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Background    Bacillus licheniformis  MW3 as a GRAS and thermophilic strain is a promising microorganism for chemical and biofuel production. However, its capacity to co-utilize glucose and xylose, the major sugars found in lignocellulosic biomass, is severely impaired by glucose-mediated carbon catabolite repression (CCR). In this study, a “dual-channel” process was implemented to engineer strain MW3 for simultaneous utilization of glucose and xylose, using  l -lactic acid as a target product.    Results  A non-phosphotransferase system (PTS) glucose uptake route was activated via deletion of the glucose transporter gene  ptsG  and introduction of the galactose permease gene  galP . After replacing the promoter of glucokinase gene  glck  with the strong promoter  P   als , the engineered strain recovered glucose consumption and utilized glucose and xylose simultaneously. Meanwhile, to improve the consumption rate of xylose in this strain, several measures were undertaken, such as relieving the regulation of the xylose repressor XylR, reducing the catabolite-responsive element, and optimizing the rate-limiting step. Knockout of ethanol and acetic acid pathway genes further increased lactic acid yield by 6.2%. The resultant strain, RH15, was capable of producing 121.9 g/L  l -lactic acid at high yield (95.3%) after 40 h of fermentation from a mixture of glucose and xylose. When a lignocellulosic hydrolysate was used as the substrate, 99.3 g/L  l -lactic acid was produced within 40 h, with a specific productivity of 2.48 g/[L h] and a yield of 94.6%.    Conclusions  Our engineered strain  B. licheniformis  RH15 could thermophilically produced  l -lactic acid from lignocellulosic hydrolysate with relatively high concentration and productivity at levels that were competitive with most reported cases of  l -lactic acid-producers. Thus, the engineered strain might be used as a platform for the production of other chemicals. In addition to engineering the  B. licheniformis  strain, the “dual-channel” process might serve as an alternative method for engineering a variety of other strains.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13068-017-0920-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

biotechnology for biofuels

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Engineering Bacillus licheniformis as a thermophilic platform for the production of l-lactic acid from lignocellulose-derived sugars