“…Based on the previous researches, the corresponding SAM transporters have been identified in E. coli, Streptomyces coelicolor etc., (Lee et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2014;Husna et al, 2018), also, the intracellular SAM concentration at 30 h was increased by 53.69% after SAM addition, suggested that additional SAM could be imported by amino acid transporter, thus, we suggested that SAM transporter is also present in B. licheniformis DW2, although it has not been identified or annotated. In addition, SAM decarboxylase gene speD was deleted to block synthetic pathway of byproduct, meantime, based on our results, two other harmful by-products, cadaverine and putrescine (Li et al, 2019), were also decreased by 27.50 and 37.04%, due to the weakening of amino acid decarboxylase ( Figure 6C), and this result was positively correlated with our previous research (Wu et al, 2019). Furthermore, since SAM synthetase catalyzed the formation of SAM from Met and ATP, as well as the critical role of ATP supply in physiological metabolism (Cai et al, 2018), the ATP pool of DW2-KENPND should be enhanced in our future work.…”