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WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 33-41Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-012-1155-6
Keywords
B. subtilis; Heterogeneous biosynthetic pathway; Lactate dehydrogenase; L-malate; Metabolic engineering
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- Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [20936002]
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [20976124, 20906070]
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In the present work, Bacillus subtilis was engineered to produce l-malate. Initially, the study revealed that the slight fumarase activity under anaerobic conditions is extremely favourable for l-malate one-step fermentation accumulation. Subsequently, an efficient heterologous biosynthesis pathway formed by Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and Saccharomyces cerevisiae malate dehydrogenase was introduced into B. subtilis, which led to 6.04 +/- A 0.19 mM l-malate production. Finally, the l-malate production was increased 1.5-fold to 9.18 +/- A 0.22 mM by the deletion of lactate dehydrogenase. Under two-stage fermentation conditions, the engineered B. subtilis produced up to 15.65 +/- A 0.13 mM l-malate, which was 86.3 % higher than that under anaerobic fermentation conditions. Though the l-malate production by the recombinant was low, this is the first attempt to produce l-malate in engineered B. subtilis and paves the way for further improving l-malate production in B. subtilis.
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