Metabolically engineered bacterial strains having enhanced 2-keto-D-gluconate accumulation

摘要

The present invention relates to a method of altering bacterial host cells to accumulate 2-keto-D-gluconic acid (2-KDG) by inactivating an endogenous membrane bound 2-keto-D-gluconate dehydrogenase (2-KDGDH), which prior to inactivation catalyzed the conversion of 2-KDG to 2,5-diketogluconate (2,5-DKG).