The present application belongs to the technical field of
genetic engineering, and particularly relates to an engineered
bacillus subtilis, a preparation method and application thereof. In the present application, in order to improve the supply of precursor
cytidine triphosphate (CTP) in the process of
fermentation of
bacillus subtilis for producing
cytidine, first, the feedback-inhibited CTP synthetase PyrG E156K is overexpressed to promote the conversion of
uridine triphosphate to CTP; then, the
repressor gene of the
pyrimidine operon pyrR is knocked out to promote the synthesis of
uridine monophosphate, and further promote the synthesis of CTP; finally, the
pyrimidine nucleotide degradation genes pdp and cdd are knocked out to block the conversion of
uridine /
cytidine to
uracil /
cytosine and the conversion of cytidine to uridine, respectively, reduce the consumption of
pyrimidine nucleotides, and further facilitate the
intracellular accumulation of CTP. The yield of cytidine of the finally constructed
engineering bacteria is about 12.6 times that of the original starting
bacteria, and the results of the present application further prove the importance of CTP for cytidine synthesis.