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Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a precursor of one of the most promising heat-resistant biopolymers, Nylon-4, and can be produced by the decarboxylation of monosodium glutamate (MSG). In this study, asynthetic protein scaffold was applied to improve the GABA conversion in engineered Escherichia coli. Scaffolds were constructed by assembling a single protein–protein interaction domain SH3 to the glutamatedecarboxylase (GadA and GadB) and attaching a cognate peptide ligand to the glutamate/GABA antiporter(GadC) at the N-terminus, C-terminus, and the 233rd amino acid residue. When GadA and GadC were co-overexpressed via the C-terminus scaffold, a GABA concentration of 5.65 g/L was obtained from 10 g/LMSG, which corresponds to a GABA yield of 93%. A significant increase of the GABA productivity was alsoobserved where the GABA productivity increased 2.5 fold in the early culture period due to the introductionof the synthetic protein scaffold. The GABA pathway efficiency and GABA productivity were enhanced bythe introduction of the scaffold between glutamate decarboxylase and glutamate/GABA antiporter. This workwas supported by a grant from the Next-Generation BioGreen 21 Program (SSAC, grant number: PJ00954904), Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.