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The experiments presented here were based on the conclusions of our previous results. In order to avoid introduction of expression plasmid and to balance the NADH/NAD ratio, the NADH biosynthetic enzyme, i.e., NAD-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GADPH), was replaced by NADP-dependent GADPH, which was used to biosynthesize NADPH rather than NADH. The results indicated that the NADH/NAD ratio significantly decreased, and glucose consumption and l-lysine production drastically improved. Moreover, increasing the flux through l-lysine biosynthetic pathway and disruption of ilvN and hom, which involve in the branched amino acid and l-methionine biosynthesis, further improved l-lysine production by Corynebacterium glutamicum. Compared to the original strain C. glutamicum Lys5, the l-lysine production and glucose conversion efficiency (α) were enhanced to 81.0 ± 6.59 mM and 36.45 % by the resulting strain C. glutamicum Lys5-8 in shake flask. In addition, the by-products (i.e., l-threonine, l-methionine and l-valine) were significantly decreased as results of genetic modification in homoserine dehydrogenase (HSD) and acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS). In fed-batch fermentation, C. glutamicum Lys5-8 began to produce l-lysine at post-exponential growth phase and continuously increased over 36 h to a final titer of 896 ± 33.41 mM. The l-lysine productivity was 2.73 g l−1 h−1 and the α was 47.06 % after 48 h. However, the attenuation of MurE was not beneficial to increase the l-lysine production because of decreasing the cell growth. Based on the above-mentioned results, we get the following conclusions: cofactor NADPH, precursor, the flux through l-lysine biosynthetic pathway and DCW are beneficial to improve l-lysine production in C. glutamicum.
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This work was financially supported by the Program of Chinese 863 National High-Tech Research and Development Plan Project (No. 2008AA02Z212) and by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
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Xu, J., Han, M., Zhang, J. et al. Metabolic engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum for the l-lysine production by increasing the flux into l-lysine biosynthetic pathway. Amino Acids 46, 2165–2175 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00726-014-1768-1
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