Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (2): 93-100.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2018-0624

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Effects of Site-directed Mutation of Gene lysC and Co-expression of lysC-asdA Cluster on L-threonine Accumulation in Corynebacterium glutamate

HUANG Qin-qin, WANG Hui-mei, LIANG Ling, HUANG Qin-geng, WU Song-gang, HUANG Jian-zhong   

  1. Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microbiology of the Ministry of Education,College of Life Science,Fujian Normal University,Fuzhou 350117
  • Received:2018-07-09 Online:2019-02-26 Published:2019-03-07

Abstract: Aspartate kinase(AK)and aspartate semi-aldehyde dehydrogenase(ASD)encoded by gene lysC and gene asdA are two key rate-limiting enzymes playing vital roles in L-threonine synthesis pathway,and AK was co-inhibited by lysine and threonine. Selecting Corynebacterium glutamicum T11 as the original strain,the lysC-asdA gene co-expression cassette were constructed,the key rate-limiting enzyme gene lysC was mutated by site-directed mutation at Ala279Th,and the anti-feedback inhibition mutant gene,named lysCr-asdA,was obtained,and was inserted into the shuttle expression vector pZ8-1 containing the strong promoter tac,thus the tandem expression plasmid pZ8-1-lysCr-asdA was constructed successfully and transformed into the starting strain,then,the engineering strain T11/pZ8-1-lysCr-asdA was obtained. The production of L-threonine by shaking flask was 7.18 g/L,which was 27.8% higher than that by the original strain. The results of further batch fermentation in 30 L fermenter showed that the yield of L-threonine reached 65.5 g/L for 60 h and the conversion rate of sugar and acid reached 39.5 g/L,increasing by 29.5% and 33.9% higher than by the original strain. It provides a strong basis for further constructing Corynebacterium glutamicum engineering strain highly yielding threonine.

Key words: L-threonine, Corynebacterium glutamicum, aspartate kinase, aspartate semi-aldehyde dehydrogenase, co-expession