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. 2018 Dec 5;9:3024. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03024

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

Metabolic pathways associated with acetoin biosynthesis in L. casei. (A) The metabolic engineering strategies for aerobic acetoin overproduction. The dashed arrows indicated that the pathways were disrupted. ldh, encoding Lactate dehydrogenase; als, encoding α-acetolactate synthase; aldB, encoding acetolactate decarboxylase; pdhC, encoding pyruvate dehydrogenase complex E2 component; pflB, encoding pyruvate formate lyase; adhE, encoding alcohol dehydrogenase; pta: encoding phosphate acetyltransferase; ackA: encoding acetate kinase. PTS, phosphotransferase system. (B) One colony of the BL27 strain was selected to be tested by PCR with the forward primer of the up homology and the reverse primer of the down homology after Cre recombinase induction and incubation. The expected PCR fragment from the deletion type is about 2.0 kb, while the wild-type is approximately 5.0 kb for pflB and 3.0 kb for hicD3, ldh, pdhC.