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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep13814
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- National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 -Program) [2012CB725204]
- National Key Technology Support Program [2015BAD16B04]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [31470213, 31170030]
- Project of Tianjin, China [13JCZDJC27800, 13JCYBJC24900, 13TXSYJC40100, 14ZCZDSF00009]
- Ph.D. Candidate Research Innovation Fund of Nankai University
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Microbial levan is an important biopolymer with considerable potential in food and medical applications. Bacillus amyloliquefaciens NK-Delta LP strain can produce high-purity, low-molecular-weight levan, but production is relatively low. To enhance the production of levan, six extracellular protease genes (bpr, epr, mpr, vpr, nprE and aprE), together with the tasA gene (encoding the major biofilm matrix protein TasA) and the pgsBCA cluster (responsible for poly-gamma-glutamic acid (gamma-PGA) synthesis), were intentionally knocked out in the Bacillus amyloliquefaciens NK-1 strain. The highest levan production (31.1 g/L) was obtained from the NK-Q-7 strain (Delta tasA, Delta bpr, Delta epr, Delta mpr, Delta vpr, Delta nprE, Delta aprE and Delta pgsBCA), which was 103% higher than that of the NK-Delta LP strain (Delta pgsBCA) (15.3 g/L). Furthermore, the NK-Q-7 strain also showed a 94.1% increase in alpha-amylase production compared with NK-Delta LP strain, suggesting a positive effect of extracellular protease genes deficient on the production of endogenously secreted proteins. This is the first report of the improvement of levan production in microbes deficient in extracellular proteases and TasA, and the NK-Q-7 strain exhibits outstanding characteristics for extracellular protein production or extracellular protein related product synthesis.
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