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The commercial demand for pyruvate has been expanding. However, some challenges need to be overcome in the microbial production of pyruvate, such as low glucose consumption caused by excessive accumulation of NADH. In this study, weakening or block of the TCA cycle, overexpression of foreign NADH oxidase, and carbon sources with different oxidation state was attempted to decrease NADH accumulation in engineered strain YP211. Results showed that blocking or weakening TCA cycle could not lower the intracellular redox state in strain YP211.Overexpressing NADH oxidase from Lactococcus lactis significantly decreased the intracellular NADH content and increased the consumption rate of glucose. However, the yield of pyruvate did not increase significantly. Compared with glucose as carbon source, sodium gluconate with a higher oxidation state resulted in a significant decrease of NADH/NAD+, and the concentration and yield of pyruvate increased by 62 and 6%, respectively. In the fed-batch fermentation, the yield of pyruvate increased to 0.78 g/g gluconate, and the concentration of pyruvate reached 78.8 g/L. It was suggested that sodium gluconate was a more ideal carbon source for strain YP211, which could effectively decrease NADH content and improve the pyruvate production.
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Yang, M., Xing, J. Improvement of pyruvate production based on regulation of intracellular redox state in engineered Escherichia coli . Biotechnol Bioproc E 22, 376–381 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12257-017-0061-z
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