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.