Modular engineering of Escherichia coli for high-level production of l-tryptophan].

As an essential amino acid, l-tryptophan is widely used in food, feed and medicine sectors. Nowadays, microbial l-tryptophan production suffers from low productivity and yield. Here we construct a chassis E. coli TRP3 producing 11.80 g/L l-tryptophan, which was generated by knocking out the l-tryptophan operon repressor protein (trpR) and the l-tryptophan attenuator (trpL), and introducing the feedback-resistant mutant aroGfbr. On this basis, the l-tryptophan biosynthesis pathway was divided into three modules, including the central metabolic pathway module, the shikimic acid pathway to chorismate module and the chorismate to tryptophan module. Then we used promoter engineering approach to balance the three modules and obtained an engineered E. coli TRP9. After fed-batch cultures in a 5 L fermentor, tryptophan titer reached to 36.08 g/L, with a yield of 18.55%, which reached 81.7% of the maximum theoretical yield. The tryptophan producing strain with high yield laid a good foundation for large-scale production of tryptophan.

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Shuang Ding, Xiulai Chen, Cong Gao, Wei Song, Jing Wu, Wanqing Wei, Jia Liu, Liming Liu. Modular engineering of Escherichia coli for high-level production of l-tryptophan]. Sheng wu gong cheng xue bao = Chinese journal of biotechnology. 2023 Jun 25;39(6):2359-2374

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