The invention discloses an
engineering strain for enhancing
methanol metabolism capability of
yarrowia lipolytica as well as a construction method and application of the
engineering strain. The construction method comprises the following steps: by taking a pWLH
plasmid as a carrier, integrating a non-homologous end connection (NHEJ) repair
gene DL4, PAXX and an XRCC4
expression cassette, constructing a recombinant
plasmid pWLH-DL4-PAXX-XRCC4, and transforming
yarrowia lipolytica Po1f, so as to obtain an NHEJ enhanced strain PO1f / pWLH-DL4-PAXX-XRCC4; the method comprises the following steps: respectively constructing recombinant plasmids pWLH-Aox-Das-Dak and pWLH-Mdh-Hps-Ph i by using
methanol metabolism key genes Aox, Das and Dak as well as Mdh, Hps and Ph i; the Xump and Rump path fragments of the
plasmid are connected with a truncated Ura3 tag (Ura41), and a multi-copy
methanol utilization
gene integration
library is constructed through five rounds of iterative transformation and SC-Ura screening; the methanol consumption is quantified through the
cell accumulation amount and
high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and the efficient methanol utilization strain is obtained through screening. According to the constructed
engineering strain, by enhancing NHEJ-mediated multi-copy
gene integration, the methanol
metabolism efficiency of
yarrowia lipolytica is remarkably improved, and a new strategy is provided for development of non-natural methylotrophic
chassis cells.