Patent Publication Number: US-10308915-B2

Title: Genes and uses thereof, methods for synthesizing odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehydes and methods for synthesizing even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbons

Description:
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATONS 
     This application is the U.S. National Phase Application of International Application No. PCT/CN2015/089232, titled “GENES AND USES THEREOF, METHODS FOR SYNTHESIZING ODD NUMBER MEDIUM CHAIN ALIPHATIC ALDEHYDES AND METHODS FOR SYNTHSIZING EVEN NUMBERD MEDIUM CHAIN ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBIONS,” filed on Sep. 9, 2015, which claims the priority to China Patent Application No. 201410566258.8, filed with the Patent Office of China on Oct. 22, 2014, titled “GENES AND USES, GENE ELEMENTS, METHODS FOR SYNTHESIZING ODD NUMBERED MEDIUM CHAIN ALIPHATIC ALDEHYDES AND METHODS FOR SYNTHESIZING EVEN NUMBERED MEDIUM CHAIN ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS,” the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. 
     FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology, particularly to genes, coded proteins and uses thereof, gene elements, methods for synthesizing odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehydes, and methods for synthesizing even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbons. 
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     Due to the amphiphilic properties of medium chain aliphatic alcohols, they have very important applications in the industry, which can be used in the fields of surfactants, medicines, cosmetics and energy sources, with a market value of 100-120 million US dollars. The aliphatic hydrocarbon molecules having a carbon chain length of 6-16 are the main components of aviation kerosene, with advantages of high calorific value, low vapor pressure, low freezing point, low hygroscopicity, etc. 50% of commercial fatty alcohols are extracted from plant seeds or animal fats, and the remaining fatty alcohols and all hydrocarbons are refined from petroleum. Neither method is capable of meeting the requirements of sustainable and environment-friendly production by the modern society. On the contrary, with the rapid development of synthetic biology, genetically engineered bacterial strains can specifically synthesize the required products using renewable energy resources sugar, xylan, glycerol or the like. 
     In engineered  E. coli , aliphatic alcohols and hydrocarbons are mainly derivatively synthesized from the fatty acid synthesis pathway. Respectively, three molecules, aliphatic acyl-ACP/CoA and free fatty acid, can be used as synthetic precursors. Conversion of aliphatic acyl-ACP/CoA or fatty acids to aliphatic aldehydes in the synthesis of hydrocarbon alcohols is a critical step, followed by reduction of aliphatic aldehydes to aliphatic alcohols or by decarbonylation reactions to become hydrocarbons with one carbon less. Microbial synthesis of aliphatic alcohols/hydrocarbons using aliphatic acyl-ACP/CoA as precursors has been reported since 2010. However, the artificial synthesis system for synthesizing medium chain hydrocarbon alcohols using free fatty acids as substrate only appeared in two reports until 2013. Howard et al. over-expressed thioesterase from  Cinnamomum camphora  in  E. coli , released free fatty acids of specific length from aliphatic acyl-ACP, and simultaneously expressed the fatty acid reductase (FAR) encoded by the genes of luxC, luxD, luxE from  Photorhabdus luminescens  and fatty aldehyde decarbonylase from  Nostoc punctiforme  PCC73102, thereby the free fatty acids were reduced to aliphatic aldehydes and subsequentially decarboxylated into hydrocarbon molecules with one carbon less, and a hydrocarbon synthesis system using free fatty acid as the substrate was constructed, which was able to synthesize a relatively controllable length. Akhtar et al. discovered that the carboxylic acid reductase (CAR) from  Mycobacterium marinum  was able to convert the free fatty acids having a chain length ranging from C6 to C18 to the corresponding aliphatic aldehydes. This enzyme can be combined with an aliphatic aldehyde reductase or an aliphatic aldehyde decarboxylase to produce an aliphatic alcohol having an even numbered chain length (C8-C16) and a hydrocarbon compound having an odd numbered chain length (C7-C15) in vitro. The  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain is able to synthesize up to 350 mg/L of fatty alcohols with glucose as the carbon source in the minimum medium when such pathway is combined with a thioesterase capable of producing free fatty acid of a specific chain length in the cell. 
     Since the above two types of hydrocarbon synthesis systems using free fatty acids as the substrate both employed reductase for aldehyde reaction, they are called the reduction type hydrocarbon synthesis systems. Because under the same substrate conditions, the reductase requires the reducing power (NAD(P)H) and energy (ATP) provided by cells to perform reaction, while the reaction driving force of oxidase is provided by the oxygen molecules, oxidative synthesis system is a more economical microbial synthesis system. Currently, there has been no related work yet published on the artificially synthetic construction of oxidation-type hydrocarbons. 
     On the other hand, in the currently reported works, hydrocarbon alcohol artificial synthesis systems, whether taking aliphatic acyl-ACP/CoA or free fatty acid as the precursor, as the first step of the reduction reaction does not involve decarbonylation reaction, all the synthesized aliphatic alcohols are of even numbered carbon chains, while all the hydrocarbon molecules are of odd numbered carbon chains as a result of the one-step decarbonylation reaction. In fact, all the petroleum-based chemicals and fuels have diversity in structure, and simultaneously contain molecules of straight and branched chains, as well as odd and even numbered chains. An ideal biofuel should be both structurally and chemically similar to existing petroleum-based fuels. There has been work to alter the upstream fatty acid synthesis pathway for downstream synthesis of branched chain and even numbered chain alkanes. But there has been no work for directly regulating the downstream synthesis pathway. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     In view of this, the present invention provides a gene, a coded protein and use thereof, a gene element, a method for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde, and a method for synthesizing an even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon. The process wherein α-dioxygenase converts the precursor fatty acid molecule to an important intermediate metabolite, aliphatic aldehyde, is an oxidation reaction, without requiring cells to provide additional reducing power and energy, thus reduces the burden of cell production; fills up the technical limitation that aliphatic alcohol product chain length is only even numbered, and that aliphatic hydrocarbon product chain length is mostly odd numbered, thereby can make bio-based bulk chemical and biofuel molecules more match with related petroleum-based products. 
     In order to achieve the above object of the invention, the present invention provides the following technical solutions. 
     The present invention provides a gene having:
         (I) the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 1; or   (II) a sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 1; or   (III) a sequence which encodes the same protein as that the nucleotide sequence of (I) or (II) does but differs from the nucleotide sequence of (I) or (II) due to genetic codon degeneracy; or   (IV) a sequence which is at least 80% homologous to the sequence of (I) or (II) or (III).       

     The present invention also provides use of the above gene for the synthesis of an aliphatic aldehyde, an odd numbered medium chain fatty acid, an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohol, and an even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon. 
     In some embodiments of the present invention, the aliphatic aldehyde is an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde. The medium chain fatty acid, the medium chain aliphatic alcohol and the medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon in the present invention represent a fatty acid, an aliphatic alcohol and an aliphatic hydrocarbon molecule comprising 8 to 14 carbon atoms, respectively. 
     In some embodiments of the present invention, the aliphatic aldehyde is an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde. 
     In some embodiments of the present invention, the aliphatic aldehyde is 1-undecanal, tridecanal or pentadecenal. 
     In some embodiments of the present invention, the odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohol is 1-undecanol, 1-tridecanol or 1-pentadecanol. 
     In some embodiments of the present invention, the even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon is aliphatic hydrocarbon having a chain length of C12 and C14. 
     The present invention also provides a vector comprising the gene (α-dox) set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1. 
     The present invention also provides a host cell comprising the vector described above. 
     In some embodiments of the present invention, the host cell is  E. coli.    
     The present invention also provides a gene element for synthesizing an aliphatic aldehyde, which comprises the gene (α-dox) set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1. 
     The present invention also provides a gene element for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde, which comprises the gene (α-dox) set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 and a thioesterase gene. 
     The gene element provided in the present invention for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde is pACYC-(T7-Dox-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX135), pACYC-(T7-Dox-BTE) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX104), and pACYC-(T7-Dox-BnFatA) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX105). 
     The present invention also provides a method for the construction of a gene element for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde, comprising:
         1) ligating the thioesterase gene (tesA′) endogenous to  E. coli  into the pTrcHis2A vector to form a pHisTrc-tesA plasmid;   2) ligating the thioesterase sequence containing P Trc  promoter into pACYCDuet-1 plasmid to form a pACYC-Trc-tesA plasmid;   3) ligating the α-dioxygenase gene (α-dox) set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 into the pET21a plasmid to form a pET21a-Dox plasmid;   4) taking the pACYC-Trc-tesA as the vector, restriction-digesting with SpeI and BamHI, and purifying;   using 21A-Dox as the fragment template, restriction-digesting the pET21a-Dox plasmid with XbaI and BamHI, gel-extracting, and ligating to the vector to construct a pACYC-Trc-tesA-Dox (CYX134) plasmid.       

     The present invention also provides a gene element for synthesizing an aliphatic alcohol, which comprises the gene (α-dox) set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1. 
     The present invention also provides a gene element for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohol, which comprises the α-dioxygenase gene (α-dox) set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, a thioesterase gene and an aldehyde reductase gene. 
     In some embodiments of the present invention, the aldehyde reductase gene is selected from the group consisting of a gene having the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 2, adhP, yjgB, yqhD or adhE. 
     The gene element provided in the present invention for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohol is pACYC-Trc-tesA-Dox plasmid (numbered in the present invention as CYX134), pACYC-(T7-Dox)-(T7-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX220), pACYC-(T5-Dox)-(T7-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX232), pACYC-(Trc-Dox)-(T7-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX233), pACYC-(LacUV5-Dox)-(T7-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX234), pACYC-(BAD-Dox)-(T7-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX235), pACYC-(T7-Doxhis)-(T7-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX221), pACYC-(T5-Doxhis)-(T7-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX222), pACYC-(Trc-Doxhis)-(T7-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX223), pACYC-(LacUV5-Doxhis)-(T7-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX224), pACYC-(BAD-Doxhis)-(T7-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX225), pACYC-(T7-Dox-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX135), pACYC-(T5-Dox-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX136), pACYC-(LacUV5-Dox-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX137), pACYC-(Trc-Dox-tesA′) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX138), pBAD33-Dox-tesA′ plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX140), pACYC-(T7-tesA′-Dox) (numbered in the present invention as YX131), pACYC-(T5-tesA′-Dox) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX132), pACYC-(LacUV5-tesA′-Dox) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX133), pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX134), pBAD33-tesA′-Dox plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX130), pACYC-(T7-Dox-BTE) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX104), pACYC-(T7-Dox-BnFatA) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as YX105), pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-AdhP) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as CYX143), pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-yjgB) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as CYX144), pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-yqhD) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as CYX145), pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-AdhE) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as CYX146), and pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-slr1192) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as CYX147). 
     A method for the construction of a gene element for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohol, characterized in ligating different types or sources of aldehyde dehydrogenase genes (adhP, yjgB, yqhD, adhE and slr1192 set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2) into the pET28a plasmid to form 28a-AdhP, 28a-YjgB, pET28a-YqhD, pET28a-AdhE, pET28a-Slr1192 plasmids. 
     Taking CYX134 (pACYC-Trc-tesA-Dox) as the vector, restriction-digesting with SpeI and BamHI, and purifying. Respectively taking 28a-AdhP, 28a-YjgB, pET28a-YqhD, PET28a-AdhE and pET28a-Slr1192 as the template, restriction-digesting with SpeI and BamHI, Gel-extracting, and ligating to the vector. 
     The present invention also provides a gene element for synthesizing an even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon, which comprises the gene according to claim  1 , a thioesterase gene and an aldehyde decarbonylase gene. 
     In some embodiments of the present invention, the aldehyde decarbonylase gene is selected from the group consisting of a gene having the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 3, 4 or 5 or ad73102. 
     The gene element provided in the present invention for synthesizing an even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon is pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-CER1) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as CYX148), pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-AD9313) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as CYX149), pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-AD7942) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as CYX150), and pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-AD73102) plasmid (numbered in the present invention as CYX151). 
     The present invention also provides a method for the construction of a gene element for synthesizing an even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon: ligating different types or sources of the aldehyde decarbonylase gene (cer1 set forth in SEQ ID NO:3, ad9313 set forth in SEQ ID NO:4, ad7942 set forth in SEQ ID NO:5, and ad73102) into the pET28a plasmid to form pET28a-CER1, PET28a-AD9313, pET28a-AD7942 and pET28a-AD73102 plasmids. 
     Respectively taking CYX134 as the vector. Taking pET28a-CER1, pET28a-AD9313, pET28a-AD7942 and pET28a-AD73102 as the template, restriction-digesting, gel-extracting, and ligating to the vector. 
     The present invention provides a method for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde, comprising the steps of:
         step 1: ligating the gene described above into a vector to construct an expression vector;   step 2: transforming a host cell with the expression vector, expressing and collecting the expression product.       

     Specifically, comprising the steps of:
         1) ligating the α-dioxygenase gene into the pACYC-Trc-tesA plasmid from the dox gene with the RBS in pET21a-Dox plasmid to form a CYX134 plasmid;   2) transforming the CYX134 plasmid into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain, fermenting, and collecting the product.       

     The present invention also provides a method for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohol, comprising the steps of:
         step 1: constructing a first vector comprising a thioesterase gene and a promoter for the thioesterase gene;   step 2: ligating the gene described above into the first vector by restriction-digesting to construct a second vector;   step 3: ligating an aldehyde reductase gene into the second vector by restriction-digesting to construct an expression vector;   step 4: transforming a host cell with the expression vector, expressing and collecting the expression product.       

     Specifically, comprising the steps of:
         1) restriction-digesting aldehyde reductase genes of different sources from the plasmids of 28a-AdhP, 28a-YjgB, pET28a-YqhD, pET28a-AdhE and pET28a-Slr1192 with XbaI and BamHI, then respectively ligating into CYX134 plasmids restriction-digested with SpeI and BamHI, to form CYX143, CYX144, CYX145, CYX146 and CYX147 plasmids.       

     Transforming each plasmid into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain, fermenting, and collecting the product. 
     The present invention also provides a method for synthesizing an even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon, comprising the steps of:
         step 1: constructing a first vector comprising a thioesterase gene and a promoter for the thioesterase gene;   step 2: ligating the gene according to claim  1  into the first vector by restriction-digesting to construct a second vector;   step 3: ligating an aldehyde decarbonylase gene into the second vector by restriction-digesting to construct an expression vector;   step 4: transforming a host cell with the expression vector, expressing and collecting the expression product.       

     Specifically, comprising the steps of:
         1) respectively ligating aldehyde decarbonylase genes of different sources into CYX134 plasmid from the plasmids of pET28a-CER1, pET28a-AD9313, pET28a-AD7942 and pET28a-AD73102, to form CYX148, CYX149, CYX150 and CYX151 plasmids.   2) transforming each plasmid into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain, fermenting, and collecting the product.       

     The present invention provides a method for synthesizing an odd number medium chain aliphatic alcohol by fed-batch fermentation: transforming the CYX144 plasmid and FadR plasmid a into host cell by heat shock, and performing fed-batch fermentation. 
     The CYX144 plasmid is pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-yjgB). 
     The FadR plasmid is pTrcHis2A-fadR. 
     Specifically, the present invention provides a method for synthesizing an odd number medium chain aliphatic alcohol by fed-batch fermentation: transforming the CYX144 and FadR plasmids into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain by heat shock, and cultivating overnight on LB solid plates at 30° C., picking single colonies of the recon are inoculating in 2 mL of LB medium at 30° C. until OD is 2.5-4, and transferring and inoculating in 20 mL of M9 medium at a ratio of 1:100, cultivating at 30° C. until OD is 2.5-4, and further transferring and inoculating in 800 mL of M9 medium at a ratio of 1:100. When OD rises to 2.5-4, centrifugally concentrating the culture solution to 50 mL, and inoculating into 2.5 L fermenter for fed-batch fermentation. When OD rises to 15, inducing with 10 μM IPTG. Sampling every 4 h, and taking 15 mL every time for analysis of cell density, and glycerol, acetic acid, fatty alcohol concentrations. The content of each antibiotic in the solid and liquid mediais chloramphenicol 34 μg/mL and ampicillin 100 μg/mL. 
     The cell density is measured at a wavelength of 600 using a TU-1810 UV-Vis spectrophotometer (Beijing Purkinje General Instrument Co., Ltd.). 
     Measurement of glycerol and acetic acid concentration: taking 1 mL fermentation broth and centrifuging at 12,000 rpm for 10 min, taking the supernatant and filtering through a 0.22 μm filtration membrane, diluting as appropriate, or directly injecting into HPLC for separation and detection. HPLC is Waters e2695, the detector is 2414 RI differential detector, and the chromatographic column is Aminex HPX-87H column (BioRad, CA); the column temperature is maintained at 65° C., and the mobile phase is 5 mM dilute sulphuric acid aqueous solution with a flow rate of 0.6 mL/min. 
     Extraction of aliphatic alcohol. 
     Detection of aliphatic alcohol extraction samples. 
     As shown in  FIG. 7 , after 18.5 h of induction, the yield of aliphatic alcohol reaches 1.95 g/L, the OD value reaches 124.5 and the productivity is 0.105 g/L/h. The rates of glycerol consumption and glycerol addition are almost the same during the fermentation, without generation of acetic acid. During the process of fermentation, the proportion of aliphatic alcohols with different chain length is almost constant over time, and at the end of fermentation, the proportions of C11, C13 and C15 fatty alcohols are 18.6%, 66.2% and 15.2%, respectively. 
     The present invention provides a gene, having:
         (I) the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 1; or   (II) a sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 1; or   (III) a sequence which encodes the same protein as that the nucleotide sequence of (I) or (II) does but differs from the nucleotide sequence of (I) or (II) due to genetic codon degeneracy; or   (IV) a sequence which is at least 80% homologous to the sequence of (I) or (II) or (III).       

     Compared with the existing microbial synthesis pathway of aliphatic alcohol and aliphatic hydrocarbon, the present invention has the following two advantages: (1) the process wherein α-dioxygenase converts the precursor fatty acid molecule to an important intermediate metabolite, aliphatic aldehyde, is an oxidation reaction, without requiring the cells to provide additional reducing power and energy, thus reduces the burden of cell production; (2) it fills up the technical limitation that aliphatic alcohol product chain length is only even numbered, and that aliphatic hydrocarbon product chain length is mostly odd numbered, thereby can make bio-based bulk chemical and biofuel molecules more match with petroleum-based products. 
     The invention provides a microbial synthesis pathway and a construction method of the odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohol and the even numbered medium chain hydrocarbon by synthetic biological means; the present invention also provides an engineered  E. coli  that prepares odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohols and even numbered medium chain hydrocarbons using the above-described pathway. 
    
    
     
       DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  shows the gas chromatogram of the product after induced fermentation at 30° C. for 40 h in  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) containing pACYC-Trc-tesA ( FIG. 1A ) or CYX134 plasmid ( FIG. 1B ) in Example 4; wherein, 1: C 11  aldehyde; 2: C 11  alcohol; 3: C 13  aldehyde; 4: C 13  alcohol; 5: C 15:1  aldehyde; 6: C 15  alcohol; 7: C 16  alcohol (internal standard, IS); ( FIG. 1C ) C 11  aldehyde mass spectrum; ( FIG. 1D ) C 11  alcohol mass spectrum; ( FIG. 1E ) C 13  aldehyde mass spectrum; ( FIG. 1F ) C 13  alcohol spectrum; ( FIG. 1G ) C 15:1  aldehyde mass spectrum; ( FIG. 1H ) C 15  alcohol mass spectrum; the numbers in parentheses are (match factor, reverse match factor); match factors and reverse match factors are capable of quantitatively describing the matching degree between product mass spectrum and database spectrum. If the value is higher than 900, it shows a very excellent match, 800-900 is an excellent match and 700-800 is a good match. 
         FIG. 2  shows the results of the aliphatic alcohol output after induced fermentation at 30° C. for 40 h in  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) containing CYX143, CYX144, CYX145, CYX146 and CYX147 plasmids in Example 5. 
         FIG. 3  shows the results of the aliphatic hydrocarbon output after induced fermentation at 30° C. for 40 h in  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) containing CYX148, CYX149, CYX150 and CYX151 plasmids in Example 6; ( FIG. 3A ) comparison of the yield of aliphatic hydrocarbons of different engineering strains; ( FIG. 3B ) gas chromatogram of the product after induced fermentation at 30° C. for 40 h in  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) containing CYX148 plasmid; ( FIG. 3C ) gas chromatogram of the product after induced fermentation at 30° C. for 40 h in  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) containing CYX151 plasmid. 8: C 12  hydrocarbon; 9: C 14  hydrocarbon; ( FIG. 3D ) C 12  hydrocarbon mass spectrum; ( FIG. 3E ) C 14  hydrocarbon mass spectrum. 
         FIG. 4  shows the results of the optimization of the metabolic flow between α-dioxygenase and endogenous thioesterase in Example 7. 
         FIG. 5  shows that it is confirmed that α-dioxygenase possesses extensive substrate selectivity and controllability in cell in Example 8.  FIG. 5A  shows the proportion results of the output of fatty acids of different chain length after induced fermentation at 30° C. for 40 h in  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) containing YX101, YX102 and YX103 plasmids in Example 8;  FIG. 5B  shows the proportion results of the output of aliphatic aldehydes and aliphatic alcohols of different chain length after induced fermentation at 30° C. for 40 h in  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) containing YX135, YX104 and YX105 plasmids in Example 8;  FIG. 5C  shows the results of the output of fatty acids after induced fermentation at 30° C. for 40 h in  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) containing YX101, YX102 and YX103 plasmids in Example 8;  FIG. 5D  shows the results of the output of aliphatic aldehydes and aliphatic alcohols after induced fermentation at 30° C. for 40 h in  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) containing YX135, YX104 and YX105 plasmids in Example 8. 
         FIG. 6  shows the results for adjusting the expression intensity of the upstream fatty acid synthesis pathway to increase the synthesis ability of the odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohols in Example 9. 
         FIG. 7  shows the results of fed-batch fermentation in Example 10.  FIG. 7A  shows the curves of biomass (OD600), residual glycerol, acetic acid content, aliphatic alcohol content over time in fed-batch fermentation in Example 10;  FIG. 7B  shows the proportion of aliphatic alcohol content of different chain length in the fermentation broth after 9 hours, 17 hours and 27.5 hours of fed-batch fermentation in Example 10. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention discloses a gene, a coded protein and use thereof, a gene element, methods for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde, for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohol and for synthesizing an even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon. Those skilled in the art can use the content herein for reference and suitably modify the process parameters to achieve them. It should be noted that all similar alternatives and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art, and they are all deemed to be included in the present invention. The method and use of the present invention have been described by way of preferred embodiments, and related personnel obviously can alter or appropriately change and combine the methods and uses described herein so as to realize and apply the technology of the present invention without departing from the content, spirit and scope of the present invention. 
     All the materials and reagents used in the gene, the encoded protein and use thereof, the gene element, the methods for the synthesis of an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde, for the synthesis of an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohol and for the synthesis of an even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon, provided in the present invention are commercially available. 
     Plasmid No. and Information 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
             
               
                   
                   
               
               
                   
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                 YX101 
                 pACYC-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 102 
                 pACYC-(T7-BTE) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 103 
                 pACYC-(T7-BnFatA) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 104 
                 pACYC-(T7-Dox-BTE) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 105 
                 pACYC-(T7-Dox-BnFatA) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 112 
                 pACYC-(Dox-tesA′)-(T7-Dox) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 114 
                 pACYC-(Dox-tesA′)-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 120 
                 pACYC-(T7-Dox) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 130 
                 pBAD33-tesA′-Dox 
               
               
                   
                 YX 131 
                 pACYC-(T7-tesA′-Dox) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 132 
                 pACYC-(T5-tesA′-Dox) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 133 
                 pACYC-(LacUV5-tesA′-Dox) 
               
               
                   
                 CYX 134 
                 pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 135 
                 pACYC-(T7-Dox-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 136 
                 pACYC-(T5-Dox-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 137 
                 pACYC-(LacUV5-Dox-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 138 
                 pACYC-(Trc-Dox-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 140 
                 pBAD33-Dox-tesA′ 
               
               
                   
                 CYX 143 
                 pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-AdhP) 
               
               
                   
                 CYX 144 
                 pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-yjgB) 
               
               
                   
                 CYX 145 
                 pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-yqhD) 
               
               
                   
                 CYX 146 
                 pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-AdhE) 
               
               
                   
                 CYX 147 
                 pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-slr1192) 
               
               
                   
                 CYX 148 
                 pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-CER1) 
               
               
                   
                 CYX 149 
                 pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-AD9313) 
               
               
                   
                 CYX 150 
                 pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-AD7942) 
               
               
                   
                 CYX 151 
                 pACYC-(Trc-tesA′-Dox-AD73102) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 201 
                 pACYC-(T7-RFP) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 210 
                 pACYC-(T5-RFP) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 211 
                 pACYC-(LacUV5-RFP) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 212 
                 pACYC-(Trc-RFP) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 213 
                 pACYC-(BAD-RFP) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 221 
                 pACYC-(T7-Dox his )-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 222 
                 pACYC-(T5-Dox his )-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 223 
                 pACYC-(Trc-Dox his )-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 224 
                 pACYC-(LacUV5-Dox his )-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 225 
                 pACYC-(BAD-Dox his )-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 220 
                 pACYC-(T7-Dox)-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 232 
                 pACYC-(T5-Dox)-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 233 
                 pACYC-(Trc-Dox)-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 234 
                 pACYC-(LacUV5-Dox)-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 YX 235 
                 pACYC-(BAD-Dox)-(T7-tesA′) 
               
               
                   
                 FabD 
                 pTrcHis2A-fabD 
               
               
                   
                 FabG 
                 pTrcHis2A-fabG 
               
               
                   
                 FabA 
                 pTrcHis2A-fabA 
               
               
                   
                 FabI 
                 pTrcHis2A-fabI 
               
               
                   
                 FabB 
                 pTrcHis2A-fabB 
               
               
                   
                 FadR 
                 pTrcHis2A-fadR 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     Detailed Information of Plasmids 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
               
             
               
                   
               
               
                 Plasmid 
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 name 
                 Replicon 
                 Promoter and over-expressed gene 
                 Resistance 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 YX101 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : tesA′ (derived from  E. coli  MG1655) 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX102 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : bte (derived from  U. californica , optimized with 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                   E. coli  codons) 
               
               
                 YX103 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : BnfatA (derived from  B. napus , optimized with  E. coli   
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                 codons) 
               
               
                 YX104 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : dox and bte (dox is derived from  O. sativa , 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                 optimized with  E. coli  codons) 
               
               
                 YX105 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : dox and BnfatA 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX112 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : dox and tesA′, P T7 : dox 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX114 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : dox and tesA′, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX120 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX130 
                 p15A 
                 P BAD : tesA′ and dox 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX131 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : tesA′ and dox 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX132 
                 p15A 
                 P T5 : tesA′ and dox 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX133 
                 p15A 
                 P lacUV5 : tesA′ and dox 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 CYX134 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′ and dox 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX135 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : dox and tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX136 
                 p15A 
                 P T5 : dox and tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX137 
                 p15A 
                 P lacUV5 : dox and tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX138 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : dox and tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX140 
                 p15A 
                 P BAD : dox and tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 CYX143 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′, dox and adhP (adhP is derived from  E. coli   
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                 BL21(DE3) )   
               
               
                 CYX144 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′, dox and yjgB (yjgB is derived from  E. coli   
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                 BL21(DE3) )   
               
               
                 CYX145 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′, dox and yqhD (yqhD is derived from  E. coli   
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                 BL21(DE3), with NdeI restriction site removed) 
               
               
                 CYX146 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′, dox and adhE (yqhD is derived from  E. coli   
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                 BL21(DE3), with NcoI restriction site removed) 
               
               
                 CYX147 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′, dox and slr1192 (slr1192 is derived from 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                   Synechocystis  sp. PCC 6803, optimized with  E. coli   
               
               
                   
                   
                 codons) 
               
               
                 CYX148 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′, dox and cer1 (cer1 is derived from  A. thaliana , 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                 optimized with  E. coli  codons) 
               
               
                 CYX149 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′, dox and ad9313 (ad9313 is derived from  P. marinus   
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                 MIT9313, optimized with  E. coli  codons) 
               
               
                 CYX150 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′, dox and ad7942 (ad7942 is derived from  S. elongates   
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                 PCC7942, optimized with  E. coli  codons) 
               
               
                 CYX151 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : tesA′, dox and ad73102 (ad73102 is derived from 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                   
                   
                   N. punctiforme  PCC73102, optimized with  E. coli   
               
               
                   
                   
                 codons) 
               
               
                 YX201 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : rfp (derived from standard biology brick, 
               
               
                   
                   
                 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BBa_E1010 
               
               
                   
                   
                 element) 
               
               
                 YX210 
                 p15A 
                 P T5 : rfp 
               
               
                 YX211 
                 p15A 
                 P lacUV5 : rfp 
               
               
                 YX212 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : rfp 
               
               
                 YX213 
                 p15A 
                 P BAD : rfp 
               
               
                 YX221 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : dox with 6*His tag, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX222 
                 p15A 
                 P T5 : dox with 6*His tag, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX223 
                 p15A 
                 P lacUV5 : dox with 6*His tag, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX224 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : dox with 6*His tag, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX225 
                 p15A 
                 P BAD : dox with 6*His tag, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX220 
                 p15A 
                 P T7 : dox, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX232 
                 p15A 
                 P T5 : dox, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX233 
                 p15A 
                 P lacUV5 : dox, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX234 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc : dox, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 YX235 
                 p15A 
                 P BAD : dox, P T7 : tesA′ 
                 Chloramphenicol 
               
               
                 FabD 
                 pBR322 
                 P Trc : fabD (derived from  E. coli  MG1655, with XhoI 
                 Ampicillin 
               
               
                   
                   
                 restriction site removed) 
               
               
                 FabG 
                 pBR322 
                 P Trc : fabG (derived from  E. coli  MG1655, with NcoI 
                 Ampicillin 
               
               
                   
                   
                 restriction site removed) 
               
               
                 FabA 
                 pBR322 
                 P Trc : fabA (derived from  E. coli  MG1655) 
                 Ampicillin 
               
               
                 FabI 
                 pBR322 
                 P Trc : fabI (derived from  E. coli  MG1655) 
                 Ampicillin 
               
               
                 FabB 
                 pBR322 
                 P Trc : fabB (derived from  E. coli  MG1655) 
                 Ampicillin 
               
               
                 FadR 
                 pBR322 
                 P Trc : fabR (derived from  E. coli  MG1655) 
                 Ampicillin 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The invention is further illustrated in conjunction with the following examples: 
     EXAMPLE 1 
     Construction of the Gene Element for Synthesizing an Odd Numbered Medium Chain Aliphatic Aldehyde 
     Experiment Materials: 
     Thioesterase (TesA′): The thioesterase gene I (tesA′) endogenous to  E. coli  was purchased from addgene (Plasmid 24636). The gene is placed into a plasmid having p15A as the replicon and placUV5 as the promoter, designated as pKS1, and the 75 bp nucleotide behind the start codon ATG is removed. The removed nucleotide encodes an amino acid sequence that is a signal peptide that is used to localize the enzyme in the intracellular substance. With this signal peptide sequence removed, the thioesterase can be enriched within the cells, and plenty of free fatty acids were produced in  E. coli.    
     α-Dioxygenase (Dox): the protein sequence of α-dioxygenase (NCBI Reference Sequence: NP_001066718.1) reported in  Oryza sativa  is optimized according to the  E. coli  codons. The DNA molecule encoding the α-dioxygenase after optimization has the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein the gene is synthesized in Genewiz. 
     Plasmid pTrcHis2A was purchased from Invitrogen. 
     Plasmid pACYCDuet-1 was purchased from Novagen. 
     Plasmid pET21a was purchased from Novagen. 
     Experiment Methods: 
     1. Construction of pHisTrc-tesA plasmid
     1) The vector was pTrcHis2A, restriction-digested with NcoI and BamHI; with a length of 4400; purified;   2) The template was pKS1, amplified with the primers NcoI-tesA-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-tesA-rev; with a length of 575; gel-extracted, restriction-digested with NcoI and BamHI, purified and ligated to vector;   3) Colony PCR with primer pTrcHis2A-F and primer pTrcHis2A-R, with the correct length of 894.   

     2. Construction of pACYC-Trc-tesA plasmid
     1) The pACYCDuet-1 was amplified with the primers AflII-pACYC-fwd and PstI-pACYC-rev, and with a length of 3810; gel-extracted, restriction-digested with PstI and AflII, and purified.   2) The fragment template was pHisTrc-tesA; PCR was carried out with PstI-Gibson-pHisTrc-fwd and AflII-Gibson-rrnBT1-rev, with a length of 1190, gel-extracted, and Gibson ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with Duet-seq-F and pACYCDuet-R, with a length of 1443.   

     3. Construction of pET21a-Dox plasmid
     1) The vector was pET21a, restriction-digested with NdeI and BamHI, with a length of 5350.   2) The fragment template was the synthetic dox gene, amplified with the primers NdeI-Dox-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-Dox-rev, with a length of 1885, gel-extracted, restriction-digested with NdeI and BamHI, purified and ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with the primer pET-fwd and primer pET-rev, with the correct length of 2401.   

     4. Construction of pET28a-Dox plasmid
     1) The vector was pET28a, restriction-digested with NdeI and BamHI.   2) The fragment template was the synthetic dox gene, amplified with the primers NdeI-Dox-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-Dox-rev, with a length of 1885, gel-extracted, restriction-digested with NdeI and BamHI, purified and ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with the primer pET-fwd and the primer pET-rev.   

     5. Construction of pET21a-tesA plasmid
     1) The vector was pET21a, restriction-digested with NdeI and BamHI.   2) The fragment template was pKS1, amplified with the primers NdeI-teaA-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-tesA-rev, gel-extracted, restriction-digested with NdeI and BamHI, purified and ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with the primer pET-fwd and the primer pET-rev.   

     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 1 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 The list of primers needed in the construction of the gene elements 
               
               
                 for synthesizing odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehydes 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Sequence 
                   
               
               
                 Primer name 
                 No. 
                 Sequence 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NcoI-tesA-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 CCT CCATGG CGGACACGTTATTGATTCTG 
               
               
                   
                 No. 6 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 BamHI-SpeI-tesA-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 CCG GGATCC GAAT ACTAGT TATGAGTCATGATT 
               
               
                   
                 No. 7 
                 TACTA 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 pTrcHis2A-F 
                 SEQ ID 
                 ACAGCGCCGCTGAGAAAAAGCGAA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 8 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 pTrcHis2A-R 
                 SEQ ID 
                 AGTTCGGCATGGGGTCAGGT 
               
               
                   
                 No. 9 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 AflII-pACYC-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGCC CTTAAG TCGAACAGAAAGTA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 10 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 PstI-pACYC-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TAT CTGCAG CATAAGGGAGAGCGTCGAGA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 11 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 PstI-Gibson-pHisTrc- 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TCTCGACGCTCTCCCTTATG CTGCAG ACATCAT 
               
               
                 fwd 
                 No.12 
                 AACGGTTCTGGCA 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 AflII-Gibson-rrnBT1- 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TACGATTACTTTCTGTTCGA CTTAAG GGCGGAT 
               
               
                 rev 
                 No. 13 
                 TTGTCCTACTCAG 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 Duet-seq-F 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GTCCATGTGCTGGCGTTCAA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 14 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 pACYCDuet-R 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GATTATGCGGCCGTGTACAA 
               
               
                   
                 No15 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-Dox-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 ACAGG CATATG GGCAGCGGTTTATTCAA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 16 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 BamHI-SpeI-Dox-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGG GGATCC GAAT ACTAGT TATTAATAGTCTGC 
               
               
                   
                 No. 17 
                 ATCCC 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 pET-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TCTTCCCCATCGGTGATGTC 
               
               
                   
                 No. 18 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 pET-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TCACGCTGCGCGTAACCACCACA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 19 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     EXAMPLE 2 
     Construction of the Gene Elements for Synthesizing Odd Numbered Medium Chain Aliphatic Alcohols 
     Experiment Materials 
     AdhE: Acetaldehyde coenzyme A reductase/ferric ion-dependent ethanol dehydrogenase, derived from the genome of  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) (NCBI-GeneID: 8180074), wherein the NcoI restriction site in the sequence was substituted by single point mutation. 
     AdhP: Ethanol active dehydrogenase/acetaldehyde active reductase, derived from the genome of  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) (NCBI-GeneID: 8181169). 
     YqdD: NADPH-dependent acetaldehyde reductase, derived from the genome of  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) (NCBI-GeneID: 8180496), wherein the NdeI restriction site in the sequence was substituted by single point mutation. 
     YjgB: Ethanol dehydrogenase (atypical zinc ethanol dehydrogenase-like protein, zinc and NADPH-dependent), derived from the genome of  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) (NCBI-GeneID: 8182107). 
     Slr1192: Ethanol dehydrogenase containing zinc, derived from  Synechocystis  sp. PCC 6803, with the protein sequence of NCBI Reference Sequence: NP_443028.1, optimized according to  E. coli  codons; after optimization, the DNA molecule encoding Slr1192 has the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2, and the gene was synthesized in our laboratory. 
     Plasmid pET28a was purchased from Novagen. 
     Experiment Methods 
     1. Construction of pHisTrc-tesA plasmid
     1) The vector was pTrcHis2A, restriction-digested with NcoI and BamHI; with a length of 4400; purified.   2) The template was pKS1, amplified with the primers NcoI-tesA-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-tesA-rev; with a length of 575; gel-extracted, restriction-digested with NcoI and BamHI, purified and ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with primer pTrcHis2A-F and primer pTrcHis2A-R, with the correct length of 894.   

     2. Construction of pACYC-Trc-tesA plasmid
     1) The pACYCDuet-1 was amplified with the primers AflII-pACYC-fwd and PstI-pACYC-rev, and with a length of 3810; gel-extracted, restriction-digested with PstI and AflII, and purified.   2) The fragment template was pHisTrc-tesA; PCR was carried out with PstI-Gibson-pHisTrc-fwd and AflII-Gibson-rrnBT1-rev, with a length of 1190, gel-extracted, and Gibson ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with Duet-seq-F and pACYCDuet-R, with a length of 1443.   

     3. Construction of pET21a-Dox plasmid
     1) The vector was pET21a, restriction-digested with NdeI and BamHI, with a length of 5350.   2) The fragment template was the synthetic dox gene, amplified with the primers NdeI-Dox-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-Dox-rev, with a length of 1885, gel-extracted, restriction-digested with NdeI and BamHI, purified and ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with the primer pET-fwd and primer pET-rev, with the correct length of 2401.   

     4. Construction of pET28a-AdhP plasmid
     1) The vector was pET28a, restriction-digested with NdeI and BamHI, with a length of 5400.   2) The fragment template was  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) genome, amplified with primers NdeI-AdhP-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-AdhP-rev, with a length of 1036.   3) Colony PCR with primer pET-fwd and primer pET-rev, with the correct length of 1552.   

     5. Construction of plasmids pET28a-YjgB, pET28a-YqhD, pET28a-AdhE and pET28a-Slr1192
     1) The vector was pET28a-AdhP, restriction-digested with NdeI and SpeI, gel-extracted for the fragments with a length of 5350.   2) The fragment template was  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) genome, amplified with primers NdeI- *** -fwd and SpeI- *** -rev for different gene fragments (*** represents a gene name), see primer sequence in Table 3, and the fragment name and length after PCR are shown in Table 2, wherein substitution of NdeI restriction site was required in YqhD and substitution of NcoI restriction site was required in AdhE, therefore it was needed to perform PCR amplification of two parts on the left and right sides with the mutation site as the center, with the fragments gel-extracted followed by overlapping, and finally the fragments with the NdeI and SpeI restriction sites were gel-extracted; restriction-digested with NdeI and SpeI, purified and ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with primer pET-fwd and primer pET-rev, with the correct length shown in Table 2.   

     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 2 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Detailed information of the fragments 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Fragment 
                   
                 Colony PCR 
               
               
                   
                 name 
                 Fragment length 
                 length 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 YjgB 
                 1038 
                 1564 
               
               
                   
                 YqhD-left 
                 808 
                 1705 
               
               
                   
                 YqhD-right 
                 392 
               
               
                   
                 YqhD 
                 1179 
               
               
                   
                 AdhE-left 
                 1981 
                 3217 
               
               
                   
                 AdhE-right 
                 731 
               
               
                   
                 AdhE 
                 2691 
               
               
                   
                 slr1192 
                 1026 
                 1552 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 3 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 The list of primers needed in the construction of the gene elements 
               
               
                 for synthesizing odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohols 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Sequence 
                   
               
               
                 Primer name 
                 No. 
                 Sequence 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-AdhP-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGGG ACATATG AAGGCTGCAGTTGTTAC 
               
               
                   
                 No. 20 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 BamHI-SpeI-AdhP-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GAG GGATCC GAAT ACTAGT TAGTGACGGAAAT 
               
               
                   
                 No. 21 
                 CAATCA 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-yjgB-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGGG CATATG TCGATGATAAAAAGCTATG 
               
               
                   
                 No. 22 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SpeI-yjgB-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGG ACTAGT TATCAATAATCGGCTTTCAAC 
               
               
                   
                 No. 23 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-yqhD-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGGG CATATG AACAACTTTAATCTGCA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 24 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 yqhD-ΔNdeI-left-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TGCGTTGCCCAGTCCTGCG 
               
               
                   
                 No. 25 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 yqhD-ΔNdeI-right-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 CGCAGGACTGGGCAACGCACATGCTGGGCCAC 
               
               
                   
                 No. 26 
                 GAACTGA 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SpeI-yqhD-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGG ACTAGT TAGCGGGCGGCTTCGTATA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 27 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-adhE-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGTT CATATG GCTGTTACTAATGTCGC 
               
               
                   
                 No. 28 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 adhE-ΔNcoI-left-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GCGTGAGTTACTGCGTCCAG 
               
               
                   
                 No. 29 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 adhE-ΔNcoI-right-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 CTGGACGCAGTAACTCACGCGATGGAAGCTTA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 30 
                 TGTTTCTGT 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SpeI-adhE-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGG ACTAGT TAAGCGGATTTTTTCGCTTTTTTC 
               
               
                   
                 No. 31 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-slr1192-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGTA CATATG ATCAAGGCTTACGCTGC 
               
               
                   
                 No. 32 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SpeI-slr1192-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGG ACTAGT TAGTTTTTAGAGTGAGACA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 33 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     EXAMPLE 3 
     Construction of the Gene Elements for Synthesizing Even Numbered Medium Chain Aliphatic Hydrocarbons 
     Experiment Materials 
     CER1: Aliphatic aldehyde decarbonylase, derived from  Arabidopsis thaliana ; the protein sequence was UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot: F4HVY0.1, optimized according to  E. coli  codons; after optimization, the DNA molecule encoding CER1 has the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 3, and the gene was synthesized in genscript. 
     AD9313: Aliphatic aldehyde decarbonylase, derived from  Prochlorococcus marinus  MIT9313; the protein sequence was NCBI Reference Sequence: NP_895059.1, optimized according to  E. coli  codons; after optimization, the DNA molecule encoding AD9313 has the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4, and the gene was synthesized in our laboratory. 
     AD7942: Aliphatic aldehyde decarbonylase, derived from  Synechococcus elongatus  PCC7942; the protein sequence was accession number: YP_400610, optimized according to  E. coli  codons; after optimization, the DNA molecule encoding AD7942 has the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5, and the gene was synthesized in GENEART. 
     AD73102: Aliphatic aldehyde decarbonylase, derived from  Nostoc punctiforme  PCC73102; the protein sequence was accession number: YP_001865325, optimized according to  E. coli  codons; the DNA molecule encoding AD73102 after optimization was a gift from Squire J. Booker&#39;s group of the Pennsylvania State University, USA. 
     Experiment Methods 
     Construction of plasmids pET28a-CER1, pET28a-AD9313, pET28a-AD7942 and pET28a-AD73102
     1) The vector was pET28a-AdhP, restriction-digested with NdeI and SpeI, gel-extracted for the fragments with a length of 5350.   2) Amplified with primers NdeI- *** -fwd and SpeI- *** -rev for different gene fragments (*** represents a gene name), see primer sequence in Table 5, and the fragment name and length after PCR are shown in Table 4; gel-extracted, restriction-digested with NdeI and SpeI, purified and ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with primer pET-fwd and primer pET-rev, with the correct length shown in Table 4.   

     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 4 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Detailed information of the fragments 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Fragment 
                 Fragment 
                 Colony 
               
               
                   
                 name 
                 length 
                 PCR length 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 CER1 
                 1893 
                 2419 
               
               
                   
                 ADC9313 
                 747 
                 1273 
               
               
                   
                 ADC7942 
                 715 
                 1240 
               
               
                   
                 ADC73102 
                 714 
                 1240 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 5 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 The list of primers needed in the construction of the gene elements 
               
               
                 for synthesizing even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbons 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 Primer name 
                 Sequence No. 
                 Sequenc 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-CER1-fwd 
                 SEQ lD No. 34 
                 GTTT CATATG GCTACCAAACCGGGTGT 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SpeI-CER1-rev 
                 SEQ ID No. 35 
                 AAT ACTAGT TAGTGGTGCGGCAGGAGCA 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-ADC9313-fwd 
                 SEQ lD No. 36 
                 TTTT CATATG CCGACCCTGGAAATGCC 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SpeI-ADC9313-rev 
                 SEQ lD No. 37 
                 GGT ACTAGT TAGCTAACCAGTGCTGCTG 
               
               
                   
                   
                 CT 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-AD7942-fwd 
                 SEQ ID No. 38 
                 ATATA CATATG CCGCAGCTGGAAGCGAG 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SpeI-AD7942-rev 
                 SEQ ID No. 39 
                 AAT ACTAGT TATTACACCGCCGCCAGGC 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-AD73102-fwd 
                 SEQ ID No. 40 
                 AACCA CATATG CAGCAGCTGACCGATCA 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SpeI-AD73102-rev 
                 SEQ ID No. 41 
                 GGG ACTAGT TATGCACCAATCAGACCAT 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     EXAMPLE 4 
     Verification of the Feasibility of α-Dioxygenase for Synthesizing Odd Numbered Medium Chain Aliphatic Alcohols and Even Numbered Medium Chain Aliphatic Hydrocarbons 
     Experiment Methods: 
     1. Construction of pACYC-Trc-tesA-Dox (CYX134) plasmid
     1) The vector was pACYC-Trc-tesA, restriction-digested with SpeI and BamHI, and purified.   2) The fragment template was 21A-Dox, restriction-digested with XbaI and BamHI, with a length of 1911, gel-extracted and ligated to vector.   

     2. Plasmid CYX134 was transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain by heat shock and screened on LB solid plate. The cells were all cultured in an incubator at 30° C., and the content of each antibiotic in the solid and liquid media was 34 μg/mL chloramphenicol. 
     3. The  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain transformed with the plasmid pACYC-Dox-tesA′ was subjected to fermentation. The recombinant single colonies were inoculated in LB medium and cultured at 30° C. overnight, and inoculated in 5 mL of M9 medium at a ratio of 1:100 and subjected to fermentation on a shaker at 220 rpm at 30° C. When the biomass was between OD600=1.0-1.2, 1 mM IPTG was added, and after 40 h of induced expression, the aliphatic alcohol samples were extracted for detection. 
     4. Extraction of aliphatic alcohols, specifically:
     1) 0.5 mL of medium fermented at 30° C. for 40 h after induction was sampled and 25 mg/L of cetyl alcohol was added as internal standard.   2) 0.5 mL of ethyl acetate was added, vortex-shaked for 5 min, and centrifuged at 15000 rpm for 2 min.   3) The top-layer organic phase was aspirated and filtered through a 0.22 μm nylon membrane. Samples were stored in a −80° C. refrigerator prior to injecting.   

     5. Detection of aliphatic alcohol extraction samples. The Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS) system involved in this experiment was the Waters GCT Premier MICROMASS system, which included:
     1) Agilent 7683 autosampler   2) Agilent 6890 Gas Chromatography (GC, Agilent Technologies, USA)   3) Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (TOF-MS, Waters Corp., USA)   4) J &amp; W DB-5 capillary quartz column (30 m length, I.D. 0.25 mm, Film 0.25 μm, Agilent Technologies, USA)   

     GC conditions were as follows: DB-5 gas chromatography column was employed, with a injecting volume of 1 μL; post-column shunt technology was employed, with the split ratio of 2:1. The inlet temperature was 260° C. and the GC interface temperature was 280° C. Taking high-purity helium as the carrier gas, with 91 Kpa constant pressure. The program of temperature rising of the chromatographic separation was as follows: the initial temperature was maintained at 70° C. for 2 min, then the temperature raised to 290° C. at a rate of 8° C.·min −1 , and kept at 290° C. for 6 min. TOF/MS. 
     Mass spectrometric conditions were as follows: the mass spectrometry ionization mode was positive ion mode electron Impact ionization (EI+), of which the ionization voltage was 70 eV, and the source temperature maintained at 250° C. The scanning range of mass spectrometry was 50-800 m/z and the scanning speed was 2 scan·s −1 . 
     Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the products: GC-TOF/MS data were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed using Masslynx software (Version 4.1, Waters Corp., USA). The chromatography peaks were identified by NIST database (National Institute of Standard and Technology library, NIST, 2005, Gaithersburg, Md.) and the peak areas of metabolites were automatically integrated by QuanLynx software. The ratio of the peak area of the total ion chromatogram of each substance to the peak area of the internal standard on the same spectrum was used to obtain the normalized FAME and relative concentrations of hydrocarbons. 
     Experiment Results 
     The pACYC-Trc-tesA and CYX134 plasmids were transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3), the induced fermentation was conducted at 30° C. for 40 h and GC-MS detection was performed on the fermentation products. The results are shown in  FIG. 2 . In the strains transformed with the pACYC-Trc-tesA module only detected the production of fatty acids, which were generated from the hydrolysis of aliphatic acyl-ACP by thioesterase (TesA′). Meanwhile, after addition of the dox gene to the pACYC-Trc-tesA plasmid (CYX134), three aliphatic aldehydes,1-undecanal, tridecanal and pentadecenal were detected at retention times (RT) of 11.20 min, 14.73 min and 17.59 min, respectively. The three aliphatic aldehydes were generated by oxidation of α-Dox from free fatty acids of C 12 , C 14  and C 16:1  in  E. coli  cells. The results confirmed the feasibility of a synthesis of odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohols and even numbered medium chain hydrocarbons in the present patent application, i.e., α-dioxygenase can synthesize odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehydes in  E. coli  and can provide precursors for synthesizing odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohols and even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbons. 
     In addition, in the strains transformed with CYX134 module, 1-undecanol, 1-tridecanol and 1-pentadecanol were also detected at the retention times (RT) of 12.37 min, 15.75 min and 18.80 min, respectively (as shown in  FIG. 2B ). These three aliphatic alcohols were the products of spontaneous reduction of aliphatic aldehydes with the corresponding carbon chain in the cells. The mass spectra profiles of the products are shown in  FIG. 1C-H . The match factor and the reverse match factor of the respective substances were both 850 or more, and the accuracy of the odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde/alcohol molecules of the present invention was confirmed. 
     EXAMPLE 5 
     Selection of Aldehyde Reductase 
     Experiment Methods 
     1. Construction of plasmids: Different aldehyde reductases (AdhP, YjgB, YqhD, AdhE, Slr1192) were ligated into CYX134 plasmid. Specifically, CYX134 was taken as vector, restriction-digested with SpeI and BamHI, and purified. 28a-AdhP, 28a-YjgB, pET28a-YqhD, pET28a-AdhE, pET28a-Slr1192 were taken as templates, respectively, restriction-digested with XbaI and BamHI, gel-extracted and ligated to vector. See the specific fragment length in Table 6. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 6 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Construction of the plasmids 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 Name of the 
                   
                 Restriction 
                 Length 
                 Origin 
                 Restriction 
                 Length 
               
               
                 plasmid 
                   
                 site of 
                 of the 
                 of the 
                 site of the 
                 of the 
               
               
                 constructed 
                 Vector 
                 the vector 
                 vector 
                 fragment 
                 fragment 
                 fragment 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 CYX143 
                 CYX134 
                 SpeI 
                 6950 
                 28A-AdhP 
                 XbaI 
                 1036 
               
               
                 CYX144 
                   
                 BamHI 
                   
                 28A-yjgB 
                 BamHI 
                 1038 
               
               
                 CYX145 
                   
                   
                   
                 28A-yqhD 
                   
                 1275 
               
               
                 CYX146 
                   
                   
                   
                 28A-AdhE 
                   
                 2687 
               
               
                 CYX147 
                   
                   
                   
                 28A-slr119 
                   
                 1122 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     2. Each plasmid was transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain by heat shock and screened on LB solid plate. The cells were all cultured in an incubator at 30° C., and the content of each antibiotic in the solid and liquid media was 34 μ/mL chloramphenicol. 
     3. The  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain transformed with each plasmid was subjected to fermentation, with the same method process as in Example 1. 
     4. Extraction of aliphatic alcohols, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     5. Detection of aliphatic alcohol extraction samples, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     Experiment Results 
       E. coli  BL21 (DE3) was transformed with each plasmid and induced fermentation was conducted for 40 h at 30° C. The results of GC-MS analysis on the fermentation products are shown in  FIG. 2 . It can be seen that AdhE and AdhP do not have promotion effect on the production of odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohols, while YqdD, Slr1192 and YjgB further promote the  E. coli  synthesis of an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohol proposed in this patent. Wherein YjgB has the most significant promotion effect on the production, with the production of total aliphatic alcohols increased from 35.2 mg/L to 68.3 mg/L. 
     Example 6 
     Selection of Aldehyde Decarbonylase 
     Experiment Methods 
     1. Construction of the plasmids: different aldehyde decarbonylases (CER1, AD9313, AD7942 and AD7310) were ligated into the CYX134 plasmid. Specifically, CYX134 was taken as vector, and pET28a-CER1, pET28a-AD9313, pET28a-AD7942 and pET28a-AD73102 were respectively taken as templates, restriction-digested, gel-extracted and ligated to vector. Vector restriction site, vector length, fragment restriction site, fragment length and other specific information are shown in Table 7. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 7 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Information of plasmid construction 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                   
                 Vector 
                   
                 Origin 
                 Fragment 
                   
               
               
                   
                 Vector 
                 restriction 
                 Vector 
                 of the 
                 restriction 
                 Fragement 
               
               
                 Name 
                 name 
                 site 
                 length 
                 fragment 
                 site 
                 length 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 CYX148 
                 CYX134 
                 SpeI 
                 6950 
                 28A-CER1 
                 XbaI 
                 1879 
               
               
                 CYX149 
                   
                 BamHI 
                   
                 28A-AD9313 
                 BamHI 
                 747 
               
               
                 CYX150 
                   
                   
                   
                 28A-AD7942 
                   
                 750 
               
               
                 CYX151 
                   
                 SpeI-SacI 
                 6950 
                 28A-AD73102 
                 XbaI-SacI 
                 806 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     2. Each plasmid was transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain by heat shock and screened on LB solid plate. The cells were all cultured in an incubator at 30° C., and the content of each antibiotic in the solid and liquid media was 34 μg/mL chloramphenicol. 
     3. The  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain transformed with each plasmid was subjected to fermentation, with the same method process as in Example 1. 
     4. Extraction of aliphatic alcohols, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     5. Detection of aliphatic alcohol extraction samples, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     Experiment Results 
       E. coli  BL21 (DE3) was transformed with each plasmid and induced fermentation was conducted for 40 h at 30° C. The results of GC-MS analysis on the fermentation products are shown in  FIG. 3 . It can be seen that decarbonylase CER1 derived from  Arabidopsis thaliana  did not allow engineered  E. coli  to synthesize even numbered chain aliphatic hydrocarbons, while after expression of the three decarbonylases derived from cyanobacteria, all of the engineering  E. coli  synthesized the aliphatic hydrocarbons with chain length of C12 and C14, confirming the method for synthesizing medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbons using  E. coli  by the present patent. Wherein, it has the highest production, 5.2 mg/L, of the medium chain hydrocarbons when the decarbonylase AD7942 derived from  Nostoc flagelliform  was expressed.  FIG. 3B  shows the position of the aliphatic hydrocarbons in the gas chromatogram after transformed with the CYX151 plasmid. Wherein 8 was dodecane and 9 was tetradecane. The mass spectra of the respect products are shown in  FIGS. 3D  and E. The match factor and reverse match factor for each substance were both 850 or more, confirming the qualitative accuracy of the even numbered chain aliphatic hydrocarbon products of the present invention. 
     In summary, the invention provides a microbial synthesis pathway and a construction method of odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohols and even numbered medium chain hydrocarbons by synthetic biological means; the present invention also provides an engineered  E. coli  that prepares odd numbered medium chain aliphatic alcohols and even numbered medium chain hydrocarbons using the above-described pathway. 
     Example 7 
     Optimization of the Metabolic Flow Between α-Dioxygenase and Thioesterase 
     Experiment Materials 
     Plasmid pBAD33 was purchased from ATCC. 
     Experiment Methods 
     1. Construction of expression plasmids (YX210, YX211, YX212 and YX213) containing different promoters
     1) The vector was pACYCDute-1 and amplified with the primer AflII-pACYC-fwd and the primer PstI-pACYC-rev in Table 8.   2) The fragment templates were pQE-80L, pKS1, pTrcHis2A and pBAD33, and amplified with the remaining primers in Table 8, ligated to vector to construct the plasmids YX210, YX211, YX212 and YX213. These plasmids have two promoters simultaneously, one promoter was T7 and the other promoter was T5, pLacUV5, Trc and BAD. The specific information of these plasmids is shown in Table 9.   

     2. Construction of the plasmids of thioesterase gene endogenous to  E. coli  controlled by the T7 promoter
     1) The vectors were pACYCDute-1, YX210, YX211, YX212 and YX213, restriction-digested with NdeI and KpnI, and purified.   2) The fragment template was pKS1 plasmid, amplified with the primers NdeI-tesA-fwd and KpnI-tesA-rev (see Table 8 for primer sequences). After PCR, the products were restriction-digested and purified, and ligated to vector. The correct transformants were picked.   

     3. Construction of the plasmids of α-dioxygenase and endogenous thioesterase controlled by dual promoters without 6*His tag (YX220, YX232, YX233, YX234 and YX235)
     1) The vectors were the five plasmids generated in step 2, with the polyclonal sites in the first promoter cleaved with NcoI and BamHI, and purified.   2) The fragment template was the synthetic dox gene, amplified with the primers NcoI-Dox-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-Dox-rev (see Table 8 for primer sequences), and the length after PCR was 1874; restriction-digested and purified, and ligated to vector, and the correct transformants were picked. The first promoter (T7, T5, pLacUV5, Trc and BAD) in YX220, YX232, YX233, YX234 and YX235 controls the dox gene without the 6*His tag and the second promoter (T7) controls the tesA′ gene.   

     4. Construction of the plasmids of α-dioxygenase and endogenous thioesterase controlled by dual promoters containing 6*His tag (YX221, YX222, YX223, YX224 and YX225) 
     1) The vectors were the five plasmids generated in step 2, with the polyclonal sites in the first promoter cleaved with NcoI and BamHI, and purified. 
     2) The fragment template was the 21a-dox plasmid, restriction-digested with NcoI and BamHI, gel-extracted, ligated to vector, and the correct transformants were picked. The first promoter (T7, T5, pLacUV5, Trc and BAD) in YX221, YX222, YX223, YX224 and YX225 controls the dox gene containing the 6*His tag and the second promoter (T7) controls the tesA′ gene. 
     5. Construction of plasmids containing α-dioxygenase controlled by T7, T5, pLacUV5, Trc and BAD promoters
     1) The vectors were pACYCDute-1, YX210, YX211, YX212 and YX213, restriction-digested with NcoI and BamHI, and purified.   2) The fragment template was the synthetic dox gene, amplified with the primers NcoI-Dox-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-Dox-rev (see Table 8 for primer sequences); restriction-digested after PCR and purified, ligated to vector, and the correct transformants were picked.   

     6. Construction of plasmids containing dox-tesA′ controlled by T7, T5, pLacUV5, Trc and BAD promoters (YX135, YX136, YX137, YX138 and YX140)
     1) The vectors were the five plasmids generated in Step 5, restriction-digested with SpeI and BamHI, and purified.   2) The fragment template 21a-tesA was restriction-digested with XbaI and BamHI, gel-extracted, ligated to vector, and the correct transformants were picked. The first promoters (T7, T5, pLacUV5, Trc and BAD) in YX135, YX136, YX137, YX138 and YX140 control both the two genes dox and tesA′.   

     7. Construction of a plasmid containing the thioesterase gene endogenous to  E. coli  controlled by the T7, T5, pLacUV5, Trc and BAD promoters
     1) The vectors were YX210, YX211, YX212 and YX213, restriction-digested with NcoI and BamHI, and purified.   2) The fragment template was pKS1, amplified with the primers NcoI-tesA-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-tesA-rev (see Table 8 for primer sequences); restriction-digested after PCR and purified, ligated to vector, and the correct transformants were picked.   

     8. Construction of plasmids containing tesA′-dox controlled by T7, T5, pLacUV5, Trc and BAD promoters (YX131, YX132, YX133, YX134 and YX130)
     1) The vectors were the five plasmids generated in Step 7, restriction-digested with SpeI and BamHI, and purified.   2) The fragment template 21a-Dox was restriction-digested with XbaI and BamHI, gel-extracted, ligated to vector, and the correct transformants were picked. The first promoters (T7, T5, pLacUV5, Trc and BAD) in YX131, YX132, YX133, YX134 and YX130 control both the two genes tesA′ and dox.   

     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 8 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 The primers needed in optimization of the metabolic flow between 
               
               
                 α-dioxygenase and thioesterase 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 Primer 
                 number 
                 Sequence* 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 AflII-pACYC-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGCC CTTAAG TCGAACAGAAAGTA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 42 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 PstI-pACYC-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TATC TGCAG CATAAGGGAGAGCGTCGAGA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 43 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 PstI-pT5-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 AAA CTGCAG CCTTTCGTCTTCACCTCGAG 
               
               
                   
                 No. 44 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SacI-MCS-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TT GAGCTC GCATGCGGATCCTT 
               
               
                   
                 No. 45 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 PstI-pLacUV5-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 AAT CTGCAG CCGATGGCGCGCCGA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 46 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 AflII-rrnB-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TCGA CTTAAG CGTTCACCGACAAACAACAG 
               
               
                   
                 No. 47 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 PstI-Gibson-pHisTrc- 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TCTCGACGCTCTCCCTTATG CTGCAG ACATCATAACGGT 
               
               
                 fwd 
                 No. 48 
                 TCTGGCA 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 AflII-Gibson-rrnBT1- 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TACGATTACTTTCTGTTCGA CTTAAG GGCGGATTTGTCC 
               
               
                 rev 
                 No. 49 
                 TACTCAG 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 PstI-Gibson-araC-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 TCTCGACGCTCTCCCTTATG CTGCAG CCTGTCAAATGGA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 50 
                 CGAAG 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NdeI-tesA-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 CGGAT  GCGGACACGTTATTGAT 
               
               
                   
                 No. 51 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 KpnI-tesA-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 CCCC GGTACC    TGAGTCATGATTTACTA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 52 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NcoI-Dox-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GCG  GCAGCGGTTTATTCAA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 53 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 *Linear underlined sequences are the restriction sites, and bold, italic sequences are the start codon or stop codon. 
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 9 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Information of expression plasmids containing different promoters 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 Vectors 
                 Replication origin 
                 Promoters 
                 Resistance 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 YX210 
                 p15A 
                 P T5  and P T7   
                 Cam 
               
               
                 YX211 
                 p15A 
                 P lacUV5  and P T7   
                 Cam 
               
               
                 YX212 
                 p15A 
                 P Trc  and P T7   
                 Cam 
               
               
                 YX213 
                 p15A 
                 P BAD  with areC operon, and P T7   
                 Cam 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     9. Each plasmid was transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain by heat shock and screened on LB solid plate. The cells were all cultured in an incubator at 30° C., and the content of each antibiotic in the solid and liquid media was 34 μg/mL chloramphenicol. 
     10. The  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strains transformed with each of the plasmids were subjected to fermentation, with the same method process as in Example 1. 
     11. Extraction of aliphatic alcohols, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     12. Detection of the aliphatic alcohol extraction sample, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     Experiment Results: 
     The  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) were transformed with each plasmid and induced fermentation was conducted for 40 h at 30° C. The results of GC-MS analysis on the fermentation products are shown in  FIG. 4 . The metabolic flow between TesA′ and α-Dox was divided into two parts for optimization. 
     Firstly, TesA′ and α-Dox were expressed in two open reading frames (ORFs). TesA′ was controlled by the T7 promoter and α-Dox was expressed with five different promoters. When α-Dox was under the control of T7 promoter with the strongest expression of or BAD promoter with the weakest expression, the amount of aliphatic alcohol production was relatively low. When the expression intensity of α-Dox was moderate (controlled by T5, LacUV5 and Trc promoters), the output of aliphatic alcohols was relatively high. This indicated that the expression intensities between TesA′ and α-Dox were too much different from each other, and when the expression of α-Dox was slightly less than TesA′, the metabolic flow was relatively balanced. In addition, addition of the 6*His tag at the N-terminus of the α-Dox protein did not increase the output of aliphatic alcohols at the same intensity of expression, suggesting that α-Dox was stable in the (post) transcriptional and/or (post) translational stages. 
     Secondly, TesA′ and α-Dox were expressed in one open reading frame to optimize the expression intensities of the two genes. In the construction of plasmids, dox-tesA′ and tesA′-dox constructs were constructed respectively. When the two genes were simultaneously expressed in one open reading frame, the gene closer to the promoter will have stronger expression intensity. It can be seen from  FIG. 4  that the aliphatic alcohol output was higher when the tesA′ was closer to the promoter. This was consistent with the conclusion of the first optimization that TesA′ expression intensity needs to be slightly higher than α-Dox. In addition, the expression intensity of tesA′-dox should not be too high or too low, and when under the control of Trc promoter, the highest output of aliphatic alcohol was reached (35.2 mg/L). 
     The CYX134 plasmid in Example 4 was the plasmid most optimized in the metabolic flow between tesA′ and α-Dox in this example (CYX is equivalent to YX). 
     Example 8 
     Confirmation of the Extensive Substrate Selectivity and Controllability of α-Dioxygenase in Cells 
     Experiment Methods 
     1. Construction of fatty acid pathway over-expressing plasmids containing different thioesterases (YX101, YX102 and YX103)
     1) The vector was pACYCDute-1, restriction-digested with EcoRI and SacI, or restriction-digested with SalI and HindIII, and purified.   2) The fragment templates were three different thioesterase genes: tesA′ gene in pKS1 (derived from  Escherichia coli ), or synthetic bte (derived from  Umbellularia californica ) and BnFatA gene (derived from  Brassica napus ), and different gene fragments were amplified by corresponding primers (the primer sequences are shown in Table 10, and the names of the fragments and the length after PCR are shown in Table 11), restriction-digested, purified, and ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with the primer Duet-seq-F and the primer pACYCDuet-R, with the correct length shown in Table 11.   

     Construction of aliphatic alcohol synthesis pathway over-expressing plasmids containing different thioesterases (YX135, YX104 and YX105)
     1) The vectors were YX101, YX102 or YX103, restriction-digested with NcoI and BamHI, and purified.   2) The fragment template was the synthetic dox gene, amplified with the primers NcoI-Dox-fwd and BamHI-SpeI-Dox-rev, with the length after PCR of 1874, restriction-digested, purified, ligated to vector, and the correct transformants were picked.   

     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 10 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 The list of primers needed to confirm the extensive substrate selectivity and 
               
               
                 controllability of α-dioxygenase possesses in cells 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 Primer 
                 number 
                 Sequence* 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 EcoRI-RBS-tesA-fwd 
                 SEQ ID No. 54 
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SacI-tesA-rev 
                 SEQ ID No. 55 
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SalI-RBS-BTE-fwd 
                 SEQ ID No. 56 
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 HindIII-BET-rev 
                 SEQ ID No. 57 
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 SalI-BnFatA-RBS-fwd 
                 SEQ ID No. 58 
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 HindIII-BnFatA-rev 
                 SEQ ID No. 59 
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 11 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Detailed information of the fragments 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Name of the 
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                   
                 constructed 
                 Name of the 
                 Fragment 
               
               
                   
                 plasmid 
                 fragment 
                 length 
                 Colony PCR length 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 YX101 
                 pKS1 
                 585 
                 835 
               
               
                   
                 YX102 
                 BTE 
                 941 
                 1187 
               
               
                   
                 YX103 
                 BnFatA 
                 1137 
                 1383 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     3. YX101, YX102 and YX103 plasmids were respectively transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain by heat shock and screened on LB solid plate. All the cells were cultured in an incubator at 30° C., and the content of each antibiotic in the solid and liquid media was 34 μg/mL of chloramphenicol. 
     4. The  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain transformed with each plasmid was subjected to fermentation as in Example 1. 
     5. Extraction of fatty acid: 0.5 mL of medium fermented at 30° C. for 40 h after induction was sampled, and 50 μL of hydrochloric acid and 25 μg of heptadecanoic acid were added as internal standards; 0.5 mL ethyl acetate was added, vortexed for 5 min, and centrifugated at 15000 rpm for 2 min (the same hereinafter); the top-layer organic phase was aspirated, 0.5 mL ethyl acetate was added to the bottom-layer solution again, vortexed for 5 min, and centrifuged to obtain the top-layer organic phase; the two parts of extracts were combined, and the extracted free fatty acids were methylated by addition of 20 μl of diazomethane, 1 μL of hydrochloric acid and 9 μL of methanol, and the mixture was blow-dried with nitrogen gas after two hours of reaction; the evaporated product (fatty acid methyl ester, FAME) was dissolved in 0.5 mL of n-hexane, and filtered with 0.22 μm nylon membrane. Samples were stored in a −80° C. refrigerator prior to injecting. 
     6. Detection of fatty acid extraction samples, the method process was the same as that of Example 1 for the detection of aliphatic alcohols. 
     7. YX135, YX104 and YX105 plasmids were respectively transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain by heat shock and screened on LB solid plate. The cells were all cultured in an incubator at 30° C., and the content of each antibiotic in the solid and liquid media was 34 μg/mL of chloramphenicol. 
     8. The  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain transformed with each plasmid were subjected to fermentation, with the same method process as in Example 1. 
     9. Extraction of aliphatic alcohols, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     10. Detection of aliphatic alcohol extraction samples, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     Experiment Results 
     The  E. coli  containing YX101, YX102 or YX103 plasmids was subjected to fermentation, and the results are shown in  FIG. 5 . The engineered strains over-expressing TesA′, BTE or BnFatA synthesized fatty acids of C 14 /C 16  (39%/36%), C 12  (75%) and C 16 /C 18  (75%/24%) as the major products, respectively. When αDOX was co-over-expressed with thioesterase, the different engineered strains synthesized C 13 /C 15  (57%/30%), C 11  (95%), as well as C 15  (93%) of aliphatic aldehydes+aliphatic alcohols as the major products. This indicates that the ratio of the product of the aliphatic aldehydes+the aliphatic alcohols after over-expression of αDOX matches the ratio of the product of the precursor fatty acids. The only exception was when BnFatA was over-expressed, there was 24% of the C18 fatty acids, however, no corresponding C17 aliphatic aldehyde/alcohol was produced after over-expression of αDOX. These results indicate that αDOX was capable of oxidizing C12-C16 fatty acids in the cell. In this range, it was possible to convert fatty acid substrate with different chain lengths into the corresponding aliphatic aldehyde, indicating that the controllability was possessed by αDOX and the present system. 
     Example 9 
     Regulation of the Expression Intensity of the Upstream Fatty Acid Synthesis Pathway to Increase the Synthesis Ability of Odd Numbered Medium Chain Aliphatic Alcohols 
     Experiment Methods 
     1. Construction of an upstream fatty acid pathway over-expression plasmids
     1) The vector was pTrcHis2A, restriction-digested with NcoI and BamHI, and purified.   2) The fragment template was  E. coli  MG1655 genome, amplified with primers NcoI-GCG- *** -fwd and BamHI-SpeI- *** -rev for different gene fragments (*** represents a gene name) (see primer sequence in Table 12, and the fragment name and length after PCR shown in Table 13, wherein substitution of XhoI restriction site was required in FabD and substitution of NcoI restriction site was required in FabG), gel-extracted, restriction-digested with NcoI and BamHI, purified, and ligated to vector.   3) Colony PCR with primer pTrcHis2A-F and primer pTrcHis2A-R, with the correct length shown in Table 13.   

     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 12 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 The list of primers needed in over-expression of fatty acid pathway genes 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 Primer 
                 number 
                 Sequence* 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NcoI-GCG-fabD-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 CGTT  CGACGCAATTTGCATTTGTGTT 
               
               
                   
                 No. 60 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 BamHI-SpeI-fabD- 
                 SEQ ID 
                 AA GGATCC GAAT  AAGCTCCAGCGCCGCTGC 
               
               
                 rev 
                 No. 61 
                 CATCGCTGA 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NcoI-GCG-fabG-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGGT  CGAATTTTGAAGGAAAAATCGC 
               
               
                   
                 No. 62 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 BamHI-SpeI-fabG- 
                 SEQ ID 
                 AA GGATCC GAAT  GACCATGTACATCCCGCCG 
               
               
                 rev 
                 No. 63 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NcoI-fabA-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGT  TAGATAAACGCGAATC 
               
               
                   
                 No. 64 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 BamHI-SpeI-fabA- 
                 SEQ ID 
                 AA GGATCC GAAT  GAAGGCAGACGTATCC 
               
               
                 rev 
                 No. 65 
                 G 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NcoI-GCG-fabI-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGTT  GTTTTCTTTCCGGTAA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 66 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 BamHI-SpeI-fabI-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 AA GGATCCG AAT  TTTCAGTTCGAGTTCGT 
               
               
                   
                 NO. 67 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NcoI-GCG-fabB-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 AATT  CGAAACGTGCAGTGATTACTGG 
               
               
                   
                 No. 68 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 BamHI-SpeI-fabB- 
                 SEQ ID 
                 AA GGATCC GAAT  ATCTTTCAGCTTGCGCATT 
               
               
                 rev 
                 No. 69 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 NcoI-fadR-fwd 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GGTT  TCATTAAGGCGCAAAG 
               
               
                   
                 No. 70 
                   
               
               
                   
               
               
                 BamHI-fadR-rev 
                 SEQ ID 
                 GA GGATCC GAAT  TCGCCCCTGAATGGCTA 
               
               
                   
                 No. 71 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 *Linear underlined sequences are the restriction sites, and bold, italic sequences are the start codon or stop codon. 
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 13 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Detailed information of the fragments 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Name of the 
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                   
                 constructed 
                 Name of the 
                   
                 Colony PCR 
               
               
                   
                 plasmid 
                 fragment 
                 Fragment length 
                 length 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 FabA 
                 fabA 
                 534 
                 863 
               
               
                   
                 FabI 
                 fabI 
                 814 
                 1133 
               
               
                   
                 FabG 
                 fabG 
                 761 
                 1082 
               
               
                   
                 FabD 
                 fabD 
                 955 
                 1277 
               
               
                   
                 FabB 
                 fabB 
                 1246 
                 1568 
               
               
                   
                 FadR 
                 fadR 
                 735 
                 1055 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     2. Knockout of the fadD and fadE genes in the β-oxidation pathway
     1) Primer sequences for homologous recombination are shown in Table 14. The chloramphenicol was amplified from pKD3 plasmids with these two primers, the products were identified by agarose gel electrophoresis, and PCR gel-extraction products were recovered by agarose gel DNA recovery kit.   2) The plasmid pKD46 was transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) and the bacteria were cultured overnight in LB liquid medium at 30° C. The activated bacteria were inoculated into a liquid medium containing 10 mmol/L of L-arabinose in a ratio of 1:100; when the bacterial OD 600  reaches 0.5-0.6, pre-cooled on ice for 10 min, and centrifuged at 4° C., 4000 rpm for 5 min (the same hereinafter), followed by 3 times of centrifugation and washing with 10% chilling glycerol, concentrated 100-fold to electro-transfer competent cells, with 100 μL for each tube, and stored in −80° C. refrigerator for use.   3) Electroporator 2170 (Eppendorf, Germany) (0.1-cm chambers) was employed to transform the PCR-gel-extracted products in step 1) (10-100 ng) into competent BL-46 cells which were subjected to 1800 V electric shock for 5-6 ms, followed by addition of 1 mL antibiotic-free-LB medium, recovered at 37° C., 150 rpm for 3-4 h, and thereafter half of the cells were plated on LB plate medium containing 25 μg/mL chloramphenicol, with the remaining cells standing overnight at room temperature. If there was still no strain growing in the chloramphenicol plate after 24 h, these remaining cells were re-plated.   4) Single colonies in the plate of step 3) were picked, and colony PCR was conducted to verify whether the fadE gene in the genome had been substituted with chloramphenicol.   5) The correct transformants verified in step 4) were inoculated into 2 mL chloramphenicol LB medium and cultured at 43° C. for 12 h to delete the pKD46 plasmid. After streaking, the same single colony was picked and plated on ampicillin and chloramphenicol plates simultaneously, and cultured at 30° C. for 24 h, and if the same single colony grows in the chloramphenicol plate while not in the ampicillin plate, pKD46 was completely deleted.   6) The transformants with pKD46 deleted were inoculated and prepared into electroporation competent cells, and transformed with pCP20 plasmid; after recovered in 1 mL of antibiotic-free medium at 30° C. for 3-4 h, 100 μL was aspirated and inoculated into 2 mL of duel-antibiotic medium of ampicillin and chloramphenicol and cultured overnight at 30° C., followed by inoculation into antibiotic-free medium with a ratio of 1:200, cultured at 43° C. till stable phase and streaked on an antibiotic-free LB plate; single colonies were picked and streaked respectively on ampicillin plates and chloramphenicol plates to verify the ejection of chloramphenicol in chromatin and loss of pCP20 plasmid. PCR and sequencing verification were also performed.   

     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 14 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 The list of primers needed for knockout of fadD and fadE genes in  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) 
               
               
                 genome 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 Primer 
                 number 
                 Sequence* 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 fadE-pKD3-fwd 
                 SEQ ID No. 72 
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 fadE-pKD3-rev 
                 SEQ ID No. 73 
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 fadD-pKD3-fwd 
                 SEQ ID No. 74 
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 fadD-pKD3-rev 
                 SEQ ID No. 75 
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 
                   
                     
                     
                         
                         
                     
                   
                 
               
            
           
         
       
     
     3. CYX144 plasmid and one of the plasmids constructed in method 1 were transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain by heat shock and screened on LB solid plate. All the cells were cultured in an incubator at 30° C. The content of each antibiotic in the solid and liquid media was 34 μg/mL chloramphenicol and 100 μg/mL ampicillin. 
     4. The  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain transformed with each plasmid were subjected to fermentation, with the same method process as in Example 1. When the CYX144 and fab genes were co-transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain for fermentation, the IPTG concentration was divided into three concentrations, 1 mM, 0.1 mM and 0.01 mM, for induction. 
     5. Extraction of aliphatic alcohols, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     6. Detection of aliphatic alcohol extraction samples, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     Experiment Results 
     Each plasmid was transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) and the bacteria were induced to ferment for 40 h at 30° C. The results of GC-MS analysis on fermentation products are shown in  FIG. 6 . When the IPTG concentration was 1 mM, none of the genes in the over-expressed fatty acid synthesis pathway could enhance the synthesis ability of aliphatic alcohol; blocking of the fatty acid β-oxidation pathway by knockout of the fadD or fadE gene also did not promote the synthesis of aliphatic alcohol. However, when the concentration of the inducer IPTG was reduced to 0.1 mM, over-expression of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC), FabD, FabI and FadR was capable of significantly increasing the output of aliphatic alcohols. For example, when FabD or FadR was co-over-expressed with CYX144, the output of odd numbered chain aliphatic alcohols was capable of being increased from 65.1 mg/L to 100.8 mg/L or 101.5 mg/L. When the concentration of IPTG was 0.01 mM, similarly, the overexpression of ACC, FabD, Fab I and FadR was capable of promoting the output of aliphatic alcohols. When FadR was co-over-expressed with CYX144, the output of aliphatic alcohols was 77.1% higher than that when CYX144 was over-expressed alone. 
     Example 10 
     Fed-Batch Fermentation 
     Experiment Methods: 
     1. CYX144 and FadR plasmids were transformed into  E. coli  BL21 (DE3) strain by heat shock and the bacteria were cultured overnight on LB solid plate at 30° C.; the recombinant single colonies were inoculated into 2 mL of LB medium and cultured at 30° C. until OD reached 2.5-4, and transferred to 20 mL of M9 medium at a ratio of 1:100, cultured at 30° C. until OD reached 2.5-4 and then transferred to 800 mL of M9 medium at a ratio of 1:100. When OD reached 2.5-4, the culture medium was centrifuged and concentrated to 50 mL and inoculated to 2.5 L fermentor for fed-batch fermentation. When the OD reached 15, induction was performed with 10 μM IPTG. Sampled for every 4 h, with 15 mL each time for analysis on cell density, glycerol, acetic acid, aliphatic alcohol concentrations. The content of each antibiotic in the solid and liquid media was 34 μg/mL of chloramphenicol and 100 μg/mL of ampicillin. 
     2. Cell densities were measured with a TU-1810 UV-Vis spectrophotometer (Beijing Purkinje General Instrument Co., Ltd.) at a wavelength of 600. 
     3. Measurement of glycerol and acetic acid concentrations: 1 mL of fermentation broth was centrifuged at 12,000 rpm for 10 min, and the supernatant was filterd with 0.22 μm filtration membrane and diluted as appropriate, or directly injected into HPLC for separation and detection. HPLC was Waters e2695, the detector was a 2414 RI differential detector, and the chromatographic column was Aminex HPX-87H column (BioRad, CA); the column temperature was maintained at 65° C. and the mobile phase was 5 mM dilute sulphuric acid aqueous solution with a flow rate of 0.6 mL/min. 
     4. Extraction of aliphatic alcohols, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     5. Detection of aliphatic alcohol extraction samples, the method process was the same as in Example 1. 
     Experiment Results 
     As shown in  FIG. 7 , after 18.5 h of induction, the yield of fatty alcohol reached 1.95 g/L, the OD value was 124.5 and the productivity was 0.105 g/L/h. The rates of glycerol consumption and addition were almost the same during fermentation, without generation of acetic acid. During the process of fermentation, the proportion of aliphatic alcohols with different chain length was almost constant over time, and at the end of fermentation, the proportions of C11, C13 and C15 fatty alcohols were 18.6%, 66.2% and 15.2%, respectively. 
     The gene, the encoded protein and use thereof, the gene element, the method for synthesizing an odd numbered medium chain aliphatic aldehyde, and the method for synthesizing an even numbered medium chain aliphatic hydrocarbon according to the present invention are described above in detail. The principles and embodiments of the present invention have been described using specific examples, and the description of the above examples is only for helping understanding the method of the present invention and the core idea thereof. It should be noted that a number of improvements and modifications of the present invention can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the principles of the present invention, these improvements and modifications also fall within the protection scope of the present invention as defined by the claims of the present invention.