Exploring Amino Sugar and Phosphoenolpyruvate Metabolism to Improve Escherichia coli N-Acetylneuraminic Acid Production.

N-acetyl-d-neuraminic acid (NeuAc) has attracted considerable attention because of its wide-ranging applications. The use of cheap carbon sources such as glucose without the addition of any precursor in microbial NeuAc production has many advantages. In this study, improved NeuAc production was attained through the optimization of amino sugar metabolism pathway kinetics and reservation of a phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) pool in Escherichia coli. N-acylglucosamine 2-epimerase and N-acetylneuraminate synthase from different sources and their best combinations were used to obtain optimized enzyme kinetics and expression intensity, which resulted in a significant increase in NeuAc production. Next, after a design was engineered for enabling the PEP metabolic pathway to retain the PEP pool, the production of NeuAc reached 16.7 g/L, which is the highest NeuAc production rate that has been reported from using glucose as the sole carbon source.

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Qingxiao Pang, Hao Han, Ya Xu, Xiaoqin Liu, Qingsheng Qi, Qian Wang. Exploring Amino Sugar and Phosphoenolpyruvate Metabolism to Improve Escherichia coli N-Acetylneuraminic Acid Production. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. 2020 Oct 21;68(42):11758-11764

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PMID: 32960055

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