Showa Sangyo Co., Ltd.

Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Shinsuke Miyoshi

Nozomu Yasutake

Hidekatsu Maeda

Yasushi Inoue

Hiromi Ishikawa

Hideoki Tanaka

Takeomi Murata

Fumio Fukui

Taiichi Usui

Kazuhide Totani

Yoshie Yamamoto

Naoya Fushimi

Susumu Maruyama

Hiroyuki Mizubuchi

Manami Sato

Yoshie Ohshima

Hironori Kanamori

Process for producing glycosides

A promoter having a higher activity than that of an &agr;-amylase promoter of a microorganism of the genus Bacillus can be provided by introducing at least one restriction site sequence in the vicinity of the 3&prime; end of the promoter of the &agr;-amylase derived from the microorganism of the genus Bacillus.

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This invention provides a process for preparation of trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline which comprises either culturing Xanthomonas maltophilia NA-62 (FERM BP-4479), Xanthomonas maltophilia JCM No.3807 (FERM BP-4474) or Xanthomonas sp. JCM No.3857 (FERM BP-4475) in a nutrient medium containing collagen or gelatin or a partial hydrolyzate of collagen or gelatin, or contacting culture cells of the above microorganism with collagen or gelatin or a partial hydrolyzate of collagen or gelatin in an aqueous medium, and recovering trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline formed; and a process for preparation of an amino acid mixture which comprises contacting culture cells, fractured cells before or after removal of the broken pieces of the cells, or a crude enzyme obtained by subjecting the fractured cells after removal of the broken pieces of the cells to salting-out or solvent precipitation, from Xanthomonas maltophilia NA-62 (FERM BP-4479), Xanthomonas maltophilia JCM No.3807 (FERM BP-4474) or Xanthomonas sp. JCM No.3857 (FERM BP-4475), with collagen or gelatin or a partial hydrolyzate of collagen or gelatin in an aqueous medium, and recovering the amino acid mixture formed. Trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline, and an amino acid mixture containing trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline and L-proline in a high concentration are efficiently produced by this invention.

Process for preparation of amino acid

L-Tyr-L-Val, L-Leu-L-Tyr, L-Leu-L-Pro, L-Phe-L-Tyr, L-Tyr-L-Arg and its acid addition salts, L-Leu-L-Ser-L-Pro, L-Leu-L-Gln-L-Pro, L-Phe-L-Leu-L-Pro, L-Leu-L-Leu-L-Pro, L-Leu-L-Asn-L-Pro, L-Phe-L-Pro, L-Leu-L-Ala-L-Ala, L-Val-L-Ala-L-Ala, L-Leu-L-Gln-L-Gln, L-Val-L-Ala-L-Tyr, L-Leu-L-Ala-L-Tyr, L-Leu-L-Ser-L-His and its acid solution salts, L-Ile-L-Arg-L-Ala and its acid addition salts, L-Leu-L-Arg-L-Pro and its acid addition salts, and L-Ile-L-Arg-L-Ala-L-Gln-L-Gln and its acid addition salts, derived from a corn protein .alpha.-zein, and tripeptides represented by the formula

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Funabashi, Japan

Shinsuke Miyoshi