Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Use of phosphoketolase for producing useful metabolites
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Application No.: US12824826Application Date: 2010-06-28
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Publication No.: US08404474B2Publication Date: 2013-03-26
- Inventor: Yury Ivanovich Kozlov , Akito Chinen , Hiroshi Izui , Yoshihiko Hara , Hisashi Yasueda , Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak , Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya , Joanna Yosifovna Katashkina
- Applicant: Yury Ivanovich Kozlov , Akito Chinen , Hiroshi Izui , Yoshihiko Hara , Hisashi Yasueda , Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak , Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya , Joanna Yosifovna Katashkina
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
- Current Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cermak Nakajima LLP
- Agent Shelly Guest Cermak
- Priority: RU2004124226 20040810
- Main IPC: C12N1/00
- IPC: C12N1/00

Abstract:
The present invention provides a bacterium which has an ability to produce a useful metabolite derived from acetyl-coenzyme A, such as L-glutamic acid, L-glutamine, L-proline, L-arginine, L-leucine, L-cysteine, succinate, and polyhydroxybutyrate, wherein said bacterium is modified so that activities of D-xylulose-5-phosphate phosphoketolase and/or fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase are enhanced. The present invention also provides a method for producing the useful metabolite using the bacterium.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100267094A1 USE OF PHOSPHOKETOLASE FOR PRODUCING USEFUL METABOLITES Public/Granted day:2010-10-21
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