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Biosynthesis of riboflavin. Screening for an improved GTP cyclohydrolase II mutant.
The FEBS journal - 1 Aug 2009
Lehmann Martin, Degen Simone, Hohmann Hans-Peter, Wyss Markus, Bacher Adelbert, Schramek Nicholas
Abstract excerpt
GTP cyclohydrolase II catalyzes the first dedicated step in the biosynthesis of riboflavin and appears to be a limiting factor for the production of the vitamin by recombinant Bacillus subtilis overproducer strains. Using error-prone PCR amplification, we generated a library of the B. subtilis ribA gene selectively mutated in the GTP cyclohydrolase II domain. The ratio of the GTP cyclohydrolase II to...
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