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BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 28, Issue 12, Pages 897-904Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-006-9023-9
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beta-carotene; metabolic engineering; over-production; synthetic operon
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To produce recombinant beta-carotene in vitro, synthetic operons encoding genes governing its biosynthesis were engineered into Escherichia coli. Constructs harboring these operons were introduced into either a high-copy or low-copy cloning vector. beta-Carotene production from these recombinant E. coli cells was either constitutive or inducible depending upon plasmid copy number. The most efficient beta-carotene production was with the low-copy based vector. The process was increased incrementally from a 5 l to a 50 l fermentor and finally into a 300 l fermentor. The maximal beta-carotene yields achieved using the 50 l and 300 l fermentor were 390 mg l(-1) and 240 mg l(-1), respectively, with overall productivities of 7.8 mg l(-1) h(-1) and 4.8 mgl(-1) 1h(-1).
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