According to the
genetically engineered bacterium for high yield of p-
coumaric acid and the application of the
genetically engineered bacterium,
tyrosine ammonia lyase from different sources and expression vectors with different copy numbers are combined to optimize metabolic pathways, so that the yield of p-
coumaric acid is increased. The method specifically comprises the following steps: constructing
recombinant expression vectors by using
tyrosine ammonia lyase FjTAL from
flavobacterium johnsonii and
tyrosine ammonia lyase FsTAL from
flavobacterium cissii and expression vectors pACYCDuet-1, pCDFDuet-1, pETCDuet-1 and pRSFDuet-1 with different copy numbers respectively by using a
homologous recombination technology, transferring the
recombinant expression vectors into
escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) to obtain
engineering strains pCA1-pCA8, and carrying out
fermentation on the
engineering strains pCA1-pCA8 to obtain the
tyrosine ammonia lyase FjTAL from
flavobacterium johnsonii and the
tyrosine ammonia lyase FsTAL from flavobacterium cissii. Glucose is used as a substrate for
fermentation and screening to obtain the high-yield
engineering bacterium pCA8, and the yield of p-
coumaric acid of the engineering bacterium pCA8 reaches 251.61 mg / L. By optimizing key
enzyme expression, tyrosine is efficiently promoted to be converted into p-coumaric acid, and the method has the advantages of being low in cost, high in efficiency,
environmentally friendly and the like, is suitable for industrial production and can be widely applied to the fields of
biomedicine, food,
cosmetics and the like.