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Simona Daly

Roberto Xaiz

Hermes Pagani

Alberto Benedetti

Immacolata Busiello

Antonio Trilli

Francesca Bagatin

Davide Bianchi

Niccolo Miraglia

Antonella Trentin

Federica Colzani

Francesca Bollini

Cesare Ponzone

Disclosed are solid forms of menaquinol and processes for obtaining them by chemical or enzymatic reduction of menaquinone. Said solid forms possess high stability to oxidation which allows effective use of menaquinol in the most common formulations wherein vitamin K2 is used.

Solid forms of menaquinols

Chondroitin is produced by culturing a recombinant microorganism which is obtained by inactivation of a gene encoding an enzyme responsible for addition of fructose residues to the linear chondroitin polysaccharide in a microorganism producing a fructosylated derivative of chondroitin.

Biotechnological production of chondroitin

A process for the preparation of vitamin K2 (MK-7) comprising the culture ofmutant strain GN13/72-DSM 17766 deposited on Dec. 5, 2005 at the DSMZ.

Process for the preparation of vitamin K2

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