1 results about "Ribulose" patented technology

This invention discloses an engineered bacterial strain for producing xylitol using glucose as the sole carbon source, its construction method, and its applications, belonging to the field of genetic engineering. Using *Escherichia coli* as the starting strain, this invention optimizes the metabolic pathway by knocking out the 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphate glucuronide gene (eda), knocking out the 6-phosphoglucuronide dehydratase gene (edd), and weakening the glucose phosphoisomerase gene (pgi), thus concentrating the carbon flow in the pentose phosphate pathway. Furthermore, it optimizes the metabolic pathway by knocking out or overexpressing endogenous genes such as the ribulokinase gene (araB). Subsequently, the synthesis of xylitol from glucose was experimentally tested by expressing a recombinant expression plasmid containing 2-arabinol dehydrogenase, 4-arabinol dehydrogenase, and xylitol dehydrogenase. This invention, through optimized metabolic pathways, efficiently converts glucose to xylitol without the need for glycerol addition, and significantly increases the yields of both the precursor arabinol and the product xylitol, demonstrating promising production prospects.