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Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2007) 75:739–749 DOI 10.1007/s00253-007-0931-y MINI-REVIEW From scratch to value: engineering Escherichia coli wild type cells to the production of L-phenylalanine and other fine chemicals derived from chorismate Georg A. Sprenger Received: 29 January 2007 /Revised: 6 March 2007 /Accepted: 6 March 2007 /Published online: 14 April 2007 # Springer-Verlag 2007 Abstract Recombinant strains of Escherichia coli K-12 for nant microorganisms as producers of amino acids, vitamins, the production of the three aromatic amino acids (L-phenyl-