A novel type of N-acetylglutamate synthase is involved in the first step of arginine biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum

K Petri, F Walter, M Persicke, C Rückert, J Kalinowski - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background Arginine biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum consists of eight
enzymatic steps, starting with acetylation of glutamate, catalysed by N-acetylglutamate …

Site-Directed Mutagenesis Studies on the l-Arginine-Binding Sites of Feedback Inhibition in N-Acetyl-l-glutamate Kinase (NAGK) from Corynebacterium glutamicum

M Xu, Z Rao, W Dou, J Jin, Z Xu - Current microbiology, 2012 - Springer
Arginine biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum proceeds via a pathway that is
controlled by arginine through feedback inhibition of NAGK, the enzyme that converts N …

Increased l-arginine production by site-directed mutagenesis of N-acetyl-l-glutamate kinase and proB gene deletion in Corynebacterium crenatum

B Zhang, WAN Fang, YL Qiu, XL Chen, T Li… - Biomedical and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective In Corynebacterium crenatum, the adjacent D311 and D312 of N-acetyl-L-
glutamate kinase (NAGK), as a key rate-limiting enzyme of L-arginine biosynthesis under …

Identification of a suppressor gene for the arginine-auxotrophic argJ mutation in Corynebacterium glutamicum

GH Hwang, JY Cho - Journal of Industrial Microbiology and …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We recently proposed a metabolic engineering strategy for l-ornithine production based on
the hypothesis that an increased intracellular supply of N-acetylglutamate may further …

Controlling the transcription levels of argGH redistributed l-arginine metabolic flux in N-acetylglutamate kinase and ArgR-deregulated Corynebacterium crenatum

Q Zhao, Y Luo, W Dou, X Zhang… - Journal of Industrial …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Corynebacterium crenatum SYPA5-5, an l-arginine high-producer obtained through
multiple mutation-screening steps, had been deregulated by the repression of ArgR that …

Mutational analysis to identify the residues essential for the inhibition of N-acetyl glutamate kinase of Corynebacterium glutamicum

Y Huang, H Zhang, H Tian, C Li, S Han, Y Lin… - Applied microbiology …, 2015 - Springer
N-acetyl glutamate kinase (NAGK) is a key enzyme in the synthesis of l-arginine that is
inhibited by its end product l-arginine in Corynebacterium glutamicum (C. glutamicum). In …

Surprising arginine biosynthesis: a reappraisal of the enzymology and evolution of the pathway in microorganisms

Y Xu, B Labedan, N Glansdorff - Microbiology and molecular …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Major aspects of the pathway of de novo arginine biosynthesis via acetylated intermediates
in microorganisms must be revised in light of recent enzymatic and genomic investigations …

Genomics and transcriptomics-guided metabolic engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum for L-arginine production

Z Zhao, M Cai, Y Liu, M Hu, F Yang, R Zhu, M Xu… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract l-arginine is a semi-essential amino acid that is broadly used as food additives and
pharmaceutical intermediates. The synthesis of l-arginine is restricted by complex metabolic …

Site-directed mutagenesis and feedback-resistant N-acetyl-L-glutamate kinase (NAGK) increase Corynebacterium crenatum L-arginine production

M Xu, Z Rao, W Dou, J Yang, J Jin, Z Xu - Amino Acids, 2012 - Springer
N-Acetyl-l-glutamate kinase (EC 2.7. 2.8) is first committed in the specific l-arginine pathway
of Corynebacterium sp. A limited increase of l-arginine production for the arg B …

Genes and enzymes of the acetyl cycle of arginine biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum: enzyme evolution in the early steps of the arginine pathway

V Sakanyan, P Petrosyan, M Lecocq… - …, 1996 - microbiologyresearch.org
A cluster of arginine biosynthetic genes of Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032,
comprising argJ, argB and argD as well as part of argC and argF, has been cloned by …