Process for the production of -
lysine by constructing a recombinant 
microorganism which has a deregulated 
lysine 2,3-aminomutase 
gene and at least one deregulated 
gene selected from the group (i) which consists of aspartokinase, aspartatesemialdehyde 
dehydrogenase, dihydrodipicolinate synthase, dihydrodipicolinate 
reductase, tetrahydrodipicolinate succinylase, succinyl-amino-ketopimelate 
transaminase, succinyl-diamino-pimelate desuccinylase, diaminopimelate epimerase, diamino-pimelate 
dehydrogenase, arginyl-tRNA synthetase, diaminopimelate decarboxylase, 
pyruvate carboxylase, 
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, glucose-6-
phosphate dehydrogenase, 
transketolase, 
transaldolase, 6-phosphogluconolactonase, 
fructose 1,6-biphosphatase, 
homoserine dehydrogenase, phophoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, succinyl-CoA synthetase, methylmalonyl-CoA 
mutase, provided that if aspartokinase is deregulated as 
gene (i) at least a second gene (i) other than aspartokinase has to be deregulated, and cultivating said 
microorganism.