New book on Corynebacterium glutamicum

Corynebacterium glutamicum has developed to a major workhorse of industrial biotechnology. More than 2.9 Mio tons of L-glutamate, 1.9 Mio tons of L-lysine and several other products are currently provided by using this bacterium. Beyond amino acids, a broad spectrum of other products like organic acids, alcohols, diamines and proteins can be efficiently produced with C. glutamicum, which therefore has become a true platform organism. Over almost three decades the Jülich biotechnology institute played a major role in unraveling the metabolism and genetic regulation of C. glutamicum and in engineering its metabolism for the production of various chemicals. In the recent decade, the systems biology toolbox became available for this organism and enabled the in depth characterization of production strains. A brand new book on C. glutamicum edited by Andreas Burkowski from Erlangen university focuses on systems biology aspects and new biotechnological applications. Authors from Jülich contributed 4 of the 12 chapters. The title page shows the central metabolic pathways of C. glutamicum drawn with the network visualization tool Omix developed at Jülich.

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