Enzymatic production of pyrimidine nucleotides using corynebacterium ammoniagenes cells and recombinant escherichia coli cells: Enzymatic production of CDP-choline from orotic acid and choline chloride (Part I)

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Enzymatic production of cytidine diphosphate choline (CDP-choline) using orotic acid and choline chloride as substrates was investigated using a 200-ml beaker as a reaction vessel. When Corynebacterium ammoniagenes KY13505 cells were used as the enzyme source, UMP was accumulated up to 28.6 g/liter (77.6 mm) from orotic acid after 26 h of reaction. In this reaction, UDP and UTP were also accumulated, but CTP, a direct precursor of CDP-choline, was not accumulated sufficiently. Escherichia coli JF646/pMW6 cells, which overproduce CTP synthetase by selfcloning of the pyrG gene, were used together with cells of KY13505 for the enzymatic reaction using orotic acid as a substrate. CTP was produced at 8.95 g/liter (15.1 mm) after 23 h of this reaction. To produce CDP-choline, two additional enzyme activities were needed. E. coli MM294/pUCK3 and MM294/pCC41 cells, which express a choline kinase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (CKIase; encoded by the CKI gene) and a cholinephosphate cytidylyltransferase from S. cerevisiae (CCTase; encoded by the CCT gene) respectively, were added to this CTP-producing reaction system. After 23 h of the reaction using orotic acid and choline chloride as substrates, 7.7 g/liter (15.1 mm) of CDP-choline was accumulated without addition of ATP or phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PRPP). ATP and PRPP required in the CDP-choline forming reaction system are biosynthesized by those cells using glucose as a substrate. © 1997, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Fujio, T., & Maruyama, A. (1997). Enzymatic production of pyrimidine nucleotides using corynebacterium ammoniagenes cells and recombinant escherichia coli cells: Enzymatic production of CDP-choline from orotic acid and choline chloride (Part I). Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 61(6), 956–959. https://doi.org/10.1271/bbb.61.956

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