Abstract:
A method for manufacturing hydroxylated amino acid, particularily hydroxylated isoleucine, hydroxylated methionine, hydroxylated threonine, hydroxylated leucine or hydroxylated valine, by enzymatic conversion using a dioxygenase.
Abstract:
A process for producing efficiently glutamic acid derivatives (including salts thereof) such as monatin hopeful as a sweetener or the like, which comprises converting a substituted alpha -keto acid of the general formula (1) into a glutamic acid derivative of the general formula (2) in the presence of an enzyme catalyzing the conversion.
Abstract:
A process for preparing xylitol, characterized by allowing a microorganism belonging to the genus Gluconobacter, Acetobacter, Achromobacter, Agrobacterium, Arthrobacter, Azotobacter, Brevibacterium, Corynebacterium, Erwinia, Flavobacterium, Micrococcus, Norcardia, Planococcus, Pseudomonas, Rhodococcus, Morganella, Actinomadura, Actinomyces, or Streptomyces and having the capability of converting D-arabitol to xylitol to act on D-arabitol and harvesting the xylitol thus produced.
Abstract:
By substituting an amino acid residue at least at one position participating in the efficient formation of (2R,4R)-monatin (100-position, 180- to 183-positions, 243-position and 244-position) in the amino acid sequence of wild type D-aminotransferase represented by SEQ ID NO:2 in Sequence Listing, the D-aminotransferase can be mutated so that it can efficiently produce (2R,4R)-monatin having an elevated sweetness from 4-(indol-3-ylmethyl)-4-hydroxy-2-oxoglutaric acid.
Abstract:
4-(Indol-3-ylmethyl),4-hydroxy-2-oxoglutarate, which is useful as an intermediate in the synthesis of monatin, may be synthesized from indole pyruvic acid and pyruvic acid (and/or oxaloacetic acid) by using a novel aldolase derived from the genus Pseudomonas, Erwinia, Flavobacterium, or Xanthomonas.
Abstract:
4-(Indol-3-ylmethy)-4-hydroxy-2-oxogiutarate, which is useful as an intermediate in the synthesis of monatin, may be synthesized from indole pyruvic acid and pyruvic acid (and/or oxaloacetic acid) by using a novel aldolase derived from the genus Pseudomonas , Erwinia , Flavobacterium , or Xanthomonas.
Abstract:
A D-aminotransferase can be modified so as to efficiently produce (2R, 4R) -monatin having high sweetness intensity from 4- (indol-3-ylmethyl) -4-hydroxy-2-oxoglutaric acid by substituting an amino acid at least at one of positions (positions 100, 180 to 183, 243 and 244) involved in efficiently producing the (2R, 4R) -monatin in an amino acid sequence of a wild-type D-aminotransferase represented in SEQ ID NO:2.
Abstract:
A process for producing efficiently glutamic acid derivatives (including sal ts thereof) such as monatin hopeful as a sweetener or the like, which comprises converting a substituted .alpha.-keto acid of the general formula (1) into a glutamic acid derivative of the general formula (2) in the presence of an enzyme catalyzing the conversion.