Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Archer Daniels Midland Company

Stephane Guillouet

Anthony J Sinskey

Philip A Lessard

Avital A Rodal

Paul D Hanke

Laura B Willis

The present invention relates to a mutated pyruvate carboxylase gene from. The mutant pyruvate carboxylase gene encodes a pyruvate carboxylase enzyme which is resistant to feedback inhibition from aspartic acid. The present invention also relates to a method of replacing the wild-type pyruvate carboxylase gene inwith this feedback-resistant pyruvate carboxylase gene. The present invention further relates to methods of the production of amino acids, preferably lysine, comprising the use of this mutant pyruvate carboxylase enzyme in microorganisms.

Feedback-resistant pyruvate carboxylase gene from corynebacterium

The present invention relates, in general, to the over-production of L-isoleucine by nonhuman organisms. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods for producing L-isoleucine comprising: (a) growing a transformed nonhuman organism under conditions that provide for synthesis of L-isoleucine, wherein the nonhuman organism comprises one or more copies of a transgene comprising at least one nucleotide sequence encoding catabolic threonine dehydratase; wherein the L-isoleucine is synthesized by the transformed nonhuman organism, the synthesis being greater than that of the corresponding non-transformed nonhuman organism; and (b) recovering the L-isoleucine from the culture medium in which the transformed nonhuman organism was cultured.

Methods for producing L-isoleucine

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