Table 2.

The performance comparison of the microbial consortium based whole-cell system with that of single strain based whole-cell system.

Initial L-lysine concentration (g/L)	5- aminovalerate accumulation (g/L)		Glutarate production (g/L)		Glutarate molar yied (%)
	E. coli BL21-22AB-YDT	E. coli BL21-22AB and E. coli BL21-YDT	E. coli BL21-22AB-YDT	E. coli BL21-22AB and E. coli BL21-YDT	E. coli BL21-22AB-YDT	E. coli BL21-22AB and E. coli BL21-YDT
10	1.98	1.59	5.79	6.97∗∗	64.02	77.10∗∗
20	4.55	0.74∗∗	13.73	17.24∗∗	75.90	95.15∗∗∗
30	8.18	1.21∗∗∗	18.23	19.23∗∗	67.21	70.95∗∗
60	12.71	7.09∗∗∗	22.22	31.86∗∗∗	40.97	58.76∗∗∗
80	17.23	13.23∗∗	18.87	35.88∗∗∗	26.10	49.63∗∗∗

Significance levels of students t-test, ^∗P < 0.05, ^∗∗P < 0.01, ^∗∗∗P < 0.001 for the performance of microbial consortium compared to the single strain.