Enhancing riboflavin yield by elucidating the regulatory role of transcription factor YgzD in Bacillus subtilis

Keywords

Transcription factor / Bacillus subtilis / Riboflavin / Purine metabolism / Metabolic engineering

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Funding

Key Technologies Research and Development Program(2024YFA0917900)

Basic Research Program of Jiangsu Province(BK20221080)

National Natural Science Foundation of China(32300063 and 32471530)

Jiangsu Program for Frontier Technology R&D(BF2024012)

the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(NO. JUSRP202501034)

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Jiangnan University