The present invention provides a method of improving efficiency of a fermentative production of an L-amino acid. To be specific, the present invention provides a process for producing a L-amino acid, comprising culturing a microorganism wherein the activity of the protein described in any one of (1) to (3) below is higher than that of the parent strain in a medium to produce the L-amino acid and accumulate the L-amino acid in the medium, and then collecting the L-amino acid from the medium: (1) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence shown by any one of SEQ ID NOS:2, 4, 6 and 8 (2) a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence resulting from deletion, substitution or addition of one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence shown in any one of SEQ ID NOS:2, 4, 6 and 8, and having L-amino acid transport activity (3) a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence having 80% or more homology to the amino acid sequence shown in any one of SEQ ID NOS:2, 4, 6 and 8, and having L-amino acid transport activity.