Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Tomokazu Shirai

Hiroshi Shimizu

Hitoshi Takahashi

Mitsufumi Wada

Nozomi Takebayashi

Yoshiko Matsumoto

Koh Amano

Chikara Furusawa

Takashi Hirasawa

Takashi Morishige

Junichiro Hirano

Tadashi Araki

Tomonori Hidesaki

Ryota Fujii

Su Sun Chong

Anjali Madhavan

Toshihiro Tateno

Ayako Endo

Dominik Lukas Jürgen-Lohmann

An acetyl-CoA-producing microorganism, which is capable of efficiently synthesizing acetyl-CoA using carbon dioxide, and a substance production method using the same are provided. An acetyl-CoA-producing microorganism including an acetyl-CoA production cycle obtained by imparting at least one type of enzymatic activity selected from the group consisting of malate thiokinase, malyl-CoA lyase, glyoxylate carboligase, 2-hydroxy-3-oxopropionate reductase, and hydroxypyruvate reductase, to a microorganism.

Microorganism having carbon dioxide fixation pathway introduced thereinto

An isopropyl alcohol-producingincludes an isopropyl alcohol production system, wherein an activity of transcriptional repressor GntR is inactivated, and the isopropyl alcohol-producingpreferably further includes a group of auxiliary enzymes having an enzyme activity expression pattern with which isopropyl alcohol production capacity achieved by the inactivation of the GntR activity is maintained or enhanced. A method of producing isopropyl alcohol includes producing isopropyl alcohol from a plant-derived raw material using the isopropyl alcohol-producing. A method of producing acetone includes contacting the isopropyl alcohol obtained by the isopropyl alcohol production method with a complex oxide that includes zinc oxide and at least one oxide containing a Group 4 element, and that is prepared by coprecipitation. A method of producing propylene includes contacting isopropyl alcohol and acetone obtained by the production method with a solid acidic substance and a Cu-containing hydrogenation catalyst as catalysts.

Isopropyl alcohol-producing bacterium having improved productivity by GntR destruction

An isopropyl alcohol-producingequipped with an isopropyl alcohol production system, having at least one enhanced enzyme activity selected from the group consisting of an enhanced malate dehydrogenase activity, an enhanced NAD(P)transhydrogenase (AB-specific) activity, and an enhanced thiolase activity, and an isopropyl alcohol producing method including producing isopropyl alcohol from a plant-derived raw material using the isopropyl alcohol-producing

Highly productive isopropyl alcohol-producing bacterium

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Yokohama, Japan

Tomokazu Shirai