Chemolithoautotrophic bacteria that oxidize reduced sulfur compounds, such as HS, while fixing CO are an untapped source of renewable bioproducts from sulfide-laden waste, such as municipal wastewater. In this study, we report engineering of the chemolithoautotrophic bacterium to produce up to 52-fold more fatty acids than the wild-type strain when grown with thiosulfate and CO. A modified thioesterase gene from (') was integrated into the chromosome under the control of P or one of two native promoters. The relative strength of the two native promoters as assessed by fatty acid production in engineered strains was very similar to that assessed by expression of the cognate genes in the wild-type strain. This proof-of-principle study suggests that engineering sulfide-oxidizing chemolithoautotrophic bacteria to overproduce fatty acid-derived products merits consideration as a technology that could simultaneously produce renewable fuels/chemicals as well as cost-effectively remediate sulfide-contaminated wastewater.
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