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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 1999, p. 4363-4368, Vol. 65, No. 10
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
High-Level Production of
Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate-co-3-Hydroxyvalerate) by Fed-Batch Culture
of Recombinant Escherichia coli
Jong-il
Choi and
Sang Yup
Lee*
Department of Chemical Engineering and
BioProcess Engineering Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology, 373-1, Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon
305-701, Korea
Received 13 May 1999/Accepted 15 July 1999
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ABSTRACT |
Fermentation strategies for production of high concentrations of
poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) [P(3HB-co-3HV)] with
different 3-hydroxyvalerate (3HV) fractions by recombinant Escherichia coli harboring the Alcaligenes
latus polyhydroxyalkanoate biosynthesis genes were developed.
Fed-batch cultures of recombinant E. coli with the pH-stat
feeding strategy facilitated production of high concentrations and high
contents of P(3HB-co-3HV) in a chemically defined medium. When a
feeding solution was added in order to increase the glucose and
propionic acid concentrations to 20 g/liter and 20 mM, respectively,
after each feeding, a cell dry weight of 120.3 g/liter and a relatively
low P(3HB-co-3HV) content, 42.5 wt%, were obtained. Accumulation of a
high residual concentration of propionic acid in the medium was the
reason for the low P(3HB-co-3HV) content. An acetic acid induction
strategy was used to stimulate the uptake and utilization of propionic acid. When a fed-batch culture and this strategy were used, we obtained
a cell concentration, a P(3HB-co-3HV) concentration, a P(3HB-co-3HV)
content, and a 3HV fraction of 141.9 g/liter, 88.1 g/liter, 62.1 wt%,
and 15.3 mol%, respectively. When an improved nutrient feeding
strategy, acetic acid induction, and oleic acid supplementation were
used, we obtained a cell concentration, a P(3HB-co-3HV) concentration,
a P(3HB-co-3HV) content, and a 3HV fraction of 203.1 g/liter, 158.8 g/liter, 78.2 wt%, and 10.6 mol%, respectively; this resulted in a
high level of productivity, 2.88 g of P(3HB-co-3HV)/liter-h.
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INTRODUCTION |
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are
intracellular carbon and energy reserve materials that are accumulated
by a variety of microorganisms under certain unbalanced growth
conditions (1, 7, 12, 19, 23). Since PHAs possess
thermoplastic or elastomeric properties depending on the monomer
composition and are completely biodegradable when they are disposed,
they have been considered good candidates for biodegradable polymers
(9). Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) [P(3HB)] is accumulated by
numerous microorganisms and is the best-characterized PHA (12,
23). Several bacteria, such as Ralstonia eutropha, Alcaligenes latus, Azotobacter vinelandii,
methylotrophs, and recombinant Escherichia coli harboring
the heterologous PHA biosynthesis genes, have been employed for
efficient production of P(3HB) (12, 13). However, P(3HB) is
a highly crystalline and brittle homopolymer, which restricts its use
to a limited range of applications (9). Because of this, it
has been suggested that
poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) [P(3HB-co-3HV)]
is better than P(3HB) because it is more flexible and stronger
(7, 9). P(3HB-co-3HV) has been produced on a fairly large
scale by fed-batch cultures of R. eutropha from glucose and
propionic acid (3).
A major problem in commercialization of PHAs as substitutes for
conventional petrochemical-based polymers is the high production cost
of these compounds (3, 4). Much effort has been devoted to
lowering the production cost of PHAs by developing better bacterial strains and more efficient fermentation and economical recovery processes. In the case of the P(3HB) homopolymer, several processes which result in production of high concentrations of P(3HB) with a high
level of productivity have been developed (12, 13). In
particular, it has been shown that recombinant E. coli
harboring the heterologous PHA biosynthesis genes has several
advantages over wild-type PHA producers; these advantages include a
wide range of utilizable carbon sources, accumulation of a large
amount of P(3HB) with a high level of productivity, and the fragility of cells, which allows easy recovery of PHA (8, 12, 14). Recently, we reported that an unprecedentedly high concentration of
P(3HB) (141.6 g/liter) and a high level of productivity [4.63 g of
P(3HB)/liter-h) could be obtained with a fed-batch culture of
recombinant E. coli harboring the A. latus PHA
biosynthesis genes (6). Therefore, we decided to determine
if P(3HB-co-3HV) copolymer could also be produced at a high level of
efficiency by recombinant E. coli harboring the A. latus PHA biosynthesis genes. There have been several reports of
production of high concentrations of P(3HB-co-3HV) by wild-type PHA
producers, such as R. eutropha (11, 18, 24),
A. latus (20), A. vinelandii
(17), Alcaligenes sp. (10), and
Paracoccus denitrificans (26). The highest level of copolymer P(3HB-co-3HV) productivity obtained so far was 2.55 g
of PHA/liter-h by a fed-batch culture of R. eutropha
(11). If P(3HB-co-3HV) can be produced by recombinant
E. coli with a similar or higher level of productivity, the
other advantages of recombinant E. coli described above
should reduce the overall cost of production of P(3HB-co-3HV).
In this paper, we describe a cultivation strategy for production of a
high concentration of P(3HB-co-3HV) with a high level of productivity.
Strategies for producing P(3HB-co-3HV) with different 3-hydroxyvalerate
(3HV) mole fractions are also described.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
Bacterial strains and plasmid DNA.
The E. coli
strain used in this study was XL1-Blue (supE44 hsdR17 recA1 endA1
gyrA96 thi relA1 lacF'[proAB+
lacIq lacZ
M15
Tn10(tetr)]) (15).
Plasmid pJC4 harboring the A. latus PHA biosynthesis genes
and the parB locus of plasmid R1 has been described
previously (6).
Culture conditions.
Cells were maintained as a 20%
(vol/vol) glycerol stock preparation at 
80°C after growth in
Luria-Bertani medium. Seed and fed-batch cultures were grown in
chemically defined MR medium (pH 6.9) (25). Separately
sterilized glucose and thiamine were added to MR medium at final
concentrations of 20 g/liter and 10 mg/liter, respectively. For
production of P(3HB-co-3HV), propionic acid was used as a cosubstrate
in order to provide the precursors of 3HV monomers (28). For
the acetic acid induction experiments, MR medium was supplemented with
2 g of tryptone (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.) per liter in
order to reduce the lag period (28). For the oleic acid
supplementation experiments, 1 g of oleic acid (Junsei Chemical
Co., Tokyo, Japan) per liter was added to MR medium (28).
For the fed-batch cultures, seed cultures were prepared by growing
cells in a shaking incubator overnight at 30°C and 250 rpm. For
acetic acid induction experiments, cells were cultivated in MR medium
supplemented with 2 g of tryptone per liter, 10 mM acetic acid,
and 20 mg of thiamine per liter without glucose. Fed-batch cultures
were grown at 30°C in a 6.6-liter jar fermentor (Bioflo 3000; New
Brunswick Scientific Co., Edison, N.J.) initially containing 1.6 liters
of MR medium. The culture pH was controlled at 6.9 except for short
periods of nutrient feeding (see below) by adding 28% (vol/vol)
ammonia water. The dissolved oxygen concentration was controlled (see
below) by automatically changing the agitation speed to 1,000 rpm and
adjusting the pure oxygen percentage. During the active PHA synthesis
phase, the dissolved oxygen concentration was maintained at 1 to 3% of
air saturation (25). The feeding solution contained (per
liter) 700 g of glucose, 15 g of MgSO4 · 7H2O, 250 mg of thiamine, and different amounts of
propionic acid. The pH-stat feeding strategy was employed for fed-batch cultures. When the pH rose to a value greater than its setpoint (pH
6.9) by 0.1 pH unit, an appropriate volume of feeding solution was
automatically added in order to increase the glucose concentration in
the culture medium to 20 g/liter (25). The propionic acid concentration in the culture medium was increased depending on the
ratio of glucose to propionic acid in the feeding solution. For the
fed-batch cultures supplemented with oleic acid, oleic acid was added
so that each dose increased the concentration of oleic acid in the
culture by 1 g/liter.
Analytical procedures.
Cell growth was monitored by
measuring the absorbance at 600 nm with a model DU Series 600 spectrophotometer (Beckman, Fullerton, Calif.). The cell concentration,
defined as the dry weight of cells per liter of culture broth, was
determined by weighing dry cells as described previously
(15). PHA concentrations were determined with a gas
chromatograph (model HP5890; Hewlett-Packard, Wilmington, Del.) by
using n-benzoic acid as the internal standard (2). The PHA content was defined as the percent ratio of PHA concentration to cell concentration.
The concentration of propionic acid in the culture medium was measured
by high-performance liquid chromatography by using a model L-3300 RI
monitor, a model L-600 pump, and a model D-2500 chromatointegrator,
(all obtained from Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan) equipped with an ion-exchange
column (type HPX-87H; 300 by 7.8 mm; Aminex, Hercules, Calif.); 0.01 N
H2SO4 was the mobile phase.
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RESULTS |
Cell growth and P(3HB-co-3HV) accumulation in flask cultures.
The characteristics of cell growth and P(3HB-co-3HV) production were
first examined by growing flask cultures of recombinant E. coli XL1-Blue(pJC4) under various conditions. The results are summarized in Table 1. When the
recombinant E. coli XL1-Blue(pJC4) was cultivated in a
chemically defined medium containing 20 g of glucose per liter and
20 mM propionic acid, the cell dry weight, PHA concentration, and PHA
content obtained were 4.6 g/liter, 2.6 g/liter, and 56.8 wt%,
respectively. The cell and PHA concentrations, as well as the PHA
content, could be increased by induction with 10 mM acetic acid. In the
culture without acetic acid induction, the 3HV fraction was increased
significantly by adding oleic acid. A high PHA concentration (5.6 g/liter) and a PHA content of 74.0 wt% with a relatively high 3HV
fraction (18.1 mol%) could be obtained by using acetic acid induction
and oleic acid supplementation. Therefore, P(3HB-co-3HV) can be
efficiently produced by using acetic acid induction and/or oleic acid
supplementation with recombinant E. coli harboring the
A. latus PHA biosynthesis genes.
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TABLE 1.
Production of P(3HB-co-3HV) by recombinant E. coli XL1-Blue(pJC4) incubated under various conditions at 30°C
for 60 h
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P(3HB-co-3HV) production by fed-batch cultures.
Based on the
flask culture results, fed-batch cultures of recombinant E. coli XL1-Blue(pJC4) were used to produce P(3HB-co-3HV) with
several different nutrient feeding strategies. First, a nutrient solution was added so that each dose increased the concentration of
propionic acid in the culture by 20 mM. Figure
1 shows the time profiles of cell growth
and PHA production. The cell concentration, PHA concentration, PHA
content, and 3HV fraction obtained in 56.8 h were 120.3 g/liter,
51.1 g/liter, 42.5 wt%, and 10 mol%, respectively. The maximum 3HV
fraction in PHA was 13.8 mol% at 32.2 h. Propionic acid
accumulated continuously in the medium to a concentration of 22.6 g/liter.
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FIG. 1.
Time profiles for cell dry weight (CDW), PHA
concentration, and residual propionic acid concentration in the medium
(A) and PHA content and 3HV fraction in PHA (B) during fed-batch
culture of strain XL1-Blue(pJC4). The feeding solution was added in
order to increase the concentrations of glucose and propionic acid to
20 g/liter and 20 mM, respectively, after each feeding.
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Fed-batch culture with acetic acid induction or oleic acid
supplementation.
It has been shown that the mechanisms for uptake
and degradation of propionic acid in E. coli seem to be the
same as the mechanisms for uptake and degradation of acetic acid
(16, 21, 28). Based on the previous findings and the results
obtained with flask cultures, the conditions that result in more
efficient uptake and utilization of acetic acid (namely, induction with
acetic acid or oleic acid) were used with fed-batch cultures. To
investigate the effect of acetic acid induction, cells were first grown
on acetic acid until the absorbance at 600 nm was 0.8. Then pH-stat nutrient feeding was started in order to increase the glucose and
propionic acid concentrations to 20 g/liter and 20 mM, respectively, after each feeding. Figure 2 shows the
time profiles for cell and PHA concentrations, PHA content, and the 3HV
fraction during this experiment. The cell concentration, PHA
concentration, and PHA content obtained in 50.9 h after acetic
acid induction were 141.9 g/liter, 88.1 g/liter, and 62.1 wt%,
respectively. The maximum 3HV fraction in PHA was 17 mol% at 34.1 h. Therefore, the cell concentration, PHA concentration, and PHA
content could all be increased by acetic acid induction. Even with
acetic acid induction, propionic acid still accumulated, but to a
lesser extent (up to 11 g/liter).
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FIG. 2.
Time profiles for cell dry weight (CDW), PHA
concentration, and residual propionic acid concentration in the medium
(A) and PHA content and 3HV fraction in PHA (B) during fed-batch
culture of XL1-Blue(pJC4) after induction with 10 mM acetic acid. The
feeding solution was added in order to increase the concentrations of
glucose and propionic acid to 20 g/liter and 20 mM, respectively, after
each feeding.
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Next, a fed-batch culture of recombinant E. coli with oleic
acid supplementation was studied. The final cell and PHA concentrations and PHA content after 53.5 h were 129.6 g/liter, 54.1 g/liter, and
41.8 wt%, respectively. The 3HV fraction in PHA was increased from 10 to 19.3 mol% by oleic acid supplementation (time profiles not shown).
Again, there was accumulation of propionic acid, but the amount of
propionic acid was less than the amount observed in the absence of
oleic acid supplementation or acetic acid induction.
Reduction of propionic acid accumulation.
Even though acetic
acid induction and oleic acid supplementation could enhance propionic
acid utilization, propionic acid still accumulated. To reduce the
accumulation of propionic acid during culture, a feeding solution
containing a lower propionic acid concentration was used without acetic
acid induction or oleic acid supplementation. This solution was
designed to increase the propionic acid concentration to 5 mM after
each feeding. The cell concentration, PHA concentration, and PHA
content obtained in 51.9 h were 179.4 g/liter, 134.7 g/liter, and
75.1 wt%, respectively. The maximum fraction of 3HV in PHA was 3.3 mol%. The final residual concentration of propionic acid was 5.2 g/liter, which is much lower than the concentration obtained during the
three fed-batch culture experiments described above (time profiles not shown).
Figure 3 shows the time profiles for cell
concentration, PHA concentration, and PHA content when cells were
cultivated with oleic acid supplementation after acetic acid induction.
In this experiment, the nutrient solution was added in order to
increase the propionic acid concentration to 5 mM after each feeding.
The cell concentration, PHA concentration, and PHA content obtained in
55.1 h were 203.1 g/liter, 158.8 g/liter, and 78.2 wt%,
respectively. The maximum 3HV fraction in PHA increased from 3.3 to
10.6 mol%.
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FIG. 3.
Time profiles for cell dry weight (CDW), PHA
concentration, and residual propionic acid concentration in the medium
(A) and PHA content and 3HV fraction in PHA (B) during fed-batch
culture of XL1-Blue(pJC4) with oleic acid supplementation after acetic
acid induction. The feeding solution was added in order to increase the
concentrations of glucose and propionic acid to 20 g/liter and 5 mM,
respectively, after each feeding.
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When cells were cultivated under the same conditions except that the
propionic acid concentration was increased to 10 mM after each feeding,
the cell concentration, PHA concentration, and PHA content obtained in
52.1 h were 189.1 g/liter, 135.1 g/liter, and 71.4 wt%,
respectively (Fig. 4). The maximum 3HV
fraction in PHA was 16.1 mol%. Therefore, the 3HV fraction could be
increased by adding more propionic acid, while the detrimental effect
of a high concentration of propionic acid could be alleviated by acetic
acid induction and/or oleic acid supplementation. The results of the
fed-batch culture experiments are summarized in Table
2.
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FIG. 4.
Time profiles for cell dry weight (CDW), PHA
concentration, and residual propionic acid concentration in the medium
(A) and PHA content and 3HV fraction in PHA (B) during fed-batch
culture of XL1-Blue(pJC4) with oleic acid supplementation after acetic
acid induction. The feeding solution was added in order to increase the
concentrations of glucose and propionic acid to 20 g/liter and 10 mM,
respectively, after each feeding.
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TABLE 2.
Summary of P(3HB-co-3HV) production by fed-batch cultures
of recombinant E. coli under various conditions
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DISCUSSION |
P(3HB-co-3HV) has been considered a better candidate for producing
biodegradable plastic material than P(3HB), because it is more
flexible, stronger, and easier to process. Slater et al. (22) demonstrated that P(3HB-co-3HV) could be synthesized by a special mutant (atoC fadR) strain of E. coli
LS5218 harboring the R. eutropha PHA biosynthesis genes
(29), because this E. coli strain allowed
constitutive expression of the enzymes involved in utilization of
short-chain fatty acids. However, E. coli LS5218 did not
grow to a high cell density, nor did it accumulate much polymer
(27). We examined other E. coli strains to
determine whether they produced P(3HB-co-3HV) more efficiently
(28). Non-atoC fadR E. coli strains harboring the
R. eutropha PHA biosynthesis genes accumulated P(3HB-co-3HV)
with 3HV fractions as high as 33 mol% from glucose and propionic acid
in flask cultures.
In this study, we investigated strategies for production of
P(3HB-co-3HV) by a high-cell-density culture of non-atoC
fadR recombinant E. coli harboring the A. latus PHA biosynthesis genes with different 3HV fractions.
Recombinant E. coli harboring the A. latus PHA
biosynthesis genes produced a large amount of P(3HB) with a higher
level of productivity than recombinant E. coli harboring the
R. eutropha PHA biosynthesis genes (6). In a
flask culture used for production of P(3HB-co-3HV), the final cell and
PHA concentrations obtained with recombinant E. coli
XL1-Blue(pJC4) harboring the A. latus PHA biosynthesis genes
were higher than the final concentrations obtained with recombinant
E. coli XL1-Blue(pSYL105) harboring the R. eutropha PHA biosynthesis genes.
When we used the fed-batch culture containing recombinant E. coli XL1-Blue(pJC4) harboring the A. latus PHA
biosynthesis genes and the feeding strategy that increased the glucose
and propionic acid concentrations to 20 g/liter and 20 mM,
respectively, after each feeding, the cell concentration obtained was
120.3 g/liter, but the PHA content was rather low (42.5 wt%). We found
that propionic acid accumulated during incubation of the fed-batch
culture. The residual concentration of propionic acid after 56.8 h
was as high as 22.6 g/liter, which seemed to be the reason for
relatively low level of PHA. To stimulate the uptake of propionic acid,
acetic acid induction experiments were carried out. The cell and PHA concentrations, the PHA content, and PHA productivity all increased when acetic acid induction was used. The residual concentration of
propionic acid in the medium decreased considerably. In the fed-batch
culture with oleic acid supplementation, the cell and PHA
concentrations increased a little but were lower than the concentrations obtained with acetic acid induction. On the other hand,
the 3HV fraction increased twofold. On the basis of these results, we
reasoned that oleic acid supplementation mainly increased the 3HV
fraction in PHA. The 3HV yield on propionic acid was also increased by
acetic acid induction and oleic acid supplementation.
However, the high residual concentration of propionic acid in the
medium and the low PHA content were problems that had to be solved for
efficient production of P(3HB-co-3HV) by recombinant E. coli. In the fed-batch cultures, the feeding solution containing propionic acid was added when the glucose in the medium was depleted. Because the uptake rate of propionic acid seems to be different from
the uptake rate of glucose, propionic acid accumulates if its
concentration is not optimized. To decrease the level of propionic acid
in the medium, we performed fed-batch culture experiments with
different feeding solutions containing lower concentrations of
propionic acid. When the feeding solution was added in order to
increase the propionic acid concentration to 5 mM, the concentration of
PHA and the PHA content increased and productivity was higher, while
the residual concentration of propionic acid was much lower. With
acetic acid induction and oleic acid supplementation, the PHA
concentration and the PHA content increased to 158.8 g/liter and 78.2 wt%, respectively. The productivity was as high as 2.88 g of
P(3HB-co-3HV)/liter-h. When the feeding solution was added in order to
increase the propionic acid concentration to 10 mM with acetic acid
induction and oleic acid supplementation, the concentration of PHA and
the PHA content decreased slightly compared to the values obtained when
5 mM propionic acid feeding was used. However, the final 3HV fraction
was higher (14.8 mol%). On the basis of these results, we concluded
that a high concentration of PHA and a high PHA content could be
obtained by using a feeding solution with a low concentration of
propionic acid, but the 3HV fraction in PHA was low. Table 2 also shows
that when the feeding solution containing a low propionic acid
concentration was added, the 3HV yield on propionic acid increased.
Prior to this study, it was reported that the highest concentration of
P(3HB-co-3HV), a PHA content, and a 3HV fraction were 117 g/liter, 74 wt%, and 4.3 mol%, respectively, when a fed-batch culture of R. eutropha was used and that the highest level of PHA productivity
was 2.55 g of P(3HB-co-3HV)/liter-h (11). However, when
the 3HV fraction in the PHA increased to 14.3 mol%, the cell and PHA
concentrations and the PHA content decreased to 129 g/liter, 74 g/liter, and 57 wt%, respectively, which resulted in a level of
productivity of 1.67 g of P(3HB-co-3HV)/liter-h. The results reported in this paper show that a higher concentration of PHA and a
higher PHA content with a relatively high 3HV fraction can be obtained
with a fed-batch culture of recombinant E. coli harboring the A. latus PHA biosynthesis genes.
In order to compare the processes for production of P(3HB-co-3HV) by
recombinant E. coli with other processes in which wild-type organisms are used, an economic evaluation of the processes was carried
out by using the method described previously (4). In this
evaluation, a P(3HB-co-3HV) production scale of 100,000 metric tons per
year was used. According to the economic evaluation of the process for
production of PHA having a 3HV fraction of 14.3 mol% by R. eutropha, the PHA production cost was as high as $9.75/kg of PHA
when the recovery method involved surfactant-hypochlorite digestion.
For the process described here in which recombinant E. coli
was used, the PHA production cost with a 3HV fraction of 10.6 mol% was
only $5.05/kg of PHA when the same recovery method was used.
Furthermore, when PHA was recovered from E. coli cells by
the simple NaOH digestion method described recently (5), the
PHA production cost was $3.95/kg of PHA.
In conclusion, P(3HB-co-3HV) having a 3HV fraction of 3 to 20 mol%
could be efficiently produced by recombinant E. coli
containing the A. latus PHA biosynthesis genes by simply
varying the propionic acid concentration in the feeding solution. Our
results along with other advantages of employing recombinant E. coli described previously, should make recombinant E. coli a good candidate for production of PHA. Recently, research on
production of PHA by a transgenic plant has been carried out. However,
the concentration and yield of PHA should be increased in order to
reduce the PHA production cost to a value close to the cost of starch
production. Therefore, PHA production will rely on efficient bacterial
fermentation until the early 21st century, and recombinant E. coli will play an important role in this production.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology
and by LG Chemicals, Ltd.
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FOOTNOTES |
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Chemical Engineering and BioProcess Engineering Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea. Phone: 82-42-869-3930. Fax: 82-42-869-8800. E-mail: leesy{at}sorak.kaist.ac.kr.
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