Arthrobacter sp. CGMCC 3584 is able to produce high yields of extracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), which plays a vital role in the field of treatment of disease and animal food, during aerobic fermentation. However, the molecular basis of cAMP production in Arthrobacter species is rarely explored. Here, for the first time, we report the comparative transcriptomic and proteomic study of Arthrobacter cells to elucidate the higher productivity of cAMP under high oxygen supply. We finally obtained 14.1% and 19.3% of the Arthrobacter genome genes which were up-regulated and down-regulated notably, respectively, with high oxygen supply, and identified 54 differently expressed proteins. Our results revealed that high oxygen supply had two major effects on metabolism: inhibition of glycolysis, pyruvate metabolism, nitrogen metabolism, and amino acid metabolism (histidine, branched-chain amino acids and glutamate metabolism); enhancement of the tricarboxylic acid cycle and purine metabolism. We also found that regulation of adenylate cyclase and phosphodiesterase was not significant under high oxygen supply, suggesting efficient cAMP export might be important in cAMP production. These findings may contribute to further understanding of capacities of Arthrobacter species and would be highly useful in genetic regulation for desirable production.Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) is an important compound which exists in many living cells, and participates in the regulation of physiological actions, such as cell proliferation and differentiation, hormones synthesis and secretion, membrane protein activity, nervous activity, gene expression and so on 1-3 . Based on its functions, cAMP is used in pharmaceuticals and as feed additives. The industrial production of cAMP through microorganism attracts attention of researchers for low cost and environmental friendliness. The microbes, including Microbacterium, Arthrobacter, Brevibacterium liquefacien, Corynebacterium roseoparaffineus, Corynebacterium murisepticum, were reported to be able to produce cAMP 4,5 . Our previous studies have demonstrated that a strain, Arthrobacter sp. CGMCC 3584, was capable of producing high yields of cAMP in culture media, through optimization of culture conditions and metabolic regulation on the fermentation process [6][7][8] . Arthrobacter species are among the most common aerobic culturable bacteria and exist in the nature widely, mainly in soil and in some extreme environments 9,10 . Their remarkable tolerance to various stresses contributes to the application of Arthrobacter species in contaminant degradation in complex and volatile environments 11 . Most genome and transcriptome researches of this genus focus on the genetic basis of the biodegradation and survival capacities, and available microarray data are rarely thus far. In the present study, DNA microarray-based transcriptomic analysis and two-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoresis technology