Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Shinichiro Hamada

Kuniaki Sakato

Keiichi Inuzuka

Hisao Tanaka

A process for producing glutathione, involves cultivating a strain belonging to the genus Saccharomyces and having both an ability to produce glutathione and a resistance to 1,2,4-triazole or sodium azide in a culture medium accumulating glutathione in the microbial cells, harvesting the cells, and recovering the glutathione therefrom.

Process for producing glutathione

L-lysine is produced in enhanced yields by culturing an L-lysine-producing microorganism in a nutrient medium supplemented by the culture liquor of an L-leucine-producing microorganism.

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Hofu, Japan

Shinichiro Hamada