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Background  Due to its high stress tolerance and low acetate secretion,  Escherichia coli  W is reported to be a good production host for several metabolites and recombinant proteins. However, simultaneous co-utilization of glucose and other substrates such as acetate remains a challenge. The activity of acetyl-CoA-synthetase, one of the key enzymes involved in acetate assimilation is tightly regulated on a transcriptional and post-translational level. The aim of this study was to engineer  E. coli  W for overexpression of an acetylation insensitive acetyl-CoA-synthetase and to characterize this strain in batch and continuous cultures using glucose, acetate and during co-utilization of both substrates.    Results   Escherichia coli  W engineered to overexpress an acetylation-insensitive acetyl-CoA synthetase showed a 2.7-fold increase in acetate uptake in a batch process containing glucose and high concentrations of acetate compared to a control strain, indicating more efficient co-consumption of glucose and acetate. When acetate was used as the carbon source, batch duration could significantly be decreased in the overexpression strain, possibly due to alleviation of acetate toxicity. Chemostat cultivations with different dilution rates using glucose revealed only minor differences between the overexpression and control strain. Accelerostat cultivations using dilution rates between 0.20 and 0.70 h −1  indicated that  E. coli  W is naturally capable of efficiently co-utilizing glucose and acetate over a broad range of specific growth rates. Expression of acetyl-CoA synthetase resulted in acetate and glucose accumulation at lower dilution rates compared to the control strain. This observation can possibly be attributed to a higher ratio between  acs  and  pta - ackA  in the overexpression strain as revealed by gene expression analysis. This would result in enhanced energy dissipation caused by an imbalance in the Pta-AckA-Acs cycle. Furthermore,  yjcH  and  actP , genes co-transcribed with acetyl-CoA synthetase showed significant down-regulation at elevated dilution rates.    Conclusions   Escherichia coli  W expressing an acetylation-insensitive acetyl-CoA synthetase was shown to be a promising candidate for mixed feed processes using glucose and acetate. Comparison between batch and continuous cultures revealed distinct differences in glucose-acetate co-utilization behavior, requiring additional investigations such as multi-omics analysis and further engineering towards even more efficient co-utilization strains of  E. coli  W.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (10.1186/s12934-018-0955-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Characterizing the effect of expression of an acetyl-CoA synthetase insensitive to acetylation on co-utilization of glucose and acetate in batch and continuous cultures of E. coli W