A manually curated compendium of expression profiles for the microbial cell factory Corynebacterium glutamicum.

Corynebacterium glutamicum is the major host for the industrial production of amino acids and has become one of the best studied model organisms in microbial biotechnology. Rational strain construction has led to an improvement of producer strains and to a variety of novel producer strains with a broad substrate and product spectrum. A key factor for the success of these approaches is detailed knowledge of transcriptional regulation in C.

The serine hydroxymethyltransferase gene glyA in Corynebacterium glutamicum is controlled by GlyR.

Serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) occupies a central position in one-carbon metabolism, and we here study its regulation in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Enzyme quantifications revealed an about 3-fold increase of SHMT activity during exponential growth with a further increase at the onset of the stationary phase. The SHMT encoding glyA gene was shown to be transcribed as a monocistronic mRNA, and its transcriptional start site was determined.

Activity of exporters of Escherichia coli in Corynebacterium glutamicum, and their use to increase L-threonine production.

L-Threonine is an important biotechnological product and Corynebacterium glutamicum is able to synthesize and accumulate this amino acid to high intracellular levels. We here use four exporters of Escherichia coli and show that three of them operate in C. glutamicum, with RhtA and RhtC being the most effective.