Haitian Fang, Xixian Xie, Qingyang Xu, Chenglin Zhang, Ning Chen
Metabolic Engineering Laboratory, College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, No. 29 13 Main Street, Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone, Tianjin, China. fanght@nxu.edu.cn
Biotechnology letters 2013 FebCytidine is a precursor of several antiviral drugs. The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) is primarily responsible for NADPH and 5-phospho-α-D-ribose 1-diphosphate as an important precursor of cytidine biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. To enhance cytidine production, we obtained the recombinant E. coli CYT15-gnd-prs-zwf that co-expressed the prs, zwf, and gnd genes encoding phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (three key enzymes in PPP) respectively. In fermentation experiments, strain CYT15-gnd-prs-zwf produced 735 mg cytidine/l using glucose as substrate, which was approx. 128 % higher than the cytidine production by the parental strain (CYT15). Co-expression of zwf, gnd, and prs decreased growth (3.2 %) slightly and increased glucose uptake (72 %). This is the first study to report increased cytidine production by increasing metabolic flux through the PPP in E. coli.
Haitian Fang, Xixian Xie, Qingyang Xu, Chenglin Zhang, Ning Chen. Enhancement of cytidine production by coexpression of gnd, zwf, and prs genes in recombinant Escherichia coli CYT15. Biotechnology letters. 2013 Feb;35(2):245-51
PMID: 23070626
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