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Improving the secretion of cadaverine in Corynebacterium glutamicum by cadaverine–lysine antiporter

  • Genetics and Molecular Biology of Industrial Organisms
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Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Abstract

Cadaverine (1,5-pentanediamine, diaminopentane), the desired raw material of bio-polyamides, is an important industrial chemical with a wide range of applications. Biosynthesis of cadaverine in Corynebacterium glutamicum has been a competitive way in place of petroleum-based chemical synthesis method. To date, the cadaverine exporter has not been found in C. glutamicum. In order to improve cadaverine secretion, the cadaverine–lysine antiporter CadB from Escherichia coli was studied in C. glutamicum. Fusion expression of cadB and green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene confirmed that CadB could express in the cell membrane of C. glutamicum. Co-expression of cadB and ldc from Hafnia alvei in C. glutamicum showed that the cadaverine secretion rate increased by 22 % and the yield of total cadaverine and extracellular cadaverine increased by 30 and 73 %, respectively. Moreover, the recombinant strain cultured at acid and neutral pH separately hardly had any difference in cadaverine concentrations. These results suggested that CadB could be expressed in the cell membrane of C. glutamicum and that recombinant CadB could improve cadaverine secretion and the yield of cadaverine. Moreover, the pH value did not affect the function of recombinant CadB. These results may be a promising metabolic engineering strategy for improving the yield of the desired product by enhancing its export out of the cell.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21176190), Key Technology Research and Development Program of Tianjin, China (No. 11ZCKFSY00900) and Tianjin Research Program of Application Foundation and Advanced Technology (No. 11JCYBJC09600).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, National Engineering Laboratory for Industrial Enzymes, The College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

    Ming Li, Dongxia Li, Yunyan Huang, Meng Liu, Hongxin Wang, Qi Tang & Fuping Lu

  2. The College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, No. 29, 13 Main Street, Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone, Tianjin, 300-457, People’s Republic of China

    Fuping Lu

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Li, M., Li, D., Huang, Y. et al. Improving the secretion of cadaverine in Corynebacterium glutamicum by cadaverine–lysine antiporter. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 41, 701–709 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-014-1409-4

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