This invention relates to the field of
agricultural biotechnology, specifically to a method and strain for constructing an engineered strain of *Hookworm
Copper-Gropping
Bacteria* capable of producing methylmalic acid using both organic and inorganic carbon sources. This application involves knocking out the restriction
endonuclease encoding
gene of the type I restriction modification
system in the
genome of wild-type *Hookworm
Copper-Gropping
Bacteria* H16. 、 Promoters adapted for methylmalate synthase expression in *Hypoxonometra* were screened, and methylmalate synthases with high catalytic activity in *Hypoxonometra* were obtained, capable of effectively catalyzing methylmalate synthesis in *Hypoxonometra*. A methylmalate
transporter protein that promotes methylmalate
excretion was also screened, as well as a
gene encoding the *Hypoxonometra* endogenous pyruvate
dehydrogenase complex
subunit that promotes methylmalate synthesis when
sodium gluconate is used as a
carbon source.