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Appl. Environ. Microbiol., Dec 1995, 4315-4320, Vol 61, No. 12
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Use of Feedback-Resistant Threonine Dehydratases of Corynebacterium glutamicum To Increase Carbon Flux towards l-Isoleucine

S Morbach, H Sahm and L Eggeling
Biotechnologie 1, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, D-52425 Julich, Germany

The biosynthesis of l-isoleucine proceeds via a highly regulated reaction sequence connected with l-lysine and l-threonine synthesis. Using defined genetic Corynebacterium glutamicum strains characterized by different fluxes through the homoserine dehydrogenase reaction, we analyzed the influence of four different ilvA alleles (encoding threonine dehydratase) in vectors with two different copy numbers on the total flux towards l-isoleucine. For this purpose, 18 different strains were constructed and analyzed. The result was that unlike ilvA in vectors with low copy numbers, ilvA in high-copy-number vectors increased the final l-isoleucine yield by about 20%. An additional 40% increase in l-isoleucine yield was obtained by the use of ilvA alleles encoding feedback-resistant threonine dehydratases. The strain with the highest yield was characterized by three hom(Fbr) copies encoding feedback-resistant homoserine dehydrogenase and ilvA(Fbr) encoding feedback-resistant threonine dehydratase on a multicopy plasmid. It accumulated 96 mM l-isoleucine, without any l-threonine as a by-product. The highest specific productivity was 0.052 g of l-isoleucine per g of biomass per h. This comparative flux analysis of isogenic strains showed that high levels of l-isoleucine formation from glucose can be achieved by the appropriate balance of homoserine dehydrogenase and threonine dehydratase activities in a strain background with feedback-resistant aspartate kinase. However, still-unknown limitations are present within the entire reaction sequence.

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