Table 4.

Rates of decrease of intracellular L-PA concentrations and of L-PA accumulation in the cultivation medium upon osmotic downshock of different C. glutamicum strains after growth in glucose minimal medium with or without 200 mM NaCl.

	Rates of decrease of intracellular L-PA concentrations (μg g CDW-1 h-1)		Rates of L-PA accumulation in the supernatant (mM h-1)
Strain	After growth with 0 mM NaCl	After growth with 200 mM NaCl	After growth with 0 mM NaCl	After growth with 200 mM NaCl
GSL(pVWEx1-lysDH-proC)	19.3 ± 0.2	30.2 ± 0.4	0.97 ± 0.04	1.73 ± 0.02
GSLΔyggB(pVWEx1-lysDH-proC)	14.0 ± 0.2	20.8 ± 0.3	0.47 ± 0.13	0.88 ± 0.17
GSLΔyggB(pVWEx1-lysDH-proC)(pEKEx3-yggB)	22.9 ± 0.3	28.9 ± 0.4	1.37 ± 0.16	1.68 ± 0.14

Values represent means and standard deviations. Important strain features are depicted in bold.