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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 75, Issue 3, Pages 589-595Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00973-08
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- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program [N000140510656]
- South Korean government (MOEHRD) [KRF-2007-357-D00090]
- Merck undergraduate research grant
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A synthetic pathway has been constructed for the production of glucuronic and glucaric acids from glucose in Escherichia coli. Coexpression of the genes encoding myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase (Ino1) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and myo-inositol oxygenase (MIOX) from mice led to production of glucuronic acid through the intermediate myo-inositol. Glucuronic acid concentrations up to 0.3 g/liter were measured in the culture broth. The activity of MIOX was rate limiting, resulting in the accumulation of both myo-inositol and glucuronic acid as final products, in approximately equal concentrations. Inclusion of a third enzyme, uronate dehydrogenase (Udh) from Pseudomonas syringae, facilitated the conversion of glucuronic acid to glucaric acid. The activity of this recombinant enzyme was more than 2 orders of magnitude higher than that of Ino1 and MIOX and increased overall flux through the pathway such that glucaric acid concentrations in excess of 1 g/liter were observed. This represents a novel microbial system for the biological production of glucaric acid, a top value-added chemical from biomass.
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