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  • Title: Improving D-glucaric acid production from myo-inositol in E. coli by increasing MIOX stability and myo-inositol transport.
    Author: Shiue E, Prather KL.
    Journal: Metab Eng; 2014 Mar; 22():22-31. PubMed ID: 24333274.
    Abstract:
    D-glucaric acid has been explored for a myriad of potential uses, including biopolymer production and cancer treatment. A biosynthetic route to produce D-glucaric acid from glucose has been constructed in Escherichia coli (Moon et al., 2009b), and analysis of the pathway revealed myo-inositol oxygenase (MIOX) to be the least active enzyme. To increase pathway productivity, we explored protein fusion tags for increased MIOX solubility and directed evolution for increased MIOX activity. An N-terminal SUMO fusion to MIOX resulted in a 75% increase in D-glucaric acid production from myo-inositol. While our directed evolution efforts did not yield an improved MIOX variant, our screen isolated a 941 bp DNA fragment whose expression led to increased myo-inositol transport and a 65% increase in D-glucaric acid production from myo-inositol. Overall, we report the production of up to 4.85 g/L of D-glucaric acid from 10.8 g/L myo-inositol in recombinant E. coli.
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