Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Katsuyuki Takahashi

Hitoshi Takahashi

Mitsufumi Wada

Takashi Morishige

Daisuke Mochizuki

Tadashi Araki

Daisuke Miyazawa

Toshihiro Oikawa

Junko Tokuda

Toshifumi Yamaki

Masami Osabe

Teruo Arii

Tomoyuki Natsuji

Disclosed is anproducing 2-deoxy-scyllo-inosose (DOI), which, from a sucrose non-PTS gene group, has at least a sucrose hydrolase (CscA)-encoding gene and which is provided with a DOI production system or has an enhanced DOI production system. Thepreferably further includes a system to enhance sugar uptake capacity. There is also disclosed a method of producing DOI from a plant-derived raw material containing sucrose by using the

Bacterium producing 2-deoxy-scyllo-inosose (DOI) and method of producing 2-deoxy-scyllo-inosose (DOI) by using same

An object of the invention is to produce a microorganism which yields high amounts in a short time of a hydroxycarboxylic acid reduced in impurity content. This invention further provides a process for producing a hydroxycarboxylic acid, including glycolic acid, using the microorganism. This process enables a hydroxycarboxylic acid having high purity to be supplied at low cost.

Process for producing hydroxycarboxylic acid

The present invention provides: a lactic acid-producingcomprising at least one gene of a sucrose non-PTS gene group, including at least a sucrose hydrolase gene, provided that a combination of a repressor protein (cscR), a sucrose hydrolase (cscA), a fructokinase (cscK) and a sucrose permease (cscB) and a combination of a sucrose hydrolase (cscA), a fructokinase (cscK) and a sucrose permease (cscB) are excluded, wherein the lactic acid-producingcomprises a lactic acid production enhancing system provided by genetic recombination; and a lactic acid production method including producing lactic acid from a plant-derived sucrose-containing raw material by using the lactic acid-producing

Method for producing lactic acid from plant-derived raw material, and lactic-acid-producing bacterium

The present invention provides: a lactic acid-producingincluding an enzymatic activity of at least one NAD-dependent lactate dehydrogenase and an enzymatic activity of at least one NAD-independent lactate oxidoreductase, both of which are enhanced so as to decompose one of D-lactic acid or L-lactic acid and to produce the other one of D-lactic acid or L-lactic acid; and a lactic acid production method using the lactic acid-producing

Bacterium capable of producing lactic acid, and method for producing lactic acid

This invention provides a novel D-aminoacylase obtained by cloning a DNA encoding the novel D-aminoacylase from Methylobacterium mesophilicum MT 10894, etc. and which shows sufficiently high activity at an industrially useful substrate concentration to allow a D-amino acid to be efficiently produced from an N-acyl-DL-amino acid; a DNA encoding the D-aminoacylase; a process for producing a D-amino acid from the corresponding N-acylamino acid using a transformant containing the DNA.

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Katsuyuki Takahashi