Production of Glutamate and Glutamate-Related Amino Acids: Molecular Mechanism Analysis and Metabolic Engineering.- The l-Lysine Story: From Metabolic Pathways to Industrial Production.- l-Threonine.- Aromatic Amino Acids.- Branched-Chain Amino Acids.- Methionine Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli and Corynebacterium glutamicum.- Cysteine Metabolism and Its Regulation in Bacteria.- Microbial Arginine Biosynthesis: Pathway, Regulation and Industrial Production.- l-Serine and Glycine.- Alanine, Aspartate, and Asparagine Metabolism in Microorganisms.- Amino Acid Transport Systems in Biotechnologically Relevant Bacteria.- Occurrence, Biosynthesis, and Biotechnological Production of Dipeptides.- Genomes and Genome-Level Engineering of Amino Acid-Producing Bacteria.