Se-Gul Jang, Byoung-Moo Lee, Jae-Yong Cho
Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, College of Health Science, Sangji University, Sangjidae-gil 83, Woosan-dong, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do 220-702, Korea.
Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology 2012 AprIn this study, the glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase gene (XOO2314) was inactivated in order to modulate the intracellular glucose 6-phosphate, and its effects on xanthan production in a wild-type strain of Xanthomonas oryzae were evaluated. The intracellular glucose 6-phosphate was increased from 17.6 to 99.4 μmol g⁻¹ (dry cell weight) in the gene-disrupted mutant strain. The concomitant increase in the glucose 6-phosphate was accompanied by an increase in xanthan production of up to 2.23 g l⁻¹ (culture medium). However, in defined medium supplemented with 0.4% glucose, the growth rate of the mutant strain was reduced to 52.9% of the wild-type level. Subsequently, when a family B ATP-dependent phosphofructokinase from Escherichia coli was overexpressed in the mutant strain, the growth rate was increased to 142.9%, whereas the yields of xanthan per mole of glucose remained approximately the same.
Se-Gul Jang, Byoung-Moo Lee, Jae-Yong Cho. Effect of modified glucose catabolism on xanthan production in Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology. 2012 Apr;39(4):649-54
PMID: 22075924
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