Skip to main content
Fig. 4 | Microbial Cell Factories

Fig. 4

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

Fig. 4

MEP pathway flux is not affected by RpoS. a Intracellular MEP pathway metabolite pools during lycopene production in MG1655* and Seq+ with dxs overexpression. Glyceraldehyde-3phosphate (GA3P), dihydroxyacetone-phosphate (DHAP), pyruvate (PYR), 1-deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP), 2-C-methyl-d-erythritol-4-phosphate (MEP), 4-diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methylerythritol (CDP-ME), 2-C-methyl-d-erythritol-2,4-cyclodiphosphate (MEcPP), (E)-4-Hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enyl pyrophosphate (HMBPP), isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP)/dimethylallyl pyrophosphate (DMAPP; no chromatographic separation of IPP and DMAPP) and farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) were quantified using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS). 4-Diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methyl-d-erythritol-2-phosphate (CDP-MEP) was below detection level in all samples. b Isoprene production in the two strains harboring pT-ispS(L70R)

Back to article page