Enhancing surfactin production by using systematic CRISPRi repression to screen amino acid biosynthesis genes in Bacillus subtilis

Abstract Background Surfactin is a cyclic lipopeptide that is of great industrial use owing to its extraordinary surfactant power and antimicrobial, antiviral, and antitumor activities. Surfactin is synthesized by a condensation reaction in microbes, which uses fatty acids and four kinds of amino ac...

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Main Authors: Congya Wang, Yingxiu Cao, Yongping Wang, Liming Sun, Hao Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:Microbial Cell Factories
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12934-019-1139-4