Cj Corporation

Hye Won Um

Young Hoon Park

Kwang Myung Cho

Seong Uk Kang

Jin Su Chung

Provided are a polypeptide having glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity and a 80% or more homology to an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 and a polypeptide having glycerol-3-phosphate phosphatase activity and a 80% or more homology to an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2. Provided is also a method for producing glycerol, which includes: culturing a host cell transformed with a vector containing a polynucleotide including a first polynucleotide encoding an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 and a second polynucleotide encoding an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 which are operably linked to a suitable regulatory sequence; and recovering glycerol from the culture.

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A method of producing 1,2-propandiol is provided. The method includes incubatingin a medium containing 10&#x2013;30 g/L of a sugar carbon source excluding 6-deoxyhexose, in aerobic conditions; and separating 1,2-propandiol from the cultures. Using the method, 1,2-propandiol can be produced with a high yield by incubatingin a medium containing a cheaper sugar carbon source.

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