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When <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> grows in a medium containing non-limiting concentrations of glucose, a metabolic imbalance occurs whose main consequence is acetate secretion. The production of this toxic organic acid reduces strain productivity and viability. Solutions to this problem include reducing glucose concentration by substrate feeding strategies or the generation of mutant strains with impaired glucose import capacity. In this work, a collection of <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> strains with inactive genes encoding proteins involved in glucose transport where generated to determine the effects of reduced glucose import capacity on growth rate, biomass yield, acetate and production of an experimental plasmid DNA vaccine (pHN).<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>A group of 15 isogenic derivatives of <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> W3110 were generated with single and multiple deletions of genes encoding glucose, mannose, beta-glucoside, maltose and N-acetylglucosamine components of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS), as well as the galactose symporter and the Mgl galactose\/glucose ABC transporter. These strains were characterized by growing them in mineral salts medium supplemented with 2.5 g\/L glucose. Maximum specific rates of glucose consumption (<jats:italic>q<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>\n                <jats:italic>s<\/jats:italic>\n              <\/jats:sub>) spanning from 1.33 to 0.32 g\/g h were displayed by the group of mutants and W3110, which resulted in specific growth rates ranging from 0.65-0.18 h<jats:sup>-1<\/jats:sup>. Acetate accumulation was reduced or abolished in cultures with all mutant strains. W3110 and five selected mutant derivatives were transformed with pHN. A 3.2-fold increase in pHN yield on biomass was observed in cultures of a mutant strain with deletion of genes encoding the glucose and mannose PTS components, as well as Mgl.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The group of <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> mutants generated in this study displayed a reduction or elimination of overflow metabolism and a linear correlation between <jats:italic>q<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>\n                <jats:italic>s<\/jats:italic>\n              <\/jats:sub> and the maximum specific growth rate as well as the acetate production rate. By comparing DNA vaccine production parameters among some of these mutants, it was possible to identify a near-optimal glucose import rate value for this particular application. 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