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Physiological characterization of the high malic acid-producing Aspergillus oryzae strain 2103a-68
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- Knuf, Christoph, 1984 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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- Nookaew, Intawat, 1977 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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- Remmers, Ilse (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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- Khoomrung, Sakda, 1978 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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- Brown, Stephen H. (author)
- Novozymes, Inc.
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- Berry, Alan (author)
- Novozymes, Inc.
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- Nielsen, Jens B, 1962 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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Chalmers tekniska högskola Novozymes, Inc (creator_code:org_t)
- 2014-01-11
- 2014
- English.
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In: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1432-0614 .- 0175-7598. ; 98:8, s. 3517-3527
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- Malic acid is a C-4 dicarboxylic acid that is currently mainly used in the food and beverages industry as an acidulant. Because of the versatility of the group of C-4 dicarboxylic acids, the chemical industry has a growing interest in this chemical compound. As malic acid will be considered as a bulk chemical, microbial production requires organisms that sustain high rates, yields, and titers. Aspergillus oryzae is mainly known as an industrial enzyme producer, but it was also shown that it has a very competitive natural production capacity for malic acid. Recently, an engineered A. oryzae strain, 2103a-68, was presented which overexpressed pyruvate carboxylase, malate dehydrogenase, and a malic acid transporter. In this work, we report a detailed characterization of this strain including detailed rates and yields under malic acid production conditions. Furthermore, transcript levels of the genes of interest and corresponding enzyme activities were measured. On glucose as carbon source, 2103a-68 was able to secrete malic acid at a maximum specific production rate during stationary phase of 1.87 mmol (g dry weight (DW))(-1) h(-1) and with a yield of 1.49 mol mol(-1). Intracellular fluxes were obtained using C-13 flux analysis during exponential growth, supporting the success of the metabolic engineering strategy of increasing flux through the reductive cytosolic tricarboxylic acid (rTCA) branch. Additional cultivations using xylose and a glucose/xylose mixture demonstrated that A. oryzae is able to efficiently metabolize pentoses and hexoses to produce malic acid at high titers, rates, and yields.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Mikrobiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Microbiology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Metabolic engineering
- Aspergillus oryzae
- Dicarboxylic acid
- PATHWAY
- IDENTIFICATION
- WIDE ANALYSIS
- Xylose
- RT-PCR
- EXPRESSION
- Malate
- QUANTIFICATION
- METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS
- LOCALIZATION
- ACCUMULATION
- SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE
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