Amino Acid Fermentation

Book Overview

Part I. Situation and history of amino acid fermentation.- Present global situation of amino acids in industry.- Discovery and History of Amino Acid Fermentation.- Early history of the breeding of amino acid-producing strains.- Part II. Examples of amino acids fermentation.- Glutamate fermentation-2: Mechanism of L-glutamate overproduction in Corynebacterium glutamicum.- Lysine Fermentation - History and Genome Breeding.- Branched-chain amino acids.- L-Cysteine metabolism and fermentation in microorganisms.- L-Methionine Production.- Part III. Recent Advances in amino acid fermentation research.- Boosting anaplerotic reactions by pyruvate kinase gene deletion and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase desensitization for glutamic acid and lysine production in Corynebacterium glutamicum.- Exporters for production of amino acids and other small molecules.- Novel technologies for optimal strain breeding.- Microbial production of amino acid-related compounds.- Part IV. Future prospective of amino acid fermentation.- New functions and potential applications of amino acids.- Toward sustainable amino acid production.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4431568107
• ISBN13: 9784431568100
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"