Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive bacterium that has gained an unprecedented reputation as an expression system at the industrial scale due to characteristics, such as GRAS (Generally recognized as safe), ease of genetic manipulation, high growth rate on the cheap substrate, and short fermentation cycle. This expression system has been widely accepted for the production of various chemicals, pharmaceutical products, food products, proteins, and enzymes. However, there are various hurdles to optimizing the production of heterologous protein in this expression system due to a lack of understanding regarding metabolic pathways and expression elements.
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