“…C. glutamicum shows stable growth to high cell densities (Riesenberg and Guthke, 1999;Pfeifer et al, 2017) and has been engineered for production of, e.g., N-functionalized amino acids (Mindt et al, 2020), diamines (Wendisch et al, 2018;Chae et al, 2020), alcohols (Jojima et al, 2015;Siebert and Wendisch, 2015), and organic acids (Wieschalka et al, 2013;Purwanto et al, 2018). With respect to production of molecules originating from the shikimate or isoprenoid pathways, metabolic engineering enabled production of terpenoids such as pinene (Kang et al, 2014), patchoulol (Henke et al, 2018), valencene (Frohwitter et al, 2014), or various carotenoids (Heider et al, 2014b,c;Henke et al, 2016) and of aromatic or aromatic-derived compounds such as muconic acid (Becker et al, 2018;Shin et al, 2018), phenylpropanoids (Kallscheuer et al, 2016(Kallscheuer et al, , 2017, 4-aminobenzoate (Kubota et al, 2016), shikimate (Sato et al, 2020), protocatechuate (Kogure et al, 2020), 4-hydroxybenzyl alcohol (Kim et al, 2020), and pHBA (Kitade et al, 2018;Purwanto et al, 2018).…”