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Appl. Environ. Microbiol., Jan 1995, 74-78, Vol 61, No. 1
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Effect of inducible thrB expression on amino acid production in Corynebacterium lactofermentum ATCC 21799

GE Colon, MS Jetten, TT Nguyen, ME Gubler, MT Follettie, AJ Sinskey and G Stephanopoulos
Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.

Amplification of the operon homdr-thrB encoding a feedback-insensitive homoserine dehydrogenase and a wild-type homoserine kinase in a Corynebacterium lactofermentum lysine-producing strain resulted in both homoserine and threonine accumulation, with some residual lysine production. A plasmid enabling separate transcriptional control of each gene was constructed to determine the effect of various enzyme activity ratios on metabolite accumulation. By increasing the activity of homoserine kinase relative to homoserine dehydrogenase activity, homoserine accumulation in the medium was essentially eliminated and the final threonine titer was increased by about 120%. Furthermore, a fortuitous result of the cloning strategy was an unexplained increase in homoserine dehydrogenase activity. This resulted in a further decrease in lysine production along with a concomitant increase in threonine accumulation.

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