Kikkoman Corporation

Noda Institute for Scientific Research

Hideko Otake

Yasuji Koyama

Eiichi Nakano

Tatsuo Horiuchi

Toshio Ichikawa

N-acetylmannosamine dehydrogenase gene derived from a microorganism belonging to the genus Flavobacterium, e.g., Flavobacterium sp. No. 141-8 strain and defined by a specific restriction enzyme map which encodes 271 amino acid sequence. Using the recombinant DNA, N-acetylmannosamine dehydrogenase can be produced in a simpler manner in an industrial scale. The enzyme is useful for quantitative determination of sialic acid.

N-acetylmannosamine dehydrogenase gene and novel recombinant DNA as well

The present invention relates to variant E.sub.1 protein of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex of high activity in which arginine at the 146-position is replaced by proline in the amino acid sequence of wild-type E.sub.1 protein of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, a gene coding for said variant E.sub.1 protein, a novel recombinant DNA comprising said variant E.sub.1 protein-encoding gene inserted in a vector DNA, and a process for producing variant E.sub.1 protein by said recombinant DNA. The present invention provides the variant E.sub.1 protein of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex of high activity.

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Noda, Japan

Hideko Otake