Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Irina Segreevna Shmagina

Natalia Viktorovna Stoynova

Irina Vladimirovna Biryukova

Olga Nikolaevna Igonina

Evgeniya Aleksandrovna Malykh

Viktor Vasilievich Samsonov

Irena Alexandrovna Kononova

Natalya Sergeevna Plekhanova

Ivan Alexandrovich Butov

A method is described for producing an L-amino acid including the steps of cultivating in a culture medium an L-amino acid-producing bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae to produce and accumulate the L-amino acid in the culture medium, cells of the bacterium, or both, and collecting the L-amino acid from the culture medium, the cells, or both, wherein said bacterium has been modified to overexpress a gene encoding a periplasmic adaptor protein.

Method of producing L-amino acids

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Moscow, Russia

Irina Segreevna Shmagina