Authors: Anastasia S Sheremet Sergey V Gronskiy Ravil A Akhmadyshin Anna E Novikova Vitaliy A Livshits Rustem S Shakulov Natalia P Zakataeva
Publish Date: 2010/09/03
Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-70
Abstract
Using a simple method to introduce genetic modifications into the chromosome of naturally nontransformable Bacillus a set of markerfree inosineproducing and 5aminoimidazole4carboxamide AICA ribonucleosideproducing Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strains has been constructed These strains differ in expression levels of the genes responsible for nucleoside export Overexpression of B amyloliquefaciens pbuE and heterologous expression of Escherichia coli nepI which encode nucleoside efflux transporters each notably enhanced inosine production by a B amyloliquefaciens nucleosideproducing strain pbuE overexpression was found to increase AICA ribonucleoside accumulation indicating that the substrate specificity of the PbuE pump extends to this nucleoside These results demonstrate that identifying genes whose products facilitate transport of a desired nucleoside out of cells and enhancing their expression can improve the performance of strains used for industrial production
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