Unitika Ltd.

Masaaki Onda

Hiroshi Nakajima

Hayato Ishihara

Kenzo Motosugi

Ryoichi Tsurutani

Tatsuo Katayama

Ryoichi Turutani

Kenji Okada

Hiroshi Ibuki

A process for the purification of fructose 1,6-diphosphate which comprises subjecting a fructose 1,6-diphosphate-containing solution to anion exchange column chromatography to separate fructose 1,6-diphosphate therefrom, and subsequently subjecting the resulting FDP fraction to a desalting treatment, so as to provide a highly purified FDP preparation useful as a pharmaceutical drug and the like in a high yield.

Process for purifying fructose 1,6-diphosphate

A method for producing 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, which comprises (1) reacting adenosine 5'-triphosphate with a sulfate donor in the presence of heat-stable adenosine 5'-triphosphate sulfurylase to produce adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, and (2) reacting said adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate with adenosine 5'-triphosphate in the presence of heat-stable adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate kinase; and another method for producing 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate which comprises (1) reacting adenosine 5'-triphosphate with a sulfate donor in the presence of adenosine 5'-triphosphate sulfurylase to produce adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, (2) reacting said adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate with adenosine 5'-triphosphate in the presence of adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate kinase to produce 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate and adenosine 5'-diphosphate, and (3) converting said adenosine 5'-diphosphate into adenosine 5'-triphosphate in the presence of a phosphate donor and an enzyme capable of converting adenosine 5'-diphosphate into adenosine 5'-triphosphate are disclosed.

Method for producing 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate

Optically active .beta.-halolactic acids can be produced by contacting an .alpha.,.beta.-dihalopropionic acid with 2-halo acid dehalogenase. When the pH of the reaction system is above 9, this process gives optically active glycidic acid. Treatment of the optically active .beta.-halolactic acid thus obtained with an alkali also gives optically active glycidic acid.

Method of synthesizing optically active .beta.-halolactic acid

A process for producing fructose-1,6-diphosphate comprising the steps of: (a) enzymatically converting adenosine 5'-diphosphate to adenosine 5'-triphosphate using an acetate kinase-containing microorganism or an extract of the microorganism and phosphate donor; and (b) enzymatically converting a substrate capable of being converted to glucose or fructose to fructose-1,6-diphosphate using the adenosine 5'-triphosphate resulting from step (a) and the acetate kinase-containing microorganism or the extract of the microorganism.

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Kyoto, Japan

Masaaki Onda