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Fig. 2 | Microbial Cell Factories

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From: Systems analysis of methylerythritol-phosphate pathway flux in E. coli: insights into the role of oxidative stress and the validity of lycopene as an isoprenoid reporter metabolite

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Quantitative proteomics comparison of Seq+ and MG1655* during lycopene production. a Selective Reaction Monitoring (SRM) proteomics for all MEP and lycopene production pathway enzymes measured in this study. b Lycopene biosynthesis pathway in E. coli. Shown are all enzymes involved in the formation of lycopene from glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (GA3P) and pyruvate (PYR), as well as reactions competing for either isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP), dimethylallyl-pyrophosphate (DMAPP) or farnesyl-pyrophosphate (FPP). Peptides for MiaA and IspU were obtained but did not match our quality criteria and were excluded from this study. c Gene Set Enrichment Analysis of differentially expressed genes in the lycopene production phase. Up- or down-regulated proteins are shown for the ΔrpoS strain MG1655* relative to Seq+. Abbreviations: MEP pathway: Dxs, 1-deoxyxylulose-5-phosphate synthase; Dxr, 1-deoxy-d-xylulose-5-phosphate reductoisomerasease; IspD, 4-diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methyl-d-erythritol synthase; IspE, 4-diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methyl-d-erythritol kinase; IspF, 2-C-methyl-d-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate synthase; IspG, 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-(E)-butenyl 4-diphosphate synthase; IspH, hydroxymethylbutenyl diphosphate reductase; Idi, isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase. Competing pathways: IspA, farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase; IspB, octaprenyl diphosphate synthase; IspU, undecaprenyl diphosphate synthase; MiaA, tRNA(i6A37) synthase. pAC-LYC04: Idi(pLYC) from H. pluvialis; CrtE, geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase from P. agglomerans; CrtB, phytoene synthase from P. agglomerans; CrtI, phytoene desaturase from P. agglomerans

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