“…However, l ‐methionine was fed as the substrate for SAM production in most cases (Huang et al, ; Kamarthapu, Ragampeta, Rao, & Reddy, ; Zhang, Wang, Su, et al, ; Zhao, Hang, et al, ; Zhao, Shi, et al, ). Only one‐third of the price of l ‐methionine (Ren et al, ; Zhang, Gedicke, Kuznetsov, Staroverov, & Seidel‐Morgenstern, ), dl ‐methionine could be the cost‐saving substrate for industrial production of SAM. However, d ‐methionine transported into the cell through the general amino acid permease (Gap1p) cannot be incorporated for SAM biosynthesis and inhibit the cell growth to a certain extent.…”