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BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 28, Issue 16, Pages 1241-1246Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-006-9080-0
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Escherichia coli; metabolic engineering; nitrogen starvation; poly-gamma-glutamic acid; process optimization
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Metabolically-engineered Escherichia coli strains were developed by cloning poly-gamma-glutamic acid (gamma-PGA) biosynthesis genes, consisting of pgsB, pgsC and pgsA, from Bacillus subtilis The metabolic and regulatory pathways of gamma-PGA biosynthesis in E. coli were analyzed by DNA microarray. The inducible trc promoter and a constitutive promoter (P-HCE) derived from the D-amino acid aminotransferase (D-AAT) gene of Geobacillus toebii were employed. The constitutive HCE promoter was more efficient than inducible trc promoter for the expression of gamma-PGA biosynthesis genes. DNA microarray analysis showed that the expression levels of several NtrC family genes, glnA, glnK, glnG, yhdX, yhdY, yhdZ, amtB, nac, argT and cbl were up-regulated and sucA, B, C, D genes were down-regulated. When (NH4)(2)SO4 was added at 40 g/l into the feeding solution, the final gamma-PGA concentration reached 3.7 g/l in the fed-batch culture of recombinant E. coli/pCOpgs.
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