Yamasa Shoyu Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Yamauchi

Yuichiro Midorikawa

Hideki Utsugi

Hitoshi Kusakabe

The present invention concerns a process for producing nucleosides by carrying out the reaction of a base donor, a saccharide residue donor and a phosphoric acid donor by the use of an enzyme preparation containing nucleoside phosphorylase, thereby forming an N-glycosidic bond between the base moiety of the base donor and the saccharide moiety of the saccharide residue donor, which comprises using, as the enzyme preparation containing nucleoside phosphorylase, a preparation derived from the cells of one or more kinds of microorganisms belonging to thermophiles of the genus Bacillus and having high nucleoside phosphorylase activity per unit cell weight.

Process for producing nucleosides

The present invention consists of an analytical method for assay of L-glutamic acid in a sample by the use of an L-glutamic acid oxidase which is an L-amino acid oxidase catalyzing the oxidative deamination of the .alpha.-amino group of L-glutamic acid in the presence of water and oxygen to form .alpha.-ketoglutaric acid, ammonia and hydrogen peroxide, and having a very high substrate specificity for L-glutamic acid substantially without acting on L-glutamine and L-histidine, and also having a high stability, a reagent for analysis to practice the analytical method, a kit for analysis comprising the reagent, and a biosensor employing the enzyme.

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Toda, Japan

Hiroshi Yamauchi