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Engineering Klebsiella oxytoca for efficient 2, 3-butanediol production through insertional inactivation of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase gene

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Abstract

Ethanol was a major byproduct of 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BD) fermentation by Klebsiella oxytoca ME-UD-3. In order to achieve a high efficiency of 2,3-BD production, K. oxytoca mutants deficient in ethanol formation were successfully constructed by replace the aldA gene coding for aldehyde dehydrogenase with a tetracycline resistance cassette. The results suggested that inactivation of aldA led to a significantly improved 2,3-BD production. The carbon flux to 2,3-BD was enhanced by eliminating the byproducing ethanol and at the same time reducing the accumulation of another byproduct acetoin. At last, by fed-batch culturing of the mutant, the final 2,3-BD titer up to 130 g/l with the productivity of 1.63 g/l.h and the 2,3-BD yield relative to glucose of 0.48 g/g was obtained.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 20606018), the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 20936002), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB707805), and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2006AA02Z244). X.-J. Ji was supported by the Innovation Fund for Doctoral Dissertation of Nanjing University of Technology (Grant No. BSCX200808).

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Ji, XJ., Huang, H., Zhu, JG. et al. Engineering Klebsiella oxytoca for efficient 2, 3-butanediol production through insertional inactivation of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase gene. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 85, 1751–1758 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-009-2222-2

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Keywords

  • 2,3-butanediol
  • Klebsiella oxytoca
  • Aldehyde dehydrogenase
  • Ethanol
  • Acetoin