneol is synthesized from
acetyl coenzyme A, a primary metabolic starting material, by a complete MVA pathway and an artificially constructed borneol-specific synthesis pathway, so that the whole
biosynthesis of borneol is realized, and the limitation of the prior art on external precursors is broken through.