Abstract
Tryptophan is one of essential amino acids, and used as feed and food additives. In this study, tryptophan-overproducing Corynebacterium glutamicum strains were developed from TP679 as a mother strain, which has following genotype; Δcsm Δtr...
Abstract
Tryptophan is one of essential amino acids, and used as feed and food additives. In this study, tryptophan-overproducing Corynebacterium glutamicum strains were developed from TP679 as a mother strain, which has following genotype; Δcsm ΔtrpL::Pilvc-M1 trpEm Δvdh::PilvcaroGm. Since anthranilate phosphoribosyltransferase in tryptophan biosynthesis is subjected to feedback inhibition by tryptophan, a mutation at 162 th amino acid of TrpD was introduced by site-directed mutagenesis, leading to construction of A162S, A162T, A162D and A162E mutants. According to TrpD enzyme assay, A162D mutant showed a strong feedback-resistance to high concentrations of tryptophan up to 5 mM. In addition, TP679 harboring a plasmid expressing trpDm (A162D) produced 2.5 g/l tryptophan but not anthranilate. To increase serine pool necessary for tryptophan biosynthesis, a truncated form of serA encoding mutant SerA with deletion of 197 amino acids at C-terminal as well as a deletion of sdaA encoding serine deaminase were introduced into genome of TP793, respectively. As a result, TP823 with a deletion of sdaA yielded 10% increase of tryptophan titer compared to mother strain. Finally, the effect of tryptophan excretion on tryptophan production was assessed by expression of yddG encoding tryptophan exporter from E. coli, yielding 3.19 g/L tryptophan in flask culture and 11.4 g/l tryptophan in a 5-L bioreactor.