TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Rohles, Christina Maria A1 - Gläser, Lars A1 - Kohlstedt, Michael A1 - Gießelmann, Gideon A1 - Pearson, Samuel A1 - del Campo Bécares, Aránzazu A1 - Becker, Judith A1 - Wittmann, Christoph T1 - A bio-based route to the carbon-5 chemical glutaric acid and to bionylon-6,5 using metabolically engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum JF - Green Chemistry N2 - In the present work, we established the bio-based production of glutarate, a carbon-5 dicarboxylic acid with recognized value for commercial plastics and other applications, using metabolically engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum. The mutant C. glutamicum AVA-2 served as a starting point for strain development, because it secreted small amounts of glutarate as a consequence of its engineered 5-aminovalerate pathway. Starting from AVA-2, we overexpressed 5-aminovalerate transaminase (gabT) and glutarate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (gabD) under the control of the constitutive tuf promoter to convert 5-aminovalerate further to glutarate. The created strain GTA-1 formed glutarate as a major product, but still secreted 5-aminovalerate as well. This bottleneck was tackled at the level of 5-aminovalerate re-import. The advanced strain GTA-4 overexpressed the newly discovered 5-aminovalerate importer NCgl0464 and formed glutarate from glucose in a yield of 0.27 mol mol−1. In a fed-batch process, GTA-4 produced more than 90 g L−1 glutarate from glucose and molasses based sugars in a yield of up to 0.70 mol mol−1 and a maximum productivity of 1.8 g L−1 h−1, while 5-aminovalerate was no longer secreted. The bio-based glutaric acid was purified to >99.9% purity. Interfacial polymerization and melt polymerization with hexamethylenediamine yielded bionylon-6,5, a polyamide with a unique structu Y1 - 2018 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:291:415-4418 SN - 1463-9262 SS - 1463-9262 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1039/c8gc01901k DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c8gc01901k VL - 20 IS - 20 SP - 4662 EP - 4674 PB - The Royal Society of Chemistry ER -