A bacterium for producing L-amino acid has improved expression of a polynucleotide encoding a protein represented by SEQ ID NO:3 and improved expression of a polynucleotide encoding a protein represented by SEQ ID NO:31, and/or has mutations in bases at positions −45 bp and −47 bp of a promotor region represented by SEQ ID NO:57. A polynucleotide, encodes proteins and can be included in a recombinant vector, which can be included in a recombinant strain. These are useful in a method for producing L-amino acid. The polynucleotide encodes a protein which is represented by SEQ ID NO:3 and has arginine at position 334 substituted by a terminator or encodes a protein which is represented by SEQ ID NO:31 and has tyrosine at position 592 substituted by phenylalanine, or is formed by mutations in bases at positions −45 bp and −47 bp of a promotor region represented by SEQ ID NO:57.

The present disclosure relates to the field of genetic engineering, especially relates to a xylose-induced genetically engineered bacteria used for producing ectoine as well as a construction method and use thereof. The genetically engineered bacteria is constructed by heterologously expressing the ectABC gene cluster from Halomonas elongata on the E. coli chromosome, using the promoter of xylose transporter coding gene xylF to control the RNA polymerase from T7 bacteriophage, reconstructing a synthesis pathway of ectoine and constructing a plasmid-free system, and enhancing the expression of target genes by a strong promoter T7; the yield of ectoine reached 12-16 g/L after 20-28 h fermentation in shake flask, and reached 35-50 g/L after 24-40 h fermentation in a 5 L fermentor.

The present disclosure relates to a variant of YjeH, which is an inner membrane protein, a microorganism including the same, and a method for producing a target product using the same.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a recombinant polypeptide of interest in a microbial host cell, comprising (a) introducing a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide of interest into a microbial host cell which has been modified such that an enzymatic activity selected from the group consisting of ketol-acid reductoisomerase (NADP(+)) activity (EC 1.1.1.86), acetohydroxyacid synthase activity (EC 2.2.1.6), aspartate kinase activity (EC 2.7.2.4), homoserine dehydrogenase activity (EC 1.1.1.3), and L-threonine dehydratase activity (EC 4.3.1.19) is modulated in said microbial host cell as compared to the enzymatic activity in an unmodified microbial host cell, and (b) expressing said polypeptide of interest in said microbial host cell. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for reducing misincorporation of at least one non-canonical branched-chain amino acid into a recombinant polypeptide of interest expressed in a microbial host cell.

Recombinant microbial cells are provided which have been engineered to produce fatty acid derivatives having linear chains containing an odd number of carbon atoms by the fatty acid biosynthetic pathway. Also provided are methods of making odd chain fatty acid derivatives using the recombinant microbial cells, and compositions comprising odd chain fatty acid derivatives produced by such methods.

The present invention relates to a compound of general formula I ##STR00001## The present invention also relates to a method of producing N-acetyl homoserine and/or derivatives thereof, the method comprising contacting at least one recombinant cell in an aqueous medium with acetate wherein the recombinant cell comprises an increased activity relative to a wild type cell of (a) an enzyme E.sub.1, a homoserine dehydrogenase (EC1.1.1.3) and/or an enzyme E.sub.5, an aspartokinase (EC2.7.2.4); and (b) an enzyme E.sub.2, a homoserine O-acetyl transferase (EC2.3.1.31)
and the acetate is maintained at a concentration of at least about 0.001 g/L in the aqueous medium.

The present invention relates to the field of bio-production of ectoine. There is a need in the art for ectoine production methods allowing its highly efficient synthesis and secretion. The solution proposed in the present invention is the use of a genetically modified yeast comprising many modifications as described in the present text.

The present disclosure relates to various different types of variants in E. coli coding and noncoding regions leading to enhanced lysine production for, e.g., supplements and nutraceuticals.

The present disclosure describes the engineering of microbial cells for fermentative production of ectoine and provides novel engineered microbial cells and cultures, as well as related ectoine production methods.

Provided microorganisms genetically modified to overexpress an imine/enamine deaminase to enhance the production of lysine and lysine derivatives by the microorganism. Also provided a method of generating such microorganism, and methods of producing lysine and lysine derivatives using the genetically modified microorganisms.