Abstract
l-lysine is an essential amino acid required for nutrition of animals and humans. It has to be present in food and feed, which, in many cases, is realized by supplementation of the feed-stuffs with pure lysine. The high importance of lysine in nutrition has stimulated intensive research on the lysine biosynthetic pathways and their regulation and the search for microorganisms capable of over-producing this amino acid. As an important milestone, the glutamate producing soil bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum was isolated in 1956 and soon received interest to be used for production of another amino acid stemming from the TCA cycle: lysine. Within a few years the first lysine producing strains were obtained. The past 50 years following the discovery of C. glutamicum were characterized by a huge progress towards understanding the physiology of this organism and developing and optimizing industrial production strains. This has resulted in effective biotechnological processes currently used for producing about 750 000 tons of lysine per year. Today, systems-oriented approaches aiming at investigating the link between the different components of cellular physiology such as transcriptome, fluxome and metabolome, provide a novel powerful platform that will surely drive future research towards holistic understanding of lysine over-producing microorganisms as well as the creation of superior production strains.
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Wittmann, C., Becker, J. (2007). The l-Lysine Story: From Metabolic Pathways to Industrial Production. In: Wendisch, V.F. (eds) Amino Acid Biosynthesis ~ Pathways, Regulation and Metabolic Engineering. Microbiology Monographs, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/7171_2006_089
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