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ArticleNature communications2024

Systems engineering of Escherichia coli for high-level glutarate production from glucose.

Zhilan Zhang, Ruyin Chu, Wanqing Wei, Wei Song, Chao Ye, Xiulai Chen, Jing Wu, Liming Liu, Cong Gao

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Systematically Engineering for Efficient Production of 3-Methyl-1-Butanol in Escherichia coli.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  8. Metabolic Engineering ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  9. OptimizingFrontiers in microbiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhilan ZhangSchool of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Ruyin ChuSchool of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Wanqing WeiSchool of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8768-5273
Wei SongSchool of Life Sciences and Health Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Chao YeSchool of Food Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210000, China.
Xiulai ChenSchool of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9749-4558
Jing WuSchool of Life Sciences and Health Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Liming LiuSchool of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3022-936X
Cong GaoSchool of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China. conggao@jiangnan.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-8505-2026
Jiangnan University · CNNanjing Normal University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glutarate is a key monomer in polyester and polyamide production. The low efficiency of the current biosynthetic pathways hampers its production by microbial cell factories. Herein, through metabolic simulation, a lysine-overproducing E. coli strain Lys5 is engineered, achieving titer, yield, and productivity of 195.9 g/L, 0.67 g/g glucose, and 5.4 g/L·h, respectively. Subsequently, the pathway involving aromatic aldehyde synthase, monoamine oxidase, and aldehyde dehydrogenase (AMA pathway) is introduced into E. coli Lys5 to produce glutarate from glucose. To enhance the pathway's efficiency, rational mutagenesis on the aldehyde dehydrogenase is performed, resulting in the development of variant Mu5 with a 50-fold increase in catalytic efficiency. Finally, a glutarate tolerance gene cbpA is identified and genomically overexpressed to enhance glutarate productivity. With enzyme expression optimization, the glutarate titer, yield, and productivity of E. coli AMA06 reach 88.4 g/L, 0.42 g/g glucose, and 1.8 g/L·h, respectively. These findings hold implications for improving glutarate biosynthesis efficiency in microbial cell factories.

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Escherichia coliGlutaratesAldehyde DehydrogenaseGlucoseMetabolic EngineeringAldehyde DehydrogenaseGlucoseGlutarates

Identifiers

PMID38310110
PMCPMC10838341
OpenAlexW4391509768

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