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Engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for growth and L-lysine and lycopene production from N-acetyl-glucosamine.

Authors :
Matano C
Uhde A
Youn JW
Maeda T
Clermont L
Marin K
Krämer R
Wendisch VF
Seibold GM
Source :
Applied microbiology and biotechnology [Appl Microbiol Biotechnol] 2014 Jun; Vol. 98 (12), pp. 5633-43. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Mar 26.
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

Sustainable supply of feedstock has become a key issue in process development in microbial biotechnology. The workhorse of industrial amino acid production Corynebacterium glutamicum has been engineered towards utilization of alternative carbon sources. Utilization of the chitin-derived aminosugar N-acetyl-glucosamine (GlcNAc) for both cultivation and production with C. glutamicum has hitherto not been investigated. Albeit this organism harbors the enzymes N-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphatedeacetylase and glucosamine-6P deaminase of GlcNAc metabolism (encoded by nagA and nagB, respectively) growth of C. glutamicum with GlcNAc as substrate was not observed. This was attributed to the lack of a functional system for GlcNAc uptake. Of the 17 type strains of the genus Corynebacterium tested here for their ability to grow with GlcNAc, only Corynebacterium glycinophilum DSM45794 was able to utilize this substrate. Complementation studies with a GlcNAc-uptake deficient Escherichia coli strain revealed that C. glycinophilum possesses a nagE-encoded EII permease for GlcNAc uptake. Heterologous expression of the C. glycinophilum nagE in C. glutamicum indeed enabled uptake of GlcNAc. For efficient GlcNac utilization in C. glutamicum, improved expression of nagE with concurrent overexpression of the endogenous nagA and nagB genes was found to be necessary. Based on this strategy, C. glutamicum strains for the efficient production of the amino acid L-lysine as well as the carotenoid lycopene from GlcNAc as sole substrate were constructed.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1432-0614
Volume :
98
Issue :
12
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Applied microbiology and biotechnology
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
24668244
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-014-5676-9