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Unlabelled: Aminolevulinic acid (ALA), a type of natural non-protein amino acid, is a key precursor for the biosynthesis of heme, and it has been broadly applied in medicine, agriculture. Several strategies have been applied to enhance ALA synthesis in bacteria. In the present study, we employed synthetic antisense RNAs (asRNAs) of (encodes ALA dehydratase) to weaken metabolic flux of ALA to porphobilinogen (PBG), and investigated their effect on ALA accumulation. For this purpose, we designed and constructed vectors pET28a-hemA-asRNA and pRSFDuet-hemA-asRNA to simultaneously express 5-ALA synthase (ALAS, encoded by ) and PTasRNAs (2 inverted repeat DNA sequences sandwiched with the antisense sequence of ), selecting the region ranging from - 57 nt upstream to + 139 nt downstream of the start codon of as a target. The qRT-PCR analysis showed that the mRNA levels of were decreased above 50% of the control levels, suggesting that the anti-hemB asRNA was functioning appropriately. ALA accumulation in the hemB weakened strains were 17.6% higher than that obtained using the control strains while accumulating less PBG. These results indicated that asRNAs can be used as a tool for regulating ALA accumulation in .
Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13205-021-02733-8.
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